Optivision System

The company offers its OptiVision Order Fulfillment and Production Management System for the paper and flat-sheet industries, offering a choice of technologies and added operational and financial benefits for users.

It is an enterprise-wide software system that includes order fulfillment at the corporate level and a full manufacturing execution system (MES) at the mill level. Serving the manufacturing management needs of a single-or multi-mill company, OptiVision has become a leading manufacturing execution system in the pulp and paper industry.

The new Release 350 OptiVision software suite is now available with Microsoft Windows NT client and application server technology, while continuing to offer Unix and Oracle database capabilities. Release 350 delivers these added benefits:

• MES functionality provided in a scaleable solution set via a new flexible and modular product structure
• Improved customer care from service capabilities such as customer-specific labels, minimum customer stocking levels, ship by lineal units, and new freight term
• Lowered total cost of ownership from its Windows NT technology
• Euro currency and value-added tax capability available as standard product offering.

The system has been widely adopted by manufacturers because it addresses a full spectrum of requirements, including order management, advanced planning and scheduling, production management, quality management, inventory management, and enterprise integration. Sources of value to the user from these supervisory capabilities include payback from quality improvements, improved production efficiencies, reduced roll and sheet trim losses, reduced labor costs, reduced finished goods inventory and work in progress, and reduced mis-shipments.

Honeywell Industrial Automation and Control, 16404 N. Black Canyon Hwy., Phoenix, AZ 85053.