Has someone implemented & used a industrial change management solution can share the benefits of such solution?

[MrPlant_Machine]

Plant query

[KalyanMeduri]

Try MDT Software AutoSave

Since 1987, MDT Software has provided disaster recovery and change management solutions for leading manufacturers. MDT's flagship product, AutoSave, is the automation industry’s most advanced and feature-rich change management and version control software. AutoSave empowers users to discover, track, protect, save, and restore changes in industrial programmable devices and documents. AutoSave is considered the corporate standard for plant automation device management in many of the most advanced manufacturing facilities in the world and is used by industry leaders such as 3M, Rio Tinto, Ford, General Mills, Nestle, Abbott Nutrition, The Water Corporation of Australia, and many more. MDT AutoSave interfaces with editor packages, such as UnityPro, to provide complete control over device programs including backups, change detection, change documentation, historical tracking, user and workstation security, disaster recovery and automatic change notification. AutoSave supports the most comprehensive range of devices and editors in the industry.

[KalyanMeduri]

Since 1987, MDT Software has provided disaster recovery and change management solutions for leading manufacturers. MDT's flagship product, AutoSave, is the automation industry’s most advanced and feature-rich change management and version control software. AutoSave empowers users to discover, track, protect, save, and restore changes in industrial programmable devices and documents. AutoSave is considered the corporate standard for plant automation device management in many of the most advanced manufacturing facilities in the world and is used by industry leaders such as 3M, Rio Tinto, Ford, General Mills, Nestle, Abbott Nutrition, The Water Corporation of Australia, and many more. MDT AutoSave interfaces with editor packages, such as UnityPro, to provide complete control over device programs including backups, change detection, change documentation, historical tracking, user and workstation security, disaster recovery and automatic change notification. AutoSave supports the most comprehensive range of devices and editors in the industry.

[JeromeFirmin]

Looks like a great solution indeed. Can you share more customer references

[MDT_Software]

The world’s largest manufacturers safeguard their plant automation systems with AutoSave, including: 3M, Abbott Nutrition, BHP Billiton, Chevron, Coca Cola, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, General Mills, Honda, Johnson & Johnson, Miller Coors, Nestle Purina, Proctor & Gamble, Rio Tinto, Toyota, The Water Company of Australia and many more. Please visit the resources in our product listing for customer case studies and application stories.

[AlastairF]

MDT Software is a CAPP partner with Schneider and also Aveva/ Wonderware.

I can't offer any specific customer testimonials but MDT Software is used on many sites in New Zealand (CPG & MMM) to manage Unity, Wonderware and also Rockwell and iFix applications.

- Rio Tinto NZAS site Invercargill

- Synlait Dairy Dunsandel

- Fonterra Clandeboye

and many more.

On most of these sites, the user has to log in through MDT to access the application.

MDT manages access authorisation and also provides reports on what was changed (down to script level in SCADA applications.

In the case of Unity PLC's, it can schedule backups/ uploads of applications and data.

Can assist with 21CFR compliance.