Emerson Process Management introduced its new Syncade smart operations management suite, a new class of real-time production management softwar at the ARC Orlando forum this week. Syncade Suite extends Emerson's PlantWeb digital plant architecture by integrating real-time intelligent plant-floor data with procedural, off-line and transactional plant business processes, decisions and asset management.
Syncade replaces traditional client-server, program intense MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) software of the past decade. By contrast, the Syncade suite uses the modular, scalable Microsoft.NET framework-based software to deliver ISA95 Level 3 standards-based functionality. Syncade encompasses four functional areas: resource management, operations optimization, integrated information, and quality and compliance.
Resource Management: Effectively managing resources allows you to do more with less. Optimizing material conversion and eliminating the use of unsuitable material can reduce waste and rework. Scheduling, verifying and tracking proper equipment use can increase throughput. Improving operator productivity by guiding manual processes and enabling access to support documents can increase performance. Ensuring personnel have the proper skills, training and qualifications needed to effectively perform their jobs can minimize variability, improve company moral and support the fact that people are your greatest asset.
Operations Optimization: Improving plant workflow processes can significantly impact plant performance. Order management, material weighing/addition/traceability status, equipment state/cleaning/calibration tracking, product sampling and adjustment, electronic procedural control and data collection, are examples of workflow processes critical to optimizing operations. Syncade suite allows these diverse plant functions to be optimally coordinated, with easy access to information that impacts plant performance.
Integrated Information: Access to the right data at the right time enables better decisions. Integrating smart, real-time plant-floor data with your business practices helps your organization work smarter. By coordinating “handshaking” functions between existing plant systems and electronically guiding manual processes, plant operations can be streamlined. Syncade suite takes advantage of industry standards to enable easy and maintainable “plug and play” integration with other systems that impact your operations performance.
Quality and Compliance: Proper documentation ensures compliance with regulatory requirements and enables better user decisions by providing timely, “point of use,” accurate information. Too often, documentation can be a hindrance due to overwhelming volume, difficult accessibility, and missing information. Syncade suite eliminates these problems by providing effective data and document management throughout the lifecycle of a document, including online storage, change control, automatic routing, version management, and archived records management. Syncade software helps you turn your documents into management assets; rather than organizational burdens.