Aston Dane’s Operational Performance Improvement & Analysis Solution, OPIAS, is a proven and powerful database environment, layered for both the Operational and Management communities respectively.

OPIAS™ Manufacturing is an engineered solution which takes the best available technology to provide mission critical operations in the Manufacturing, Regulated and similar industries with a powerful suite of tools to disseminate critical data and turn it in to vital information.

Providing both analytical insight and consolidated history data demonstrating regulatory compliance; on demand and via pre–scheduled routines, to the desk top browser or via email.

All user access is via a web browser interface providing a fully integrated environment for access to process trends, input forms and reports.  Menus, reports and input forms are built entirely of XML and XSL style sheets for easy configuration.

Other features include :-

• Fully integrated  process historian logging real time process data
• Web browser based user interface with ActiveX clients for trends, alarms and events
• Input forms with configurable error checking
• Fully configurable security model based on NT users / groups for control of access to menus, reports, individual trends and  input forms.
• Automated report generation on any desired schedule
• Summary reports, real time KPI reports etc support drill down to detail data
• Automatic scheduled updates of database from external sources such as laboratory information systems or weighbridge systems

OPIAS™ Manufacturing is engineered on the Microsoft SQL server 2000 platform, a robust and scaleable product with high connectivity making it ideal for integration with business systems. Very high availability achieved through clustering makes this suitable for mission critical data storage applications in regulated industries. Microsoft SQL server 2000 through it’s integrated web support also enables data exchange in XML between loosely coupled systems and easy access to data from a web browser.

OPIAS™ Manufacturing is integrated with a real time process historian to provide a complete management information solution. Real time data collected from process points are logged along with alarms and events. The system supports user configurable 3D process trending and tabular reporting and export to Microsoft Excel through an add in.