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MAXIMIZE ASSET RELIABILITY AND PERFORMANCE WITH CONFIDENCE

Invensys Process Systems offers the products, services and domain expertise to meet your

business requirements, from the production line to the bottom line. The Avantis® advanced

Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution enables your enterprise to do more than sim-

ply maintain assets. It is designed to meet the sophisticated maintenance and materials

management requirements of today’s asset-centric organizations. Furthermore, it is fully and

seamlessly integrated with distributed control systems on the plant floor; it incorporates and

responds to predictive condition monitoring processes; and it facilitates business intelligence

through key performance indicators provided in our decision-support solution.

The Avantis solution provides the insight you need to make informed business decisions

and manage all of your assets with confidence.

ENABLING THE GLOBAL ENTERPRISE

Global enterprise capabilities are inherent in the Avantis solution, and provide large organiza-

tions with the ability to operate multiple businesses within a single Avantis installation. Each

business unit may run autonomously, while still providing the enterprise with the ability to quickly

and easily consolidate and analyze information across all of them. Costs of maintaining the system

are minimized as a result of centralizing the hardware and software needed to support the global

enterprise, without compromising on EAM capabilities. Furthermore, the Avantis solution offers the

same robust functionality in its thin-client applications that users have come to expect in traditional

solutions; hence, no compromises need be made on either functionality or performance.

RESPONSIVE TO OPERATING CONDITIONS

Seamless integration with the plant floor enables the Avantis solution to take account of cur-

rent operating conditions, and respond to warnings and alarms raised by monitoring systems

in the production environment. Changing conditions that may impact the ability of production to

deliver can be caught early, and dealt with through preventive and predictive maintenance

routines that have much less impact on operations than unplanned emergency downtime.

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The Avantis solution is uniquelypositioned to offer customers a real-time answer to reducing costs whilecontinuing to maximize asset relia-bility and performance.

Invensys Process Systemsoffers the most comprehensive suiteof solutions available for the processindustries using a unified, interoper-able platform that is easy as well ascost-effective to implement, modifyand maintain.

Proven Invensys ProcessSystems product lines, Avantis,Foxboro, SimSci-Esscor, Triconex,and Wonderware, represent the mostcomprehensive portfolio of automa-tion solutions available for themanufacturer. Invensys ProcessSystems delivers the power of theseautomation leaders, joining expert-ise, resources, and technologies,united for the sole purpose ofimproving our customers’ opera-tional performance and bottom line.

ACCESS TO DECISION SUPPORT

INFORMATION

Every decision you make is dependent on

the quality of information available to you.

While most EAM offerings are capable of

capturing vast amounts of data, users often

find it difficult to access and interpret this

data. The industry-standard Avantis architec-

ture transforms data into information you can

use, quickly and easily, providing true asset

intelligence. Remote, casual, executive and

expert users are all empowered by the ability

to access critical information across the

enterprise, when and how they need it.

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS

The Avantis solution builds a detailed his-

tory of equipment information based on

day-to-day maintenance activities. Failure

history, including symptoms, the cause of

failure and action taken can be easily

reviewed and analyzed. In addition, indica-

tors such as mean-time-between-failure and

mean-time-to-repair reporting are available

to determine proper fine-tuning of equip-

ment maintenance requirements.

SUCCESSFUL, PROVEN IMPLEMENTATIONS

WITH InRIM

Our guaranteed implementation approach

ensures that you can quickly utilize the Avantis

solution to maximize your return on assets

and maintain your competitive edge. The

Industrial Rapid Implementation Methodology

(InRIM™) is a structured, multicomponent

methodology that ensures risk-free implemen-

tations of the Avantis solution without

compromising the ongoing evolution and con-

tinued growth of its use. The InRIM approach

is truly unique, in that it is based on industry-

standard best practices and offers a

repeatable structure that can more predictably

achieve your organizational objectives.

THE AVANTIS SOLUTION

The Avantis solution differentiates itself

from other solutions by its ability to combine

superior EAM functionality with seamless

connectivity to both the plant floor and cor-

porate ERP systems, using the most

advanced technology available. With this

technology and over twenty years of mainte-

nance management business experience,

Invensys Process Systems provides an EAM

solution that ensures customer acceptance

at all levels.

Web services provided by Microsoft.NET

technology have enabled the Avantis solu-

tion to integrate systems within and across

enterprises, and enabled the development of

fully functional thin-client EAM applications.

