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How do you know if your operators are following Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)?  With Proficy Workflow, you can leverage Electronic Work Instructions and Corrective Action to reduce variation in performance, cost and quality - for more consistent work processes, compliance and brand protection. You can digitize and track work processes ranging from quality management and HACCP monitoring to Emergency Response and troubleshooting / rework. With Proficy Workflow, you can make every operator an expert - for a true sustainable advantage.

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Imagine that every worker is your best worker – and that every work process is a best practice. With Proficy Workflow, you can reduce the variation in performance, cost, quality and brand protection, achieving a new level of operational excellence.

As a Work Process Management software system, Proficy Workflow enables power users and domain experts to digitize manual and automated processes with one tool – capturing process, traceability and quality data across systems to reduce errors, waste and delays. You can manage by exception, orchestrate production and achieve event-based, data-driven results.
Built on the Proficy SOA platform, Proficy Workflow also is third-party extensible and enables composite solutions, enhancing the value of existing MES, HMI and ERP systems.
  • Achieve the power and results of BPM and SOA in your production operations
  • Digitize manual and automated processes with one tool – without custom code
  • Record execution data to close the loop on performance and improvement
  • Prove that you have control of your process and ease compliance with validated system support / eSignature
  • Manage by Exception - Act quickly based on real-time events
  • Replicate workflows across your business using libraries and templates
  • Non-programmers quickly create automated processes that impact your business every day
Use Proficy Workfow to:
  • Orchestrate high-level processes and manage the data between systems
  • Digitize GMP Tasks
  • Digitize SOPs and Work Instructions - including eSignature
  • HACCP Monitoring Procedures and Corrective Action
  • Alarm and Event Response, Corrective Action
  • Manual Assembly Error-Proofing
  • Plant Task Management
  • Decision Wizard
  • Line, Workcell, Machine Setup
Results of Digitizing
  • Lean your processes – improve, eliminate and automate steps
  • Automate information flow from Plant2Enterprise and Enterprise2Enterprise
  • Integrate people and their roles / functions
  • Customize to individuals’ work styles and decision making
  • Manage and audit your production processes more effectively and consistently
  

New QuickStart Use Cases for Proficy Workflow 

Reduce Costs Through Lean Work Processes and Exception Management

Work Instructions

·          Electronic Work Instructions /SOPs – Guiding operators through step-by-step instructions, this use case ensures production complies with defined processes through validated entry. Users can capture both automated and manual data entry. In addition, they can digitize and enforce compliance with policy manuals and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Through this use case, Proficy Workflow can reduce errors and costs of compliance.
 
·         Lean with Electronic “Standard Work” – Proficy Workflow helps production teams find and eliminate waste faster and easier by making sure best practices become standard practice. This use case focuses on electronically and interactively managing work processes and compliance by guiding operators through Standard Work, ensuring proper completion of all work process steps. Teams can graphically map work processes and existing SOPs. In addition, the software facilitates analyzing processes to develop new best practices for continuous improvement and quickly deploying and monitoring them.
 
·         Production Set Up – Operators can walk through the steps to set up a machine or recipe, and companies can verify proper machine set up – prior to raw materials usage. Companies can control set up processes regardless of the level of traditional automation and independent of automation. Teams can record operator input, validated equipment calibrations, batches/lots, and more. Proficy Workflow decreases costs of machine changeover and errors, downtime associated with equipment set up, and inventory through less waste. Companies increase efficiency and quality through faster and better production set up, agility for changing production, and sustainability of production processes.
 
·         Virtual Trainer – Digitize the expertise of your best operators in a form that all operators can use. With Proficy Workflow, companies can provide new operators with instructionally sound training and the ability to practice production tasks and SOPs before actually operating equipment and using materials. Teams can electronically capture knowledge from expert workers due to retire and embed the expertise in training materials before attrition affects plants.
 
Quality
 
·         Quality Hold: Non Conformance, Rework and Quarantine – By automatically triggering non-conformance workflows, companies can better manage – and take steps to prevent and minimize – quarantines and recalls. Proficy Workflow coordinates the activities of production, quality and management. On the plant floor, the software guides operators through supplemental testing, inspecting, rework and re-dispositioning. Teams can automatically bracket product batches/lots suspected of sharing a quality problem – then manage and track the process of testing and assessing bracketed product for conformance and then releasing, splitting, rejecting or reworking. This use case decreases costs by reducing product waste / scrap, time and costs associated with manual recordkeeping, shipping delays by driving fastest resolution, and risk by enforcing non-conformance SOPs.
 
Corrective Action and Exception Management  (Including HACCP Monitoring Procedures)
 
·         Alarm Management, Corrective Action and Exception Management – React immediately to alarms and process exceptions with best practice corrective action and exception management. This use case allows companies to automatically and dynamically respond to production problems and events, monitoring alarms and out-of-spec conditions from multiple systems. Users can send tasks to people or systems to correct for problems in real time and escalate as needed. Companies can minimize nuisance alarms and ensure proper action on critical alarms.
 
