How can the manufacturing industry streamline operations and optimize maintenance processes to enhance efficiency and reduce costly errors?

Making critical business decisions without accurate, consistent data could set you up for costly mistakes. For asset management professionals and operations managers, this can mean misinterpreting equipment health, overlooking maintenance needs, or failing to optimize performance - leading to unexpected downtime and lost revenue.

As a trusted AVEVA System Integrator, we’ve explored how three interconnected AVEVA platforms - AVEVA MES, AVEVA PI System, and AVEVA Connect - enable the manufacturing industry to address and overcome these challenges.

By leveraging these systems, manufacturing companies can overcome key operational challenges that hinder efficient maintenance strategies, such as siloed data and a lack of real-time visibility. AVEVA’s interconnected platforms strengthen OT-IT data integration, enable predictive maintenance, enhance asset visibility, and streamline operational workflows across the enterprise.

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The Synergy

AVEVA MES (Manufacturing Execution System) focuses on real-time production management, offering insights into manufacturing operations, inventory control, and performance optimization. This system bridges the gap between business-level planning and shop-floor execution, ensuring data-driven decision-making at every level of production.

‍AVEVA PI System is the industry-standard data infrastructure for operational data. It provides the foundation for actionable insights by collecting, contextualizing, and analyzing time-series data from sensors and devices across the organization. Its robust data aggregation capabilities make it a perfect complement to AVEVA MES, enabling users to integrate real-time production data with historical and contextual data for deeper analysis.

Additionally, the versatile analytics engine of PI Asset Framework (AF) builds on this foundation, offering comprehensive analytics on data sourced from MES, control systems, and more. With PI AF, organizations can create calculated metrics, apply complex analytics, and unlock deeper insights that drive informed decision-making.

AVEVA Connect serves as the unifying cloud platform that brings together your entire industrial ecosystem. It lets you consolidate, contextualize, and aggregate your operational data, enabling insights across functions and data types with consolidated views. Share actionable information across teams, locations, and partners—enabling remote Centers of Expertise to drive performance, coordinate operations, and respond effectively to issues escalated by site-based personnel.

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What about AVEVA AIM and ISM?

A sometimes overlooked advantage of the AVEVA ecosystem is the ability to leverage content from AVEVA AIM (Asset Information Management) and ISM (Information Standards Manager) within AVEVA PI and AF.

By reusing established data and content from AIM and ISM when available, organizations can extend the value of their existing investments, ensuring continuity and maximizing the utility of prior efforts. This synergy enables seamless data continuity and enhanced decision-making across operations, creating a unified and efficient digital ecosystem.

Enhancing efficiency, reduce downtime, and improve overall productivity with the interconnected AVEVA platforms.

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Driving Efficiency in Manufacturing

By integrating AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure capabilities with your existing AVEVA MES environment, you enable optimized operations and data-driven strategies through stronger OT-IT convergence, centralized maintenance data management, predictive maintenance strategies, and condition-based monitoring (CBM).

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1. Monitor Equipment Health: AVEVA PI collects real-time sensor data, providing insights into equipment performance. By correlating this data with production schedules in AVEVA MES, businesses can detect patterns that indicate potential failures.
2. Implement Condition Based Maintenance: Condition-based maintenance helps organizations determine servicing requirements by analyzing failure modes, operating conditions, and other key factors. This ensures maintenance is performed only when necessary to maintain reliability. AVEVA PI’s analytics tools, combined with the data accessibility of AVEVA Connect, allow for accurate predictions, reducing unplanned downtime.
3. Accelerate Root Cause Analysis: With AVEVA PI, organizations can quickly diagnose failures, reducing downtime. With instant access to historical and real-time data, maintenance teams can swiftly identify the cause of issues. Analytics and visualization tools pinpoint anomalies and trends, speeding up fault identification and corrective action.
4. Optimize Maintenance Schedules: With AVEVA MES, maintenance tasks can be scheduled in alignment with production demands. This ensures minimal disruption to operations while maintaining equipment reliability.

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NodeIT is a Nordic technology and consulting company specializing in transforming operational data into operational intelligence, delivering value through the AVEVA platform.

Connect with us to explore how AVEVA MES, AVEVA PI, and AVEVA Connect can help your organization achieve OT-IT convergence, enhance efficiency, reduce downtime, and improve overall productivity.

Sincerely,

The NodeIT team