Invensys Business Solutions to Implement Turnkey Integrated Information System for Q-Chem.Business/Technology Editors FOXBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2000 Invensys Business Solutions has been awarded a large, fast-track project to implement a turnkey Integrated Information System for Q-Chem at its grassroots petrochemicals complex in Qatar. Q-Chem is a joint venture between the Qatar General Petroleum Company and Chevron Phillips Chevron Phillips is a chemical producer jointly owned by Chevron Corporation and ConocoPhillips. The company was formed July 1st, 2000 by merging the chemicals operations of both Chevron Corporation and Phillips Petroleum Company. Chemical Company. This Web-enabled Integrated Information System has been designed to enhance Q-Chem's manufacturing ability. It will encompass both an SAPR/3 ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. system and a comprehensive Manufacturing Information System and will integrate all plant data and applications, including plant floor data from a distributed control system A distributed control system (DCS) refers to a control system usually of a manufacturing system, process or any kind of dynamic system, in which the controller elements are not central in location (like the brain) but are distributed throughout the system with each component . Invensys Business Solutions, a specialty consulting service Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" , utilizes a proven "sensor-to boardroom" approach that links automation systems and information systems to facilitate effective real-time decision support across an enterprise. This enhances agility to provide process and discrete manufacturers with a strategic advantage. Invensys Business Solutions is a focused operating unit operating unit A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon within the US-based Invensys Software Systems division of Invensys plc of London, England. |
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