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XHQ Performance Management
Measure, communicate, evaluate and analyze your operational performance
XHQ Performance Management is a comprehensive suite of Web 2.0 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 available in XHQ Performance
Management enables “fact-based,” decision making from all operational and business data available in your plant. Customers experience an inexpensive deployment cycle based on “out-of-box” industry standards that leverage the world-class experience of Siemens consultants and results in a shorter time- to-value return on investment.
XHQ Performance Management
Measure, communicate, evaluate and analyze your operational performance
XHQ Performance Management helps integrate the processes of:
Defining and managing key performance indicators (KPIs) Setting operational targets and
performance benchmarks Defining operating envelopes for
improved asset reliability
Associating active alerts with target and operating envelope deviations to allow monitoring by exception of all critical equipment and processes Assigning reasons and comments for
operational and performance gaps Providing plant personnel with analysis
tools to continuously improve plant performance and identify root causes of performance deviations
Performing cross-unit and cross-plant comparisons of performance on a normalized basis for meaningful analysis of best and worst performing assets throughout your corporation.
Increase workforce efficiency
Enhance personalization of dashboards to allow users to create their own operational targets and active alerts Automated handover reporting process
for shift, day and other operational period reporting
Deliver common contextualized view of information based on role and responsible areas in the plant
Clearly communicate operational and business goals to all levels of the organization through a single common interface
Instant visibility of targets and comments in operating dashboards and visualizations.
Foster continuous improvement cycle Assist in the translation of business
plans to operational targets with the definition of KPIs
Communicate operational targets directly in operational views Provide reasons and feedback on
challenges for meeting assigned targets
Calculate and benchmark KPIs to assess performance
Update plans and targets to account for changing market conditions and operations.
Potential benefits
Real-time management of operational performance
Calculate and monitor plant-, area-, unit- and asset-based performance measures automatically as soon as data is available
Benchmark performance metrics against operational targets, plant and company best-achieved values and industry best-in-class values
Assign reason code and comments for operational gaps
Review and analyze key performance indicator (KPI) performance to identify improvement opportunities.
Lower operating costs due to better asset reliability
Create and manage multiple operating envelopes for critical equipment Enable rapid root cause analysis of
failures, defects and variances Actively alert operations with visual
and e-mail notifications on critical or warning zones
Enable proactive, rather than reactive, operations.
Plan
Define KPIs from strategic objectives Set operational and business targets Define benchmarks to measure
performance
Develop strategy for capturing failure reasons and comments.
Check
Monitor critical equipent by exception Assign reasons for operational gaps Use dashboards for instant insight of
operational performance.
Act
Identify root causes for deviations Review plant feedback
Monitor and analyze KPIs
Perform cross-unit/plant analysis for best/worst actors.
Do
Define operating envelopes and limits Create active alerts for target deviations Automate handover processes and
capturing of critical parameters.
XHQ Performance Management is a key enabler for the continuous improvement cycle
Integrated application modules help enhance collaboration and capture the undocumented expertise of your people
XHQ Performance Management is the tight coupling of XHQ Target
Management™, XHQ eLogs and XHQ Alert Notification System. Together these applications can be deployed as an extension to existing XHQ installations or as a standalone application.
The XHQ Performance Management suite plays a key role in maintaining
communications between operators on the plant floor and management using proven work process integration
methodologies. Operational transparency is achieved through a common view of plant performance across the different functional processes from the supply chain, to operations and maintenance, to finished products. Customers are now able to empower stakeholders at all levels of the organization with continuously updated operational key performance indicators (KPIs) in real time.
gCreate KPIs, limits and targets
gAnalyze deviations and reasons
gFeedback new target values
gCreate active alerts and notifications
g All personnel can see targets and current status updated in real time
g Enter reason codes and comments about deviations
g ANS creates alerts and sends notification e-mails
XHQ Performance Management provides the measurement, analysis and reporting capability for communicating, monitoring and benchmarking key performance indicators (KPIs). In addition to key operating parameters, such as throughput, cut points and other operational temperatures, pressures and flows, XHQ Performance Management can be implemented to calculate and monitor values such as overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), asset utilization (AU), maintenance reliability, energy
intensity index (EII), furnace efficiencies and heat exchanger fouling. Providing real-time calculation and monitoring of these critical KPIs enable plant engineers and management with the information needed to drive optimal performance in today’s competitive environment.
XHQ Performance Management allows your company to unlock the
organizational knowledge and KPIs from disparate sources and capture the wealth of information held only in the minds of experts. This process keeps valuable information available even as your workforce turns over or retires.
With its integrated analysis and reporting tools, XHQ Performance Management helps turn data into actionable information.
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
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
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