Manufacturing Intelligence Newsletter | Leading herbicide producer increases production 166%

VIEW ONLINE SUBSCRIBE AUTOMATION WORLD MANUFACTURING INTELLIGENCE SITE SPONSORED BY: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION February 16, 2012 Video: FactoryTalk VantagePoint Software with Microsoft SharePoint>> New FactoryTalk VantagePoint Software with Microsoft SharePoint Web Parts provides a direct link to control and business systems for enhanced manufacturing intelligence. Rockwell Automation Read More: Streamline your manufacturing application with FactoryTalk Historian >> Learn how FactoryTalk Historian can help maximize your ability to collect time-series data and access that information across different levels of your enterprise. Rockwell Automation White Paper: Turning Data into Actionable Information >> Get the most value out of your historian. See how identifying the “right” type of data - and recognizing the wide range of functions available - can help you improve real-time decision making. Rockwell Automation Video: Visualization in an Architected System >> Learn how visualization creates a window into operational processes to help improve your plant performance. Rockwell Automation Learn more: FactoryTalk VantagePoint is the gateway to data buried in your business systems >> Learn how to easily configure reports, dashboards and KPIs that deliver deep, actionable manufacturing insight into your plant operations. Rockwell Automation This Issue Manufacturing intelligence turns real-time manufacturing data into actionable business knowledge. This issue highlights the value of historian software applications, delivered in convenient dashboards, for enhanced process insight and improved decision making... More information CASE STUDY Manufacturing Intelligence Helps Leading Herbicide Producer Increase Production by 166 Percent Integrated control and information solution improves productivity, throughput and efficiency Facing a rapidly growing population, combined with increasingly limited land, water and energy resources, farmers across the U.S. are under growing pressure to meet the mounting demand for food. In turn, their agribusiness suppliers are challenged to keep up. They must supply farmers with the volume of safe and efficient crop protection, and seed-care products needed to develop strong roots—the basis for healthy crops and high yields. Recently, a global leader in crop protection and seed care identified the need to replace its outdated batch processes and systems at one of its chemical production facilities. At its old facility, the company relied on an outdated, labor- and time-intensive batch process that lacked automated track-and-trace capabilities. Under the system, operators primarily used a manual method to weigh and add ingredients, while making hand-recorded notations along the way. The slow, cumbersome process lacked reliable, easy-to-retrieve information and reporting capabilities ... Read more TECH OVERVIEW Empower Users with Real-Time Access to Actionable Information Manufacturers need immediate access to real-time data to provide insightful information to people at every level of the organization. Without this insight, users lack the ability to create relevant reports, dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs), and therefore struggle to evaluate and correct problems before they impact the bottom line. Achieving that insight despite the ever-increasing complexity of plant-floor applications, is possible with the newest version of FactoryTalk Historian Site Edition (SE). The new version incorporates FactoryTalk VantagePoint software as its reporting client to aggregate historical, real-time alarms and events data, and provides users with consistent, powerful reporting tools. By utilizing FactoryTalk VantagePoint as the client, users can create reports using an advanced Trend Tool, XY Plotter, Excel Add-in and dashboards, and publish them easily via a Web-based portal. FactoryTalk VantagePoint software utilizes a unified production model to ease organization, analysis and reporting of data gathered from the Rockwell Automation Logix Control Platform, as well as third-party data sources. By doing so, users at all levels in the organization can look at manufacturing performance through role-based KPIs, reports and dashboards so they can more easily meet manufacturing and performance goals ... Read more EVENT RSTechED 2012 Mark your calendar for the premier Rockwell Software training event, RSTechED, in Orlando, FL, June 10-15, 2012. Registration opens in mid-April.  Click here for more information on this event. EVENT Manufacturing Intelligence in Action: Transform Plant Performance Data into Increased Business Performance Learn from companies that have leveraged the benefits of manufacturing intelligence and how accessing and sharing this information has produced tangible value. Upcoming Dates: April 17 - Milwaukee, WI April 24 - Minneapolis, MN Click here for more information on this event. In case you missed it Dashboards Drive Better Decisions Throughout the Plant >> Metrics Matter on the Plant Floor >> Manufacturing Intelligence Relies on Historians for Insight >> WEBCAST Discover Webcast Series: Manufacturing Intelligence in Action Dial in for a new webcast featuring referenced Information Solution Provider Malisko Engineering. Each month brings a unique manufacturing story and promises to provide new ideas for optimizing the way you currently utilize plant and operational data. March 2012 - Malisko Engineering will show the power of pairing the PlantPAx process automation system and FactoryTalk VantagePoint to gain real-time visibility into five plants. Click here for more information.