Manufacturing Industry
All integration all the time: aluminum materials processor gets clear view of operations with Microsoft portal technology.(Advertisement)
Manufacturing Business Technology, August, 2005
Justus de Hooge can rattle off a whole list of system upgrades made over the years at the plant for which he is information technology and information systems manager. But ask him about the underlying goal behind the initiatives, and he comes back to one thing: data integration. "Integration is the name of the game," he says of Aughinish Alumina, located on Aughinish Island near Limerick City, Ireland.
Aughinish processes ore to make alumina, a material used in aluminum production. The plant also constantly analyzes data from myriad production control systems as a means of improving performance, which is why de Hooge is so focused on data integration. Recently that focus led to installation of a Web-based portal that presents users with key...
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