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摘要

He best storage systems, used properly, can make a business run better. Millennium Chemicals Inc., a company with 4,000 employees around the world, learned that last year when it deployed storage-management software from OSI Software Inc. to replace Excel spreadsheets used for recording and sharing manufacturing data in monthly reports. "Site directors wanted daily reports they could look at before they drove to the plant," says Steve Sarnecki, global director for process controls. OSI's management software collects and replicates data, which is fed into an SAP R/3 system that Millennium uses to manage global plant information. "Now engineers, operators, and plant management share data so they can make more-accurate decisions in a more-timely fashion," he says. OSl is working with Millennium to get the software to manage more than storage; later this year, it will monitor the real-time costs of production and set off alarms when pumps need servicing so they don't break down.