Fiske, T.
HP Integration Strategies: Optimizing asset effectiveness through performance monitoring
For enterprises in the process industries, the value-added in manufacturing happens to be the cornerstone of business performance. As such, optimizing asset effectiveness is at the forefront of today'..
HP Integration Strategies: Performance intelligence empowers performance management
For too long, automation resources have focused on manufacturing assets. Yet arguably a corporation's most valuable assets are its people. Companies that support a collaborative environment and share ..
HP Integration Strategies: Real-time performance management unlocks hidden value in assets
One of manufacturers' most critical challenges lies in efficiently deploying assets and resources so that plants can promptly respond to planned and unplanned events. Agility and flexib..
HP Integration Strategies: OpX requires strong automation-based strategy
Today, more than ever, process manufacturers must achieve operational excellence (OpX) to deal with intensifying global competition, weakening economies, industry consolidation, stricte..
HP Control: Moving beyond steady-state optimization
Process optimization is one of the fastest growing technologies in the automation industry because of its ability to tightly link a company's business and economic objectives to its ope..

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