The players on the system manufacturing side may not be many, but system integrators are plentiful and use the products of companies such as Rockwell, Honeywell, Siemens, Schneider Electric, ABB, Fanuc and others to install custom solutions for them.
You may be able to use a spreadsheet or home accounting program to get your household finances in order. But, there are so many places for cash to evaporate in a food or beverage plant, that unless you are using an integrated software system to track and focus every process, you may never know if leaks exist.
You may have an ERP system and industrial controls in place, but are you getting the key performance indicators needed to stay ahead of the competition?
The Smartware Bigfoot enterprise resource planning (ERP) integration customized solution integrates asset maintenance data with ERP systems to help eliminate double data entry and improve process automation.