FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI

Producing relevant, timely, and collaborative manufacturing decision support is hard—at least it used to be:

• All manufacturing data is accessible in real time and on any mobile device
• Create a logical model that organizes data in way that makes sense to your end users
• Connectivity to real-time data via FactoryTalk® Live Data and historical data via FactoryTalk Historian plus connectivity to other real-time and historical data sources
• Many ad hoc and advanced reporting options available enabling you to build a system perfectly tailored for your reporting needs
• Automatic report and email generation based upon configured events allow you to deliver timely data even when users are not logged into the system
• Role based report generation and model browsing allows you to ensure the right users are viewing the right data

Benefits

• Overcome economic challenges
  • Reduce costs
  • Optimize production capabilities
• Improve sustainability results
  • Conserve energy
  • Minimize scrap and waste
  • Bolster best practices and regulatory compliance
• Increase global competitiveness
  • Aggregate manufacturing information across all assets and resources
  • Reduce demand forecast errors
  • Assure customer commitments and satisfaction
• Increase production agility
  • Shorten product development and launch cycles
  • Monitor production variants
  • Enhance overall product quality
  • Overcome asset constraints
  • Maximize resource utilization

FactoryTalk VantagePoint v6.0

End User value:

• Enhanced “out of the box” capability (ad hoc dashboards based on tag selection)
• Extended the current Reporting and Analytic solution to include a mobility / portability component

System Integrator value:

• Accelerated time to value though tools and capabilities that reduce design / deployment time
• Re-use of existing components (e.g Component Library)

Machine builder value:

• Framework for an Information Enabled machine. Differentiate Intellectual Property and offer customers a better package of value.
• VantagePoint provides an easy mechanism for creating ad hoc dashboard and trends to visualize information through point and click (or drag and drop) instead of creating custom reports.

Server Requirements

Additional Requirements

• Microsoft Office 2010 or 2013 (32-bit only)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, 10, or 11
• Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5 full version (included with install)

Client Requirements

Additional Requirements

• Microsoft Office 2010 32-bit or Microsoft Office 2007 32-bit
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0, 8.0, or 9.0
• Microsoft .NET 4.0
• Adobe Flash Player (for Dashboard viewing)

Note that only “Professional” versions or higher are supported. Embedded versions are not supported.

Ordering Information

FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI Server

FactoryTalk® VantagePoint EMI is a powerful web-based manufacturing business intelligence solution that integrates all data into a single information management and decision support system.

Special instructions for FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI Concurrent User CPU license ( 9521-VPCPPENE) include a:

• License for FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI Server
• License for (3) FactoryTalk VantagePoint Named User Clients (which includes a Microsoft® SQL Server™2008 R2 Standard Edition, Runtime-Restricted Use Software, (CAL) Client Access License)
• 30-day trial of the optional Dashboard Builder Software and Connectors for FactoryTalk Live Data, Historian SE and Alarm and Events, FT Metrics Connector, and Database Connector (one instance)

FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI Client Licenses

VantagePoint EMI supports both named and concurrent user clients. A VantagePoint EMI client user license is required when data is accessed from the FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI server via the VantagePoint EMI Portal, SharePoint Portal, or other portal; one of the analysis tools; or by a 3rd-party application that can retrieve data from the server.

Special instructions for FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI Concurrent User CPU License ( 9521-VPCPPENE) include a:

• Separate license for each physical processor on the server running the SQL Server used by FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI (the SQL Server identified during the install of FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI ).
• Concurrent users require 9521-VPCPPENE unless the customer already owns the SQL Server 2008 R2 concurrent user license.

FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI Connectors

FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI Servers support additional connectors. The database connector can only be used with the FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI Server.

FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI Optional Add-ons

The Dashboard Builder is an optional software solution used to develop dashboard elements and reports in the VantagePoint EMI system. It is NOT required for users/consumers of dashboard reports. Systems where the Dashboard Builder is to be installed require Microsoft Office (Excel) 2007 or 2010.