If Dream Report were an Element, Which one would it be? After watching one of my favorite series of all time, I started to wonder… Would it be Hydrogen? It’s the simplest of all the elements. It’s the most abundant element in the universe, an attribute of Hydrogen we are [...]
Clean-in-place (CIP) A method of cleaning the interior surfaces of pipes, vessels, process equipment, filters and associated fittings, without disassembly. The benefit to industries that use CIP is that the cleaning is faster, less labor-intensive and more repeatable, and poses less of a chemical exposure risk to people. Starting as a manual process, [...]
Tools for report generation in industrial applications have been few and far between. Those that exist typically focus on functionality to deliver “Compliance” level reports, those reports that are absolutely necessary and core to the business at hand, and are typically vendor specific offerings. As such, functionality has trumped ease [...]
Picture this, you are generating a monthly report and need daily summaries, but your history data has 10 second resolution. That means for the report, you’ll need to process a total of roughly 250,000 data samples per calculated variable. Suppose you could ask your data source to pre-calculate the data [...]
It used to be that security through obscurity was enough to protect automation systems from cyber-attacks. Who would really care about those industrial protocols anyway? We know from the famed Stuxnet and its derivatives that automation systems are now a prime target. There have been numerous documented intrusions to automation [...]
Dream Report is an automated reporting and dashboard product, available in 14 Languages. Dream Report can switch languages on the fly, based on user login information. Where are the people that care about Dream Report? Well, it appears that they are in just about every country around the globe. This [...]
Dream Report is designed for 21 CFR Part 11 applications in Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical and Biotech markets. The need for quality is paramount when you're dealing with products essential to the health and well being of people. Today, 21 CFR Part 11 is critical to that endeavor. The FDA, Food [...]
The fast pace of change brings us new opportunity every day. This is especially true for the technologies that influence what we do and how we do things. The pace is accelerating and there are those that keep pace and those that fall behind. This article covers the attributes that I look [...]
It just happened again. I was on a call with a young sales type, and was getting the pitch. It started out as, “let me tell you about my product and what its features can do for you”… If you’re a seasoned sales professional, then you’ve already recognized the problem. [...]
Management by Exception (MBE) is a style of business management that focuses on identifying and handling cases that deviate from the norm. The main advantage of management by exception is that issues are identified rapidly and managers are able to use their time and energy more efficiently on matters that [...]
