Today’s primary opportunity to create business value at the plant level is to reduce the variable costs of the operation which, in most heavy industries, are predominantly energy and material costs. In essence, the primary business objectives for most plants are to maximize production value while minimizing energy and material costs. As plant operations focus on these objectives, safety and environmental impact continue to be critical constraints.

To bring real time business variables under control, the first step is to create the measures in the five areas identified above and present them in real-time to provide the necessary actionable information at all levels of the organization. The Invensys Operations Management real-time business intelligence solution provides this baseline element. Once measured and visualized, automated actions can be implemented through Invensys’ enterprise control solution. With these two core solution elements in place, you can now focus on optimizing the profitability, where this can be applied to a single plant area, across an entire plant or across the enterprise.