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XHQ Operations Intelligence SoftwareImproving enterprise performance through operations intelligence solutions

What is XHQ?That’s simple.

XHQ is a better, more intelligent way to make fast, informed decisions based on real-time, factual information. Decisions that improve your business and let you stay ahead of your competition. XHQ is real-time, up-to-the-minute data from numerous systems, multiple sites, and personalized perspectives based on what matters to you. It’s easy to get started, easy to expand, and XHQ will work for you all day, every day, in real-time. It’s that simple. It’s XHQ.

XHQ Operations Intelligence solutions form a layer of visibility that overarches diverse operational and business systems such as:

• Process Historians and Manufacturing Execution Systems

• Production Databases, Document Management Systems

• Asset Management Systems

• Laboratory Information Management Systems

• Planning Systems

• Cost Accounting Systems

• Inventory Databases

• Supply Chain Management Systems

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Visibility Improves The Bottom Line

Drive Collaboration With Data Visibility At All Levels

See Operations In A New Way To Grow Your Top Line

Aggregate Contextualize Visualize Decide Respond Grow

A XHQ solution synthesizes information from these multiple sources into views that provide you with the appropriate information in a familiar context. The solution presents users throughout the organization with a common view of operational status and the various metrics used to monitor and manage performance. Enterprises have invested heavily in pursuit of a better understanding of markets, improved service to customers, financial insights and reduced raw material costs. However, until recently, the activities that transform materials into the company‘s products have relatively little attention in terms of enterprise-wide IT initiatives.

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XHQ Operations Intelligence Software

XHQ Performance AnalyticsFrom across a facility to around the globe

XHQ Integrated Data GatewayMore access, more security, more consistency

XHQ Performance ManagementContinuous improvements you can see

XHQ Performance ManagementContinuous Improvement you can see.

XHQ Performance Management Components

Target Management™

• Provides an environment to manage key performance indicators (KPIs) targets for optimal operations

• Creates limits to define the safe operating envelopes for critical equipment

• Measures and tracks KPIs in real time

• Eliminates the delay of “spreadsheet-based” reporting of KPIs

• Drill-down capability for detailed performance insight

• Creates targets and limits in a meaningful information model tailored to your plant

Alert Notification System (ANS)

• Allows monitoring by exception of critical operational targets and limits

• Automated data collection and condition-based alerting allow for efficient operations

• User- or system-based alert subscription and notification configurations

• Notifications can be routed via e-mail or SMS messages

eLogs

• Automated reporting reduces errors with manual paper-based logging systems

• Electronically records operator logs and associates them to shifts, assets, events, work orders, etc., allowing for easy searching and filtering

• Integrates with the shift handover reporting, morning meeting or intrashift work processes, including the entry of routine parameters

• Captures the root cause reasons and comments for operational gaps and down time

• Allows users to collaborate and exchange information pertaining to any event or alert

XHQ Performance Management Suite Features

• Contextualized, composite KPI calculations based on automated data collection of operational and business data

• Web-based thin client interface for dashboards, multi-dimensional analysis, trends and reports

• Role and functional responsibilities provide context-sensitive views fully integrated with Microsoft® Windows Active Directory

• Intuitive, user-friendly administration and configuration clearly separating the role of the business user and the IT support staff

• Bi-directional integration with leading historians (PI, PHD, IP.21) for accessing real-time data and propagating KPIs and targets into central repositories

• E-mail and SMS text alerting on event detections, such as KPI threshold deviations

• Stores comprehensive, auditable target, limit and KPI data for historical analysis

• Allows bulk import and export of KPIs, and targets to/from Microsoft® Excel and XML

XHQ Performance Management is a comprehensive suite

of applications that support the continuous improvement

cycle of your operations. Extending the scalable, proven

XHQ framework, XHQ Performance Management provides

the means to calculate key performance indicators (KPIs),

set operational goals and benchmark performance against

them. Leveraging the cross-source data integration avail-

able in XHQ Performance Management enables “fact-based”

decision making from all operational and business data

available in your plant. Customers experience an inexpen-

sive deployment cycle based on “out-of-box” industry stan-

dards that leverage the world-class experience of Siemens

consultants, and results in a shorter time-to-value return on

investment.

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Performance AnalyticsFrom across a facility to around the globe.

XHQ Performance Analytics is a complimentary suite that

provides access to the rich set of information from a single

or multiple XHQ solutions, extending the XHQ Operations

Intelligence framework by providing the capability to apply

advanced analytic and reporting techniques to operations

and business data at the site, regional, and global levels.

