Uptime Assurance for Manufacturing & Utilities from Stratus

Reliability and Operational Simplicity for Real-Time Industrial Applications

 
Too much rides on your automation and production management systems to leave uptime to chance. For essential industrial applications like MES, automation, and data historians, even a few minutes of unplanned downtime can inflict serious consequences which only grow worse with the length of the outage. Stratus solutions are engineered to automatically prevent outages and data loss, ensuring your critical applications are up and running 24/7.    

Stratus is partnered with leading industrial application companies including Siemens, GE IP, Invensys, Emerson, Rockwell Automation, ABB, Yokogawa, SAP AG and others. See a complete list of industrial solution partners with links to Stratus content organized by application vendor >. With our partners, Stratus has thousands of implementations in major industrial sectors such as pharmaceuticals, power and energy, water management, food and beverage, oil and gas, chemicals, consumer goods, automotive, and more.

Our team integrates perpetual monitoring services with reliable hardware and software technologies to deliver assured uptime throughout your manufacturing operation. Combined with applications from leading manufacturing partners, these solutions enable you to:

  • Implement solutions that are always up and running
  • Support infrastructure at remote sites with plug-and-play solutions designed for lights out operation
  • Lower your project costs by eliminating duplicate software license and the complexities that come with server clusters
  • Meet compliance requirements for data integrity and reliability in Life Sciences and other critically regulated industries
  • Leave your solutions in place longer with extended platform support that can last 5… 7… 10 years.
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Stratus support technology, built into our fault-tolerant server hardware and high-availability software, automatically detects and resolves faults, and enables advanced online remote service. You can rely on Stratus and our partners’ uptime expertise in applications such as:

  • Manufacturing execution systems (MES)
  • Enterprise resource planning (ERP) -- Certified for SAP® NetWeaver® technology platform
  • Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
  • Supply chain management (SCM)
  • Enterprise application integration (EAI)
  • Warehouse and inventory management (WMS)
  • Product lifecycle management (PLM)
  • Asset management systems (AMS)
  • Data historians

Successful manufacturers rely on a real-time execution model that dramatically increases the requirement for continuous availability of vital information technology business applications. For 30 years, clients like those listed below have trusted Stratus to keep real-time manufacturing operations running without interruption.

Rexam’s Agile IT Initiative Keeps Plants Running

This article by Manufacturing Business Technology provides an overview of how Rexam employed Fault Tolerant servers to ensure uninterrupted production at their plants through their SAP solution.

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Isuzu Motors

Isuzu Motors improved efficiency and shortened their development schedule with a Stratus-based MES implementation.

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Kapstone Paper and Packaging

Manufacturing rolls non-stop at leading North American Paper company

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Pinellas County Utilities

Virtualizing critical Wonderware automation solutions with confidence, to deliver clean water to St. Petersburg, Florida, residents, using VMware vSphere virtualization on a Stratus ftServer platform.

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PAT and the Need for High-Availability Platforms
Continuing advances in biomedical technology, new and emerging compliance requirements, socio-political pressures, and global competition are driving new mission critical systems into pharmaceutical manufacturing. This paper looks at the hardware and system implications of the new regulatory environment. Read the ARC Advisory Group's report on the significant advantages of a fault-tolerant hardware computing platform for manufacturing operations.
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Stratus ftServer 6300 system achieves outstanding performance on two-tier SAP® SD standard application benchmark
ftServer system delivers breakthrough speed and uptime to datacenter ERP applications
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Manufacturing Business Technology - Rexam Cover Story
Rexam's agile IT initiative keeps plants running
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Managing Automation Review 
You won't want to miss this informative review on an SAP/Stratus customer installation
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ICONICS Solutions

ftServer systems provide uptime assurance and operational simplicity for ICONICS solutions

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Siemens AG Partners Instrumentation and Controls

Stratus uptime assurance helps Siemens continue to set the standard in power plant automation

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Invensys Wonderware Datasheet

Stratus fault-tolerant servers deliver 24/7 uptime for Wonderware operations management software

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Stratus Uptime Assurance for Manufacturing

Preventing downtime for mission-critical applications at the heart of plant operations

Fault tolerance and virtualization are making big waves in manufacturing. Stratus solutions automatically prevent downtime and data loss with IT platforms that combine industry-leading uptime with simplicity of operation. These cost-effective solutions all but eliminate downtime from plant operations with virtually no hands-on support required by in-house staff.

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SERVER VIRTUALIZATION

Do’s and Don’ts for Business – and Mission-Critical Manufacturing Systems.

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