The Wonderware Industry Application for Packaging is Wonderware’s first industry-oriented solution focused on meeting the needs of the packaging area within a manufacturer. This solution provides specific manufacturing execution systems (MES) functionality, regardless of the individual manufacturing processes or manufacturing vertical, reinforcing Wonderware's commitment to provide "Incremental MES" to its customers. By deploying incremental MES, it allows manufacturers to quickly deploy a small footprint, targeted Wonderware MES solution, enjoying rapid time-to-value and payback, with the opportunity for future growth upstream or downstream in the manufacturing process.
Producers need to overcome critical issues in packaging operations, including:
- quality and regulatory requirements
- external business factors (the global economic downturn’s impact on price pressures; volatile commodity prices; raw materials/energy costs and changing market demand)
- internal controls (product consistency across sites; the necessity to “make do” with existing equipment versus additional capital expenditures; and the need for fast and accurate production and process information), and
- packaging machine diversity.
Mismanagement of these factors can contribute to lower profitability, efficiency and throughput. The Wonderware Industry Application for Packaging directly mitigates these challenges.
The Industry Application for Packaging integrates and coordinates packaging equipment, providing improved visibility and planning of diverse packaging machines to achieve consistent performance measurements and execution of packaging operations.
By enabling consistent management and execution of packaging operations, manufacturers can accelerate the optimization of diverse packaging line operations, getting more products to market faster, at a lower cost.
Suitable for most packaging operations, the Industry Application for Packaging is an excellent fit for Food and Beverage, Consumer Packaged Goods, Pharmaceutical and Electronics verticals. With a deployment process of only one week, the Industry Application for Packaging has a very short time to value. User-oriented views meet the needs of packaging planners, operators, supervisors and analysts. The Industry Application for Packaging already is a success story for its quick deployment and immediate benefits in Food and Beverage packaging operations.
Why Wonderware
Wonderware is the market leading software solutions and ecosystem brand for real-time operations management software and associated ecosystem partners providing solutions for: Supervisory HMI, GeoSCADA, Mobile Operations, Production Management, MES, Performance Management, EMI, and integration with asset management, supply and demand chain and ERP applications.
Wonderware is a brand offering of the Operations Management Division of Invensys. Invensys Operations Management is a leading provider of automation and information technologies, systems, software solutions, services and consulting to global manufacturing and infrastructure industries. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, its solutions are used by more than 40,000 clients around the world in over 200,000 plants and facilities. Invensys Operations Management solutions include control and measurement instrumentation, safety critical and distributed control systems, a wide range of real-time operations management software and professional services that help its clients design, operate and manage the safety, efficiency, productivity, sustainability and profitability of their assets and operations.
