Informance Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence Suite:
  Accelerate, sustain and benchmark operational performance initiatives like lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, TPM, and other continuous improvement methods
     
  Drive operating strategies at the executive level into execution tactics at the plant level and throughout the production network
     
  Provide intelligence in the form of actionable insight from actual data

INFORMANCE Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) Products

Operational excellence is a business imperative. Informance offers a complete set of solutions to help global manufacturers achieve and sustain an increased level of performance through Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence solutions. Best-in-class software with capabilities ranging from strategic to tactical plant-level decision support are complemented with a unique deployment & training methodology allowing organizations to maximize their investment.

The Informance Enterprise Solution

The Informance Enterprise Solution is a strategic decision support system for corporate supply chain and manufacturing executives to discover, analyze, and act on opportunities that affect their entire plant network. Analysis of data spanning multiple plants, product lines, and asset types often reveals common issues that can lead to transformational improvement opportunities with significant ROI.

The Informance Plant Solution — Discrete Manufacturing Module

The Plant Module for Discrete Manufacturing empowers the plant staff to address improvement opportunities in their discrete manufacturing processes. Data collection technology and intuitive operator interfaces keep operator involvement and the fidelity of the data capture high. Powerful analytics identify ongoing improvement opportunities that can be readily addressed resulting in a quick positive impact.

The Informance Plant Solution — Process Manufacturing Module

The Plant Module for Process Manufacturing targets the continuous portion of the manufacturing process. Modeling phases of a batch manufacturing process, thousands of process parameters can be tracked in real time for the various asset types. Powerful analytics allows the plant staff to identify the root causes behind each failure by analyzing each process variable. Minimizing unplanned downtime events in continuous processes is the key to improving overall profitability for process manufacturers.

Informance IMPACT Services

Informance IMPACT Services helps manufacturers instill industry best practices throughout the organization and sustain reliable gains resulting in a higher solution ROI.

Enterprise Synchronizer

The Informance Enterprise Synchronizer acts as the technical backbone to aggregate and harmonize all operations-related data. It is a Web Services-based platform for systems, application, and technology integration. It links Informance to backend systems such as ERP, MES, supply chain, legacy systems, databases, etc. using Web Services technology. The Informance Enterprise Synchronizer leverages existing IT investments and works seamlessly with leading Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solutions that corporations may have deployed internally.

Alerts and Notifications Module

Companies can track their Key Performance Indicators (KPIÁs) by setting up customized business rules. Threshold-based alerts can be configured to keep your team focused on the critical issues while periodic alerts can help monitor progress toward your KPI goals. With the Alerts and Notifications Module, alerts can be routed to the appropriate people within your organization based on several factors type of metric tracked, the production line used, the products involved, the thresholds set, and the reason for the trigger.