Managing Automation - January 2009 - (Page 24) Software vendors are enabling agility with tools that deliver real-time data, automated exception alerts, and more flexible applications. BY JEFF MOAD s manufacturers push to respond with more agility to accelerating rates of change, technology vendors increasingly are suppor ting that drive with a wide range of new software tools. Among them are tools that provide manufacturers with highly usable, real-time information about what’s going right and wrong on the plant floor and across supply networks. Vendors also are focusing on tools that allow manufacturers to quickly make decisions and take action based on that real-time visibility. And, finally, software vendors are making strides to make their own products more flexible and better able to change as business imperatives shift. “Today manufacturers need a mix of realtime data that can give them a bird’s eye view of what’s going on at any minute as well as an ability to deal with problems as soon as they happen,” says Romain LeVault, vice president of sales and business development at manufacturing operations management software vendor Intercim LLC. Intercim, like some other providers, is developing software that will not only provide manufacturers with real-time plant floor information, but also let them easily visualize and re- ma January 24 2009
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