Transpara Visual KPI earns tech accolades
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 1/16/2008 12:03:00 PM
National Grid (formerly Keyspan Energy) has been awarded the Innovation in Technology award from Boston-based Aberdeen Group, citing the utility’s ability to leverage technology solutions—namely Transpara’s Visual KPI software—to solve pressing business.
Visual KPI is said to be the only composite key performance indicator (KPI) software that delivers on-demand operations data from multiple data sources to any desktop or mobile browser.
According to John Ragone, plant process optimization manager for National Grid, “Because we leveraged software and technology that our employees were already familiar with, such as the OSIsoft PI System and employees’ mobile phones, we set ourselves up for success, [particularly with] adoption of Visual KPI and success with realizing benefits that positively impact our bottom line.”
National Grid created role-based access to operations data and applied a unified visualization capability in different areas of operations, such as fuel loading and maintenance management. Visual KPI enabled National Grid to leverage cell phones as critical information display devices and set up automated alerts based off of SPC exceptions.
With the help of remote data accessibility, National Grid is benefiting in several ways:
• Increased collaboration among team members across various departments;
• Proactive management of environmental incidents; and
• Significant savings from reduction in operator overtime costs and improved operator productivity.
