Data & Information Systems
Collect production data, report on it and connect the plant floor to your business systems.
Overview
Turn Production Data Into Information
A control system generates a steady stream of data about how your plant runs. BCI builds the systems that capture that data, store it reliably and turn it into reports your team will actually use.
We also connect the plant floor to the systems that run your business, so production information reaches scheduling, quality and management without manual re-entry.
Capabilities
What's Included
Data Collection & Historian
Capture and store process and production data reliably over time.
Reporting & OEE
Production, quality and equipment-effectiveness reporting for each audience.
ERP & MES Integration
Two-way links to SAP, JD Edwards, Dynamics 365, NetSuite or a homegrown system.
Compliance Records
Batch records, GAMP 5-aligned validation documentation and the test protocols regulated production depends on.
Documentation
Specifications and Protocols
Regulated production runs on documentation as much as on control code. We write and execute the specification and test documents a project needs, and hand them over as part of the system.
- Functional Requirements Specification (FRS) — how the system has to behave, agreed before anyone writes code
- Detailed Design Specification (DDS) — how the system is built to meet the FRS
- Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) — proving the system against its specification before it ships
- Site Acceptance Test (SAT) — proving it again on your floor, after installation
- Installation and Operational Qualification (IQ/OQ) — the validation documentation pharmaceutical production requires
For pharmaceutical customers we produce these as executable protocols with signed results, so there is a record of what was tested and what passed when an auditor asks.
We structure that documentation to GAMP 5, the ISPE guidance most pharmaceutical manufacturers validate against. That matters commercially as well as technically: GAMP 5 allows a supplier's documentation to serve as validation evidence, so our specifications and test results fold into your validation package instead of your team repeating the work.