BCX’s Process MI software technology is an out-of-the-box business intelligence (BI) and analytics solution built specifically for process and manufacturing data.
In the plant floor operations area of the enterprise, where increasingly more intelligent devices are being connected and huge amounts of data are being generated daily, organising this data, and deploying solutions to explore and turn it into actionable information, should be at the forefront of any manufacturing organisations’ project implementation plans.
Solution
BCX Process MI offers a unique solution that allows customers to gain immediate insight into the company’s manufacturing and process data without the usual time and technical expertise required to deploy a typical BI implementation.
How it works
By connecting to the existing Wonderware plant production systems, Process MI will automatically build, deploy and continuously update a multi-dimensional data cube. All complexity in designing and maintaining a BI relational model and source data is handled by the software.
BI for Wonderware System Platform
Simply connect to the Wonderware Application Server (Galaxy) and Historian software data sources, and Process MI will set up and deploy a BI semantic model that will automatically retrieve, aggregate and model historian data for all configured equipment measures, using the plant model configured in the galaxy.
This allows immediate interactivity and context to all historical data that can be used to drill down, slice, filter and compare process data, using any combination of dimensions, like facilities, production areas, work centres, equipment etc.
Get answers to business questions immediately
Get a complete view into the manufacturing process by providing analytics data for all equipment used in production: OEE, downtime, quality and performance measures can be combined with Historian data to provide in-depth analysis per work order, customer, product, shift etc.
BI for Wonderware MES
Any measure retrieved from the MES system, can be used with any dimension. MES production data can be analysed using the plant model configured in the Galaxy, at the same time Historian data can be viewed using MES dimensions like shifts, work orders, products or customers.
‘How much energy is used to create product x vs product y?’, ‘Which production line is most efficient?’, ‘During which shift?’ Answering these kinds of business questions are all immediately made possible by the Process MI BI model – without the need for any configuration.
All data and KPI information can be rolled up all the way from device to site level, comparing multi-site performance and giving an enterprise view of all operations.
Explore data insights on-premise or in the cloud
By using Power BI users can connect to and start to visualise and explore their manufacturing and production data, almost immediately, on multiple devices, from anywhere.
Users now have the ability to create visually stunning and interactive reports, using drag-and-drop functionality, publish dashboards to the cloud and share with different levels of the organisation, set alarms for KPI’s and get notified via mobile apps or email.
For more information contact Tielman Sutherland, BCX Industrial Solutions, +27 (0)12 665 1700, [email protected], www.bcx.co.za
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