Avantis.PRO (EAM) Virtual Training - Deadline to Register 12/01/2016

The Avantis® advanced Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Suite enables your enterprise to do more than simply maintain assets. It is designed to meet the sophisticated maintenance and materials management requirements of today’s asset-centric organizations. Furthermore, it is fully and seamlessly integrated with distributed control systems on the plant floor; and it incorporates and responds to predictive condition monitoring processes.

You can now join the December training classes via Virtual Training. 

1. Avantis.PRO Foundation - Virtual - 1 day - December 5th 
2. Avantis.PRO Customization - Virtual - 1 day - December 6th 

VILT courses are open to anyone and offer the following advantages:

1. Participants do not have to travel. This eliminates the travel expense and effort as well as potential passport-related issues. 
2. Participants have the same level of interaction with the instructor during the training as they do in a traditional in-person instructor-led session.
3. Each participant is provided access to the training database environment through a web browser (using SkyTap) thus allowing them to complete the hands-on labs. 
4. Each participant is provided with a link for downloading the course materials, prior to the course.

Just ONE Week Left to Register - 2016 Empowering the Mobile Workforce in Process Industries

REGISTER 

Don't miss your chance to participate in the "2016 Empowering the Mobile Workforce in Process Industries" User Conference and Tech Support Symposium on December 5th - December 7th in Houston, TX. You can now view the details of the AGENDA. This conference gives our users and partners the opportunity to learn about the latest product enhancements, listen to other industry experts and collaborate with the user community. The conference will provide you with the knowledge you'll need to improve your operations and existing IntelaTrac installations. Come discover what's new with IntelaTrac; systems improvements; multi-platform support; enhanced device/tablet support; and advanced procedure capabilities.

Training

Join us this year for training following the conference.                               Expression Editor Training on Thursday, December 8th and Friday, December 9th. Continuing Education Units (CEU's) will be offered for the Expression Editor Training.  Training agenda can be found on the website.

Register Now. Time is Running Out! Empowering the Mobile Workforce in Process Industries

With just one month to go, you still have time to register for the upcoming customer conference. 

At the conference, you will meet other mobile workforce and decision support systems users, and our partners. You will have the opportunity to learn about the latest product enhancements, listen to other industry experts and collaborate with the user community. The conference will provide you with the knowledge you’ll need to improve your operations and existing Wonderware IntelaTrac installations. Come discover what’s new with Wonderware IntelaTrac; systems improvements; multi-platform support; enhanced device/tablet support; and advanced procedure capabilities.

Visit the event website

View the agenda, register for the conference and make hotel reservations.

Register Now

Early Bird Pricing Extended until 10/31 - Empowering the Mobile Workforce in Process Industries

At the conference, you will meet other mobile workforce and decision support systems users, and our partners. You will have the opportunity to learn about the latest product enhancements, listen to other industry experts and collaborate with the user community. The conference will provide you with the knowledge you’ll need to improve your operations and existing Wonderware IntelaTrac installations. Come discover what’s new with Wonderware IntelaTrac; systems improvements; multi-platform support; enhanced device/tablet support; and advanced procedure capabilities.

Visit the event website

View the agenda, register for the conference and make hotel reservations.

Register Now

Early Bird Pricing Ends Friday, October 14th - Empowering the Mobile Workforce in Process Industries

Schneider Electric Software Event

You still have time to register for the Early Bird Pricing to save an additional $200 for the upcoming customer conference, "Empowering the Mobile Workforce in Process Industries"

At the conference, you will meet other mobile workforce and decision support systems users, and our partners. You will have the opportunity to learn about the latest product enhancements, listen to other industry experts and collaborate with the user community. The conference will provide you with the knowledge you’ll need to improve your operations and existing Wonderware IntelaTrac installations. Come discover what’s new with Wonderware IntelaTrac; systems improvements; multi-platform support; enhanced device/tablet support; and advanced procedure capabilities.

Visit the event website

View the agenda, register for the conference and make hotel reservations.

Register Now

Enterprise Asset Performance Management Webinar Series - Now On Demand

Scheider Electric and PennEnergy recently hosted a series of three separate webinars focused on Enterprise APM.  If you missed one and wanted to go back to review, you're in luck, we have the On-Demand versions available!

Calpine Corporation spoke about how they have implemented an industrial data management solution (Wonderware eDNA) with over 4.5 trillion archived data elements, including sample benefits achieved.

Also on the webinar, Schneider Electric discussed how to maximize economic return on assets with a fully integrated and comprehensive Enterprise Asset Performance Management (EAPM) platform. 

On Demand webinar

Schneider Electric discusses how predictive analytics can help companies improve asset reliability, availability, and performance. The webinar featured sample customer success stories, including savings of $7 million in a single early warning catch! The webinar included insights on how to maximize economic return on assets with a fully integrated and comprehensive Enterprise Asset Performance Management platform. 

