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When you create applications and solutions for implementation in your business using Tatsoft's FactoryStudio Product your time to deploy is very short, improvements in process and efficiency is significantly increased and your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is greatly reduced. The power and flexibility of FactoryStudio enables our Client Companies to deliver secure, reliable, pragmatic functionality in a shorter time frame with smaller and more cost-effective development efforts, with state-of-the-art intuitive user-friendly interfaces. |
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| When applied to a specific vertical market, the FactoryStudio Engineering Tools (and some specific functional modules they include) are defined/known as Rapid Application Development (RAD) Tools, for Plant Information Systems, or Plant Management Information Systems, SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), Advanced Visualization/HMI (Human-Machine Interfaces), Data Center Monitoring and Management, or Plant Performance Monitors. |
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| The FactoryStudio Product that provides the foundation for the Engineering Tools also provides the platform and framework for these important capabilities: |
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Synchronization of distributed events and alarms, real-time data and historical data. |
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Incorporation of easy-to-create state-of-the-art WPF advanced graphics |
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Seamless connections with databases and legacy applications. |
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Interaction with built-in business objects involving extensive features for customization. |
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Recent developments in both hardware and software technology have made most of the currently existing tools obsolete. These new technologies, of which FactoryStudio is a leading example, make use of modern architecture and development processes and code, which the legacy applications and systems are not able to take advantage of.
The FactoryStudio infrastructure was designed to provide the ideal platform for these applications by using the latest software technologies and by taking advantage of advances in hardware design, providing a common Enterprise Infrastructure for product development, application development and systems projects. |
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| Typical Applications |
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| Applications for process automation, factory-floor automation, energy management, real-time data management, performance monitoring, automatic data collection, and integration with dedicated control and monitoring devices are core components to modern corporations. |
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| Current supervisory systems are the foundation of manufacturing, and perform critical functions throughout the production cycle including control of factory-floor processes from the Machine Panel to Management Business Intelligence dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's). Typical applications include: |
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| Production Performance and OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) |
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| Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and Total Effective Equipment Performance (TEEP) both provide standard methods of measure with which one can determine the overall effectiveness of a production facility. These measures provide an indispensible way to gauge current performance against ideal and optimum performance targets. |
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| OEE provides a way to measure the effectiveness of a production unit against its designed capacity and scheduled operations; TEEP measures the OEE against the maximum available time (that is, complete calendar hours). |
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Connecting the factory-floor and control devices with the OEE calculation enables one to “drill down” into the underlying metrics for OEE and gather important information to determine where problems may exist or where opportunities for improvement might exist. Information about Loading, Availability or Uptime and Performance for each process component is provided. |
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| Total Quality Management |
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| Job Tracking and Downtime tracking, quality assurance, defect tracking; all the quality management requirements are easy to setup using FactoryStudio configuration tools. Customizable reports, web displays and reports on the web, coupling external databases queries with real-time factory-floor data to turn data into actionable information is readily accomplished with FactoryStudio's very flexible customization tools. |
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| KPI (Key Performance Indicators) |
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For reliable operational and production KPI's, it is essential that the data collected from multiple systems is automated as much as possible so that real-time feedback on the metrics is provided. This real-time access to important data will transition the data into real-time actionable information, presented in a state-of-the-art WPF Graphic; allowing for fast, well-informed decision making that can directly, and positively, impact your production lines. |
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| With the FactoryStudio Product which integrates multiple database sources with data collected directly from the factory floor devices, you now have an outstanding user friendly tool to implement your KPI calculations. The advanced graphical engine, web displays and web reports make FactoryStudio an easy front-end interface for analyzing the results. OPC, XML and data sets, and web services also allow you to export that information into other Business Intelligence applications. |
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| HMI – Human Machine Interface/Advanced Visualization |
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| The goal for all applications that have a direct affect on production processes is to provide reliable, effective, user-friendly interfaces so that operators can safely and efficiently operate production processes and machines intuitively. Some HMI applications are designed to collect test results and quality control information; such applications typically require integrated tools (some adaptations require that a third-party software and expertise is necessary), excellence on price-performance and flexibility to obtain data from any PLC or control system. |
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| The FactoryStudio Product has the complete functionality built-in, third party optional modules or external tools are not needed. The user friendly and powerful integrated screens of FactoryStudio makes it a perfect fit for such applications. The Remote Engineering feature included with FactoryStudio allows for simplified maintenance, quick diagnosis of issues and problems by appropriate experts and secure simplified services. |
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| SCADA |
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| SCADA applications require robust distributed architecture and security, easy integration for multiple data sources, local and remote rich User Interfaces for operators, and easy and reliable database integration. Some applications may require data exchange between multiple stations, large number of real-time data points and installation redundancy. |
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| The structured real-time database of FactoryStudio, in which you can create your own custom types, drastically simplifies the project development and tasks for modeling your processes. |
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| Data Acquisition |
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| FactoryStudio works like a real-time hub for factory-floor data. Whether your application is collecting data for storage in SQL databases, PI Systems, performing calculations with streamed data before storing, monitoring remote data or managing multiple protocols, all the standard requirements for Data Acquisition applications are easily handled with built-in modules. Tatsoft has a library of data acquisition protocols developed over decades of providing real-time system solutions. Tatsoft’s Driver Toolkit allows for easy development of custom communication interfaces and protocols. |
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| Real-time Dashboards |
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| There are many existing tools to draw bar graphs and charts, but when one needs to easily distribute the graphics across multiple web locations, export to XPS documents, manage security access, collect and synchronize the data in real-time, attach alarms, events and custom business logic, a great deal of integration and customization work is required. |
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| FactoryStudio is a comprehensive integrated tool to create business-intelligence applications, real-time dashboards and advanced graphical data visualization. Built-in objects for Data Grids, Alarms, Trends, XPS Report Viewer provide a "quick start" to project development. Integration with WPF Controls enables the creation of state-of-the-art user interfaces and applications that automatically include distributed web access. |
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| BPM – Business Process Management |
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| Requirements for manufacturing lines are always increasing. Production lines now are far more integrated with business processes than they were in the past; from the availability of materials to the required line output business; production processes are being linked more and more. Because of this increasing linkage Supervisory Systems must go beyond factory-floor process control and enable the visualization and management of the entire integrated business/production process. |
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| FactoryStudio Enterprise, with advanced tracking and security, multi-level structure, tables on the real-time database and tight integration with Microsoft .NET Framework, provides a reliable foundation in which to create BPM class applications that reach the Factory-Floor. |
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| PIMs |
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| Current requirements for Process Information Management systems demand advanced and rich user interfaces, and must include reliable databases with the capability to integrate data from current and legacy islands of automation. |
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| The FactoryStudio architecture, with the NO LEGACY CODE guarantee, provides a long-term reliable platform to act as a central point of data consolidation. |
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Tatsoft's 20+ years of experience in Industrial Automation application design and process implementation as well as our extensive experience with real-time Communication Driver protocols allows us to provide our clients with a reliable and impressive path to successful and cost effective management of data integration; turning data into actionable information. |
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