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Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................................................... 3
WHAT DOES AMPLA DO? ............................................................................................................. 4
WHAT IS THE AMPLA ARCHITECTURE? .......................................................................................... 6
HOW DOES AMPLA INTEGRATE WITH AUTOMATION SYSTEMS? .................................................... 8
CAN YOU TRUST YOUR DATA WITH AMPLA? ................................................................................. 9
WHAT IS AMPLA STUDIO? .......................................................................................................... 10
WHAT IS AMPLA PRODUCTION ANALYST? .................................................................................. 11
WHAT ARE THE AMPLA OPERATOR CLIENTS? .............................................................................. 14
WHAT IS AMPLA DOWNTIME? ................................................................................................... 15
WHAT IS AMPLA PRODUCTION? ................................................................................................. 18
WHAT IS AMPLA METRICS? ........................................................................................................ 20
WHAT IS AMPLA INVENTORY? .................................................................................................... 22
WHAT IS AMPLA QUALITY? ........................................................................................................ 24
WHAT IS AMPLA PLANNER AND RECIPE? .................................................................................... 25
WHAT IS AMPLA KNOWLEDGE? .................................................................................................. 27
AMPLA MAINTENANCE?............................................................................................................. 28
WHAT IS AMPLA COST? .............................................................................................................. 30
WHAT IS AMPLA REPORTING? .................................................................................................... 31
WHAT IS AMPLA PLANT2BUSINESS? ........................................................................................... 31
WHAT ARE AMPLA NOTIFICATIONS?........................................................................................... 32
CAN AMPLA SUPPORT A GLOBAL COMPANY? ............................................................................. 32
HOW DO YOU CARE FOR YOUR AMPLA? ..................................................................................... 32
LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................. 33
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Ampla Knowledge ensures you have a complete picture of how your business is performing by
capturing important information and knowledge from the people who are closest to the plant. The
online diary, which acts as an operator's logbook, creates a central bank for information about
incidents that affect production, such as information about deliveries, unusual equipment set ups,
and other miscellaneous information. The diary features a sketchbook to include visual records as
well as text. Ampla Knowledge also features a reference library so that plant personnel can
immediately find information they need, such information as photographs of plant and equipment,
operating procedures, drawings, diagrams, and manuals.
Ampla Maintenance ensures you receive the optimal performance from your business equipment
by collecting essential data about asset operation and maintenance. Ampla displays this data
graphically for management to analyze and optimize operations. You can also upload data to
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems for maintenance planning and scheduling.
Ampla Cost empowers you to track the real costs of your business by providing greater visibility into
your financial data. The module does not replace existing financial packages, but enhances the
usability of the data produced by these packages and making the information more relevant to the
user.
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Data layer
This layer consists of an abstracted data model for Ampla data storage and the sub-system
for tag-based connectivity.
Business layer
This server-side layer implements Manufacturing Execution System (MES) functionality in
distinctive modules.
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OPC-xx The OPC-xx connectors (DA, HDA, and AE) supports the acquisition of data from
any OPC server that implements the mandatory feature set of these standards for the
supported versions (see SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS for more details).
PI The PI connector supports the acquisition of data from OSIsofts PI System product (see
www.osisoft.com for more details). The OSI PI System is a historian with visualization
capabilities.
InSQL The InSQL connector supports the acquisition of data from a Wonderware Historian
9.0, formerly called the IndustrialSQL Server (see us.wonderware.com for more details).
OLE DB The OLE DB connector supports the acquisition of data from OLE DB providers,
such as an Oracle database, Microsoft Access database, Microsoft SQL Server, and DB2
database. OLE DB provides uniform access to unstructured data regardless of type or
location on the network.
File The File connector supports the acquisition of data from text files placed in a folder.
Message Queue The Message Queue connector supports the acquisition of data through
the Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) infrastructure.
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Copy and Paste Ampla Studio supports copying of items (and its children) and pasting them
under other items. This is especially helpful for configuring multiple production lines. You
can copy, paste, and rename a configured production line to create another complete with
reporting points.
Standard Fields Each Ampla module has a predefined set of fields that are useful for
analysis when capturing data.
Configuration Helpers Ampla Studio has a set of configuration helpers that remove the
tedious tasks of data entry (for example, importing the relevant tags from SCADA/OPC).
