Software has plant-wide, web-based visibility/reporting.

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VisualPlant(TM) Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) solution allows manufacturers to collect, display, and analyze all production activity. It provides live, direct, and secure connections to machines on plant floor. Scalable architechture allows software to grows and adapt with plant needs. Features of VisualPlant include real-time and historical performance indicators, production and downtime monitoring, and data mining and reporting.



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VisualPlant(TM)


The Basics

Visual Plant(TM) is a revolutionary Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) solution that solves plant problems that have existed since the birth of manufacturing. It allows manufacturers to collect, display and analyze all production activity-what's happening right now, what happened last week, last month, or last year-on everyone's desktop. It is a live, direct, secure connection to the machines on the plant floor. It provides an alternative to costly custom programs, as it can be used by any size or type of manufacturing plant.

Quick results

VisualPlant's installation takes only days/weeks, compared to custom software programs that often require six months to a year to be up and running.

Scalable

Even though this is off-the-shelf software, it grows and adapts with the needs of the plant. It can be reconfigured quickly and easily without expensive upgrades. Interestingly, VisualPlant is often used to enhance earlier custom programs already installed at plants. VisualPlant connects directly to all plant floor machines such as PLCs, CNCs, barcode scanners, manual stations, quality/test stands, and retrieves real-time data without any human input.

Provides

* Plant-wide visibility on every desktop - in real-time
* Key Performance Indicators, both real-time and historical
* Production and downtime monitoring
* Mission-critical (automated) data collection from your plant floor
* Efficiency and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) monitoring
* Part & batch tracking and product genealogy
* Quality monitoring and tracking
* Data mining and reporting
* Bi-directional pipeline between the plant floor and your business systems
* 100% web-based visibility and reporting
* Lowest total cost of ownership (TCO)

Allows users to

* Identify manufacturing constraints
* Improve productivity throughput
* Increase operational efficiency by reducing downtime
* Enable information sharing to develop strategies for improvement
* Optimize physical and human resources
* Develop co-operative solutions
* Empower employees to make the best possible decisions

Return on investment

At approximately one-tenth the cost of custom plant software, VisualPlant pays for itself in under a year. After that, the savings continue to accumulate. This is another reason both large and small manufacturers highly endorse VisualPlant.

History

The members of EMT's leadership team offer over 25 years of success in providing control systems integration and corporate data acquisition/reporting systems.

Success

This technology is tried and true. While VisualPlant is revolutionary, it is installed at many Fortune 500 companies, several of these for over 12 months, across North America. The consensus among customers is overwhelmingly favourable.

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