Inform IT Information Manager

1. Inform ITInformation Manager Overview

2. Pressures on enterprises • global competition, • weakening economies, • reduction in technical resources, • industry consolidation, • stricter environmental regulations, • higher raw material costs, • plummeting product lifecycles, • decreasing process life times, • increasingly demanding customers and shareholders

3. What is your Goal? Improve Return on Assets (ROA) Focusing on financial performance through continued prudence in spending via: • Consolidation • Focusing on core competencies • More attention to ROI in new projects Vital to a Successful Strategy

4. Industries today Business Fo cus • Tighter product specification control • Capacity & dispatching control • Emission monitoring • Spot market sales , i.e. hourly billing • Flexible IT structure • Seamless workflow  Increased operational efficiency  Better process design methodology

5. Assistance for improving your Return on Assets • Real-time decision support at the business level • Meeting the increased reporting requirements • Information for crucial production-based decisions • Decrease engineering and system maintenance costs • Turning raw data into actionable information • Handling complex data relationships

6. Meeting real challenges Inform IT Information Manager Benefit Knowledge Information Data

7. Issue : Real-time business decision making • What’s my current production rate and energy consumption? • How does last week’s production compare to this week’s or even last year’s? • How do I get only the information I need without information overload?

8. Solution: Intuitive, real-time decision support Production rate vs.energy usage • Easy visualization of key indicators • Elimination of superfluous data Key Performance Indicators in stock ticker format

9. Issue: Reporting Requirements Abound • Production status reports for management • Standard reports for regulatory agencies • EPA • FDA • Status reports for operation personnel • without having to fumble through multiple reports in varying formats and media • Reports need to be scheduled cyclically, on demand and on event

10. Solution: Report Demands Met • Access to real-time and historic data • Familiar industry standards • Report Scheduling both time and event based • Multiple output destinations • Enable you to comply with regulatory (FDA, EPA) format guidelines • Laboratory, manually entered data

11. Solution: Excel Reports • Familiar Excel-based reporting environment is supported with ABB’s DataDirect Plug-Ins • Easy-to-use dialogs for real-time as well as historical data retrieval • Functions allow spreadsheets to be saved and executed as standard reports

12. Issue: Improved production decision making • If I only knew what was happening upstream or downstream of my process, I could be more efficient • I’ve got so many different systems …how can I ever keep everything straight? • I need one view to see information from all the different systems in the process - control systems

13. Solution: Making Decisions Easier • Straightforward data presentation • Seamless provision of real-time and historical data/information

14. Solution: Information Transparency • Short and long term presented on trend displays, graphics and in reports • Quick browser navigation to Information Manager data regardless of data source

15. Other Systems Solution: PLC /DCS Interfaces Information Manager • OPC Server for PLCs and Automation Systems • Single point for data collection, presentation and history storage • Information Manager integrates the data into the Industrial IT environment that provides a common access mechanism from all applications PLC Interface

16. Issue: Consistency and System Maintenance • I don’t have the resources to configure a separate history or PIMS system • Every time I make a change in the control system, I have to remember to make the same change to my history system • I can’t afford the system administration and overhead associated withyet another system

17. Solution: Single point of engineering with Industrial IT • Wizard based point and history configuration • Bulk configuration based on Excel • Single point of configuration for points and history eliminates duplication of engineering effort. • Single point change management for process and historical data • Generic log templates are used and object inheritance applies

18. Solution: Reduced Administrative effort • Single set of user definitions and security settings for entire system • System-wide status monitoring • System-wide back-up function • Administration of Information Manager functions are done within Industrial IT • No need for administration of another PIMS system

19. Issue: Life is more than just raw data points • Value-added information must be provided so I can make the right decisions for better production. • An example of this are tank farm inputs. Temperature, flows and levels signals are inputs to the system. But…I need to know other characteristics such as density, viscosity, and volume, etc. and I need to run calculations on the data.

20. Solution: Actionable Information • Data is transformed into actionable information • Calculations based upon the tank farm inputs are performed and stored as system Softpoints • These new Softpoint values of viscosity, density and volume, etc. are made available to other functions in the system and treated as any other tag in the system • Current value, alarming, trended, displayed on graphics, reported

21. Procedure Unit Procedure Operation Phase Phase Phase Operation Unit Procedure Issue: Handling Complex Data Relationships • I need more than just numeric data, I need relationships between data, events, alarms and need to associate this information based upon a batch or production run • How does my current batch run compare to a ‘golden batch’?

22. Solution: Integration with Produce IT Batch • Information Manager and Produce IT Batch are tightly integrated within the Industrial IT system • Production Data Log provides associations between data and tasks or events that are not time dependent

23. Inform ITInformation Manager Product functionality

24. Inform IT Information Manager • Increases profitability of manufacturing operations • Merges traditional control system (Automation) and MES (PIMS) environments • Provides information management that is integral to the decision making process • Raw data converted to meaningful information Manufacturing Execution System Inform IT Information Manager Automation System

25. Desktop, Reporting & Analysis Information External Production Data (LIMS etc..) Information Manager Application Integration Control Room Data Production Data Process Data Alarm & Event Data What is InformIT Information Manager?

