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Citect Launches New Benchmarking Service, Meta

Citect, one of the world's largest, real-time intelligence software companies, today announced the launch of a new benchmarking service designed to support corporate performance benchmarking through visually sharing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) between corporate and plant managers. Meta allows corporate and plant managers to benchmark a balanced range of KPIs across plants, divisions and countries, thereby leveraging best practices and improving capital allocation throughout the organization.

Meta is Citect's response to the need for corporate and plant managers to have immediate access to the accurate information necessary to guide the decision making process, enabling organizations to become more proactive. Meta's benchmarking capability is crucial to sharing best practices among the various plants and corporate levels, thereby fostering and leveraging continuous improvement initiatives. With corporations operating on a global scale, at lightening speed with increasing competition, success depends on having a solid understanding of your industry. In response, Meta will soon offer industry benchmarking services to its members.

Citect recently published a case study introducing how Meta met the need to supply a single version solution that can monitor plant and corporate KPIs from multiple sites, allowing for better decision making and a smoother information process. Simplot Australia, one of the country's largest food manufacturers, uses Meta to create a controlled environment for capturing KPIs and other information valuable to plant performance and their continuous improvement programs. Meta has allowed a quick and easy visual representation of the truth, providing opportunities company wide for employees to make relative decisions about overall improvement in a timely manner.

Kurt Lovell, Citect's newly appointed Global Director for Meta, states that "Meta provides users a tremendous advantage as an economical, user-friendly tool for comparing performance within the company. As a secure online service hosted by Citect, Meta is an exceptionally easy to use, single yet shared reporting tool with no installation, maintenance or upgrade costs."

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Citect is a leading, global provider of industrial automation, real-time intelligence, and next generation manufacturing execution systems (MES). Leveraging open technologies, CitectHMI/SCADA and Ampla connect to multiple plant and business systems. Its products are complemented by Professional Services, Global Customer Support and Educational Services, and sold in numerous industries: mining, metals, food and beverage, manufacturing, facilities, water, gas pipelines, power distribution and pharmaceuticals. Headquartered in Sydney Australia, Citect has 21 offices and representation in Oceania, Southeast Asia, China and Japan, North and South America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Its products are distributed in more than 80 countries worldwide.

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