strata, developed by cotopaxi, is a web-based enterprise-level

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Strata, developed by Cotopaxi, is a web-based enterprise-level utility and process optimisation software tool. It has been

developed to provide organisations with an effective, low cost solution that provides real-time data analysis, reporting and monitoring and targeting , on energy and utility consumption across multiple premises.

Strata is scalable and can be tailored to meet all the requirements of any business in the commercial or industrial sector.

Strata has set licensing prices for per site per annum, allowing unlimited user access and unlimited metering. Reseller prices are also available. In addition, on the purchase of Strata, training and a continuous support service is provided by Cotopaxi in

order to help our customers use Strata to its maximum capabilities.

Strata features a variety of tools which offers proven benefits to organisations:

• Clear structure and tools for easy navigation • Dashboard to bring essential information together on a single page • Utility data collection for analysis and reporting • Process modelling & advanced exception reporting • KPI benchmarking and target setting • Opportunity and root cause analysis tools • Unlimited user access • Interactive ‘drill-down’ management graphs • Automatic and manual reporting • Multi-lingual access • Multi-lingual email based on user preference • Various data export formats for reporting available dependant on user preference • CI Manager and OEE integration (optional)

Secure Data Hosting The Cotopaxi web platform resides on a secure, professionally managed server farm located in Manchester, UK. This enables Cotopaxi to offer the SLA (Service Level Agreement) described in the next section which guarantee’s 99.9% system availability. Hosting features are: •Secure premises and data protection •Continuous 24hrs/day maintenance and support •3 levels of electrical power back-up •Enterprise- Class Firewall •Fire protection •Automated back-up and connectivity redundancy •2 to 4 hour Hardware replacement service •High-speed fibre optic internet connection Service Level Agreement (SLA) Cotopaxi offers a Service Level Agreement which provides the following features: •Enterprise web hosting of Strata with 99.9% uptime Guarantee •Online training and user documentation •Comodo independently verified SSL 128 bit security encryption •Daily data back-up (local and independent) •Source code ESCROW (optional) •Software updates and newsletter on upcoming enhancements •Telephone and email support •24 Hour fault/error response guarantee



Flexible Data Trending Our extensive charting module converts the energy and production data logged in Strata into information you can use to manage your business, improve efficiency and reduce costs. Data is automatically aggregated to give an overview on how the site is performing over time. Detailed information can be shown by zooming and panning the chart.

Energy & Process Dashboards Each user can create personalised dashboards showing KPI’s at a glance. This enables site managers to have all important information regarding efficiencies, quality and energy consumption displayed in real time on one single screen. Each dashboard can be automatically be emailed to the user as a PDF report. The dashboard module has been designed to be extremely easy to setup and configure, users can choose from up to 6 different layouts. Dashboards can be created at all levels in the navigation tree and each level offers a flexible tabular layout offer ultimate flexibility. Flexible interactive drag and drop browser to model buildings, facilities, assets, processes and metering points •Extensive home page configurations and levels •Extensive graphing and data analysis options •Zoom, pan, stretch graphs and data view •Export data and images from any view





Target Setting Strata helps you to set up performance targets to monitor your utility consumption using various analysis techniques, such as regression analysis and base load analysis

Data Aggregation and Reporting Virtual Meters can be easily created by dragging and dropping data points from the navigation tree into the graphing space. Stack profiles and comparison charts can be easily created

Project Identification Strata can enhance the creation and management of energy improvement initiatives. Site engineers and energy managers can track each project from concept to completion through the Strata database. Project status and cost payback can be reported and emailed to site managers



CI Manager

CI manager is a user friendly tool integrated directly into Strata. It’s accessible from every screen throughout Strata and is the central point of entry to all features.

A full feature project management tool which distributes responsibility from the Project Manager to members of a

Project Team, helps manage their time ensuring user motivation and engagement leading to successful, well managed projects. It also allows further improvements to be suggested for approval by any member of the team and allows

positive or negative feedback to be given for each task for the managers and companies records.

In comparison to other popular forms of managing tasks and tracking progress such as using spread sheets, CI Manager minimises errors and the format in which CI Manager is presented makes projects a lot clearer to navigate around. In

addition, unlike current practice, CI Manager will allow multiple users to access the account at any one time.

User Orientated Dynamic Dashboards The CI Manager dynamic dashboard informs an individual, whether a Project Manager, Project Creator or even operators of their required individual actions relating to both Projects and Tasks.

Within one click users can see their outstanding project approvals, active projects and their individual outstanding tasks. This user friendly approach and ease of use will help incentivise users to engage with the system, in turn ensuring an up to date and steady progression through each of the projects. Task Management CI Manager allows individual Project Team members update their respective Project tasks without having to update the master project. This empowers Project Team members and encourages engagement with CI Manager to ensure that tasks are updated as the task changes. This also provides Project Team members with the ability to set a task as completed, ensuring the project is continuously updated throughout its life span rather than at the end or not at all, reducing Project Manager reliance. Project Status Email alerts and PDF Reports To ensure that all Project related users receive updates, CI Manager provides useful email reports to the appropriate Project Team users at relevant intervals. Useful Project Status updates by email



Effective Project tracker included in all Emails A PDF Project tracker report (also accessible via CI Manager) containing all Project, Costs / Savings, Downtime and Task information is provided with each email to ensure each Project Team member is kept up to speed with the progress of each project. Project Savings, Costs, Production Loss & Downtime Summary An entire breakdown of all project related Savings, Costs, Production Loss & Downtime is included in the tracker in both graphical and tabular form to ensure project costs are considered at all times.



Project Action Tracker Summary Individual project actions are also included and graphically compare project timescales and deadlines directly with the overall project timescales. The interactive chart allows users to ‘drag & zoom’ into a time period and conveniently includes a current date indicator for comparison.

• Optimum Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) reduces complex production problems and methods into simple, intuitive presentation of information via dashboards, widgets, reports and interactive displays. OEE contains the following features: - Complete management and reporting across one or multiple sites linked to Strata Reporting on pinch points, asset availability, waterfalls, scheduled/unexpected downtimes and specific area downtimes Scheduling of planned downtime ‘At-a-glance’ or in-depth reporting Integration with CI Manager in Strata Multi-lingual support Multi-lingual e-mail and PDF reports based on user preference

OEE-Optimum Equipment Effectiveness

Strata is underpinned by Cotopaxi’s 6-point methodology that drives Continuous Improvement (CI) and the provision of a comprehensive service from the start. This is a proven process that, when embraced, contributes towards achieving the objectives and savings required, both now and in the future.



strata, developed by cotopaxi, is a web-based enterprise-level

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