26. Manage the information in your business Complete information management for the total plant/enterprise. Consolidated viewing and storage Reports generated for regulatory agencies. Let operators compare current operations with history Provide a complete view of system history Generate reports Handle all sorts of application data Provide the ability to model the process for optimum performance Collect and store real-time process data from the automation system

27. Flexible Data Storage • Varied Data storage types • Numeric • Hierarchical • Distributed • Data compaction • Exception/trip collection • Message/Event • Query support • Filter support • Report • Output from finished reports • Production data logs • Event-based data for batch and continuous processes • Quality data • From gauging systems, flexible recording

28. Distributed Data Storage Inform IT Information Manager Clients Inform IT Information Manager Enterprise Edition Server PPA Clients Process Portal A Operator Station Inform IT Information Manager Server Inform IT Information Manager Server Connectivity Server Process Portal A Operator Station Connectivity Server Control Network Control Network Allen Bradley PLC’s AC800M Modicon PLC’s

29. External Application Data Support • Data handling with Softpoint Aspects • Data created in Information Manager environment is automatically available to the control system • Defines points which does not exist in the underlying system • Data is available to other functions in the system • Treated as any other tag in the system • Current value, Alarming, History, Displayed on graphics, Reports • Object Types can be imported and exported

30. External Application Data Support • Optimization with user-defined Calculations Aspects • A calculation can be applied to any object e.g. unit, vessel, pump, softpoint & includes • Data quality support • Alarm generation support • A calculation may be scheduled on a time basis or on event • Calculations are developed with VBScript • Calculations can provide an easy mechanism for simple integration with external systems

31. Campaign Batch 1 Unit Proc Operation 1 Phase 1 Batch 2 Tight Integration with Produce IT Batch Schedule Dispatch Production History SQL Inform IT Information Manager PDL Produce IT Batch

32. Seamless Batch History Functions • Batch to Batch Displays • Production Data logging • Audit Trail • Events • Operator actions • Other batch events • Batch Manager Actions • Basic • Full • Phases • Control Recipe • On-line Recipe Edits • Final at end of batch • Integrated Engineering & Configuration

33. Production Data Log • Robust data structures • Correlation of batch history with continuous history • highly configurable -- doesn’t require custom code • Batch to Batch comparisons • Pre-canned reports that can be used “right out of the box” Job Name: Production Polystyrene grade 4 Campaign Recipe Name: Polystyrene_A4 Batch Name: Batch 1 B a t c h 1 B a t c h 1 Start T ime: 9/29/95 14:05:00 End T ime: 9/29/95 22:07:25 Unit Procedure: Reaction Unit Unit Unitname: Reactor R-105 Proceedure 1 Proceedure 1 Start time: 9/29/95 14:30:20 End time: 9/29/95 18:23:03 Phasename: Heat Operation start: 9/29/95 14:32:40 initial temp: 23.5 Deg. C target temp: 55.0 Deg. C end: 9/29/95 16:35:12 B a t c h 2 B a t c h 2 final temp: 55.1 Deg. C

34. Report Scheduling • Inform IT DataDirect • Add-on program for Excel. Integration into an Excel spreadsheet of real-time and historical data from Information Manager applications, OCS applications and SQL data sources. • Excel • Also possible to access historical and real-time data from Information Manager independent of DataDirect via OLE DB or ODBC. • Crystal Reports • Access real time and historical data from Information Manager.

35. Presentationand Navigation • Access all data via Excel • DataDirect Excel Plug-ins • Web based viewing • Desktop Trend • Tag Ticker • Integrate historical data along with other data sources (ie relational databases) into a single display • Thin client for custom displays • Display services Data access from the desktop is critical

36. Desktop Views • Trend Display • Graphical traces of up to 8 tags • Ticker • Repeating stream of real time data for selected tags • Tag Explorer • Tag browser for easy access • PDL Browser • Access to production data from PDL • Event Browser • Retrieve messages from OPC and Audit Trial message logs • SQL Browser • Run ad-hoc SQL queries

37. Inform IT Information Manager – Multiple Site Areas MS Windows with Information Manager Desktop Displays Corporate system Business LAN Corporate WAN Inform IT Information Manager Enterprise Edition Server Inform IT Information Manager Clients PPA Clients router router Process Portal A Operator Station Inform IT Information Manager Server Inform IT Information Manager Server Connectivity Server Connectivity Server Process Portal A Operator Station Control Network Control Network Allen Bradley PLC’s AC800M Modicon PLC’s

38. Secure Data Storage • Secure historical data storage • Archival/retrieval from external media • Disc files backed up to CD or DVD • Magneto Optical device • Disk arrays • Remote disk location • Direct read of archived tag data • Archive based on production event such as batch end • Distributed data storage • Secure report storage • User access control

39. Efficient Engineering • One historical solution and database for information management and process control • Information Manager configuration is built as aspects of objects that already exist from control system definition • Configuration created in both environments, transparent to various users – operator, engineer, plant manager, etc. • Automatic creation of tag in PIMS system when control system tag created • No manual procedure to keep the systems consistent

40. Benefits Costs Strong ROA with Information Manager • Efficient engineering • Single set of user definitions and security settings • System-wide status monitoring/ back-up • Secure data storage • High availability, reliability,access of data • Industry/process specific storage capabilities • Helps meet new regulatory agency requirements for electronic data management • Tight integration with other Industrial IT applications • Administration of Aspect Servers is done within Industrial IT • Information Manager configured as Aspect Server Group

41. Information Manager Benefits • Operational efficiencies provided with Integrated Information • Better decision making using integrated, up-to-date process and production information • Intuitive desktop presentation and efficient navigation • Providing Key Performance improvements through • Increased throughput • Less downtime • Better overall quality • More efficient and cost effective operations