| COMPANY: | Bayer MaterialScience LLC |
| HEADQUARTERS: | Leverkusen, Germany |
| SIZE OF COMPANY: | 1,000 or more employees; more than $1B in revenue |
| INDUSTRY: | Chemicals |
| PRIMARY PRODUCT LINE: | Polymers and high-performance plastics |
| NAME OF PROJECT: | An Automated Solution for Managing Process Control Systems |
| PROJECT OBJECTIVE: | To automate the process so that a part-time administrator can maintain MES and control systems in multiple sites; decrease operating costs; reduce hardware installation costs; automate e-mail notifications of anomalies, antivirus protection, installation of IPSec firewalls, backups of MES and DCS critical data |
| TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED: | Symantec Antivirus Suite Corporate Edition; Windows Server Update Services; DeltaV DCS and Provox DCS; Safety Instrumented System |
| ACCOMPLISHMENTS/ROI: | Reduced system operating costs; increased system security; sped up maintenance process; ensured data integrity |