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Alarming Improvements Make It Better
DANT/E (don'-tay) is a software module integrated into the manufacturing execution system (MES) at Murata Power Solutions (Mansfield, Mass.). Murata Power Systems makes power systems, including power supplies, dc-dc converters, meters and a range of allied electronic products.
An acronym for data archiving notification and tracking— electronic, DANT/E reports in real time across all current manufacturing activity, comparing target performance against actual.
“As work orders move through operations, we know within a few seconds if product fails in some way. DANT/E issues an alarm and the line stops until corrective action is taken,” says Steven Kaplan, global MES administrator. “The trigger point is situational. It's usually based on a particular operation, family of operations, or even a contributory operation. The alarm delivery is also situational—automatic email or text message, a visual alarm or a phone call, and it is sent directly to whichever group has been tagged to respond...
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Geo SCADA Makes the World a Smaller Place
Technology monitors and controls assets scattered across the landscape.
Whenever a wintry cold front whips through metropolitan Pittsburgh, employees at Equitable Gas Co. go into action quietly behind the scenes. They click a few buttons on their computer screens to start up the engines driving the reserve compressors that will force more gas through underground pipes into 275,000 homes and businesses in southwestern Pennsylvania and north central West Virginia
Their response to such surges in demand for natural gas is immediate, thanks to a supervisory-control-and-data-acquisition (SCADA) system that lets them monitor and control the utility's assets throughout the city...
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Tools Provide Global Collaboration
Managing today's manufacturing enterprise is impossible without collaboration.
Not only have managers discovered that work cannot be accomplished in sequence from department to department, but now, most companies have employees located in facilities around the world who need to work together in real time. New technologies are required to enable widespread collaboration.
Microsoft Corp., the Redmond, Wash., software giant, has developed one technology that is rapidly gaining adoption. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a server program that is part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. The application can be used to facilitate collaboration, provide content management, implement business processes and supply access to information...
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