Control Magazine and ARC Advisory Group developed a list of the Automation Industry's Top Dogs, the top 50 companies in the world, based on their automation based revenues. Link to Top Automation Companies What's nice to see is that 5 of the top 10 companies have a relationship with Ocean [...]
Dream Report received a nice highlight in Water Efficiency Magazine. Check out the SCADA Update article starting on page 38. Download the PDF of WaterEfficiencyMagazineMay2015 Water Efficiency is a great publication and there are many past issues worth viewing. http://www.waterefficiency.net/ Please note - the article lists that Dream Report offers [...]
Automatic CSV Data Processing for Industrial Reports and Dashboards In the world of industrial automation, CSV (Comma Separated Variables) file formats are very common and an excellent way to transfer data between systems for report generation and performance dashboards. The process required for automated CSV File importing are: Automated CSV [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
