Business intelligence software

New from Rockwell Automation, FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI business intelligence software for manufacturing provides Web-based dashboards and reports on key performance indicators from multiple manufacturing and business data sources.As a result, the company says manufacturers can better monitor and manage productivity in real time, and make more insightful decisions about business priorities, such as product quality, equipment utilisation and global supply-chain management.

The software connects to multiple data sources - realtime, historical, relational and transactional - to create a single resource that can access, aggregate and correlate information via a Web browser. The application is based on a unified production model (UPM) that provides a unified view of seemingly disparate manufacturing data.