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For the process industries, the smart choice is Pimsoft’s Sigmafine, the data validation and reconciliation platform The Business Challenge As businesses spend large amounts of money on powerful enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and solutions that enable regulatory compliance, a question arises: “how valuable are these investments if the data tracked and reported is incorrect?” The large volume of production data creates significant roadblocks to a company’s capacity to manually verify the accuracy and validity of this data. As a result, decisions are made using inaccurate data, and process inefficiencies are not identified in a timely manner. Modern operations require valid and approved information at all times at all levels of the organization; from the plant floor to the business layer. Sigmafine Overview Improve the consistency, quality, and traceability of production data with Pimsoft’s Sigmafine data reconciliation software. Sigmafine extends the rich benefits of OSIsoft’s PI System by providing a validation checkpoint between a facility’s raw process data and its information personnel. Sigmafine uses a robust data reconciliation engine to reconcile and validate raw plant measurements, which can then be compared to baseline parameters and predetermined business plans. Turn your production information into a strategic asset Sigmafine gives you the confidence of validated data you can trust, enabling you to act quickly, certain that the data is consistent across your company. If you cannot trust the data upon which you base your decisions, you are more likely to hesitate in making the most profitable business changes or necessary adjustments to your process. Domains: Process industries Distribution networks Overview: Sigmafine is a data validation platform used to transform apparently independent data and events into business information: Configurable according to company’s busi- ness rules. Expandible plug-ins to incorporate business logic. Scalable (from single units to large process networks). Reusable for different process analysis . Compliant to international standards. Benefits: Improve data accuracy by reconciling and validating process information before it reaches the ERP system. Enable well-informed intelligent business decisions by providing consistent, reliable data to information personnel across your enterprise. Speed access to information through the delivery of consistent, reliable, and accura- te reconciled information to business systems. Improve productivity by reducing the man hours necessary to (manually) identify and correct inefficient production processes. Facilitate regulatory compliance by crea- ting a single set of traceable data. Make better planning decisions by compa- ring actual results to planned results. Reduce production losses through auto- mated monitoring that immediately identi- fies faulty processes and equipment. Reduce measurement maintenance by prioritizing maintenance on instruments that are identified by Sigmafine to have bias or calibration drift. Gross error detection provides an initial rule-based validation process. Example of Sigmafine Process Model
