Attain Best-In-Class manufacturing operations. Move towards optimum plant performance by improving your plant operations, process efficiency and product quality.
ABB's solution for supporting minerals plant production and quality management objectives is called Knowledge Manager. Since its first release in 1996, many installations have benefited from its industry specific functions:
Inform IT Knowledge Manager enables minerals operations to achieve their operational objectives by monitoring and managing manufacturing processes, providing analytical insight, and improving overall operation. This is realized through support of manufacturing work processes, quality processes and management planning and control.
To manage the huge quantity of data from your process, the Knowledge Manager processes it to present you only with the relevant information needed at that moment in time. The information is always available to you when and where ever you may need it, via a web explorer interface. The historical database stores data over many years according to the requirements of your plant or local authorities, and allows you and your personnel to inspect the plant performance over and at any point in time.
With the latest version your plants will receive a platform upgrade, including easier integration with your control systems and business critical integration with ERP systems, all in a web environment. All this is provided at a low total investment and ownership cost.
Here are some examples of what benefits the newest version of Knowledge Manager can bring to you:
- Find your plant KPI’s quickly and easily: As part of bringing the user interface right up to date, you only need one click to get to the heart of your plant. For example, with one click you see your Production Report filled with data and have all the information you need at a glance. You can get to your information up to 9 times faster than before!
- Improve frequency of timely business decisions and financial targets: Identify problem areas and interpret information at a glance with the new process and production limits handling and presentation
- Increase manpower efficiency: Turn information into knowledge via enhanced presentation, user predefined defaults and drill-down methods. Set up of your Knowledge Manager according to your production processes. Download the reasons and codes catalogue for downtime and stops directly from your ERP system. Preconfigure the resolution and dates for your reporting.
- Comply with quality processes: Make compliance with plant quality processes easier with new production data validation and period closing concepts.
- Increase effectiveness in production & maintenance management resulting in reduced production costs: Be even more effective with enhanced multidimensional and product related Pareto analysis tools and the flexibility to separate low production periods from stoppages.Calculate and report lost production against a typical target value, such as best demonstrated practice (BDP).
- Improve productivity at a consistent quality: Integrate and streamline production values with the laboratory sample information.
Click on the "Knowledge Manager Benefits" link under Attachments for more examples.
If you want to get the benefits of the newest version, please contact us. We can discuss how Knowledge Manager can help you, and benefit your specific production management and decision support needs. With deliveries executed expertly and proficiently in over 200 installations, we make the installation or upgrade of your new Knowledge Manager swift and trouble free.