Manufacturing Plant Operations solutions
As global expansion, customer demands, and competition reach new levels, the manufacturing industry is undergoing rapid changes that affect how your company does business. You and your people are under extreme pressure to increase operational efficiency, act on new business opportunities, lower operating costs, and boost profits.
Microsoft works closely with a large ecosystem of plant-focused independent software vendors (ISVs) who use innovative Microsoft technology to build integration, collaboration, and analysis solutions for plant operations in the manufacturing industry to help your people perform to their fullest potential. This includes technology infrastructure that offers workflow and knowledge management tools to facilitate smooth collaboration among your people, ensuring that all the actions they take are also in line with your overall corporate goals.
Plant Operations partners
Microsoft works closely with a large ecosystem of plant-focused ISVs who build on Microsoft technologies for integration, collaboration, and analysis to create solutions so your people can perform to their fullest potential.
Choose a partner that best fits your business needs:
ABB
ABB uses Microsoft technology to deliver plant automation and plant information management solutions that optimize assets and improve plant performance. ABB's System 800xA is a scalable, extended automation system for process and production control, safety, manufacturing asset optimization, and production monitoring.
Applied Materials, Inc.
Applied Materials, Inc. is a global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service, and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flat panels, solar photovoltaic cells, flexible electronics, and energy efficient glass.
Apriso
Apriso delivers adaptive operations execution solutions that help your people adapt, execute, and deliver in today's market. The company's operations execution systems provide a solution for manufacturing execution systems (MES), warehouse management and logistics (WMS), quality control (QMS), maintenance (CMMS), time and labor, and supply chain visibility.
Areva
Areva is a world energy expert that offers its customers technological solutions for highly reliable nuclear power generation and electricity transmission and distribution. The company is committed to continuous improvement on a daily basis, making sustainable development the focal point of the group's industrial strategy.
AspenTech
AspenTech delivers breakthrough business process automation and optimization solutions for manufacturing and supply chain networks. Using innovative Microsoft software as the technological backbone, AspenTech solutions provide complete integration and collaboration between the plant floor and the executive suite.
Camstar
Camstar's Enterprise Manufacturing Execution and Quality system helps manufacturers rapidly boost the performance of their distributed manufacturing operations by reducing product and process variability, and by providing flexibility for rapid growth and change.
Citect
Citect is the leading global provider of industrial automation, facilities automation, real-time intelligence, and next-generation manufacturing execution systems (MES). Specializing in the delivery of innovative, reliable, and cost-effective solutions, Citect connects people in business and industry to real-time information to improve business strategies and decisions.
Emerson Process Management
Emerson Process Management is a supplier of products, services, and solutions that measure, analyze, control, automate, and improve process-related operations. Emerson leverages the Microsoft server and database platforms across many of its products, and has been a leading participant in the development of the object linking and embedding (OLE) for process control (OPC) standard.
GE Fanuc
GE Fanuc's Proficy software family delivers a comprehensive solution set for maximizing quality and productivity, while minimizing downtime and waste, by combining the flexibility of the Microsoft operating environment with a robust set of powerful data-collection, visualization, and production management tools.
Honeywell Process Solutions
Honeywell Process Solutions, part of the company's Automation and Control Solutions group, offers automation systems and value-added services for process manufacturers. Microsoft technology enables Honeywell to build solutions that boost manufacturing performance, expand asset capability, and improve collaboration and decision-making.
ICONICS
ICONICS is a leader in OPC-based, Web-enabled visualization software for manufacturing, automation, and business solutions. ICONICS products are based on open industry standards. With a single development tool, ICONICS products run on multiple Microsoft Windows platforms. BizViz, the new business automation visualization solutions suite, bridges the factory floor to the enterprise through robust reporting, wireless, mobile, and data-mining technologies based on Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
Invensys
Invensys extends the software services offered by Microsoft server platforms and Microsoft .NET Framework to create the ArchestrA automation and information integration architecture. ArchestrA technology serves as the foundation for a broad lineup of production and performance management software applications from Invensys, as well as for its new InFusion system—the world's first Enterprise Control System, from Invensys Process Systems. Invensys Wonderware (www.wonderware.com) is a leading supplier of industrial automation and information software solutions which transform data into vital plant information. Wonderware powers intelligent plant decisions in real time and offers software solutions in the areas of Production and Performance Management, Geographical SCADA, and Supervisory HMI.
LogicaCMG
LogicaCMG brings deep domain expertise to the delivery of business consulting, systems integration, and IT and business process outsourcing solutions worldwide. LogicaCMG helps customers solve complex business problems, improve their operating efficiency, deliver higher quality services, and build their competitive edge.
OSIsoft
OSIsoft solutions are built on Microsoft .NET Framework technology. By utilizing the technology of the Microsoft SharePoint Server environment, OSIsoft's RtPM Platform crosses both IT and process boundaries to incorporate and display all operational information. This enables companies engaged in process-oriented manufacturing or other complex operations, such as refining oil or distributing gas and electricity, to make critical, informed, and profitable decisions.
Rockwell Automation
Microsoft and Rockwell Automation help manufacturers boost performance at the machine, line, plant, and supply chain levels. The Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk suite enables integration of factory-floor and enterprise-level business systems, enhancing Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Integrated Architecture by complementing its Logix control platform.
Siemens
Siemens is one of the world's largest electrical engineering and electronics companies. Siemens provides innovative technologies and comprehensive know-how to benefit customers in 190 countries. The company is active in the areas of information and communications, automation and control, power, transportation, medical, and lighting.
Yokogawa
At Yokogawa, innovativeness and the desire to be a trusted partner are driving the solutions that exceed clients' expectations. Its businesses include industrial automation and control, test and measurement, and industry support. The company provides its customers the product development and production test solutions that are absolutely essential to remaining competitive in today's business world.
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