Webcast: True manufacturing intelligence starts in the DCS

Do you have what it takes to monitor and improve your business performance?

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Every CEO wants to continuously monitor and improve business performance. But few manufacturing companies have the true enterprise-wide performance monitoring strategies that chief executives desire. Why? Because getting a complete picture of a manufacturing company’s performance requires collecting and analyzing plant floor data, and the analysis tools that cater to corporate executives don’t typically link to plant-level systems.

Most corporate-level performance management systems do a good job analyzing things like sales trends, customer satisfaction levels, and supply chain costs. But they don’t get to the underlying data—like machine downtime, or numbers of bad parts produced—that directly impact those higher-level statistics.

Getting to that underlying data requires a link to the company’s distributed control systems. But simply uncovering plant-floor data isn’t enough to drive performance improvement. That requires the ability to convert that data into useful information that can then be delivered to the higher-level performance management systems, giving corporate executives a clear, and complete, picture of how the business is performing.

This is known as manufacturing intelligence. And in today’s fast-moving global business environment no manufacturing company can afford to be without it. This MBT broadcast will highlight the importance of incorporating DCS data into a manufacturing intelligence framework. It also will offer tips on how to make it happen.

Tune in to this MBT Executive Broadcast to learn where you can drive ROI in shop floor technology and overcome plant integration challenges.

Sponsor's Web site:
www.honeywell.com/ps
 www.sea.siemens.com
www.ips.invensys.com

John Cusimano
Market Development Manager
Siemens


Peter G. Martin, PhD
Vice President Strategic Ventures
Invensys Process Systems


Jason Urso
Marketing Director
Honeywell Process Solutions


Sid Hill
Executive Editor
Manufacturing Business Technology