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Insight for Excel
You now have access to a superior, pre-configured tool that offers highly flexible reporting.
Increase visibility for improved manufacturing decision making. Activplant’s Insight for Excel is a snap-in module that provides essential standard and ad hoc reports without the high costs of customized programming services. Plus it’s easy for plant operators to learn and use because it’s built on the industry-standard Microsoft® Excel® program.
Today's manufacturing environment is driven by the requirement for continuous improvement and increasing pressure to be more lean and efficient in every aspect of operation. To meet these challenges, it is crucial to have up-to-date information about line and plant performance. This data must be accurate, easy to access and customized to meet the needs of your particular enterprise.
More than data collection – data contextualization
Insight for Excel goes far beyond mere data collection – it provides reports that organize information within the context of the shop floor. The true power of plant data is realized only when it is aggregated within the parameters specific to your enterprise. Plus, the resulting reports must be flexible enough to allow the data to be viewed from your particular operation.
With Activplant's patented Universal Factory Data Model (UFDM), the Activplant Performance Management Systmen (APMS) manages reams of complex data and stores it in standardized models and categories that are correlated to the manufacturing environment. Insight for Excel uses live links to this information to provide Excel reports that automatically refresh against the identifiers that you specify.
Activplant's Insight for Excel is the answer for APMS users that demand an out-of-the-box tool for customized, ad hoc reporting. This companion module eliminates the waiting and high costs that come with hiring consultants to design proprietary reports. Plus, training time is minimized because its formats and functions are familiar to Microsoft Excel users.
This means that you get an out-of-the-box solution for ad hoc reporting without needing to understand database table structures or query languages and without needing to go through the time-consuming process of dumping data into a separate program.
Using filters to create powerful reports
Activplant's Insight for Excel uses a services-oriented architecture (SOA) along with a unique wizard to configure your reports. Native identifiers in the UFDM allow:
Relative time-frame reporting
Set-up Excel reports that automatically update to your defined time period. Examples include data by shift, by hour, by batch or year-to-date reports.
Grouping by identifiers
You can specify shifts, batches, product codes or lots within particular time frames for targeted reports.
Exception filtering
Create filters that exclude certain data, such as all data for a shift or all data on a product.
Live links for real-time views
Refresh reports automatically so you always have access to the latest plant information.
Combined with built-in, multi-plant enterprise reporting, it becomes a platform for getting at the information required – as soon as it is needed. Whether it’s standard, year-to-date reports or quick ad hoc reports, the new Insight for Excel is the answer.
Visibility within the plant and beyond
With Insight for Excel reports, managers stay aware of progress toward their target goals and see how performance is trending. Excel spreadsheets provide this vital information in familiar table and graphic formats, giving an immediate visual understanding of the data. For enterprise management, Insight for Excel allows cross-plant comparisons for analysis of larger initiatives. It can create a multi-plant performance dashboard to provide deep inspection and broad visibility. For example, you can access multiple Activplant servers to build spreadsheets showing monthly summaries of several plants with detailed hourly data by shift.
Reduced cost
Activplant's Insight for Excel also meets your need to stay within your operating budget. Because it is a pre-configured solution, it saves thousands of dollars in consulting fees that would normally be needed to produce custom reports. Additionally, your training costs will be dramatically reduced. Because the module is based on Microsoft Excel, plant personnel get up and running quickly. They are able to create valuable, in-depth reports in hours, rather than the days needed to learn non-standard reporting systems.
Get the reports you need to improve performance and results
With ad hoc reports that are customized to meet your enterprise's specific requirements, you gain the critical data that’s required to analyze performance. And with accurate, timely information about your enterprise, you can direct corrective actions and manage multiple lines and plants for continuous improvement. Activplant’s Insight for Excel from Activplant provides an easy-to-implement, cost-effective reporting solution that will contribute to your manufacturing performance enhancement initiatives.
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