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What is Incuity?
Incuity EMI has been designed specifically for use by manufacturing
companies. It’s a Business Intelligence for Manufacturing solution that
provides timely, clear and context rich manufacturing information to
support better manufacturing decisions. Unlike typical BI systems, which
are not suited to handling real-time plant information, Incuity EMI is
able to integrate data from both business systems and real time
production systems. Unlike production-oriented systems, Incuity EMI
provides the analytical processing and presentation services of a BI
solution.
Who would want access to Incuity
Potential users of Incuity include literally anyone who needs insight
into manufacturing operations. How they use it will vary with their role
– whether they are application builders who create reports and other
output, or if they are a line of business users who are simply seeking
better information on production operations. But Incuity is extremely
useful to most anyone, whether they’re manufacturing personnel like
engineers, production supervisors, operators, maintenance personnel,
production schedulers and quality assurance personnel, or if they’re
people not directly associated with manufacturing, like managers,
accountants, sales people, customer support staff, buyers and transport
managers.
Where is the data?
Manufacturing information is fragmented, residing in multiple different
systems scattered across the enterprise. Each system has a different
user interface. People find it impossible to access, correlate and
interpret data from these different systems to make timely and good
decisions. The Production Manager does not know how to connect to the
business system, but it would be good if he could tie in gas and
electricity consumption costs into his production reports. Incuity
provides connectors into these disparate systems and allows the users to
create models of their process. These models can contain a variety of
data, including production and process information, machine information,
operator ID, material consumption and costs, shift info etc.
Incuity allows you to easily access data from systems
and software you already own! Manufacturing information can reside in
multiple control systems and business applications. The trick is to
access, correlate and interpret the data from these multiple systems.
Incuity does this by coexisting with your existing control systems and
business applications, turning that data into useful information to
improve your business – in all functional areas – by all decision
makers. Incuity exposes the full value of the data locked in these
systems by presenting a coherent picture of your manufacturing business
through familiar browser and Microsoft Office interfaces.
Incuity provides the foundation for a range of manufacturing analytics
including:
• Real time executive dashboards
• Automated production reporting
• Key Performance Indicator (KPI) monitoring and alerting
• Downtime analysis and reporting
• Process verification
• Process optimization
At the heart of Incuity are:
Collection Services to extract data from multiple sources, Data
Services to integrate and manage the information and Presentation
Services to empower people with manufacturing intelligence.
Connection Services
Incuity connects intelligently to a broad array of data
sources in use by companies everywhere. Traditional
automation control systems, a full range of data historian products, a
broad range of databases, data warehouses and a management applications
as well as traditional MES and ERP systems.
Data Services
Incuity’s data services integrate silos of data across the manufacturing
enterprise.The manufacturing data model reflects equipment,
product/material and people relationships and provides a coherent and
unified view of the data that is available – abstracting the specifics
of where the data comes from and where is it stored. In-line
transformation services clean and reformat the data as needed and can be
configured by the client tools to generate “calculated” variables.
Master data management services either react to data definitions from
master systems or assume role of master and transform the data.
 Presentation
Services
Casual users across the enterprise access timely, clear and context rich
manufacturing information from the Incuity Portal via their browsers.
Power users gain insight into the manufacturing process using powerful
analytic applications or Microsoft Office and can quickly publish these
insights to the web as flexible reports with the click of a button.
Developers and third party applications access the data via standard web
services, standard scripting and object, OLAP and relational query
interfaces. Analytical applications include the Incuity Trend and X-Y
Plot. Users navigate through Incuity’s manufacturing model
to select equipment, material and time dimensions.
Microsoft Office Add-ins wizards make it easy to bring data from
multiple control and business systems into the familiar but powerful
environments of Word and Excel. Users can publish content directly to
the web and collaborate by fetching and building upon existing published
reports. All via the Incuity Portal. The Incuity Portal’s pre-configured
reports and executive dashboard allow users from across the enterprise
to immediately access Incuity’s rich manufacturing information.
Reports are generated on demand or on an automated schedule or event
driven basis and can de distributed via Email.
An executive dashboard provides overview displays using familiar man
machine interfaces like gauges, range indicators and LEDs.
Portal content quickly grows as users of Office and analytical
applications publish and collaborate. End users can customize and
personalize the portal. Incuity’s zero install client software, self
configuring capabilities and pre-configured reports provide immediate
insight into the manufacturing process, directly impacting business
performance.
Incuity can be deployed at the line or equipment level and extend to
cover plantwide and then enterprise-wide manufacturing information with
the full reuse of engineering efforts.
To fully
appreciate the power of Incuity, contact Factory Intelligence for a
demonstration. |