On Demand webinar

AECI’s discusses the challenges they had in developing a better asset base and PM program to identify the critical components in the plant and perform maintenance at the right time.  Schneider Electric has partnered with AECI to create their version of “City on the Hill.”  Utilizing Avantis has allowed AECI to increase their asset base and schedule PMs to the correct piece of equipment at the correct frequency with the correct part availability.

On Demand webinar 

To learn more about Schneider Electric's Enterprise Asset Performance Management Solution, visit our website.

Webinar 9/21 - Learn how Associated Electric Cooperative Inc (AECI) is Increasing Asset Reliability

REGISTER NOW!

Join us for a webinar to learn how Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. (AECI) has leveraged EAM to develop a Preventive Maintenance (PM) Program to identify critical plant components and improve maintenance planning.

What You'll Learn:

• Comprehensive asset and work tracking to manage costs
• Better understanding of asset-related inventory
• Efficiency in supply chain processes to optimize resources
• Visibility and standardized practices for timely and accurate decisions
• Maximize return on assets with a fully integrated and comprehensive Enterprise APM platform

Who Should Attend:

• Engineers
• Operators
• Asset Managers
• Maintenance

Speakers:

Kim Boger, CMMS Business Process Coordinator, Associated Electric Cooperative Inc.
Kim Custeau, Director of Global Asset Management, Schneider Electric 

Empowering the Mobile Workforce in Process Industries - Register for our upcoming Conference

Join us at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Houston, Texas on December 5th -7th where our users and partners join us to learn about the latest product enhancements, listen to other industry experts and collaborate with the user community. The conference will provide you with the knowledge you’ll need to improve your operations and existing IntelaTrac installations. Come discover what’s new with IntelaTrac!

Early Bird pricing ends on October 14th!

Register Now.

To learn more about our #1 Mobile solution in Refining, visit our website. 

Wonderware LIVE 2016 User Conference

Wonderware User Group

From Human Powered, to Empowered Humans

October 3-6, 2016,

Loews Royal Pacific Resort, Orlando, FL

https://on.wonderware.com/user-group-2016

30 years ago, we set the bar for process visualization with InTouch

Join us as we unveil the products that will set the bar for the next 30 years.

Webinar 8/24 - Predict Asset Failure and Reduce Unscheduled Downtime

Date & Time: Wednesday 8/24/2016 @ 10:00 am CDT

Description:  Join us for a webinar to learn how predictive analytics can help companies improve asset reliability, availability and performance. The webinar will feature sample customer success stories, including savings of $7 million in a single early warning catch. Also on the webinar, we will hear from Schneider Electric on how to maximize economic return on assets with a fully integrated and comprehensive Enterprise Asset Performance Management platform. 

Register Now.

Visit our website to learn more about Enterprise Asset Performance Management (EAPM)

Register Today for June 23rd Webinar-Data Management and Predictive Analytics for Online Asset Health Monitoring

Visit our website to learn more 

Last Chance to attend Avantis Crystal Reports Training in 2016! Register Today for June class

Avantis Crystal Reports Training

June 20-24, 2016

Instructor Led Training 

Monday - Friday

8:30 am - 4:30 pm 

Schneider Electric Canada 

1450 Appleby Line

Burlington, ON Canada L7L 6V1

The Avantis Crystal Reports Training course is a 5-day, instructor-led class designed to cover a wide range of introductory and intermediate level design and implementation concepts relating to the use of Crystal Reports in conjunction with Avantis.PRO. The course combines lectures, discussions and hands-on labs to supply and reinforce the knowledge necessary to set up the design environment, understand the database fundamentals, use Crystal Reports specific design concepts and tools, understand special functions, formulas and report deployment techniques used in Avantis.PRO and gain an understanding of the data schema of the Avantis.PRO database. The course also provides time for the instructor and students to work on one or more reports of interest to the class from the design stage through to deployment.

Pre-requisites

• Familiarity with the Crystal Reports Designer application
• Familiarity with at least one of the functional areas (Maintenance, Inventory or Procurement) of Avantis.PRO
• Familiarity with basic system administration functions in Avantis.PRO (security profiles, add-ons, categories, etc.)
• An understanding of the specific business reporting requirements for at least one of the functional areas

Audience

• Individuals assigned the responsibility for creating/maintaining custom reports using the Crystal Reports Designer application 

Enterprise Asset Performance Management (APM) by Schneider Electric

Enterprise Asset Performance Management

Technology, enabled by the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), is empowering organizations to shift to a holistic and operations-centric view where proactive and predictive maintenance (PdM) enables front line personnel to act before costly failures occur. 

Schneider Electric’s Enterprise Asset Performance Management (APM) platform is the only complete, end to end solution that brings comprehensive data collection, analysis, actions, and visualization tools together, improving the collaboration of people, processes and data and optimizing the asset lifecycle.

Our platform encompasses enterprise data capture and analysis coupled with actions and optimization for proactive maintenance execution. The solution enables companies to:

• Reduce unscheduled downtime
• Increase asset utilization 
• Reduce maintenance costs 
• Deliver maximum economic return on assets

Visit our website to see how you can go from being reactive to proactive!

