At One-year Mark, Wonderware President Focuses On Empowering Plant Operators

摘要

It has been a year since Sudipta Bhatta-charya stepped into the role of president at Wonderware, a business unit of Inven-sys plc. He has had big shoes to fill as the successor to Mike Bradley, who was known in the industry as the man who successfully repo sitioned Wonderware from a pure HMI player to a company with a full suite of operations management software. But Bhattacharya is already well on his way toward building his own legacy at the company. Using the foundation created by Bradley, Bhattacharya is adding technology and partnerships that will bring power to the people on the plant floor. "The gap today in the industry is that we don't empower the production worker," Bhattacharya told Managing Automation in his first media interview since his appointment as president last November. "We need to enable the first-line operator to take action. Give a person the tools to make the right decision and you can drive the next step-change in efficiency."