Its Syncade smart operations management suite is constructed in
modules. The intent is to extend the value of the company’s PlantWeb
digital plant architecture by integrating real-time plant floor data
with procedural, off-line and transactional plant business processes,
decisions and asset management. Built on Microsoft.Net, Syncade goes
beyond traditional client-server architectures.
“Unveiling of the Syncade Suite is another exciting step in
realizing the fully intelligent digital plant,” commented Tom Snead,
president of the systems and solutions division of Emerson Process
Management. “The new operations management suite integrates the
industry’s broadest, most reliable process intelligence from PlantWeb
architecture into easy and efficient use for optimum operational
decisions.”
The four modules that comprise the product include resource
management, operations optimization, integrated information, and
quality and compliance.
Resource Management: This module includes tools to optimize
material conversion and eliminate the use of unsuitable material. Other
tools include scheduling, verifying and tracking equipment, guiding
manual processes and enabling access to support documents, ensuring
personnel have the proper skills, training and qualifications needed to
effectively perform their jobs.
Operations Optimization: Improves plant workflow processes that
include order management, material weighing/addition/traceability
status, equipment state/cleaning/calibration tracking, product sampling
and adjustment, electronic procedural control and data collection.
Quality and Compliance: Provides effective data and document
management throughout the lifecycle of a document, including online
storage, change control, automatic routing, version management, and
archived records management. “Turns your documents into management
assets; rather than organizational burdens.”
Integrated Information: Provides access to the right data at the
right time by integrating real-time plant-floor data with business
practices. Streamlines plant operations by coordinating “handshaking”
functions between existing plant systems and electronically guiding
manual processes.
