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Read the online version if links don't work in this Manufacturing Intelligence Update. | | | July 2009 | Sponsor: Wonderware | Wonderware Manufacturing Intelligence 
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Reduce your production costs by taking Electronic Work Instructions to the next level and applying Proficy Workflow to your lean initiative. Find and eliminate waste faster and easier. Increase quality through electronic Standard Work Instructions — and decrease time to implement leaner processes. Download white paper today! | | | In this Issue |  | | Featured Articles | Business Performance Management — The New Operational Strategy
Manufacturing.Net, June 2009
By Thomas Silvestri, Opus Global Group
Business performance management — the measurement and implementation of the most successful operational standard or strategy available in an industry — can be one of the most effective tools for increasing a corporation's efficiency, productivity, and, ultimately, earnings. Performance Management - Looking for the Hidden Clues
Managing Automation, June 2009
By Stephanie Neil
Business performance management tools can help you discover much-needed operational efficiencies. But, particularly in tough times, it’s best to keep it simple. Information systems get the power of one
PACE, May 2009
By Dean Tresidder, Rockwell Automation
From adopting elements of IT to innovative database design, the modern generation of SCADA and manufacturing execution system (MES) software are several steps ahead of their predecessors. Managing collaborative production
Plant Engineering, April 2009
By Marc Leroux, ABB
Largely defined as systems that sit above automation and below business systems, MES is slowly being eliminated as ERP suppliers push their applications down into manufacturing, and as automation vendors extend their functionality upward. Balancing CMMS User Configurability with Centralised Control
Maintenance On Line, May 2009
By David Berger
For most companies, gone are the days when users were forced to conform to a rigid framework dictated by the CMMS vendor and strictly controlled by the Information Systems department. Users today enjoy freedom to customise the content, look and feel of their CMMS environment on a variety of devices, from handhelds to desktops.
| | Browse more articles and white papers on the Manufacturing Intelligence portal. | Visit our Automation Portals | Our Automation Portals organize information on various topics and include content published on Automation.com as well as other industry websites. Each portal includes new products, company news, articles, white papers, application stories, training, resources, events, and more. Visit these one-stop sites for all your automation information | Live News Feed | | | | | Sponsored Product by Schneider Electric | | | Product Announcements | | | Other Product Announcements | Browse more Product Announcements on the Manufacturing Intelligence portal. Search all Products by keyword, category, manufacturer or release date. | | White Papers | Best Practices to Support and Maintain Advanced Solutions
By Honeywell Process Solutions
There are potential challenges and pitfalls of supporting advanced solutions across the areas of process optimization, blending, alarm management, asset management, manufacturing execution systems, and more. This paper describes best practices that help avoid them. Driving Continuous Improvement Through Delay Accounting
By Paul Cooper, Schneider Electric
Experience has shown that while a delay accounting system's integrity may be sound, if the correct workflow breaks down (possibly because of data flooding) or if the data is simply perceived to be incorrect, the underlying system is often incorrectly considered the cause. The Advantages of Plant-wide Historians vs. Relational Databases
By GE Fanuc
While relational databases (RDBs) are designed to manage relationships between contextualized data, plantwide historians are built specifically for manufacturing and process data acquisition and presentation. They offer key advantages over RDBs, including built-in data collection capabilities, faster speeds, higher data compression, robust redundancy, enhanced data security and quicker time to value. Meeting the Challenge of Three Global Manufacturing Imperatives
By Doug Lawson, Incuity
Manufacturers must make intelligent business decisions at or near real-time speeds. This whitepaper highlights the challenges that all manufacturers face in today's global marketplace and shows through real world examples how Business Intelligence for Manufacturing (BI4M) can help meet those challenges.
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| | Resources & Literature | AutomationDirect Industrial Automation Product Reference Catalog
Desk Reference contains detailed product descriptions complemented by plenty of technical illustrations, step-by-step procedures for selecting various PLC hardware and software, PC-based control, operator interface, motor contactors, drives, sensing equipment, connection systems, and much more. Animatics publishes Motion System catalog
Catalog includes eight product segments detailing SmartMotor specifications, Fieldbus protocols, brake options, connectivity, peripherals, power supplies, Gearheads and software. Engineering Calculation Toolbar
Kollmorgen offers a free Toolbar for a PC that handles common technical calculations such as unit conversion, densities of materials, inertia calculations, parallelepiped, spherical shell, sphere, slender rod, tetrahedron, and trigonometric and calculus functions.
