GE Fanuc Automation: Data mining

GE Fanuc Automation (Charlottesville, VA) has joined with Microsoft Corp. to combine its Cimplicity® family of software products with the Microsoft® SQL Server™, creating Cimplicity SQL.

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The new product can analyze plant floor data to determine the cause of quality and process problems, identify opportunities to increase yield, quantify machine uptime and utilization, evaluate production improvements, and provide data-driven management decision support.

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