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XHQ Operations Intelligence Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software, Inc. Faster, fact-based decision-making Delivering actionable data for empowered decisions XHQ pulls and aggregates relevant data from business and operations systems to give users an up-to-date view of their plant operations. Industry challenges In today s world, managers at all levels and disciplines within process industry manufacturing are being asked to do more with less. Volatility in markets for raw materials and manufactured products, as well as transportation, environmental, and capacity constraints are placing new stresses on manufacturers. More than ever before, industrial companies need to make better informed decisions and provide a faster response to situations as they arise. To do so, they need to make sense of the torrent of data flowing from their automation and information technology systems. In order to realize the full value that can be gained from the capture of this raw data, companies need to have an understanding of the greater significance of the data. Data management challenges Hundreds of computers, thousands of users, millions of records. This is the IT environment in today s process industry manufacturing organizations. These operations and business technology systems have many demands on them. They need to keep manufacturing operations under control while archiving genealogy records, calculating performance indicators, and storing and distributing production reports. At the same time, these systems need to respond to the multitude of users who require data in different combinations, aggregations, and contexts to make their decisions in a fast and reliable way. Gathering the right operational and business data from multiple, disparate systems and analyzing it in a timely fashion is critically important. Without it, a company can see more equipment downtime, loss of production capacity, high costs, and incorrect or inaccessible information. XHQ Operations Intelligence XHQ Operations Intelligence Software meets these challenges. XHQ enables decision makers at all levels to make better, faster, more informed decisions to drive the overall performance of the enterprise. XHQ acts as a layer of intelligence that overarches diverse operational and business systems at multiple sites. It then extracts and aggregates the necessary real-time, up-to-the-minute data from the various systems and presents it in a dashboard format that is easy to read and intuitive. And since role-based web views can be created, the same application is shared by senior management as well as the maintenance manager. Building on deep process industry manufacturing knowledge, XHQ provides fact-based support to help organizations make decisions that positively impact the bottom line. It enables plant floor and operations personnel, as well as senior management, to monitor real-time performance against business goals by providing a common view of all critical business and operational data from disparate sources throughout the enterprise. 1

Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software, Inc. XHQ Operations Intelligence Built for the future Rapid decision-making for the digital journey ahead Digital data Digitalization has become an important competitive factor. XHQ helps keep those in the process industry ahead of the game by turning digital data into real-time knowledge for faster, smarter decisions. Its intelligent analysis of large amounts of data in real time helps to make production and business processes transparent, allowing for the detection of possible risks. This intelligent data then provides a reliable basis for decision-making for both retrospective evaluation and prognoses. Mobile access In a world where mobility is paramount, XHQ makes real-time data available from anywhere: it can be visualized on a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet or a smart phone. Personnel can be where they need to be and the data goes with them. Users can build dashboard views for a desktop or mobile device in the same platform. XHQ supports the latest industry standards for data collection and access, ensuring long life and widespread access. Vendor neutral XHQ gathers information from all types of systems to provide the best view of the business at any level of the operation. Its comprehensive connection capability enables XHQ to interface with most third-party data sources and systems, including common business intelligence systems. XHQ s ability to integrate data from disparate systems allows it to leverage and maximize the value from existing IT investments. Better collaboration Key benefits of XHQ are the collaboration and focused insights it generates across the entire enterprise. XHQ drives collaboration by giving users greater transparency into the data, which is clearly organized into a single view. Teams are able to work together on the data regardless of their locations, to see what is working now, review what has worked in the past, and make the right decisions for the future. XHQ uses open data protocol and allows for on-the-fly reporting with easy access to third-party tools. Updates include an easier way to perform cross-site analysis and better collaboration functionality. XHQ allows real-time access to up-to-the-minute data anywhere at any time, on a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet or a smart phone. 2

XHQ Operations Intelligence Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software, Inc. See operations in a new way Data visibility improves the bottom line XHQ enables users to access operating costs across the entire supply chain, leading to opportunities for savings. XHQ clarifies data to help business and production personnel to deliver operational excellence: Business decisions Up-to-date information on operations performance helps people on the front line adapt operating plans, for example Broad status views of production-critical assets let personnel adapt business plans in real-time and avoid financial losses Define actual cost of production versus budget of business Production decisions Define which underperforming assets can be rationalized Identify the best and worst performing assets Analyze, isolate, and improve overall equipment efficiency (OEE) Operation decisions KPIs help to quickly identify inefficiencies and their possible causes Proactively increase the OEE Performance against production and business targets XHQ operational benefits Improved decision-making process within all plant levels A single, coherent view of real-time information Supports broader access to plant information and KPI and balanced scorecard information A system for the identification, capture, and replication of best practices across the enterprise Means to focus on problem areas with data views and drill downs Facilitates remote monitoring and supports troubleshooting Allows data access without knowing source application Consistent plant-wide metrics Personalized role-based content Rapidly developed, easily modified Developed and supported by non-it personnel 3

Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software, Inc. XHQ Operations Intelligence XHQ product components The XHQ system is comprised of several major components: XHQ Performance Management Continuous improvement users can see. XHQ Performance Management is a comprehensive suite of applications that support the continuous improvement cycle of plant operations. Extending the scalable, proven XHQ software, XHQ Performance Management provides a rich ability for people to define their own alerts and notifications when things happen, such as a key indicators drop. In addition, XHQ provides a system for managing targets, including calculating key performance indicators, setting operational goals, and benchmarking performance. XHQ also provides tools to record notes and operator logs and make them generally available. XHQ Performance Analytics From across a facility to around the globe, XHQ Performance Analytics is a complementary suite that provides the ability to do calculations, do advanced analytics in tools such as Microsoft Excel Power BI and R, and incorporate algorithms in XHQ for general use. It can draw from multiple XHQ systems. It extends XHQ Operations Intelligence software by providing the capability to apply advanced analytic and reporting techniques to operations and business data at the site, regional, and global levels. Through Performance Analytics, data from external sources is combined and persisted in structures optimized for On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP), data mining, reporting, KPI dashboards, and other tools, such as Microsoft Excel. XHQ Integrated Data Gateway XHQ Integrated Data Gateway provides more access, more security, and more consistency. XHQ can share valuable information with other applications to take critical information into completely new spaces. This module can be used to read any XHQ data and use it in third-party applications such as: A GPS-based asset monitoring application for phones and tablets Environmental compliance reports Early warning alert applications Custom visualization platforms And more. XHQ analyzes data from a variety of business and operations sources, presenting a new perspective for top-line business growth. 4

XHQ Operations Intelligence Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software, Inc. Designed for security in the modern world Engineered for high-end scalability and wide distribution XHQ provides a single, coherent view of plant data that shows users the current health of operations at a glance and in real time. If something is out of step, in a single click the summary view can be drilled into and disaggregated to investigate the underlying issues. XHQ product characteristics XHQ has many characteristics key to the long-term success of an operations intelligence solution, with many unique to the patented XHQ product portfolio. It is designed for the enterprise with role-based security, high availability, and multi-site solutions. It supports content localization and integration with enterprise portals. Engineered for high-end scalability and wide distribution, XHQ minimizes network bandwidth and CPU loads, maximizes the number of concurrent users, and optimizes inefficient query habits of large user groups. Users are spared the complexities of dedicated user interfaces of narrowly focused applications. XHQ is focused on minimizing the total cost of ownership with an unprecedented level of reusability. It can be extended to add new data sources and configured to address new problems quite easily, and without programming. Changes to components and displays are propagated automatically, while the configuration environment is centrally managed. The architecture cleanly separates the involvement of user, technical/it, and business/domain communities. XHQ fully leverages the domain and business experts through a model-based approach that facilitates rapid evolution and incremental development of the solution. Users can develop views based on standard information models with customization ability to meet their unique requirements. XHQ provides operations management with a wealth of aggregated, integrated information: Key operational KPIs Daily cost and margin information for the plant Production and utilization rates for major units Electricity and fuel usage Inventory levels of crude and products Safety statistics and environmental issues Maintenance summary information 5

Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software, Inc. XHQ Operations Intelligence XHQ can easily scale from small facilities to large ones, and is a perfect fit for operators with many sites or a single site. The system also works well in multi-site companies where there are benefits for cross-site access across the globe and a seamless view that rolls up information from the shop floor to the top floor. No matter the size or shape of the process industry enterprise, XHQ is a solution for today s changing complexity of operations. XHQ in brief Leveraging knowledge of emerging information technologies and process automation, XHQ takes a unique, patented approach to delivering an industrial-strength, information-integration environment. Adopting a non-intrusive approach, XHQ lightly taps into a variety of real-time and diverse back-end data sources to gather information. Data sources include automation systems, data historians, MES operational databases, ERP and financial accounting systems, laboratory information management systems (LIMS), asset condition monitoring systems, warehouse management systems, and relational databases. Once collected, the information is aggregated, combined with other data, put into role-based contexts, and presented to users through live, animated views accessible from any desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smart phone. XHQ supports deployments with 100,000s of tags, millions of database and business application records, thousands of converted schematics, and thousands of users. XHQ solutions are built by combining simple, reusable components and their graphical representations to create comprehensive, information-rich models and intuitive displays. Information components and their graphical representations are reused from one unit or plant to the next. Changes to the base definitions are inherited, and automatically updated, wherever the components are used. 6

Published by and 2016 Siemens AG Process Industries and Drives Division XHQ Operations Intelligence Siemens Industry Software Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software, Inc. 6 Journey, Suite 200 Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 Phone: +1(949) 448-0600 E-mail: info.xhq@siemens.com Order no.: PDOM-B10018-00-7600