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The Toolbar
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By product
By cause location (in the plant hierarchy and only for Ampla Downtime)
A custom filter
An Ampla Homepage is the same as an Ampla Favourite except that it is immediately loaded
when the user starts Ampla Production Analyst.
Ampla Favourites have names, and you can use folders to organize them.
Selecting the Ampla Favourite will load the Ampla Page within Ampla Production Analyst.
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Adding records
Editing records
Deleting records
Confirming records
Un-confirming records
Copying data
Pasting data
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Business managers can compare the downtime events of multiple plants and make
knowledge-based decisions to increase productivity.
Plant and production managers can prioritize maintenance and the purchase of new
equipment, revise operating procedures to optimize uptime, and continuously improve
facility effectiveness.
Editing and validation Adding of additional downtime details and downtime event
confirmation through the client interface.
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Virtual Downtime Time when production is below user-defined threshold or below userdefined specification, but production has not stopped.
Masked Downtime A mechanism for limiting the reporting on duplicate downtime events.
The location where the downtime event was recorded (static list of locations).
The event or alarm from SCADA that is associated with the downtime event (using event
areas and event masks).
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Without masking, if a configured plant has each asset collecting downtime events, and there is a
power failure, then the operators at each asset would need to fill out the details of the downtime
event. With masking, then only one operator would need to fill out the details of the masking event;
Ampla would automatically update all masked events.
Capturing downtime events for stage overruns and assigns specific causes and
classifications.
Enabling Ampla to change the active stage based upon configured conditions.
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Business managers can accurately report on key production items in real- time, such as raw
feed inputs, output, waste, and emissions.
Plant and production managers can dynamically analyze production situations through adhoc and drill-down reporting.
Quality assurance managers can easily analyze the quality implications of current
production and produce compliance reports to regulatory bodies or as required.
Ampla can automatically create a production record when any production capture condition
is True.
An operator can manually add a production record by using Ampla Production Analyst .
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Business managers can view clear graphical displays of KPIs, such as Overall Equipment
Effectiveness (OEE), across pre-defined reporting periods and the entire enterprise.
Plant, production, and business managers can benchmark enterprise-wide KPIs quickly and
accurately. Poor interpretation from middle management is no longer an inhibitor to
reporting and analysis.
Quality Assurance managers can easily track key metrics against specifications and
environmental regulations.
To ensure the fastest access to KPIs, Ampla caches the value for the KPIs for the current period.
The current period is the period that is occurring now; for example, the current shift or the current
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day. This allows queries for the current period KPIs to remain extremely fast, and the users do not
have to wait for Ampla to calculate the KPI from scratch.
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Business managers can gain control over work in progress and know the cost of inventory.
Plant and production managers can understand what is in production, and meet production
schedules and targets.
Benefits at a glance
Provides inventory levels of work in progress (WIP) for comparing to the expected output.
This allows shortages to be identified in time to prevent interruptions to workflow.
Allows multiple users to have easy access to Inventory data through the business intranet.
Gives Operations Management and other staff an integrated view of materials and
equipment, which ensures the most efficient use of those plant resources.
Provides greater opportunity for the business to focus on improvement initiatives such as
Lean and 6 Sigma.
Records when and where material lots start, update, and end.
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Work Centres - These items represent locations where Inventory information is required,
and they represent process types. They also define how material lots behave when they
enter or leave a Work Centre.
Materials - These items represent the raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods
that the plant uses, produces, and stores.
Lot generators - These items define how Ampla generates a lot identifier.
Material conversions - These items define how Ampla converts a quantity of source material
to a quantity of destination material when their units of measurement differ.
Material movements - These items represent the movement of materials to, between, and
from Work Centres.
Ampla can automatically create an inventory record when any Material Movement is True.
After Ampla Inventory captures the inventory records, you can perform analysis to help identify
problem areas and places for concern. Ampla Production Analyst is the key tool in analyzing the
inventory records and trends.
Views
Ampla Inventory has three data views in Ampla Production Analyst:
Balance Over Time View Displays the historical material balances of work centres for a
time range that you specify.
Movements View Displays the material movements that occurred at work centres in a
time range that you specify.
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Business managers can reliably and immediately report on Key Performance Indicators
(KPIs) such as first-pass quality, percentage reject, supplier quality and the impact of raw
material on plant output.