Through Performance Analytics, data from external sources

is combined and persisted in structures optimized for On-

Line Analytical Processing (OLAP), data mining, reporting,

KPI dashboards and other tools, such as Microsoft Excel.

Use XHQ Performance Analytics to:

• Access data from disparate data sources such as process historians, relational databases, web services, and third-party applications.

• Access and transport large amounts of information on a global scale

• Generate the processes necessary to transport and store information

• Perform advanced data transform and cleansing operations

• Apply context to information to relate and visualize

• Generate advanced analytic data structures

• Create dashboards for KPI analysis and visualization

• Create and schedule reports

• Perform On-Line Analytic Processing (OLAP) and data mining

Features

Advanced Integration Server

• Comprehensive set of connectors

• Advanced caching mechanisms to increase throughput

• Perform complex data transformation and data cleansing procedures

• Minimized load on source system

• Failure recovery mechanisms to eliminate lost data

• Extensible to almost any data source

XHQ Information Management Layer

• Efficient data stores optimized for reporting and analytics can off-load processing from the transactional data store

• Disparate data sources integrated, aggregated and contextualized

• Leverage the XHQ Application Data

• Models for a rich set of precontextualized data

• Data structures are optimized for analysis, which enables retrieval mechanisms to efficiently and dynamically generate result sets

• Store enormous volumes of information efficiently

Visualization

• Leverage XHQ dashboard visualization applications

• Reports with a rich set of graphics and controls

• Provide analytic content in context with other XHQ content

Analytics

• On-Line Analytic Processing (OLAP) structures derived from XHQ Model

• KPI calculations using real-time, historical, and relational data

• Data mining to discover hidden patterns and relationships

• Integrated with Microsoft Excel

Engineering

• Auto-generate Analytic data structures including dimensional schemas and OLAP cubes based on internal and external data sources

• Auto-generate data retreival processes

• Schedule and monitor data retrieval

• Recover from failed data retrieval

• View error logs and audit trails

• Notification of erroneous behavior

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Integrated Data GatewayMore access, more security, more consistency.

IDG Includes

• XHQ Client API

• XHQ ADO.NET Data Provider

• OPC UA Server (separately licensed)

• Mobile SDK

Features

• Enables XHQ to be a data provider to:

-3rd Party Windows Applications

-Apple iOS Applications

-Android Applications

-Windows Mobile Applications

• Many standard access interfaces to the unique data set within XHQ

• Full support of the security model

• 3rd party application access or web part access

• Based on the API – consistent deployment

XHQ can share your valuable information with other

applications to take your critical information into completely

new spaces. This module can be used to read any XHQ data

and use it in third party applications such as:

• A GPS-based asset monitoring application for phones and

tablets

• Environmental compliance reports

• Early warning alert applications

• Custom visualization platforms

• And more.

Quick Start PacksXHQ’s Quick Start Packs live up to their name.

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Features

• The fastest way to deploy lots of XHQ content - quickly

• A low risk path to project success

• Easily modifiable to meet your user work processes

• Help drive best practice standards and metrics

• Uncover areas of operational inefficiency

• Quickly Prove the value of Manufacturing Intelligence

What You Get

• Pre-developed, role-based content for XHQ

• Typical high-value, best practice use cases

• Taps into your existing information sources

• Presents data in a consistent, familiar format

• Shortens time to access and find information

• Different types of data including tag, relational, and time series

• Easily expanded to provide real-time, metrics alerts and actions

• Widely deployed & validated

• Field-proven scalability

• Short time to value – fast ROI

Please contact your local XHQ Sales contact to learn further

details about XHQ Quick Start Packs. To find your nearest

contact, please visit our website at: siemens.com/xhq

The XHQ Quick Start Pack includes a collection of packaged

solutions that put the process industry expertise of XHQ

right into your hands. These easily modifiable Quick Start

modules use best practice applications combined with

proven scalability to present data in a consistent format

You’ll quickly be able to uncover areas of operational

inefficiency and drive best practice standards and metrics

Whether you’re a plant operator, shift lead, facilities

manager, engineer, plant manager, or you’re part of the CXO

suite, XHQ can aggregate the information you need from

systems and operations around the world and present it in a

view that’s meaningful to you.

Asset Management Pack

Maintenance Management Pack

Inventory Management Pack

Quality Management Pack

Process Management Pack

Target Management Pack

Purchase Order Management Pack

E-logs

Oilfield Management Pack

Available Packs

XHQ Operations Intelligence

Siemens Industry Software

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Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software, Inc.

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Aliso Viejo, CA 92656

Phone: +1(949) 448-0600

E-mail:

info.xhq@siemens.com

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