Controlled product offering drives control systems faster from factory to customer

Metso Automation, Field Systems Division develops, designs and supplies field solutions, control and automated valves, as well process measurements and analyzers for the process industry. Its main customers are the pulp and paper and energy industries as well as hydrocarbon and minerals processing industries. Metso Automation operates worldwide and it has sales and customer support units in 37 countries in Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. These units, together with the local representatives and dealers, form a comprehensive, worldwide service network supplemented by electronic trading services.
"The collaboration with Real Time Systems Inc. jumped out of the need to accelerate the time spent in product development and delivering our components and applications. We wanted to clear up the configurations of the various application modules and reduce the number of variants", says Mr. Jari Tammela, Program Manager, METSO Automation, Field Systems Division.
The goal is to create a product management system that is able to optimize Product Offering and choose the right alternatives among feature based engineered structures. In this way, it is possible to speed up Sales-planning.
The Optiwise™ software is the only truly Web-based solution that provides peer-to-peer user level interaction with an efficient process management & optimisation tool. This enhances the portfolio management modelling, cost-effective analysis and optimising processes, across the Product and Service oriented Enterprises, especially where time to market, money and manage corporate efficiency. Optiwise™ tool is the only tool available in the market for managing, exchanging product knowledge & information and performing securely over the Internet.
Additionally, this highly flexible next generation Open Architecture software and its customized API's can be installed, implemented and fully utilized 'on-site' within weeks. Remote sites that may have been previously confined by either incompatible and/or 'purpose-built' legacy systems are now able to share valuable resources through Optiwise™.