Friday, October 31, 2014

Operational Excellence at Campbell's Soup

Campbell's Soup won the Operational Excellence category of the Schneider Electric Software OPEN. Find out why.


Collection of key quality attributes and line processing information and use of SPC to assist operator on when to adjust line. Using Wonderware System Platform, Wonderware Workflow, Wonderware QM interfaced with SAP process orders as well as existing Micro Strategy reporting system.

Has resulted in collection of over 600,000 data points in 3 months.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

100,000-plus plants can't be wrong


Everyday, 30% of the world's plants rely on Wonderware software to make faster, better plant decisions

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Carson City, Nevada - A "Smart City" Success Story



In order to achieve its goals, the people of the Carson City Public Works Department created an infrastructure revolving around the capabilities of its people and the best available smart city technology from Schneider Electric.

Leveraging virtualization, mobile devices and smart phones to increase the efficiency of its operators and management, the smart city solution at Carson City increases situational awareness and allows the public works department to achieve a high level of operational readiness.

Monday, October 27, 2014

The Wonderware Historian is used in over 25,000 industrial sites every day - Here's why


Highly scalable and flexible, Wonderware Historian can be applied to a single process or grown, over time, to a large information management solution serving multiple sites and hundreds of users worldwide. Its multi-tiered architecture allows cost-effective isolation of the control and business networks and broader, safer data access by more users.

Friday, October 24, 2014

Why Wonderware?



Why Wonderware? Because it's easy to use and scalable. It works in any industry, in wherever plant or facility. It's hardware agnostic and perfect for standardization because you use it identically whether you have Rockwell or Siemens or even Schneider Electric :)

Thursday, October 23, 2014

How Wonderware helps harness the Yellow River

The objective of the project was to create a large-scale operating system including a central database, real-time information transference and processing, and decision support distributed over 700 kilometers of The Yellow River. It had to effectively regulate water quantity and prevent flow stoppages, particularly during droughts. It was also designed to help Commission staff forecast floods and create proactive flood progressing models.


“I believe that with the expansion of this system, we can make the Yellow River more beautiful and younger, and bring more benefit to Chinese people along the Yellow River.”

Liu Xiaoyan Director of the Water Regulation Bureau
The reusable nature of the application objects created during the system’s development will save the plant additional hours and expenses in ongoing system maintenance and expansion. the reusable nature of the application objects created during the system’s development will save the plant additional hours and expenses in ongoing system maintenance and expansion.

“The advanced functionality of the Wonderware System Platform, such as reusable objects, modularized technology and remote deployment … made it possible for us to complete the first phase of this system in 3 months, which includes 43 sluice stations and the other 4 management levels,” said Chenhua.

The historian that's in every major industry


The Wonderware Historian provides broad configuration options including:
  1. Single node on-premise installation to a Cloud based multi-tiered configuration
  2. High availability and disaster recovery options.

A 2,000,000 tag count historian


Wonderware Historian offers greater scalability and more deployment options than ever before. Regardless of the size of your operation, Historian has the scalability to collect and store all of your vital process data, up to 2,000,000 tags.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

You're missing a lot if you don't have a historian

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Wonderware Historian can easily be integrated to your HMIs that within a few minutes, you can be collecting data, not throwing information away.

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

65% of firms using Wonderware Historian have benefited from reduced cost in regulatory compliance


Wonderware Historian is a high-performance process historian, capable of storing huge volumes of data generated from today's industrial facilities. Historian easily retrieves and securely delivers information to desktop or mobile devices, enabling organizations to analyze processes anywhere at any time.

Monday, October 20, 2014

Why Wonderware Historian? Let our customers do the talking


If you are not sending your HMI data to an historian, you are missing something. Regardless of your industry, every HMI/Historian application generates valuable data that can help you:
  • Solve difficult process problems more quickly
  • Illuminate process improvement opportunities
  • Make it easier to comply with regulatory requirements
Wonderware Historian can easily be integrated to your HMIs that within a few minutes, you can be collecting data, not throwing information away.

