Aegis Software has released iMonitor 2.0, a system enabling manufacturers to create their own real-time dashboards to monitor the enterprise, factory, and lines in real-time through web browsers. iMonitor offers machine operators, production managers, and executives the power to create unlimited numbers of interactive and real-time production tracking, materials, utilization, and quality dashboards as easily as one would design a PowerPoint slide.
iMonitor represents a real revolution in information visibility by supplying customers with a simple means to custom-configure monitoring dashboards, right out of the box. Dashboards are constructed by dragging-and-dropping ‘gauges’ and ‘charts’ and other active elements into a design view, similar to PowerPoint slide construction, along with user-provided graphics such as line pictures or plant drawings. The user then activates each element by simply indicating the Aegis xLink data source for that machine, tester, station, or area of the process--and the dashboard instantly comes alive in real-time.
To create unlimited drill-down investigation of real-time data, iMonitor works much like a normal website—users link any gauge or chart in one dashboard to another dashboard, creating a ‘dashboard site structure’ for unlimited interactivity.
Many manufacturers want their real-time dashboards running above their lines on flat panel displays. For these applications, iMonitor allows users to build ‘slide shows’ of multiple dashboards that rotate at user-defined time intervals without user interaction—all as easily as making a PowerPoint presentation.
For customers using Aegis’ best-in-class factory-wide Manufacturing
Operations Software (MOS), iMonitor’s Mini Dashboards can be made available within any Aegis shop-floor interface to provide each operator whatever real-time information engineers believe would benefit them at each station.
Additionally, iMonitor users may create unlimited numbers of dashboards and store them for viewing on the web. Dashboards can be secured to precisely limit access to particular persons or groups of persons, and do not require ‘refreshing’ as they automatically update their content in real time.
Aegis Software Corp