This technology offers reliability, security and

maintainability of applications, as well as a

future for no-touch or smart client applica-

tions.

Data is instantly accessible and quickly

transformed into meaningful information

through the cabinet design, viewing, report-

ing and charting capabilities provided with

the Avantis solution and extended through

products like Microsoft Excel and Crystal

Reports. Monitoring and notification of critical

events and activities are provided through

notification services embedded in the Avantis

solution; flexible and fully tailorable rules may

be defined to ensure immediate communica-

tion of critical information to users.

Mobile computing and bar coding capabili-

ties extend standard product functions into

the user’s work space, offering required

functionality in nonstandard work environ-

ments using both radio frequency and batch

communication protocols. The Avantis solu-

tion is fully extensible to other business

systems as well, and provides standard inte-

gration suites for all of the financial and

procurement systems offered by major mar-

ket vendors.

ENTITY MANAGEMENT

Invensys Process Systems developed the

entity concept to maximize the flexibility of a

typical equipment database. It supports the

management of both maintainable and orga-

nizational entities, as well as tracking capital

projects and related tasks and expenditures.

Maintainable assets include anything that

needs to be repaired, such as a piece of

equipment, assembly line, mobile asset or IT

assets. Organizational entities refer to any

arrangement of your enterprise that is used

to collect cost, statistical, budget or backlog

information such as a division, cost center or

department. The Avantis solution allows

"parent-child" relationships to be defined and

built into multiple hierarchies for cost rollups

and operating statistics.

WORK MANAGEMENT

Work management ensures that mainte-

nance personnel can manage and plan

incoming work requests as well as automati-

cally generated work from preventive

maintenance programs. The planning func-

tion ensures that labor, material, tools,

drawings and subcontractor requirements,

as well as safety information, can be identi-

fied on work orders to support proactive

maintenance activities. With the Avantis

solution, plant floor personnel are empow-

ered to enter, manage and view

entity-related activities.

In addition, integration with the inventory

and procurement functions ensures material

availability, improved productivity of mainte-

nance staff, better communication of

needed supplies and complete costing of all

activities.

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE

The preventive maintenance (PM) func-

tion offers the ability to create a library of

standard, repeatable jobs with automatic

work order generation (based on any combi-

nation of user-defined triggering criteria:

operating statistics, elapsed time, calendar

date), inspection checklists and PM routes.

The application is fully integrated to distrib-

uted control systems such as the I/A Series®

system or FactorySuite® application to sup-

port the automated downloading of real-time

operating statistics from the plant floor. The

preventive maintenance function helps users

manage maintenance in a proactive and

planned manner, rather than treating main-

tenance as reactive or repair work.

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MRO INVENTORY

MRO inventory addresses the main chal-

lenges of maintenance repair and

operations, enabling the control of a large

number of unique and low-unit-value items.

The system automates the reorder process

by recognizing calculated safety stock levels,

replenishment lead times and sophisticated

"available-to-promise" logic based on

expected receipts (open purchase orders)

and issues. The ability to establish multiple

storerooms and locations, as well as flexible

categorization capabilities, allows the user-

defined grouping of items for searching,

analyzing and reporting purposes. The

inventory module also provides the ability to

uniquely identify and track repairable items

and critical parts through serialization.

PROCUREMENT

The main objective of the procurement

function in a maintenance environment is to

minimize the cost of buying high volumes of

MRO inventory items, and to ensure that

parts are available when needed. This appli-

cation focuses on fully automating the entire

procurement process, including requisitions,

purchase orders, expediting, receiving, quo-

tations and contract and invoice matching.

Extensive analysis capabilities are available

to streamline the procurement process and

allow more time for the procurement profes-

sional to add value in contract negotiation

and vendor relationship management.

APPROVALS AND WORKFLOW

Approval routing relies on the same

engine as the Avantis cabinet functionality,

thus providing the customer with unlimited

flexibility on selection and routing rules.

Approval routes are defined by the cus-

tomer, and can be based on both financial

and functional rules. Approvals are electroni-

cally performed through an Avantis approval

in-box or via your standard e-mail system,

thus enabling off-line approvals to be per-

formed at your convenience. Approved

documents can be automatically processed

to their next stage via workflow: for example,

an approved requisition may be automati-

cally ordered. Avantis approval and workflow

capabilities enable a considerable reduction

in administrative workload over the long

term, and provide enhanced flexibility to

ensure auditability of decision-making.

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