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Manufacturing Intelligence for More Efficient Manufacturing

Turn Data into Information with Manufacturing Intelligence

When a food manufacturer experiences a salmonella scare, it no longer has to recall every item from the store shelves. Instead, it pinpoints precisely which items are contaminated for retrieval, hopefully slipping past the media’s radar. That same company can also make a major capital investment to its production line and know exactly how well the equipment...

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News

| May 21, 2013

Making Sense of the Enterprise Energy Dashboard

Energy monitoring means different things to different companies.

Manufacturing Intelligence for More Efficient Manufacturing

Feature Article

| February 20, 2013

Turn Data into Information with Manufacturing Intelligence

Manufacturing intelligence systems offer manufacturers access to key performance indicators for increased troubleshooting, product tracking and downtime management.

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Product

| January 7, 2013

Change Management Software Adds Support for PC Backup

The AutoSave PC backup & recovery module allows plant floor employees to manage their PC backups through the same application that manages device changes.

Kennedy Space Center

Case Application

| October 16, 2012

Kennedy Space Center Gets Smart About Power

New enterprise historian and trending software will collect and log data for approximately 150,000 real-time data points from power quality meters, protection relays and PLCs throughout the complex.

Feature Article

| October 5, 2012

The Art and Science of Production Knowledge

For the most part, database issues are left the to IT department.

Industrial Big Data

News

| October 4, 2012

GE Tackles Industrial Big Data

By combining Proficy Historian 5.0 with Proficy Historian Analysis, GE Intelligent Platforms looks to address the strategic side of the plant floor-to-enterprise divide.

Perspective

| October 2, 2012

Production Knowledge: SQL or NoSQL

Just as the debate between Mac or PC rages on, and polarized opinions persist over which industrial network protocol is the best, a new technology debate is breaking out of the clustered ranks of IT d

Feature Article

| October 2, 2012

Manufacturing Databases Explained

Even the briefest examination of databases can cause your head to spin if you’re not up to speed on the different kinds of databases and how they operate.

Product

| September 26, 2012

Warehouse Handheld Computers with HTML5 Technology

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Feature Article

| August 20, 2012

Historian Best Practices: Distilling the Truth

Historians enable deep insight into the behavior of a process at a given point in time, but depending on which member of the automation team you are, you may not know enough about the data you’re capt

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Case Application

| August 17, 2012

GE Energy’s iCenter: A Historian on Steroids

This case history describes the data infrastructure supporting GE Energy’s iCenter operations management service center, a 24x7 operation that manages an enterprise-size data historian of more than 2

Primer

| August 17, 2012

Software Historian Essentials

In an exclusive interview with Automation World, an applications engineer with global engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company M+W Group answers questions about software historians in

Primer

| August 17, 2012

Uses of Historian Data: A Tutorial

A systems integrator explains what software historians are and why production plants need a repository of real-time industrial data.

Primer

| August 17, 2012

Performance Based Industrial Infrastructures

Performance Based Industrial Infrastructures This 5-page whitepaper by Peter Martin, vice president, Invensys Systems Inc. discusses the changing role of plant historians.

Feature Article

| August 15, 2012

Tips on How to Use Historical Data

Struggling to fully use historian data? Take advice from these professionals.

Feature Article

| August 15, 2012

Historian Resources and Links

Need more information on historians? These in-depth resources are available.

Primer

| August 13, 2012

Is Historian Data Valid and How Do I Know?

Data historians are repositories of vital information, but how do you manage that data to ensure its integrity?

Column

| August 9, 2012

Primacy of Information

A confluence of trends around mobility, always-on networks and information is having a tremendous effect upon automation and manufacturing.

News

| August 7, 2012

Proficy Plant Applications v6.1 Embodies Best Practices

GE Intelligent Platforms announces the availability of its latest manufacturing software solution, Proficy Plant Applications 6.1.

Product

| August 1, 2012

Software Simplifies Analysis and Reporting of Engineering Data

DIAdem 2012 is a unified software environment that aids in locating, inspecting, visualizing, analyzing and reporting on data.

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