The desire to integrate the higher levels of enterprise automation with the manufacturing floor has spawned a large number of alphabet-soup acronyms over the past 20 years.  Regardless of what the acronym du jour is, the fundamental goals remain the same: enable the high levels of automation to plan and schedule with as much flexibility as possible what, when, where, and how the facility is to produce, and to make all desirable information feedback from the facility available to whoever needs it in both real time and historical formats.

IPACT has been working towards these goals with our customers for our entire history.  We have installed systems that perform flexible scheduling, plant-wide recipe management, inventory management, conformance tracking, quality monitoring and SPC, supervisory control, material and batch tracking, machine metrics, and downtime analysis, to name a few. 

This work has enabled our customers to save literally millions of dollars in production costs.  In one case, for example, our material tracking system highlighted to our customer that they were being systematically shorted on raw material by one of their suppliers.  The savings from just this discovery alone was worth several hundred thousand dollars per year to this customer. 

Please explore some of the links below for more details of our work in this important area.

Building the Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Enterprise Application Integration of a PVC Plant Using Wonderware ArchestrA

Manufacturing Execution Systems

Plant Information Systems

Flexible Batch Scheduling

Work Center Utililization