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.