1.  Graphical delivery of multiple metrics and perspectives - Activplant delivers an easy to understand, graphical view of the plant that enables users to immediately see what is happening on the plant floor, historically and in real-time, and allows them to determine what they need to explore further to find root causes of problems. The display of values along with the context of visual representation of the plant helps accelerate user understanding.

2.  Powerful user-defined reporting, analysis and KPIs - This feature gives users unsurpassed control to explore the data in the way they need, without having to rely on overstretched IT resources. The point and click reporting enables users to quickly and efficiently zero in on areas that need improvement. They can then drill down to identify the cause of the issue as well. This ability greatly accelerates issue resolution with resulting benefits in cost savings and increased production.

3.  Multiple unique views into your line, plant and enterprise - Any improvements in plant effectiveness depends on a systematic, ongoing supply of real-time and historical data to monitor things like machine cycle time, machine states, buffer sizes and more. Without the ability to analyze this type of information by time, model or batch number for a shift or for a month, it's virtually impossible to make ongoing, lasting changes to increase your plant throughput. With user-defined reports, users can view data in multiple formats and get the information they're looking for.

4.  Unparalleled scalability from a single line to multiple plants - Regardless of where you start - on a single line or across an entire plant - you can always quickly and easily expand your Activplant deployment to drive even greater benefits. This mitigates the risk of trying to roll out a huge project.

5.  Universal Factory Data Model requires no coding or scripting - The UFDM does not require programming or opening the database, meaning there's no need to rely on IT staff or costly consultants. This means that Activplant can be installed, run and maintained with shop floor personnel at a much lower cost than other solutions.

6.  Uninterrupted data collection, even for updates and modifications - Other solutions cannot collect data while the solution is being updated. This result is that either data is lost or the plant has to stop working. Neither are practical solutions. With Activplant, there's no need to stop data collection when making changes.

7.  Collects, reports and analyzes automatic and operator entered data - Whether data is collected and entered automatically or manually, it is all contained in the central database. User can define the reports they want to view, analyze the information presented and make a decision that will move the plant forward.

8.  ADVANCED SHIFT MANAGEMENT AND EDITING CAPABILITIES 

9.  Data management for summarizing, archiving and deleting data - You can summarize, archive and delete data down to the item level using Activplant. This saves space in the database, speeds reporting and ensures the information you need to keep is always available at the level of granularity you require, whether it be detailed, summarized or archived.

10. N-tier architecture for scalability and reliability - Activplant is built on Microsoft .Net to ensure the system is robust and can provide the mission-critical information needed to run the plant. It also helps ensure the system can scale to work in a small plant with dozens of assets to the largest and most complex factory with hundreds of users and millions of data points. Activplant can be installed on a single server or across multiple servers with fail-over capabilities.