Delivering Manufacturing Visibility and Intelligence

Apriso officials announce Global EMI (Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence), a solution for operational intelligence and manufacturing visibility. Based on the knowledge gained while working with best-in-class manufacturers, this enterprise software and services solution was designed from the top down to deliver complete visibility across locations and functions. This enterprise solution centralizes visibility and execution of operational analyses to enable decision-makers to manage manufacturing operations better. Apriso provides faster time to value through prepackaged KPI’s, analysis, measures and dimensions focused on the priorities of leading manufacturers.

“The misalignment between plant-floor performance measures and corporate measures, such as return on capital expenditures; working capital; profitable revenue; and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) … continues to challenge manufacturers. One version of the truth exists on the plant floor, while another is in business intelligence (BI) or ERP applications. The result is a discontinuity between the process of managing the business and the business of managing the production process,” stated Simon F. Jacobson and Leif Erikson in Gartner’s The Manufacturing Performance Dilemma, Part 1: Overcoming Visibility Hurdles With Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence, refreshed February 11, 2013. ID:G00214298.

Apriso’s Global EMI solution addresses this discontinuity by capturing operational data from various sources, mapping it in a rapid and consistent manner, normalizing the data, and rolling it up to allow better visibility and analysis of manufacturing operations across plants. Apriso’s solution generates visual summaries, including dashboards, reports, and graphics important to manufacturing executives based on company’s vast experience working with world’s largest manufacturers for over 20 years. Fast, consistent measurement and reporting of business performance lets manufacturers achieve faster time to value and greater operational excellence.

“As the speed of business accelerates, it's even more critical to have visibility into plant operations. However, getting that information in a form you can use to direct faster, more informed decisions is a major challenge,” states John Fishell, vice president of product management at Apriso. “Visibility is one thing. Turning massive amounts of low level, granular data into meaningful and actionable intelligence is another. Information must be trusted, cleansed, summarized, reconciled, and contextualized in order to make sense for making informed decisions.”

Apriso’s Global EMI solution provides a way for businesses with multiple plants and locations to quickly access valuable operational intelligence in real time from across all plants with minimal IT involvement or deployment investment while leveraging the Microsoft BI stack, Excel, as well as third-party BI tools. By leveraging Apriso’s in-depth industry knowledge and decades of experience gained by their professional services team, this new solution delivers:

• Production-ready visibility and integration to new and existing plant floor operations
• An ability to choose from over 400 best-in-class, pre-configured KPIs delivered out-of-the-box
• Pre-packaged capabilities for OEE, machine labor tracking, production performance and order adherence, time and labor analysis of the work force, equipment maintenance, quality planning and execution, and logistics both inbound and outbound