September, 2006 iTi's Ekho Product will add SAP Integration Capability Inexcon Technologies and Junot Systems announce partnership to integrate iTi's Ekho application with SAP® R/3® and mySAP® using Junot Systems' patented NLINK® product suite and SAP-certified interfaces.
Nowadays, global economy calls for a boost in production process performance. Strong competition makes it vital to maintain high quality standards and keep costs low.
Reducing downtime, increasing productivity and keeping quality to the highest levels is key. Thanks to the Ekho Solution Centre, ITI helps you get the most out of your production equipment, so you can compete in today’s global market.
BOOSTING PERFORMANCE
TO WORLD-CLASS LEVELS
Leveraging your management and production assets
Aiming to protect assets and boost productivity, most production facilities have invested in floor control technologies, and maintenance and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. To maximize their return on investment, get a head start over competition and achieve
a world-class productivity, the next step they should take is to draw the most out the data collected by their equipments and information assets.
The Ekho Solution Centre unleashes the true potential of your ERP Systems and production assets, because it extracts the most possible information. Ekho is a layer of integration referred to as a manufacturing execution system (MES). MES systems fill the “Performance Gap” between your ERP, and control systems, releasing the potential performance of each system and piece of equipment. Ekho extracts and correlates all and every data, bringing your systems to achieve their intended benefits and objectives, and ultimately, to boost your performance.
Either way you look at it, Ekho conveys a wide array of strategic advantages: productivity boost, cost effectiveness, effective management, decision-making support and client satisfaction, and profitable technical features as well.
Learn more about how the Ekho Solution Centre can help you improve and leverage your production processes.
Filling the “Performance Gap”
Used independently, a control system has access to a wealth of dormant data waiting to be unleashed. Without being integrated into the plant floor an ERP System at best reaches only a portion of its true capability; at worst it creates an environment where information is transposed and re-entered from one system to another creating additional workloads and inaccuracies. The layer existing between these systems is a performance gap solution.
Ekho fills the performance gap by seamlessly integrating into the space between your existing production floor control and ERP systems. Ekho automatically and accurately links your production equipment and your information systems. It retrieves and gathers all your data, past and present, from your automation systems and equipment into a single solution centre. Ekho provides you with a real-time overview of your production status and directs you on the best possible ways to improve your production processes.
Ekho allows you to track in-process and finished product quality and specifications, and to monitor downtime events. By informing you on actual and expected production and benchmark variances, identifying eventual losses, breakdowns and defects, and tracing the genealogy of each batches, from raw materials entering the plant to products leaving for delivery, the Ekho Solution Centre gives you the tools you need to achieve production efficiencies.
Ekho leverages your technologies to boost your production equipment to world-class levels.
Are you concerned about controlling the quality of your finished goods, standardizing your formulas, or justifying material losses? Learn more about the Ekho Quality Management Solution.
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Would you like to be able to quickly monitor, document, or stabilize the up and down times for all your automated processes and equipment, and pinpoint the source of recurring breakdowns? Learn more about the Ekho Downtime Solution.
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Would you like to easily track down the origin of defective batches or production delays, keep a record of the raw materials used, or simply
observe the tasks performed at each stage of production? Learn more about the Ekho Genealogy and Production Management Solution.
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Are you looking at improving the overall equipment efficiency or your production facilities? Learn more about the Ekho OEE Solution.
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Are you looking for a solution that allows you to closely monitor the efficiency of your wind farm energy production? Learn more about the Ekho Wind Solution.
Designed as a single solution centre, Ekho’s intuitive interface brings together the knowledge of every users, automates data retrieval from all automated processes and equipments and seamlessly integrates into your existing systems with no need for complex programming or installation. A single central platform serves every user and lets you add as many as your growth commands. Ekho taps to the very source of information, and acts as a dashboard that contributes to quick, efficient and sound planning and decision-making.
Both flexible and totally customizable, Ekho answers the management challenges of production facilities, featuring all the functionality required to access, input, configure, correlate, share, analyze, and distribute data.
Learn more about how the Ekho
Solution Centre can help you improve and leverage your production processes.
