Introducing the Facility Asynchronous Data Analysis Tool (FADAT) to optimize productive machine cycle in industrial plants*

:The main focus of this paper is a generic approach to enable both single persons and worldwide distributed teams to analyse and enhance manufacturing plants. This paper describes the state of the art, current challenges, our approach to tackle this task, a first implementation of our solution (FADAT) and the test results from at a real industrial plant. The novelties are the combination and synchronisation of different data sources for analysing plans and the implementation of a collaborative working mode without the need for a steady online connection.