XHQ Operations Intelligence

Real-time solutions for intelligent decisions

Intelligence for the manufacturing

enterprise
XHQ Operations Intelligence adds an
important layer of intelligence to analyze
the KPIs that will ratchet your manufactur-
ing performance to the next level. A
platform for aggregating, relating and
presenting operational and business data
in real time, XHQ provides users with a
wide range of coherent, up-to-the-minute
information. This data is then used to
monitor performance and make better,
more informed decisions about plant
operations – for greater efficiency and
reduced costs.

The challenge
In any manufacturing organization, opera-
tions personnel typically struggle to pull
together a complete, timely picture of their
situation. Like missing pieces of a puzzle,
critical information is often scattered
throughout the enterprise in a variety of
databases, applications and operational
systems. Stored in a wide range of formats
with a confusing mix of unrelated con-
texts, this data is rarely compiled or pre-
sented in a meaningful way. And when it
is, the opportunity to act has usually long
since passed. While such historical data
may be useful for medium- or long-term
strategic planning, those who are monitor-
ing and executing plant operations require
immediate access to data for making fast,
informed decisions based on current
developments.
Our solution
The XHQ Operations Intelligence solution
is designed to extract and aggregate data
from a variety of information sources
(including ERP, data warehouses, data-
bases, documentation, process historians,
as well as automation), and then present
it on an intuitive, transparent platform.
The people who are operating your
facility always have the big picture when
they need it and can always access
up-to-date information in time to act. The
resulting efficiencies and better decision
making based on real-time information
can significantly boost your bottom line
and make your enterprise more productive
throughout.

Answers for energy.

Five reasons to use XHQ
1. Distributes crucial, timely data
throughout the enterprise
2. Helps ensure greater flexibility and
more accurate decisions for increased
customer responsiveness
3. Helps create efficiencies and reduced
costs for significant savings and a
quicker ROI
4. Helps to ensure a maximum return on
investments in automation equipment
and IT
5. Highly scalable for global, enterprise-
wide deployment.
Cost savings and a fast ROI
XHQ Operations Intelligence solutions
can be targeted at specific aspects of
your business, such as reducing costs,
increasing production, improving
quality control, improving asset utilization
or reducing inventory. And although they
can have a major positive impact on your
business, XHQ solutions are not expensive
to implement. They quickly pay for them-
selves by eliminating existing weaknesses,
and the resulting best practices can then
be shared throughout the enterprise for
further savings and an even higher rate of
return.
Getting the most out of your
investments
With XHQ in place companies can get
more value out of their investments in
plant automation and IT infrastructure.
Because XHQ Operations Intelligence can
dramatically help improve plant utilization,
increase equipment availability and
reduce costs across the entire value
chain, you can be sure that you’re always
getting a maximum return on your
equipment and other assets.
Timely data – when and where you Solutions for your industry
need it
Our XHQ packaged solutions can be seam-
The XHQ component-based data model lessly integrated into a comprehensive
aggregates and relates data to produce solution for your industry. These solutions
information framed in a meaningful busi- integrate all the products and services you
ness context. Real-time views of this data need for sustained optimization of your
are then streamed live over the Internet or plant’s operating performance. For each
intranet to zero administration, browser particular task, a solution is available that
clients, mobile devices and enterprise can potentially:
portals, and can be personalized to
Horizontally improve all production
address specific user issues. The entire
processes
solution is maintained through an inte-
grated configuration environment that Vertically integrate the company’s
enables non-technical business domain information flows end-to-end, helping
corporate management to make better
experts to create content without pro-
decisions
gramming or extensive IT support.
Chronologically enable optimized
Speed and flexibility for better maintenance and help ensure further
responsiveness development over the entire life cycle
of your plant.
Industrial companies need to respond
quickly and flexibly to keep up with rapidly Due to this unique combination of
changing market conditions. By providing horizontal, vertical and life cycle dimen-
personnel who are actually directing pro- sions, our solutions all carry the genes
duction with immediate access to produc- of an exhaustive and sustained plant
tion status and key performance indicators productivity in their very core.
(KPIs), XHQ allows them to react faster
For more productivity, more perfor-
and to specifically target their decisions to
mance and more power...look to
take advantage of market developments.
XHQ Operations Intelligence solutions
As the timing and accuracy of their
from Siemens.
responses improve, they can better meet
the needs of their customers.
Designed for scalability
The XHQ platform is designed to be highly
scalable, fit seamlessly into enterprise-
wide infrastructures and be rapidly
deployed on a global basis. And thanks
to the XHQ real-time data cache, users
around the world can be served concur-
rently with live, streaming data without
over-burdening the network or the back-
end operational systems.
For more information about the XHQ Oper-
ations Intelligence product and consulting
services, contact us at +1 (949) 448-0600 or
info.xhq@siemens.com.

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