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| | Application Stories | Target Maintenance Tracker
By As One Technologies
A manufacturing operation used over 200 tools that all require scheduled maintenance based on usage data such as the number of kilowatt hours or number of units produced since the last scheduled maintenance. Catalyst software simplified the process. SEM Products Achieves Dramatic Process Improvements with Integrated ERP System
By Deacom
SEM, a manufacturer of interior and exterior auto body repair and refi nishing products, installed a DEACOM ERP system to integrate formulation, inventory control, production, sales, purchasing, regulatory reporting, EDI, contact management, and accounting – in one system without customization. Staying in Control
By Expertune
BP uses PlantTriage to continuously monitor and analyze the health of seven refineries’ control loops and associated valves, compares the findings against established standards and, where performance is sub-optimal, conducts further analysis to pinpoint the likely causes. BP estimate that benefits of the order of $1-5 million per year are being realized in each refinery. MES: When Preparation Meets Opportunity
Control, May 2009
By Brian Chviruk, Bristol-Myers Squibb
When Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) built a biologics manufacturing facility in Devens, MA, it provided a unique opportunity for BMS engineers to put into practice some intriguing ideas they had been discussing about streamlining the entire validation process by incorporating factory acceptance techniques. Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence: A Room with a View
Automation World, April 2009
By Wes Iversen
Every morning, senior managers at Valero Energy Corp. gather in the company’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) for a daily operations call to each of the company’s 15 refineries in the United States, Canada and Aruba. Valero executives are able to call up dashboards detailing real-time operating statistics on each of the 15 sites. In rapid succession, spending less than 60 seconds per plant, managers can get a visual snapshot of the operational status of each refinery.
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| | Featured Training | Catalyst SDP Introductory Webinar
Free, hands-on webinar covers Catalyst SDP, an event-driven System Development Platform for manufacturing operations that unifies systems within the manufacturing environment.
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| | Company & Organizational News | MAVERICK acquires Program4 Engineering
Program4 Engineering is a regional solution provider of manufacturing automation and plant process information systems solutions. National Instruments and MobileRobots collaborate
NI LabVIEW graphical system design software and MOBILEROBOTSindoors autonomous mobile platforms help engineers rapidly deploy service robot applications. Invensys integrates with Intergraph
Invensys integrated its software with Intergraph’s SmartPlant Enterprise engineering solutions. U.S. High-Tech Industry Adds Jobs
Control Design, May 2009
The high-tech industry has added 382,900 jobs to the U.S. economy over the past four years, according to TechAmerica’s 12th annual Cyberstates report. The industry added 77,000 net jobs in 2008, for a total of 5.9 million workers. This was on top of 79,600 added in 2007, 139,000 in 2006 and 87,400 in 2005. ARC says Automation Services Market to grow
The worldwide market for supplier provided automation services will grow at a rate of close to 7 percent over the next five years.
| Browse more company and organizational news on the Manufacturing Intelligence portal. | | Project News | DEACOM to supply ERP to California Custom Fruits & Flavors
ERP will cover formulation, sales, purchasing, production, QC/QA, Material Requirements Planning (MRP), inventory control, lot tracking, reporting, and accounting. Honeywell to control pharmaceutical manufacturing plant
Honeywell’s Experion Process Knowledge System will be used at the LIFE Nutrition site to control production processes, optimize production output and maintain quality control standards. Emerson to control floating storage and regasification unit
Emerson will supply DeltaV, AMS Suite software, Fisher control valves, Rosemount transmitters, and safety systems on the Golar Freeze, a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) vessel. GE Fanuc to supply Proficy Software to Linde AG worldwide
The order, which also encompasses GlobalCare support services, is worth more than $1 million and will be deployed in 350 sites worldwide. IPS to supply safety and controls to Petrobras
IPS will supply Triconex safety and Avantis asset management technology to upgrade and modernize 11 Petrobras refining facilities throughout Brazil.
| Browse more project news on the Manufacturing Intelligence portal. | | Featured Events | Industrial Automation 2009
July 15-18, 2009, Malaysia
The 5th International Exhibition on Industrial Automation, Manufacturing Process, Control and Measurement Equipment & Technology (IA 2009) will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. Machine builders and professional systems integrators from around Asia will keep themselves abreast not only on applied systems and components but also the latest state-of-the-art technology and inventions. Emerson User Exchange
September 28-October 2, 2009 Orlando, Florida
Emerson Global Users Exchange is more than an industry-leading technical conference…it is a community of manufacturing leaders committed to extracting the most from their automation investment…and sharing their learning with each other. MESA 2009 European Conference
October 27-29, 2009 Utrecht, The Netherlands This year's European MESA Plant-to-Enterprise Conference will focus on the theme, Survive to Thrive, and how companies on either end of the spectrum need to think, act, and engage in today's and tomorrow's global economic realities. ISA EXPO 2009
October 6-10, 2009 Houston, Texas
ISA EXPO is focused on the technology and techniques of automation and control. Organized around the six core themes central to automation and control, ISA EXPO 2009 provides attendees unlimited opportunity to explore key technologies, discover professional growth, and interact with like minded professionals. Remote 2009 Conference & Expo
October 29-30, 2009 San Antonio, Texas
Remote 2009 Conference and Expo will focus on the leading advancements for the monitoring and management of distributed equipment and facilities, remote assets, automated process & system controls and device networks.
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