Software Solutions

Plant Manager: An Integrated Product Platform

API RBI software is now delivered via Equity's VCEPlant Manager platform. This new and innovative structure permits seamless integration and interoperability with our other software products such as DamagePlus as well as new Fitness-For-Service (FFS) analysis modules that are under development.

API RBI software delivered on the Plant Manager platform provides the following advantages:

• An audit trail that can log when users log-in and log-out of the system and what data they changed and when they changed it
• The user roles and permissions have also been reworked for greater flexibility and security. It is now possible to define custom user roles and assign various combinations of permissions to these roles for viewing, editing, calculating and other operations with greater ease and flexibility
• The default value of every input data field is now shown on the form so every value used in a calculation is known to the user
• There is a new case structure for doing parametric analysis. Input parameters can be varied by creating a new case, changing the value and seeing how this affects the results
• It is also now possible for multiple clients to connect to a single server or multiple servers at once and drag and drop data between them
• There is support for multiple calculators so lengthy calculations can be distributed across multiple nodes or clusters for improved performance
• There is a new plugin architecture that allows for additional functionality such as custom reports or links to third-party applications such as SAP to be added at a later time without requiring an upgrade of the entire software installation. These plugins can also be customized for each client to provide user specific functionality (custom reports)
• A new software architecture that provides a more consistent look and feel compared to other Windows applications