Wonderware IntelaTrac Now Available on Android!

Wonderware IntelaTrac has helped hundreds of customers in capital intensive environments increase equipment life, reduce unplanned downtime and increase availability and operator efficiency.  With the latest release and availability on Android, we can now deliver a modernized look and feel on commercially available hardware. 

Refinery customers in particular require consistent execution of operator field tasks in order to ensure asset reliability and availability.  Through our best practice approach, customers’ can recognize the early symptoms of failure with the ability to take action ranging from immediate operator tasks to creating work order requests to drive asset management. 

Download the datasheet for more information.

Register Today for a FREE webinar on Leveraging IIoT to Achieve Operational Excellence - May 17th

                           Register Today 

Introducing Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) for Avantis.PRO - First Class April 12-15

Our first Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) course is the Avantis.PRO Maintenance course on April 12-15. This course was originally scheduled for delivery in Calgary, but will now be hosted as a virtual class only. 

This updated version includes the replacement of the courses previously scheduled for delivery in Calgary with the new VILT offering. VILT courses are open to anyone and offer the following advantages:

1. Participants do not have to travel. This eliminates the travel expense and effort as well as potential passport-related issues. 
2. Participants have the same level of interaction with the instructor during the training as they do in a traditional in-person instructor-led session.
3. Each participant is provided access to the training database environment through a web browser (using SkyTap) thus allowing them to complete the hands-on labs. 
4. Each participant is provided with a link for downloading the course materials, prior to the course.

See our Course registration details (March 2016 - December 2016)

Registration is completed through an on-line registration site. Each registrant needs to access the Software Training Services web-site and enter the required information. You will not be able to register if the course is full for the available spaces.

To view the calendar and/or register for a class:

1. Go to http://software.schneider-electric.com/training/avantis-training 

2. Click the Register Now button to find out the course offerings and specific information about each course.

3. Click the Details & Availability button for the applicable course to see the course outline, a list of the locations, dates and cost.

4. Click the Add to Cart button to access the registration screen.

5. Complete the registrant information.

NOTE: If this is your first time using the registration system you will be prompted for

Student information. This information is used for Student Records. If you have

previously registered for an Avantis class, follow the 2nd prompt that provides a link to

the login screen.

6. Record the payment information.

NOTE: In order to complete your registration, you must provide payment information.

There are three payment options: purchase order, credit card or the use of a Customer

First (CFIRST) seat. An explanation of each of these options is provided on the following

page.

There are three payment options: purchase order, credit card or the use of a Customer

First (CFIRST) seat. An explanation of each of these options is provided on the following

page.

Note: Once you have completed the registration process you will receive an email confirmation of your registration.

Sign up Today-Avantis Crystal Reports Training June 20-24 in our Burlington, ON location

The Avantis® advanced Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Suite enables your enterprise to do more than simply maintain assets. It is designed to meet the sophisticated maintenance and materials management requirements of today’s asset-centric organizations. Furthermore, it is fully and seamlessly integrated with distributed control systems on the plant floor; and it incorporates and responds to predictive condition monitoring processes.

To view the course descriptions, learning objectives, prerequisites and target audience along with registration details, go here. 

If you can't make this training session in June, take a look at our Course schedule here for the remainder of 2016.  See the full list of training classes available.  We are now offering Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) sessions!

Sign up Today for Avantis EAM Training in Lake Forest, CA - March 21-24, 2016

The Avantis® advanced Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Suite enables your enterprise to do more than simply maintain assets. It is designed to meet the sophisticated maintenance and materials management requirements of today’s asset-centric organizations. Furthermore, it is fully and seamlessly integrated with distributed control systems on the plant floor; and it incorporates and responds to predictive condition monitoring processes.

To view the course descriptions, learning objectives, prerequisites and target audience along with registration details, go here. 

If you can't make this training session in March, see our Course schedule here for the remainder of 2016.

FREE Webinar - What's New for Wonderware SmartGlance and Wonderware Online?

Insource Solutions is hosting a FREE webinar on Thursday, January 14, 2016. Register today. 

Featuring Saadi Kermani, 

Product Manager, Cloud Solutions and Mobile Apps for Schneider Electric.

About this webinar

Wonderware SmartGlance enables you to view your plant data on your mobile smartphone and tablet. Download the SmartGlance App from your favorite app store to view, analyze and collaborate around your facilities’ process or operational data, metrics, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and reports - anywhere, anytime and from any device.

Wonderware Online makes capturing and delivering data from high value process equipment easy. Wonderware does the work for you. Utilizing the latest in safe, secure cloud technology, Wonderware offers industrial machine/ process equipment builders, as well as industrial end users, an innovative solution for collecting, storing and delivering equipment performance data to operators, customers and service teams.


Join us for a look at the most recent changes and updates for both Wonderware SmartGlance and Wonderware Online.

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