Friday, October 17, 2014

ARC Strategy Report on Real-time Maintenance Execution


Effective asset performance management (APM) requires real-time maintenance execution so maintenance tasks can be planned and performed when needed based on actual operating and asset conditions. This helps avoid critical equipment failures and associated unplanned equipment downtime. This approach involves integrating technologies, people, and processes to provide the right information at the right time.

Download the ARC Strategy Report on Real-time Maintenance Execution and find out how.

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Avantis Asset Management Suite

Monitor the health of your assets anytime, anywhere, any device. Avantis Asset Management Suite: the easiest way to troubleshoot bottlenecks. Visit our website and find out how.

 

Untangle your maintenance processes to optimize your asset management strategy

 

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Our suite of products and services deliver focused, real-time equipment performance and decision support to simplify access to information to create a strong foundation for maintenance best practices

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Tapping the Future at New Belgium Brewing



By evolving and effectively maintaining best practices with Wonderware MES Performance software allows for the expansion this system across multiple areas of New Belgium, as well as at its new plant currently under construction in Asheville, N.C.

“By increasing our operations efficiency, we now can free up time to get back to focusing on our corporate culture,” Herrick said. “When our operations were running so quickly, we had to eliminate some of our popular employee extra-curricular activities, such as our annual volleyball tournament. Today as we gain momentum in production, our people see the benefits and we are now very much in control of production processes.”



New Belgium is now meeting capacity, surpassing production of 200,000 cases a week, and having time left at the end of the day for “fun.” Taking advantage of the full capabilities of its existing resources at the plant enabled the executive management team to delay funding of additional capital investments, reduce overhead, and make commitments to new things.

This includes focusing on building the second New Belgium Brewery in North Carolina. 

 

More information


Please visit the following links if you want to know more about the Wonderware solution at New Belgium Brewing:

Monday, October 13, 2014

Carpenter Technology Corporation, Production Information Management Game Changers

Carpenter Technology Corporation, winner of the Production Information Management Excellence category, Schneider Electric Software OPEN Contest 2014.

Find out why.



Carpenter Technology Corporation, Production Information Management Excellence, Schneider Electric Software OPEN Contest 2014 from Invensys Videos on Vimeo.

Carpenter Tech created a complete MES solution based on Wonderware MES Performance, System Platform, Historian in its Metal Processing Facility.

Key features are its world-class piece genealogy, operations data, data collection, and operations management techniques applied through the use of Wonderware products.

Friday, October 10, 2014

Incrementally but continuously improving operations at New Belgium Brewing


With the scalability provided by the Wonderware MES solution, we are able to continuously improve operations incrementally by deploying various aspects of the solution one step at a time. All of our jobs are changing including how we go about our day-to-day business because of the data now being delivered by the Wonderware MES Performance Software.  

Joe Herrick, Packaging Systems Manager
New Belgium Brewing, Co.



With the new MES solution delivered by Apex, New Belgium Brewing now has the mechanics on each shift 24/7 to support the bottling line. 

"We have lead techs that are addressing issues identified in trends noted by the software," Herrick said, " Access to this real-time information enables our team to work on things ahead of time by performing preventative maintenance, enabling us to get out in front of potential issues.”

More information


Please visit the following links if you want to know more about the Wonderware solution at New Belgium Brewing:

Thursday, October 9, 2014

The Game Changers at New Belgium Brewing

With Wonderware MES Performance Software coupled with New Belgium’s continuous improvement strategy, we have extended our packaging area capacity to about 1.3 million barrels each year.”

Joe Herrick, Packaging Systems Manager
New Belgium Brewing, Co.

Achieving Continuous Process Improvement Through Flexibility and Scalability


The flexibility and scalability of the Wonderware MES software has enabled New Belgium to customize its product packaging systems to meet its unique requirements for the efficient flow of captured production management data from the plant floor systems.

