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ESE Inc., the Engineering Solutions Experts, recently became a ThinManager Platinum Integrator <\/a>after a number of successful, large scale deployments.\u00a0 When we initially contacted ESE<\/a>, their Director of Manufacturing Information Systems John Tertin stated, \u201cThis is going to be the new standard, and ThinManager is part of that standard.\u00a0 Going forward, ThinManager will be employed wherever the SE system goes.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 Apparently, John wasn\u2019t kidding because when we checked in with him again, he had another successful integration story to share with us.<\/p>\nAfter deploying and managing a Rockwell<\/a> FactoryTalk View SE system at a food processing facility in central Wisconsin, the Mariani Packing Company <\/a>of Vacaville, California purchased that facility.\u00a0 John told us, \u201cThis was originally a major producer for Mariani that we had done work for previously and Mariani ended up buying the facility, which is how our relationship with Mariani started.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ESE-logo2.jpg\")
<\/a>“Mariani is a large dried fruit producer that makes just about every variety of dried fruit you can think of.\u00a0 The facility at their Wisconsin Rapids,\u00a0<\/em>Wisconsin plant has embraced Rockwell Automation\u2019s PlantPAX architecture and uses Logix controllers with the FactoryTalk View SE distributed SCADA package.\u00a0 Since Mariani has expanded the production area at their Wisconsin facility, it became an ideal application for the ThinManager Platform,\u201d<\/em> said John.\u00a0 When asked if Mariani is seeing value in such a small system, John replied, \u201cThey have already seen the benefits even though they originally started with only three thin clients and still had two existing thick clients on the plant floor.\u00a0 When we proposed this solution to them, I explained that switching out the thick clients when they failed, or to proactively save money on maintenance costs would be extremely simple to do. They found a lot of value in that.\u00a0 They decided to replace them with thin clients, which took less than an hour to do.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/RockwellSolutionProvider_CP-300x2061.jpg\")
<\/a>More often than not, stories about successful deployments of hardware or software revolve around an organization trying to deploy and manage large numbers of clients and terminals since the per unit Return on Investment (ROI) is multiplied for each seat.\u00a0 So how does a five client solution save money?\u00a0 \u201cAside from immediate benefits within a manufacturing plant, ESE can also reduce headaches and minimize downtime for customers from within its own building. The ThinManager Platform enables ESE\u2019s engineers to remotely access any of the terminals on the plant floor and shadow their systems to see real time plant data, help determine where problems may be occurring, and show an operator first-hand how to overcome the problem.\u00a0 Mariani is a good example, from a small facility perspective, of how you can still find value in the product despite only deploying five clients.\u00a0 We were easily able to move their thick clients onto the network using PXE Boot, and it is easy for them to expand beyond that,\u201d<\/em> said John.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fox_ese_2010_12_16-022.jpg\")
<\/a>According to Jesse Urban, the Director of Operations at Mariani Packing Company, ThinManager has proven itself to be the right solution despite the limited scope of the project.\u00a0 \u201cUsing ThinManager has reduced IT maintenance costs, eliminated the hassle of rolling out patches, and ended the practice of maintaining separate configurations on several plant floor HMIs.\u00a0 Installing additional clients is very easy to do.\u00a0 We\u2019ve already replaced some of our thick clients with ThinManager ready thin clients and it only takes about 10 minutes to add or replace a terminal in our production area,\u201d<\/em> states Urban.<\/p>\nWith such a wide range of facilities adopting the ThinManager Platform as their network management solution regardless of the size of the deployment, it is only a matter of time before ThinManager becomes the industry standard.<\/p>\n
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View or download the PDF Version of this Success Story\u00a0here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nThe ThinManager ROI Calculator can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/p>\nAfter deploying and managing a Rockwell<\/a> FactoryTalk View SE system at a food processing facility in central Wisconsin, the Mariani Packing Company <\/a>of Vacaville, California purchased that facility.\u00a0 John told us, \u201cThis was originally a major producer for Mariani that we had done work for previously and Mariani ended up buying the facility, which is how our relationship with Mariani started.\u201d<\/p>\n With such a wide range of facilities adopting the ThinManager Platform as their network management solution regardless of the size of the deployment, it is only a matter of time before ThinManager becomes the industry standard.<\/p>\n ____________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n View or download the PDF Version of this Success Story\u00a0here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n The ThinManager ROI Calculator can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>“Mariani is a large dried fruit producer that makes just about every variety of dried fruit you can think of.\u00a0 The facility at their Wisconsin Rapids,\u00a0<\/em>Wisconsin plant has embraced Rockwell Automation\u2019s PlantPAX architecture and uses Logix controllers with the FactoryTalk View SE distributed SCADA package.\u00a0 Since Mariani has expanded the production area at their Wisconsin facility, it became an ideal application for the ThinManager Platform,\u201d<\/em> said John.\u00a0 When asked if Mariani is seeing value in such a small system, John replied, \u201cThey have already seen the benefits even though they originally started with only three thin clients and still had two existing thick clients on the plant floor.\u00a0 When we proposed this solution to them, I explained that switching out the thick clients when they failed, or to proactively save money on maintenance costs would be extremely simple to do. They found a lot of value in that.\u00a0 They decided to replace them with thin clients, which took less than an hour to do.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>More often than not, stories about successful deployments of hardware or software revolve around an organization trying to deploy and manage large numbers of clients and terminals since the per unit Return on Investment (ROI) is multiplied for each seat.\u00a0 So how does a five client solution save money?\u00a0 \u201cAside from immediate benefits within a manufacturing plant, ESE can also reduce headaches and minimize downtime for customers from within its own building. The ThinManager Platform enables ESE\u2019s engineers to remotely access any of the terminals on the plant floor and shadow their systems to see real time plant data, help determine where problems may be occurring, and show an operator first-hand how to overcome the problem.\u00a0 Mariani is a good example, from a small facility perspective, of how you can still find value in the product despite only deploying five clients.\u00a0 We were easily able to move their thick clients onto the network using PXE Boot, and it is easy for them to expand beyond that,\u201d<\/em> said John.<\/p>\n<\/a>According to Jesse Urban, the Director of Operations at Mariani Packing Company, ThinManager has proven itself to be the right solution despite the limited scope of the project.\u00a0 \u201cUsing ThinManager has reduced IT maintenance costs, eliminated the hassle of rolling out patches, and ended the practice of maintaining separate configurations on several plant floor HMIs.\u00a0 Installing additional clients is very easy to do.\u00a0 We\u2019ve already replaced some of our thick clients with ThinManager ready thin clients and it only takes about 10 minutes to add or replace a terminal in our production area,\u201d<\/em> states Urban.<\/p>\n