Invensys in the loop

One year after unveiling the Invensys partnership with SAP’s NetWeaver, Invensys launched two packaged composite applications (PCAs) in an effort to push business improvements from the plant floor through the enterprise.
Invensys’s Vice President Peter Martin and Wonderware Marketing Vice President, Mark Davidson unveiled the two xMII XApps today at The ARC Forum’s in Orlando, Fla.
The two PCAs are the Real-Time Finance and the Real-Time Production Execution and they will center on the packaged goods and chemical industries.
Real-Time Finance helps align manufacturing operations to allow for real time information on production-related financial performance.
“Financial system can be used for much more than financial reporting,” Martin said.
“You are turning your front line people – the people that make or lose the most money in your operation – into business managers,” Martin said. This system “allows plant floor personnel to behave in a manner that drives business value.” Similar to a control loop, “in short, this is a business loop.”
The Real-Time Production Execution system provides a pre-integrated way to dispatch, execute, monitor, and evaluation into manufacturing production and performance in discrete, batch and hybrid plant operations.