Q: What is BizCalc Manager?A: BizCalc Manager is an easy-to-use tool for managing accurate and reliable periodical business performance calculations. Its integrated environment enables creation, execution, and validation of calculations to deliver real-time measurement data in a meaningful business format to all stakeholders of the organization.
Q: What are some typical uses for BizCalc Manager?A: BizCalc Manager is designed for a wide range of operational reporting, production accounting, product tracking, forecasting, scheduling and performance measurement applications—reducing time consuming plant data collection and processing efforts. Typical users include plant administrative staff, financial support staff, operation management, production analysts and engineers.
Q: What is the BizCalc Manager Configurator?A: BizCalc Manager Configurator is an intuitive tool used to set up the process data calculations. The tool is typically provided to administrators, analysts, or production engineers for calculation set up and changes. The calculation steps, execution intervals, as well as input and output dependencies can be selected and configured easily from the BizCalc Manager Configurator graphical hierarchical tree and user interface.
Q: What is the BizCalc Manager Validator?A: BizCalc Manager Validator provides a user-friendly tool for analysts, and production and administrative support staff. It is used to verify and adjust the automated report data. It reduces time-consuming data checking and manual corrections processes and lets users easily and quickly conduct traces on data dependencies and abnormalities.
Q: How is the BizCalc Manager processing and scheduling calculation?A: BizCalc Manager has a number of built-in background processes. BizCalc Manager’s Processor and Scheduler ensure that the pre-scheduled calculation routines are executed in order and at their predefined time periods. The Sequencer service is responsible for all calculation sequencing, and for creating the order of calculation execution based on links between the calculations and the data source input dependencies. BizCalc Manager’s Event Processor and Monitor services ensure that the calculations, such as a late hour arrival lab analysis, are processed upon changes properly.
Q: How often can BizCalc Manager schedules be performed?A: The BizCalc Manager Scheduler requests calculations at the end of every hour, creating lists of hourly calculations to perform. Calculations of other longer interval lengths may also be scheduled on the hour, if the interval is complete. This would consist of all shift calculations if the hour were the last in a shift, all daily calculations if the hour is the last for a day, all weekly calculations if the hour is the last of the week, etc. Monthly, weekly and yearly calculations are scheduled daily, to give a month-to-date, week-to-date and year-to-date value. The BizCalc Manager Processor runs whenever calculations are requested. Any errors that occur when the BizCalc Manager Processor is performing a calculation are written to the BizCalc Manager Log.
Q: What is the BizCalc Manager’s calculation capability?A: The BizCalc Manager equips with a library of standard calculation and periodical reduction modules. All modules are user-selectable in a graphical and hierarchical function block configuration environment. Custom calculation or periodical function blocks that are unique to the users’ application can easily be built, extended, and incorporated into the BizCalc Manager’s configuration and calculation environment.