Asset performance management reduces waste, ultimately improving the bottom line. The Datastream 7i asset performance management software helps discrete manufacturing companies:

• Reduce operating costs
• Preserve and leverage capital asset investments
• Increase production and revenue.
• Maximize plant output—minimize waste

Datastream 7i enables discrete manufacturers to do all of this while keeping a close watch on industry certifications and safety. Only Datastream 7i offers the features and capabilities that directly address these strategic goals.

• Optimize the supply chain – Reduce inventory and material costs while creating more purchasing control and efficiencies.
• Drive maintenance improvements – Prevent overtime and lag time and create a more effective, efficient industrial maintenance workforce.
• Reduce IT infrastructure – Cut costs associated with maintaining asset management and maintenance systems with Datastream's hosted services.
• Leverage the asset base – Analyze why assets fail, the costs to operate assets, and where each asset is located to make key decisions quickly and optimize deployment.
• Improve plant productivity – Efficient maintenance scheduling software minimizes maintenance-related downtime and turn-around time.
• Reduce operating risks – Track and manage key safety and regulatory data related to assets, maintenance, and inventory.

Whether a company makes skis, like Dynastar, or military aircraft, like BAE Systems, the push to cut costs is pervasive and consistent. Because of economic hurdles, worldwide competition, excess capacity, and eroding margins, today's manufacturing enterprises have to stay lean in order to survive. This means that eliminating waste is a top priority for the world's leading discrete manufacturers, making operational efficiency paramount. Learn more about how companies such as Dunlop and Energizer Battery are meeting these challenges with Datastream solutions.