Siemens Introduces SIMATIC IT Intelligence Suite to Improve Manufacturing Performance
Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc., today introduced the SIMATIC IT Intelligence Suite. The Intelligence Suite couples Siemens MES (Manufacturing Execution System) software, SIMATIC IT, with the extended cross-industry manufacturing offering from IndX, a Siemens Company. IndX’s XHQ product for real-time operations intelligence will be integrated into the SIMATIC IT platform. The new SIMATIC IT Intelligence Suite offers operators, supervisors, plant management, and C-level executives the benefits of improving manufacturing visibility and operational performance through personalized, pre-configured dashboards.
The SIMATIC IT Intelligence Suite incorporates an analytics server and a real-time data warehouse that captures, transforms and unifies real-time, historical and business data collected during production activities from a single- or multi-plant environment into a single contextualized database.
The SIMATIC IT platform has strong functionalities in plant visibility, and product traceability, driving market responsiveness and production efficiencies.
IndX’s offering has strengths in data modeling, data caching and strong enterprise visualization. The integrated Intelligence Suite now extends to support real-time collaborative business models to have Enterprise Manufacturing IT (through ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning systems) and Plant-centric IT (MES) operate seamlessly together, creating the basis for synchronized business processes, real-time monitoring and decision support, and global management accessible through an internet browser.
A key differentiator of the SIMATIC IT Intelligence Suite is the integration with the SIMATIC IT Production Suite. The Production Suite today already owns and manages more than 90 percent of the data and information required at the business level. This critical data forms the basis for timely operational decisions to maximize manufacturing performance, guaranteeing real-time data analysis at every level for drill down and data mining. A further benefit is the capability of data distribution through the standard components within SIMATIC IT for user interfaces and reporting.
The new offering expands the flexibility of the SIMATIC IT Production Modeller (a model-oriented graphical environment that supports business workflows), allowing the Intelligence Suite to easily access the manufacturing knowledge created through events, exceptions, alarms, and operator actions and is then combined to create critical KPIs. The data contextualization model allows the definition of KPIs out of virtually any data source aggregating the KPIs at different levels of granularity and displaying them to user’s specific needs at any geographical location, and at any hierarchical level.
Further information can be found on the Internet at: www.siemens.com/simatic-it
About Siemens
Siemens Energy & Automation Inc. is one of Siemens’ operating companies in the U.S. Headquartered in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta, Ga. Siemens Energy & Automation manufactures and markets one of the world’s broadest ranges of electrical and electronic products, systems and services to industrial and construction market customers. Its technologies range from circuit protection and energy management systems to process control, industrial software and totally integrated automation solutions. The company also has expertise in systems integration, technical services, and turnkey industrial systems. For more information: www.sea.siemens.com .
Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) is one of the largest global electronics and engineering companies with reported worldwide sales of $96 billion in fiscal 2005. Founded nearly 160 years ago, the company is a leader in the areas of Medical, Power, Automation and Control, Transportation, Information and Communications, Lighting, Building Technologies, Water Technologies and Services and Home Appliances. With its U.S. corporate headquarters in New York City, Siemens in the USA has sales of $18.8 billion and employs 70,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Thirteen of Siemens` worldwide businesses are based in the United States. With its global headquarters in Munich, Siemens AG and its subsidiaries employ 460,000 people in 190 countries. For more information on Siemens in the United States: www.usa.siemens.com .
