Plant2Business, from Ci Technologies, is a suite of products that are designed to integrate the plant floor with business systems.

Based on open systems technologies, the Plant2Business suite allows information to be accessed from anywhere in an enterprise, anytime. Plant2Business includes, Plant2SQL, Plant2NET and Plant2Pocket, with Plant2ORACLE available soon.
Each of these products is designed to be out-of-the-box solutions that are easy to install, configure and use.
Citect says Plant2Business suite delivers "a high degree of value to a broad range of industries by presenting plant information in useful and clear-sighted formats". This enhances the quality of plant management systems that allow companies to make better business decisions, quicker reactions to market changes and, ultimately to increased productivity and profitability.
In addition, products lower the cost of acquiring, deploying and managing large-scale industrial control systems. They also enable plant managers seamlessly to link plant information to business planning systems and through the Internet, to remote users devices and suppliers.
Citect is involved in a number of highly visible applications, including the world's largest PC-based plant monitoring system, Western Mining Corporation's Olympic Dam project, Argyle Diamond mine and even the Sydney Harbour Bridge. l

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Ci Technologies is based Pymble, NSW, Australia. www.cit.com.au