Operations personnel throughout all levels of a manufacturing organization typically struggle to pull together a complete, timely picture of a situation.  Like missing pieces of a puzzle, critical information is often scattered throughout a variety of databases, enterprise applications and operational systems in a wide range of formats with a confusing mix of unrelated contexts.  If this information does come together in a meaningful way, it is often in a periodic report that is produced long after the opportunity to react to the information has passed.  SIMATIC IT XHQ extracts data from a variety of information sources--ERP, data warehouse, production databases, document management systems, process historians, and manufacturing automation, including the SIMATIC IT framework--all with equal facility and ease.

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