Ekho - MES Applications that leverages AF 2.0

1. Ekho - MES Applications that leverages AF 2.0 Yannick Galipeau Inexcon Technologies Patrick Ramsey Inexcon Technologies

2. Agenda • Introduction • ITI History • Ekho Positioning • Welcome to Ekho • Summary

3. ITI History • Founded in 2000 • Head Quarters and R&D center located in Quebec • Extensive experience in software development for the Manufacturing Industry • Extensive experience in Manufacturing processes • Dedicated to providing applications that deliver bottom line business results

4. Ekho Positioning • Provides MES Applications (out-of-the-box) • Production Management & Event Genealogy • Quality and Specifications Management • Downtime Tracking • Efficiency Management \ OEE • Lifecycle, Issue and Alarm Management • Web Reports & Analytics tools • Work seamlessly with OSIsoft infrastructure • Enables improvements in plant profitability and efficiency • Provides a configurable tool offering rapid results

5. Ekho Positioning (cont.) • Leverages Existing Systems in the mill/plant • Roll Tracking and other Production/Finish product tracking systems • LIMS and other Quality/SPC/SQC systems • HR and Maintenance Management Systems • Other Secondary Applications • Excel applications, Access and other limited use applications • Secondary applications such as Time and Attendance, Material Management, Injury and Accident Reporting

6. Typical Customers

7. Welcome to Ekho • Ekho Architecture • Integrated with AF2.0 • Ekho \ PI Notifications • Ekho Context Documents • Ekho Functionalities & Solutions Values

8. Ekho1.8.x Architecture Ekho Applications Suite 1.8.x Quality Tracking Efficiency \ Downtime Tracking Product Tracking\ Event Genealogy Lifecycle, Issue & Alarm Tracking Ad-Hoc Analysis tools Reporting Ekho Server 1.8.x Event Genealogy & Dictionary Context Model Repository Event & Alarm Listener PI Servers (AF,PE,Batch,…) Real-Time Data Sources

9. Ekho2.0 Architecture Ekho Applications Suite 2.0 Quality \Specifications Management Efficiency (OEE) Production \ Genealogy Ad-Hoc Analysis Tools Reporting & Information panel Ekho Server 2.0 Event & Alarm Listener Notifications Services Event Genealogy & Dictionary Context Model extension AF2.0 Ekho Wrappers PI Notifications PI Servers PI AF2.0 Ekho Context Model Repository Real-Time Data Sources

10. Integrated with AF2.0

11. Ekho2.0 Context Documents • Operator screens provide better visibility to any production and process information • Pre built context document model • Documents collaboration • Multi site connectivity

12. Ekho2.0 Context Documents • Manage all your event relation and real-time events • Better visibility and control

13. Ekho2.0 Gallery • Introducing the new Ekho User navigation Bars. • Including: • Predefined gallery • Predefined Context document model • Predefined Report and Information panel wizard

14. Quality Management • Track and monitor you product and process quality • Apply product specs and recipes to production and alarm against out-of spec conditions • Automatically or manually capture quality information • Reason Codes, Research Notes, Recipe, Batch and Production Information • Capture and summarize manufacturing and quality data in the context of production • Provides Comprehensive Analytical and Reporting Capabilities • Generates Quality Alarms and Out of Spec conditions

15. Quality Management

16. Quality Management Values • Increase quality production from enhanced real-time visibility • Reduce rejects / downgrades • Reduce customer complaints / returns • Avoidance of major quality event • Avoidance of product recall • Lower cost of quality • Data collection time reduction • Quality research time reduction • Product / process optimization • Better Products, Less time , less rework

17. Quality Management Values

18. Production Management • Production Management – improve such as TRACKING and GENEALOGY • Provides insight into how products flow through the plant by tracking production against specifications, equipment and schedules. • Enables up and downstream traceability • Allows in-process scheduling changes to reduce WIP and overall inventory • Provides Comprehensive Product Genealogy Reporting and Analysis • Detailed Tracking data for long term analysis • Birth History • Traceability overall Genealogy

19. Production Management

20. Production Management Values • Increase Schedule execution and accuracy from integrated product, quality and production tracking systems • Reduction of overruns / shortages • Reduced inventory costs (raw materials, WIP, finished goods) • Faster, more accurate product changeovers • Detailed, easily accessible tracking and genealogy information • Limit the scope of recalls and quarantines • Automated recall / quarantine • Quick response to customer issues • Production / Process optimization • Timely and Precise Material Staging

21. Production Management Values

22. Efficiency management (OEE) • Track and monitor production and your overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) • Track downtime, waste, production counts, user-defined events • Automatically or manually associate events with a specific cause on a real-time basis • Analyze equipment effectiveness based on reasons to identify root causes • Summarize and analyze data in the context of production events for improvements • Correlate events and reasons to actual production operations (real-time data)

23. Efficiency management (OEE)

24. Efficiency management Values • Better utilize plant assets (people, equipment, materials) through a comprehensive view of overall equipment efficiency • Get more for less production costs • Identify and improve areas that are causing operational inefficiencies • Minimize scheduled and unscheduled downtime events • Reduce waste and rework • Improve machine run-time effectiveness • Make data-driven decisions on capital expenditures and process improvement investments • Gain insight into production operations by shift, equipment or product • Evaluate operations over any period of time • Link capital expenditures to expected profitability improvements

25. Efficiency management Values

26. Summary • Knowledge and Experience • Integration with OSIsoft infrastructure • MES portfolio of cross industries Applications • Path to the future for Ekho2.0 and AF2.0

27. Questions?Come and see our solution in the Partner Expo