In today's fiercely competitive marketplace for manufactured products, the difference between profit and loss can often be found in boardroom decisions. The downstream results of those decisions are directly attributable to the quality of information available to the manufacturer's management team.A Wisconsin-based software company with a worldwide reputation in the field of plant tuning, believes that senior managers cannot make good decisions unless they have the latest and best information at their fingertips.CEO of ExperTune, John Gerry, says: "Our flagship software package, PlantTriage, has primarily functioned at engineering level, identifying areas in need of fine-tuning in order to obtain optimum efficiency. Now, PlantTriage has entered the boardroom."He continues: "The latest version of the software, perfected in concert with experts at the world-famous Oxford University, includes a 'dashboard' that enables senior managers to view real-time performance benchmarks of an entire company's control system - from Baltimore to Beijing."Unveiled on 1 November, the new release of PlantTriage includes a corporate overview of multi-site performance in real-time. This is an overview of the complete automated process control system - everything from the controllers to the process instrumentation and control valves. Mr Gerry added: "The dashboard allows users to compare the performance of one site or plant to others across the enterprise. A board of directors can be shown a snapshot view of current performance, or view performance over time of the entire corporation, with individual sites or plants broken out in detail."Available anywhere, anytime, through a standard PC browser (such as Internet Explorer), the dashboard enables engineers drill down into individual plants for more detail in a specific plant. Mr Gerry explains: "This facility allows managers and engineers to view plants being assessed and monitored under different PlantTriage servers. They can drill down from the dashboard into individual sites, plants, unit operations, and finally loops - revealing a wealth of useful information while conducting a rigorous health check."ExperTune has created PlantTriage as an enterprise-wide, automation monitoring and diagnostic system. It pinpoints opportunities for achieving the optimum economic impact on operations, increasing reliability, efficiency, and profit. It minimises cost without adding bricks and mortar or personnel, the company says.Mr Gerry adds: "PlantTriage is being used by blue-chip manufacturers around the world, and is recommended by the top-tier of automation vendors. Profit-conscious companies are now able to make boardroom decisions that maintain their market leadership and yield additional profits from their existing manufacturing capacity."More information: ExperTune Inc. 4734 Sonseeahray Drive, Hubertus, Wisconsin WI 53033, USA. Tel: +1 262 628 0088, E-mail:[email protected] - Website: www.expertune.com
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