Plant and production managers can analyze quality problems via comprehensive ad-hoc and
drill-down reporting functions.
Quality assurance managers can compare plant production outputs against specifications
and environmental regulations, analyze quality implications, and automate record keeping
and reports.
After Ampla Quality captures the quality records, you can perform analysis to help identify problem
areas and places for concern. Depending on configuration, you can also perform causal analysis for
the cause and classifications of reject material. Ampla Production Analyst is the key tool in analyzing
the quality records and trends.
With Ampla Quality, you can configure threshold attributes and specifications so that you can
visually see out-of-specification items. Ampla Production Analyst applies coloured highlighting to
out-of-specification quality data based upon the configured thresholds.
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Standby periods
The Ampla Recipe plug-in is available which provides support for implementation of the S.88 Batch
Control standard. With Ampla Recipe, you can create and maintain recipes in Ampla and download
parameters to plant automation systems when you execute the recipe.
Production Planners and Schedulers can easily visualize production plans and optimize local
schedules independently of the ERP system.
Maintenance Managers can see that the production schedule accounts for important
maintenance tasks (that may require a plant stoppage).
Automation Engineers can implement the S.88 Batch Control standard to improve batch
consistency, handle more complicated recipes, and lower engineering cost for the life cycle
of the manufacturing process.
Ampla Plant2Business creates the planner record when it receives notification of a released
task (production or maintenance) from the Business Planning and Logistics system (see
Level 4 systems in the ANSI/ISA-95 standard, for example an ERP).
An operator can add a planner record manually by using Ampla Production Analyst.
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Product Group defines a list of common ingredients to produce a group of products. For
example, the only difference in making bread with sesame seeds versus bread with poppy
seeds is the seeds. There would be a common set of ingredients to make the bread.
Ampla Production Analyst is the key tool in planning and executing planning records.
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Business managers can access all relevant information about incidents that affect
production, including incidents that other modules do not automatically log or capture. The
historical log helps companies prevent reinventing solutions to recurring problems.
Maintenance crews can record important notes for operators and management.
Quality assurance managers can ensure that all operating procedures are available to staff
through the reference library, and they can use the diary entries to check that staff are using
the procedures.
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Ampla Maintenance?
Ampla Maintenance ensures you receive the optimal performance from your business equipment by
collecting essential data about each assets operation and maintenance. After Ampla collects this
information, it feeds the data into your Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system to maximize the
operation and longevity of key equipment.
Ampla Maintenance collects valuable data about equipment usage, such as run time, number of
starts, and load factors. This information can be collected automatically, added manually, or both,
and is available to users for validation, confirmation, and analysis.
This module also provides an online facility to record maintenance order requests and link them with
external maintenance systems for high-level activity scheduling.
By feeding crucial information about equipment operation and performance into an EAM system,
Ampla Maintenance helps to:
Asset managers can ensure equipment is operating at its maximum capability by using the
data collected by Ampla Maintenance to schedule appropriate maintenance activities.
Equipment operators can raise work orders on equipment through the one portal. Ampla
transfers these work orders into the EAM system for prioritization.
Automatically capture equipments actual run hours and send them to an EAM system.
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Automatically capture equipments actual run hours per process order and send them to an
ERP system for accurate job-cost accounting.
In conjunction with the Ampla Metrics and Ampla Downtime modules, Ampla Maintenance
can easily gather and analyze summary information for a specific time period (for example,
by month), such as:
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Number of starts
Create maintenance requests (manual or automatic) and send them to an EAM system.
View maintenance orders (and their updates) that were created in an EAM system.
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Business managers can judge the performance and expenses of a plant in real-time rather
than at the end of a designated financial period.
Plant and production managers can see the real cost per item produced rather than the
standard cost. They can also examine the cost issues and trends before taking action.
Unlike other Ampla modules, Ampla Cost never creates or modifies cost records.
An external finance application creates a cost record. Ampla Plant2Business detects the newly
created or modified records in two ways:
Ampla Plant2Business initiates the cost information transfer from the finance application.
After Ampla Cost detects the cost records, you can perform analysis to help identify problem areas
and places for concern. Ampla Production Analyst is the key tool in analyzing the cost records and
trends.
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OPC AE
OPC DA
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