Industrial intelligence software

IncuityEMI version 2.6 is enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI) software. This software tool is specially designed to access the data from many disparate sources throughout a manufacturing facility, then organise, analyse and present that information via user-friendly web browsers or similar remote interfaces. Founded on a standard data model, the IncuityEMI software unifies normally incompatible information — such as the time-series data generated on the plant floor and the transaction-oriented data contained in enterprise business systems — and enables decisions to be made.

The unified production model (UPM) forms the heart of the IncuityEMI solution. It provides information to end users in everyday language, in the context they require it. The data model organises the data from all the different sources and presents it with relevance to the data surrounding it. The UPM can use a custom-designed or predefined data model (such as ISA S95).

IncuityEMI treats the various data sources as ‘silos’ of information. Such sources could be plant floor controllers, SCADA and historians, plus laboratory, batch and maintenance systems, as well as manufacturing execution systems and enterprise resource planning systems. The UPM references this information without extracting or storing it, then combines and correlates the real-time data in the context of recreational and transactional business data, such as business goals, supply chain requirements and compliance parameters. The real-time data is presented simply in the form of web portals or dashboards and can be exported to Microsoft Excel.

The IncuityEMI version 2.6 software complements Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk integrated production and performance software suite. Each of the modular FactoryTalk modules — such as FactoryTalk View, FactoryTalk ProductionCentre, FactoryTalk Historian and FactoryTalk AssetCentre — can be accessed and analysed by the IncuityEMI software.