InCiseEAM – best of the breed Enterprise Asset Maintenance Software

Enterprise asset Maintenance is the process of managing an organization’s assets throughout their life cycle - right from requisition to retirement.

“Assets” in this context can be defined as any equipment, vehicle or facility which plays a key role in the core business of the enterprise.

Breakdowns in industrial manufacturing systems can have a significant impact on the profitability of a business. Expensive production equipment is idle, resource / technician is no longer optimized and the ratio of fixed costs to product output is affected negatively. Equipment downtime is the major bottleneck for all production plants and maintenance facilities.

Taking a proactive stance towards the maintenance of your equipment is crucial for achieving maximum efficiency, and to extend the life of your assets.

Built on a Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) component-based Internet architecture, inCise Asset Maintenance software, fits in any modern enterprise technology infrastructure and integrates easily with your business systems.

Equipment productivity is one of the key factors in competitive high volume production environment.
– Effects factory capacity (availability)
– Drives manufacturing cost
– Impacts production schedules (predictability)

Typical Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) estimates; 40% – 60% range representing a huge potential opportunity for deploying an Enterprise Asset maintenance solution. inCiseEAM improves the company's operational and maintenance procedures, both immediately and in the long term. Based on industry standards, the functionality for collecting data from the process and control systems allows the proportion of condition-based maintenance (CBM) to be maximized, and the risk of breakdowns and disruptions, to be minimized.

Any breakdown on the manufacturing floor, facility or any other business process will create failed deliveries, idle time, missed customer commitments . In today’s competitive environment, it’s beneficial for organizations to know which Asset/equipment needs preventative maintenance for better planning, scheduling and allocation of resources. Organizations that are using lean manufacturing practices or trying to achieve continuous flow manufacturing must be able to keep all of their assets in good condition. It is crucial to have a complete understanding of which assets an organization has available at any given time in order to achieve business goals.

Many organizations have been using best-of-breed enterprise asset management such as (inCiseEAM) to manage their overall assets. inCiseEAM application provides an organization with specific functionalities needed for asset /Equipmet maintenance processes. Maintenance managers need to understand which assets they currently possess; what preventative maintenance is needed, tools required for accomplishing the maintenance work, procedure to be followed, resource requirements and spare parts. By using inCiseEAM, the right information can be provided to the right individuals at the right time. This can help reduce the overall manufacturing and maintenance cost.

inCisEAM enables a shift in focus from maintenance recording to maintenance planning; helping decision makers at all levels to understand the status of their Equipments, Systems, Facilities, Vehicles as well as the availability of personnel responsible for the end-to-end maintenance process.

inCiseEAM is a Business Solution and a not a technology solution. It is to help Plant Managers, Maintenance Managers and Technicians to collaborate and do their job, better, quicker, with ease and to enhance productivity and reduce down-time.

Every database vendor says, their database is the best. Today’s highly dynamic and competitive business environment puts pressure, to sell more application and services at a reasonably low cost. At the same time for a solution provider, it is not possible to have database neutral system, since there are no established standards across database systems. To capitalize market, every vendor must have some uniqueness, which make the database ‘better’ than its competitor!.

Hence the best approach is to have the system, make to run under various databases (provided there is revenue stream), utilizing the best of the underlying databases.

It is not true that Oracle Database is better than DB2 or MY Sql or vice versa. These products can be used to build stable and efficient systems and the stability and effectiveness of the applications depends, rather from the experience of the database developers (to exploit and use the power of the DB) and database administrator than from the database's provider.

MY Sql, DB2 and Oracle separate the client code and the server code in different address spaces. The application code runs in the client process while the server code runs on separate processes. The client processes can run on the same or different machine from the database server, accessing the database server via a programming interface. My SQL, DB2 and Oracle support dynamic and embedded static SQL interfaces among others such as Sybase and SQL server.

Oracle PL/SQL is a programming extension of the standard SQL. All Oracle stored procedures, user-defined functions, and triggers must be written in PL/SQL. Instead DB2, users can use any programming languages supported by the pre-compiler such as C, C++, Java, Cobol etc. to construct the DB2 stored procedures. SQL Plus provides Oracle command line access to the database server. DB2 has a similar tool called the Command Line Processor (CLP). However, CLP does not have all of the features of SQL Plus (such as spooling). Instead IBM recommends, to use the Control Center Script Center to perform some of the scripting and scheduling activities.

DB2 does not require a contiguous set of data blocks to store data as in Oracle. Hence, there is no fragmentation problem in DB2 tablespaces. This is a real advantage. The price comparison is also important, since Db2 is much cheaper in terms on price per seat and server sizing.

The most important feature being, while selecting / converting to any Database, the application must use the power of the underlying database. Hence if any application is written / migrated (for Data access), then the application should use the power of the database. This is where the system architecture, design and application partitioning comes very important.