        Additionally, users can track QA data in real time and automatically adjust work processes to conform to specs. Companies can take corrective action on an event-triggered basis, adjusting processes on an as-needed basis only. Furthermore, they can record exceptions and corrective actions for compliance audits and continuous improvement of processes. Proficy Workflow can make every operator an expert – and decrease costs by reducing waste and labor, downtime through faster response, and risk through automatic remediation or escalation.
 
·         Troubleshooting Trees: Equipment Repair & In-Process Product Repair – Troubleshooting Trees walk teams through production problems to determine root cause and solution, therefore increasing uptime as well as compliance. This use case involves repair of equipment as well as in-process product and materials. In addition, companies can capture the knowledge base of expert workers, reducing effects of attrition on the plant.
 
 
MESA White Paper #36: Work Process Management for Adaptive Manufacturing
 
·         Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) solutions are growing in demand as manufacturers seek to streamline plant operations and align those operations with ever-changing supply chain processes. Workflow applications drive proper notification and acknowledgement of alerts, alarms and events to trigger alternative and corrective workflows and tasks through integrated real-time transactions.

The white paper explains how to implement ISA-95 workflow applications on a manufacturing enterprise platform to execute plant tasks through the MOM and physical process levels while coordinating them with supply chain tasks. The business benefits of optimizing operations are realized by structuring the workflows in ISA-95 models as the foundation for manufacturing architecture. This enforces effective data structure, definition, integrity and governance across manufacturing applications.
 
·         The white paper is available for download from MESA at: https://services.mesa.org/ResourceLibrary/ShowResource/5f3b7b13-18b9-4622-aa3b-f45bba107240  
 
 
 
  유형 제목
Datasheet Proficy SCADA Alarm Response Management (GFA-1711)
Datasheet Proficy Workflow (GFA-1015)
Discover the power of Work Process Management
Datasheet Proficy Workflow for Water/Wastewater (GFA-1270)
Corrective Action and Alarm Management - Giving every operator the expertise of a 20-year veteran
White Papers Alarm Response Management (GFT-789)
As operators are inundated with more alarms and warnings than ever before, ensuring the correct response to the small subset of alarms that signal critical issues is key to helping companies reduce liability exposure and costs.
White Papers Assurer les Bonnes Pratiques de Fabrication et simplifier la Traçabilité des procédés dans les Industries AgroAlimentaires grâce a un système de gestion des procédures de travail électronique (système WorkFlow de GE Intelligent Platforms) (GFT-750A-FR)
Workflow permet à votre organisation d’atteindre l’excellence pour votre gestion opérationnelle de production
White Papers Digitalisierung von Arbeitsprozessen mit Industrial Workflow Execution (GFT-696A-DE)
Optimieren der Produktion mit SOA-basiertem Industrial BPM
White Papers Improving Traceability With Work Process Management in Food and Beverage Manufacturing (GFT-750A)
Achieving a New Level of Operational Excellence
White Papers Lean Production with Work Process Management (GFT-738A)
Enabling Standard Work to Increase Cost Savings and Maintain Lean Momentum
White Papers The Changing Role of the Operator (GFA-791)
Engaging and Supporting the Operator of Today Into the Future With Advanced Software Capabilities
White Papers Water Security Regulation Compliance Facilitated by Operations Applications (GFT-829)
This white paper looks at how the effective use of automation can help prevent security risks at water and wastewater plants.
White Papers Water, Wastewater Treatment Plants Realize Operational Efficiencies with GE Proficy Solutions
Increased system complexities and rising operational costs drive the need for greater operation control and recordkeeping.
White Papers Work Process Management White Paper (GFT-696B)
Achieve Operational Excellence Through Consistent and Repeatable Plant Operations
Customer Stories Waterford Township Department of Public Works (GFT-836)
Standardized Workflows Improve Process Consistency and Efficiency
Demo eSOP / Electronic Work Instructions Demo - Proficy Workflow
Demo Introduction to Proficy Workflow - Video 2
Captivate video introducing workflows.
Demo Proficy Workflow Activities and Call Methods - Video 3
Captivate video introducing Proficy Workflow Activities and Call Methods
Demo Proficy Workflow ISA-95 Sample Application - Video 4
Captivate video of Proficy Workflow ISA-95 Sample Application
Demo Quality Sampling Demo - Proficy Workflow
Manage quality sampling dynamically based on real-time events - reducing waste and costs
Demo Quarantine Demo - Proficy Workflow
Demo Spec Change & Approval Demo - Proficy Workflow
Demo Truck Discharging Demo - Proficy Workflow
Presentation JHP Pharmaceuticals - Workflow for Business Process Automation in a Regulated Environment
Presentation Proficy Workflow Version 1.2
Operations experts - Drag and Drop to create and modify work processes. New Form Designer, ActiveX and More!
Presentation Waterford Township - Implementing a Workflow Solution that Leverages SCADA and Cityworks
Presentation Work Process Management Seminar
Learn how this next generation of operations software technology can digitize and streamline work processes from SOPs and Corrective Action to compliance monitoring and quality.

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