Incuity

Product Type: EAM/CMMS software and systems

Manufacturer: Incuity

Incuity Software, Inc., a leading developer of real-time business intelligence (BI) software for manufacturing enterprises, has announced the release of version 2.3 of its flagship Incuity EMI™ software, which offers new usability features and embeds the ISA 95 model for creating a coherent and context-rich view of a company's manufacturing environment.

“This new version is a giant step forward for manufacturers because it allows them to more easily integrate business and manufacturing systems by better modeling the equipment, material and personnel resources used in their production processes,” said Doug Lawson, Incuity CEO. “This facilitates navigation and data access, and groups related data from different sources to provide an enterprise-wide view of manufacturing.

“Incuity EMI has always supported the ISA 95 model as well as companies' own in-house production models,” Lawson added. “By providing an embedded copy of this industry standard production model and integral support of the business-to-manufacturing markup language (B2MML), Incuity greatly simplifies development of models that can represent literally any plant, production facility or manufacturing operation.”

A “model” is a theoretical construct that represents physical processes with a set of variables and a set of logical and quantitative relationships among them, he noted. “Models are representations of external realities through which people can understand those realities and contextualize them better,” Lawson explained. “Deploying a model simplifies user access to all production data because people don't need to know where the data is located or how to access specific information. They can configure their activities around the model instead of programming specific tasks, which also makes it easier to accommodate change and evolution in a model-based production process.”

A model provides these capabilities because it organizes information logically, without the technical language associated with a particular process. In a production environment this means people can deal logically with equipment, materials and labor resources without having to know the specifics of each software application that is involved in the production process. Content is better organized from all data sources and is presented in a more understandable fashion – via dashboards, reports and trends, which are also contained in the model

“Regardless of whether a company creates its own model or tailors the ISA 95 standard within EMI to create its own custom model, there is only one version of the truth and it can be updated automatically as the underlying data changes,” Lawson noted.

In addition to the powerful capabilities provided for modeling processes, the new 2.3 version of Incuity EMI also incorporates several feature enhancements that simply make it easier to use, such as:
Easier generation and publication of scheduled reports using third-party job scheduling tools such as SQL Server Agent

External specification of trending time periods to allow synchronization of multiple trends
Creation of “external” portal pages for inclusion within a company's standard enterprise portals
Improvements in client load time and general client performance
Enhanced OPC connectivity to all major control vendors for improved support for importing namespaces and tag attributes

The Incuity EMI Version 2.3, which began shipments in mid-June, provides standards-based connectivity to just about any database system, to all of the most popular process historians and to as many as 70 different families of real-time control data sources. It provides broad connectivity to virtually any data source in small, medium and large companies, from plant floor systems to enterprise business applications. It offers sophisticated capabilities for manipulating, viewing and sharing data throughout larger organizations to support better business decisions about production operations. Incuity EMI can access information over any network, using standard browsers, and process it as requested so users can analyze it from within the application software they already use to do their jobs – whether it's word processors, spreadsheets, graphics, data mining, business intelligence or other programs.
About Incuity

Incuity Software, based in Mission Viejo, California, is a pioneer in the creation of data management systems for reporting, analysis and business intelligence applications in manufacturing and process companies. More than 45,000 seats of the company's products have been installed since 1998, in 13 languages and in more than 40 countries. In addition to its headquarters operations in California, Incuity has a regional sales office in Nevada and maintains an advanced solutions development group in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

For additional information about the company and its products or for a complete list of value-added resellers around the world, please visit the corporate web site at http://www.incuity.com.

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