The huge amount of data is being captured from shop floor systems everyday during every transaction, but it is most important to get right data at right time to make better decision on the plant floor.
Not like other systems, in plant, data should collect from various data sources and available in different dimensions to help the shop floor managers take critical decisions
A system required to
• Integrate and Analyze data across multiple systems
• Ability to quickly generate reports across multiple dimensions
• Ability to quickly identify and isolate problems
• Capability to predict problems based on historical data
An EMI system must have those above capabilities. Basically an EMI system should have capabilities to integrations and to provide reporting, analysis, visual summaries. SAP MII providing a real time version of events on the shop floor. Now the new suite of SAP Business Objects tools (Xcelsius) can now be used to enhance the data visualization capabilities of SAP MII.
Usually the historical data usually hold in the plant historian database, the real time data can acquire from various data source like OPC and other systems right away, the Manufacturing Intelligence system must have ability to interface with all plant systems and also historian database too. SAP MII has extensive technical capabilities of integrating any plant historian like OSI PI, Aspen IP21.
Manufacturing performance should be in line with the overall business objectives of the company, for plant production manager need to monitor and control the production in the real time basis make the intelligence systems to generate report or visual summaries faster.
EMI Benefits:
1. Improved plant efficiency
2. Increased asset utilization and returns
3. Reduced wastage and improved quality
4. Visibility of plant performance levels
5. Ease of benchmarking across product lines − plant-wise , shift-wise, facility-wise, geography-wise – to improve business performance
