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ProcessPoint

Drive your product innovations to the market more efficiently with OSIsoft’s ProcessPoint.

ProcessPoint is Web-based, cross-enterprise collaborative solution for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).

ProcessPoint helps companies accelerate and manage their new product innovations from idea through commercialization and scale-up to production. ProcessPoint is an integrated software system that automates and enhances specification, recipe, and formula management and new product development in the chemical, food & beverage, pharmaceutical, and consumer packaged goods industries.

ProcessPoint is a suite of tools for product data management and collaboration.

ProcessPoint’s central data repository provides for one-stop data and document management that captures all of the information about a product during its development and lifecycle. It's a platform for product data management and collaboration providing:

- Complete specification management
- Formulations, recipes
- Multilevel bills of material
- Packaging specifications
- Nutritional calculations and labeling requirements
- Manufacturing process steps and instructions
- Critical control point definitions
- Audit trail of product and packaging changes
- Automated routing and approval plans
- PI System integration for easy target versus actual comparison

Strategic business benefits achieved through ProcessPoint

With ProcessPoint, people who rely on material and product data to make timely decisions now have real-time access to the latest specifications. The critical ability to share specification data globally is now available by logging onto the enterprise Web service.

Research and development, quality assurance, engineering and purchasing personnel can view, edit and approve specifications from different locations in real time, resulting in solid business benefits.

Faster time to market

- Shrink time to market of new product innovations by 25%
- Roll out product changes 20% faster
- Compress specification and product approval times by 30%

Reduced product cost

- Decrease redundant part numbers, reduce the number of suppliers and enable negotiation of the least-cost raw materials by rationalizing material specs in a global database
- Achieve 15% greater new product throughput with current R&D and packaging staff
- Reduce redundant data entry into ERP and MRP systems

Quality improvements

- Leverage the expertise within your organization by enabling timely collaboration between colleagues in other departments and locations
- Help meet regulatory compliance requirements with electronic audit trailsInclude customers in the new product review process
- Eliminate errors in the transfer of product information with auto-generated batch sheets