Omicron

OMICRON has answered the need for visualizing batches on your portal...

Visual Batch!

This web feature allows users to visually interact with batch data from within a portal or dashboard. You can overlay multiple batches to allow visual comparison. The underlying point data can be exported to your favorite program for offline analysis.

Features Include:

• Supports the full S88 recipe hierarchy
• Roll-up, Drill down and Filtering on each level
• Visually see your Operations ons creen
• Compare batches by overlaying historical data
• Export batch data to offline programs, such as Microsoft Excel
• Feed other Sharepoint web parts

	Visual Batch! is ready to be installed onto a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 server. It will output Microsoft Excel 2007 compatible data in OpenXML format
	Visual Batch! can also be configured to work on any Silverlight-enabled web platform, including standard ASP.NET websites. It can export to just about any data format you may need.

How It Works

The core components of Visual Batch! consist of a Silverlight application which can be hosted within a SharePoint web part or standalone, a Windows Communication Foundation service hosted on the IIS server, and a component that manages the generation of MS Excel OpenXML files.  The application can retrieve its configuration data either from SharePoint or another data source.  Real-time data is queried by the WCF service via OLEDB.  All queries are brokered by the WCF server and not executed directly by the browser client Silverlight application.  We also offer custom SDK-based data access depending on your specific needs.

Output

Microsoft Excel output is generated in OpenXML (Office 2007) format.  OpenXML is supported in Excel 2003 when the Compatibility Viewer is installed.

The file contains the tag values with timestamps and a XY Chart of the tags over the time range.

Many other file formats can be supported.

Uses

Shop Floor

Visual Batch! is a valuable tool for operators to not only monitor shop operations, but also to help make predictions on future conditions. Using visual batch to compare to expected conditions, you can predict when conditions are ripe for a batch to fail and an operator can then take proactive, preventative measures to save significant costs.

Using Visual Batch! to feed into trend web parts, you can visually track the flow of material through your process and compare efficiency to an average over time or to the ideal conditions.

Operations

Ops Centers typically have a variety of screens posted that are monitored in real-time around the clock. Visual Batch! acts as a filter and a feed into Trend and other web parts in order to configure Ops screens.

Management

Use Visual Batch!  to easily find, surface, and correlate batch information with KPIs, real time data, financial data, manufacturing data, or other data sources.

Use Visual Batch! to find and output the data inputs to feed a web-based Batch Scorecard.

Use Visual Batch! to find and output the data inputs for statistical analysis and predictive multivariate analysis correlated by batch.

Generation & Asset Management

Use Visual Batch! to play “what if” and experiment with possible future conditions to measure how production is affected, based on past performance. You can also enable small-scale experimentation and modeling into larger-scale production scenarios, using predictive analysis tools like Microsoft Excel or MatLab.

Implementing

Visual Batch! contains core functionality developed by Omicron that:

·         Supports the full S88 recipe hierarchy

·         Roll-up, Drill down and Filtering on each level

·         Visually see your Operations on screen

·         Compare batches by overlaying historical data

·         Export batch data to offline programs, such as Microsoft Excel

·         Feed other SharePoint web parts

Visual Batch! can be extended to output data to any file format, enabling users to use PI data offline. Such data can be used as input to other applications, added to a report, or used as a backup.

While Visual Batch! is a Microsoft SharePoint based web part, it can easily be extended to run on any standard web page, or even outside a web server on a client workstation or laptop.

For validated environments, Omicron has IQ and OQ templates for Visual Batch! that will fit most company requirements.

In order to implement Visual Batch!, one or more servers with IIS (Internet Information Server) 6 or greater (Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or better) are required to host the back end and front end components.  The back end service also requires the PI OLEDB driver.  If you require higher performance access to data servicing many simultaneous end users, inquire about our application tier PI caching and scalability solutions.

Visual batch!  is easily configurable, by Omicron, to address your specific S88 implementation, security requirements and data export requirements.

System Requirements:

·         Windows Server 2003 or higher

For more information, contact your Omicron representative:

Jim Moody
jmoody@omicron.com
Phone: 610-822-3113
Fax: 610-822-3201