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XHQ Performance ManagementMeasure, communicate, evaluate and analyze your operational performance

XHQ Performance Management is a comprehensive

suite of Web 2.0 applications that support the

continuous improvement cycle of your operations.

Extending the scalable, proven XHQ framework, XHQ

Performance Management provides the means to

calculate key performance indicators (KPIs), set

operational goals and benchmark performance

against them. Leveraging the cross-source data

integration available in XHQ Performance

Management enables “fact-based,” decision making

from all operational and business data available in

your plant. Customers experience an inexpensive

deployment cycle based on “out-of-box” industry

standards that leverage the world-class experience

of Siemens consultants and results in a shorter time-

to-value return on investment.

XHQ Performance ManagementMeasure, communicate, evaluate and analyze your operational performance

XHQ Performance Management helps integrate the processes of:

Defining and managing key performance indicators (KPIs)

Setting operational targets and performance benchmarks

Defining operating envelopes for improved asset reliability

Associating active alerts with target and operating envelope deviations to allow monitoring by exception of all critical equipment and processes

Assigning reasons and comments for operational and performance gaps

Providing plant personnel with analysis tools to continuously improve plant performance and identify root causes of performance deviations

Performing cross-unit and cross-plant comparisons of performance on a normalized basis for meaningful analysis of best and worst performing assets throughout your corporation.

Increase workforce efficiency

Enhance personalization of dashboards to allow users to create their own operational targets and active alerts

Automated handover reporting process for shift, day and other operational period reporting

Deliver common contextualized view of information based on role and responsible areas in the plant

Clearly communicate operational and business goals to all levels of the organization through a single common interface

Instant visibility of targets and comments in operating dashboards and visualizations.

Foster continuous improvement cycle

Assist in the translation of business plans to operational targets with the definition of KPIs

Communicate operational targets directly in operational views

Provide reasons and feedback on challenges for meeting assigned targets

Calculate and benchmark KPIs to assess performance

Update plans and targets to account for changing market conditions and operations.

Potential benefits

Real-time management of operational performance

Calculate and monitor plant-, area-, unit- and asset-based performance measures automatically as soon as data is available

Benchmark performance metrics against operational targets, plant and company best-achieved values and industry best-in-class values

Assign reason code and comments for operational gaps

Review and analyze key performance indicator (KPI) performance to identify improvement opportunities.

Lower operating costs due to better asset reliability

Create and manage multiple operating envelopes for critical equipment

Enable rapid root cause analysis of failures, defects and variances

Actively alert operations with visual and e-mail notifications on critical or warning zones

Enable proactive, rather than reactive, operations.

Plan Define KPIs from strategic objectives

Set operational and business targets

Define benchmarks to measure performance

Develop strategy for capturing failure reasons and comments.

Check Monitor critical equipent by exception

Assign reasons for operational gaps

Use dashboards for instant insight of operational performance.

Act Identify root causes for deviations

Review plant feedback

Monitor and analyze KPIs

Perform cross-unit/plant analysis for best/worst actors.

Do Define operating envelopes and limits

Create active alerts for target deviations

Automate handover processes and capturing of critical parameters.

XHQ Performance Management is a key enabler for the continuous improvement cycle

Integrated application modules help enhance collaboration and capture the undocumented expertise of your people

XHQ Performance Management is the tight coupling of XHQ Target Management™, XHQ eLogs and XHQ Alert Notification System. Together these applications can be deployed as an extension to existing XHQ installations or as a standalone application.

The XHQ Performance Management suite plays a key role in maintaining communications between operators on the plant floor and management using proven work process integration methodologies. Operational transparency is achieved through a common view of plant performance across the different functional processes from the supply chain, to operations and maintenance, to finished products. Customers are now able to empower stakeholders at all levels of the organization with continuously updated operational key performance indicators (KPIs) in real time.

g Create KPIs, limits and targets

g Analyze deviations and reasonsg Feedback new target values

g Create active alerts and notifications

g All personnel can see targets and current status updated in real time

g Enter reason codes and commentsabout deviations

g ANS creates alerts and sends notification e-mails

XHQ Performance Management provides the measurement, analysis and reporting capability for communicating, monitoring and benchmarking key performance indicators (KPIs). In addition to key operating parameters, such as throughput, cut points and other operational temperatures, pressures and flows, XHQ Performance Management can be implemented to calculate and monitor values such as overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), asset utilization (AU), maintenance reliability, energy

intensity index (EII), furnace efficiencies and heat exchanger fouling. Providing real-time calculation and monitoring of these critical KPIs enable plant engineers and management with the information needed to drive optimal performance in today’s competitive environment.

XHQ Performance Management allows your company to unlock the organizational knowledge and KPIs from disparate sources and capture the wealth of information held only in the minds of experts. This process keeps valuable information available even as your workforce turns over or retires.

With its integrated analysis and reporting tools, XHQ Performance Management helps turn data into actionable information.

XHQ Performance Management componentsTarget Management™

Provides an environment to manage key performance indicators (KPIs) targets for optimal operations

Creates limits to define the safe operating envelopes for critical equipment

Measures and tracks KPIs in real time

Eliminates the delay of “spreadsheet-based” reporting of KPIs

Drill-down capability for detailed performance insight

Creates targets and limits in a meaningful information model tailored to your plant

Alert Notification System (ANS)

Allows monitoring by exception of critical operational targets and limits

Automated data collection and condition-based alerting allow for efficient operations

User- or system-based alert subscription and notification configurations

Notifications can be routed via e-mail or SMS messages

eLogs

Automated reporting reduces errors with manual paper-based logging systems

Electronically records operator logs and associates them to shifts, assets, events, work orders, etc., allowing for easy searching and filtering

Integrates with the shift handover reporting, morning meeting or intrashift work processes, including the entry of routine parameters

Captures the root cause reasons and comments for operational gaps and down time

Allows users to collaborate and exchange information pertaining to any event or alert

Features

Contextualized, composite KPI calculations based on automated data collection of operational and business data

Web-based thin client interface for dashboards, multi-dimensional analysis, trends and reports

Role and functional responsibilities provide context-sensitive views fully integrated with Microsoft® Windows Active Directory

Intuitive, user-friendly administration and configuration clearly separating the role of the business user and the IT support staff

Bi-directional integration with leading historians (PI, PHD, IP.21) for accessing real-time data and propagating KPIs and targets into central repositories

E-mail and SMS text alerting on event detections, such as KPI threshold deviations

Stores comprehensive, auditable target, limit and KPI data for historical analysis

Allows bulk import and export of KPIs, and targets to/from Microsoft® Excel and XML

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