Change Management Solution
In today's fast-paced world of manufacturing, change is constant. Customer needs are continually evolving, your production processes are evolving right along with them and your business is running at a breakneck pace to keep up with it all. In this environment, uptime equals success, productivity rules and efficiency often marks the difference between getting by and getting ahead.
When your plant is running at peak efficiency, so is your business. Raw materials come in the plant, finished product comes out and the entire process runs like a well-oiled machine. But when things break down and production lines stop, so does the
productivity and that can have far-reaching bottom-line implications.
CIMPLICITY Change Management:
CIMPLICITY Manager™ is CIMPLICITY Machine Edition's system manager. It is the version control, security, and Audit Trail system for your automation and control development process.
CIMPLICITY Manager lets you:
> Store CIMPLICITY Manager projects, settings, and other databases on a separate, centralized Server.
> Keep track of changes made to projects and settings (Version Control).
> Monitor and record actions performed by users (Audit Trail).
> Control access to projects and settings under CIMPLICITY Manager (Access Control).
> Track and control protected actions on projects with Electronic Signatures.
> Manage and execute scheduled events (Scheduler).
> Organize projects for users based on the layout of your factory or process (Factory Layouts).
If you can put a value to any of these questions, Change Management Solution can help you:
> With a PC or device failure, have you or your company lost time due to an inability to restore
programs quickly?
> Have you lost production time or discarded product as a result of an incorrect program being loaded into a device? Lost production time due to errors caused by incorrect documentation?
> Has an accidental loss of work with no backup copy ever lost you engineering time?
> Have you or your company lost engineering time due to changes being overwritten, because other staff weren't aware of the changes? If you have multiple shifts, does the lack of communication between shifts cause errors or lost engineering time?
> If you do have backups, how much time is spent manually producing them? Would automating this task save your company time and money?
> Has your company experienced equipment damage due to incorrect programs being loaded into a device?
> Does your company have a quality system that requires documentation of engineering and maintenance activities? If so, would automating this process save time and money?
> Is your company monitored by a federal agency (e.g., the FDA)? Have you ever lost production time or been fined because of inadequate documentation? Were any other costs involved in obtaining re-compliance?
> If you have devices (PLC, HMI, CNC, etc.) from a variety of different manufacturers, does your company lose time because of the different interfaces that your employees are forced to use?
> Are you a regulated company that needs to conduct regular audits on your manufacturing practices?
If you answer yes to any of these questions, Change Management Solution can help you.
Change Management Solution:
The old adage "time is money" has never been more applicable than in the world of manufacturing. For every minute your plant experiences unscheduled downtime, your business is losing hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars. So when a critical component of your automation infrastructure fails, you need to replace it with the right part, right away.
With automation components, however, it's not always a case of plug-and-play. Programs need to be downloaded. Drivers need to be installed. Data needs to be shared. Any number of things must occur before you can get your plant up-and-running again and that often means having a disk or CD handy to transfer the data.
But when time is of the essence, you don't have the luxury of looking for the right disk, or the right version of the right disk, to get you back up and running. Change Management Solution eliminates that need by centralizing and managing all of your plant floor software and devices in a powerful, secure, globally accessible repository that will help you get your plant - and your business - back to work faster than ever before.
Check Out / Check In Process:
An adequate Change Management Solution will develop the following results:
Increased Plant Uptime:
> Provides immediate, reliable disaster recovery
> Ensures that backups are always available when needed
> Prevents or significantly reduces user errors
> Ensures that the latest data is always available during recovery
Improved Engineering Processes:
> Provides a common methodology for accessing device files and other plant information
> Maintains consistency between multiple facilities
> Helps enforce Good Manufacturing Practices throughout your organization
> Facilitates teamwork and collaboration
Reduced Costs of Engineering and Maintenance:
> Provides ongoing control over a large number of device and software programs in a multi-user environment
> Lowers costs by automating tasks (i.e., scheduling)
> Reduces equipment failure and related maintenance costs
> Remains compatible with a large array of complementary hardware and software offerings
> Reduces maintenance costs by backing up your system automatically
Improved Safety, Security and Regulatory Compliance:
> Prevents errors by automating critical manufacturing functions at the configuration level
> Controls access to your operation to ensure consistency and security
> Prevents and detects unauthorized changes and access requests
> Supports Electronic Signature required to meet the FDA's 21 CFR Part 11 regulation
> Controls and monitors access to projects and devices
> Automatically tracks significant events throughout your operation
Protection of Key Information Assets:
> Client/Server based system
> Stores all critical information on the server and deployed to clients as needed
> Facilitates plant device backups
> Keeps historical revisions of program and device changes
> Automatically provides and maintains version numbering
> Easily restores previous versions
> Provides version labeling for custom naming or numbering
> Controls and safeguards the checkout process
Increased Flexibility:
> System works with the entire plant regardless of networking structure
> Adapts to work on existing infrastructure
> Provides customizable HTML interface for ease of use and flexibility to support multiple languages and end user requirements
> Connects quickly and easily to other systems
> Full integration available with our full suite of products, including powerful Intelligent Production Solutions applications such as Proficy
> Historian and Proficy Real-Time Information Portal
> Scripting engine leverages visual basic script
> Allows for easy modification of standard functions
> Provides added support for new software and devices
> Customizes order of operations
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