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The question: how do we evaluate new plant-floor software on our own equipment, with our own people, before committing a whole plant or a whole company to it?
Start with a pilot. ProAlert™ is normally evaluated on a small group of representative work centers, often three to five, over a typical window of 60 to 90 days, against success criteria agreed before the pilot starts. The right scope depends on your operation and how much integration is involved, so it is set with you rather than fixed in advance. When the criteria are met, the deployment expands line by line and plant by plant on the same system. The pilot is scoped and quoted like any engagement.
Representative matters more than many. A good pilot group includes the kinds of equipment, shifts and failure modes the rest of the plant will bring, and at least one asset where the data is hard to get. Three to five work centers is a common starting point. A plant with complex integration may start smaller, and one with many identical cells may start larger.
Every criterion is measurable and written down before the pilot begins, so nobody argues afterward about what success meant. Typical criteria:
Expansion is not a migration. The pilot runs on the same platform the full deployment will use, so adding work centers, lines or plants adds assets and people to the system you have already proven. Licensed modules turn on inside the same database as you need them, and the organizational model supports multi-site and multi-legal-entity operations.
During a pilot and after it, you work directly with the people responsible for building and implementing ProAlert. You are not handed from sales to an implementation queue with no access to the people who own the product. When something in your operation needs attention, the people who can fix it are the people you are talking to.
That is a commitment to access, ownership and accountability. It is not a promise to build every requested feature: what goes into the product is decided on its merits, and we will tell you plainly when something is not a fit.
Three to five representative work centers is a common starting point, but it is not a fixed requirement. The right scope depends on the operation and on how much integration is involved, and it is agreed with the customer before the pilot starts.
A typical evaluation window is 60 to 90 days, long enough to see the system across shifts, product changes and real downtime events.
Against criteria agreed in writing before the pilot starts: reliable machine and data acquisition, accurate production and OEE information, response workflow performance, operator adoption, system reliability, and the specific operational outcomes the customer wants to improve.
The people responsible for building and implementing ProAlert work with the customer directly, during the pilot and after it. Customers are not handed off to a separate implementation queue.
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