The combination of Wonderware MES Performance with the brewery’s existing installations of Wonderware System Platform and InTouch HMI provides New Belgium the opportunity to ramp up automation process as necessary.
“The model-driven approach of Wonderware System Platform gives us the ultimate platform for expansion when the customer wants to extend their MES system up, down, or sideways. With this unique scalability, we can start small without having to worry about switching to a different technology when the solution heads into uncharted territory. Application Server allows the Apex team to have a ‘can do’ attitude, regardless of the situation or industry.”
Sam Vail, chief technical officer at Apex Manufacturing Solutions.


More information


Please visit the following links if you want to know more about the Wonderware solution at New Belgium Brewing:

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Customized graphics within Wonderware MES helped Apex at New Belgium Brewing



“The ability to customize the graphics provided by the Wonderware MES enabled Apex to develop a system that could effectively communicate the line status and production capacities in the New Belgium bottling and packaging lines, while at the same time illustrate the company’s unique company culture with engaging graphics,” Vail said. “Screen data shows what order is being worked on, what is coming next, and how the current rate compares to their standard.” 
“New Belgium gave us a lot of leeway with development of the graphics to make the system engaging and fun to work with. We wanted to make sure the User Interface Experience (UIX) of this system was aligned with New Belgium’s culture, which made it very unique! Operator support is critical in any Continuous Improvement project, so the terminology and workflow needed to match their expectations, and because a real-time version of the display is seen on the public tour, we created unique InTouch graphics that were consistent with all the cool things the visitors had already seen along the way.”

More information


Please visit the following links if you want to know more about the Wonderware solution at New Belgium Brewing:

Monday, October 6, 2014

HMI and Supervisory Control Excellence: AENA, Barcelona El Prat Airport

 We'd like to congratulate Wonderware Spain and AENA for winning the HMI and Supervisory Control Excellence category of the Schneider Electric Software OPEN Contest. Find out why.



The gateway to the beautiful city of Barcelona is the El Prat Airport. In a typical year, over 35 million passengers and 96 thousand tons of cargo pass through the Barcelona El Prat Airport

The AENA Group is responsible for the operations of the Barcelona El-Prat Airport. AENA is one the world's top airport operators, in terms of the number of passengers handled. More than 200 million travelers pass through AENA's 46 domestic and 15 international airports.

AENA created a Smart City solution at the Barcelona El Prat Airport that boasts a dynamic, high-functioning, reliable and secure infrastructure.

With a little help from Wonderware


Thursday, October 2, 2014

Shell Mobile, AL Chemical LP: Asset Excellence Winner, Schneider Electric Software OPEN Contest 2014

Congratulations to Fred Wheeler of Shell Mobile, AL Chemical LP for winning the Asset Excellence category of the Schneider Electric Software OPEN Contest 2014.

Find out how.



Fred successfully implemented a Wonderware IntelaTrac solution called "Additives Inventory Management & Time management via procedures"

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Chevron Changes the Game with Dynamic Simulation Software from Schneider Electric

http://youtu.be/VRLubCpXd6s


By Trevor Ault, Automation Engineer, Chevron

Winner of the 2014 Grand Pinnacle Prize, Schneider Electric Software OPEN, Sept 2014. Find out why...


Wonderware MES Success Story: Qu Jing Tobacco Plant, a branch of the Hongyunhonghe Tobacco Group

Look beyond the industry and see what these guys are capable of doing - 3D rendered graphics to augment a complete MES solution, with track and trace, OEE, downtime monitoring using System Platform, InTouch, Historian, mobility through SmartGlance.

Wonderware MES Success Story: Qu Jing Tobacco Plant, a branch of the Hongyunhonghe Tobacco Group from Invensys Videos on Vimeo.


It's a cool application of System Platform and MES.