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SUPERVISION SOFTWARE Fully customizable
dashboards
supervision software
displaying lots of KPIs
(© Vertech’)

tocols for any machine available COMMUNICATING FROM dashboards including relevant
on the market. SIL connects at ONE SIL APPLICATION TO Key Performance Indicators,
every place, wherever required ANOTHER glassmakers have the whole pro-
in the plant. SIL is a very complete system duction process under control.
with many applications focused
NEW TECHNOLOGIES on specific goals or parts of the ANALYSES OF KPIS
For the last few years, software plant. In the 2020 version, a Key Performance Indicators
engineers at Vertech’ have been sophisticated messages feature are the starting point for anal-
working to transfer some of its has been developed to put opera- yses and decisions. Vertech’
applications onto the Web. In tors in contact with one another. keeps on making developments
2020, Vertech’ team is proud to For example, a message may be to allow glassmakers to conduct
officially launch these new prod- sent by a quality operator using analyses and to improve outputs.
ucts, replacing the previous ones. SILXQual to a cold-end opera- In 2020, a new feature has been
These updated products include tor using SILXPallet, and the
SILXQual for quality control latter will be able to respond to
management; SILXMould for it. Or, an operator in the mould
mould and mould set manage- shop connected to SILXMould
ment; SILXPallet for pallet man- and a HE operator on SILX
agement; and SILXResorting for will be able to communicate
resorting process management. through the system.
These new applications have the
exact same features as their pre- DATA AND
decessors but offer a better user- DASHBOARDS
experience. They also adapt to Dashboards are
different screen sizes; SIL, for definitely central
example, can be used on tablets in SIL utilization.
directly in the plant, which make They gather all
life a lot easier for operators the collected data
every day. in the plant on a
single screen. It is
SIL AND SECURITY up to each user to
Vertech’ takes care of ensur- choose the KPIs to
ing a safe and secure system, by display, according
inviting clients to update their to specific needs of
technologies, just like virtual each position. In SIL,
machines. In industrial software, dashboards can even
it is essential to have security be multi-plants, making
under control. This is also one of analyses between several
the reasons why a new SIL ver- plants of one same group
sion is launched every year. easier. Thanks to customized
Services at the heart
of SIL offer

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