Rapid Application Development

The demand for customization and short runs requires just in time manufacturing that can reconfigure equipment, processes and maintenance procedures with great agility. While this demand started years ago, thin margins are putting urgent pressure on manufacturers to increase their focus on building agility into their operations.

Rapid Application Development (RAD) is the quick development of customized solutions and efficient human-computer interfaces (HMI) applied to the automation space through tighter integration with SCADAs. RAD is used to provide easier and better connectivity, configuration & build tools, deployment & security. This leads to an overall improvement in operational agility. Visualization and data integration capabilities are the foundation for making this a reality. 

Read how GE Digital's RAD vision can help improve your manufacturing operations.  Download the white paper.