New Software Changes the Way Ethanol Plants Manage Data and Do Business

Epique is the first affordable, off-the-shelf, data management software designed specifically for Ethanol Production Facilities. Epique primarily provides Ethanol plants the tools to collect, store, analyze and report on operations and lab data. Additional tools are included for tracking and scheduling events, tracking suppliers, tracking Lab equipment history, graphing, creating procedural logs, and maintaining operating procedures. This suite of tools will change the way a plant communicates and effectively conducts business.

Denver, CO (PRWEB) April 1, 2004 -- Ibeque, a software solutions provider for the ethanol industry, announced today that it has launched version 1.0 its first product Epique. Epique allows ethanol plants to store, retrieve, and analyze both operations and lab data simultaneously while providing an enterprise wide communication tool. The software is so effective that it promises to change the way plants operate, communicate and effectively conduct business.

Until now, plants either used spreadsheets or were forced to pay a solutions provider for a customized software application," said Eric Belaski, president, Ibeque, LLC. Most plants can not justify the capital expenditure of a custom solution forcing them to use spreadsheets thus, losing all history and analyzing capabilities of their data. This is an extreme loss of information and knowledge."

Presently, ethanol plants use multiple spreadsheets per day to store their daily operations and lab data. Imagine attempting to analyze this data spanning eight, ten or twelve days in each of the spreadsheets. Currently, many ethanol plants are using these crude methods (and in some cases hand written forms) because there was no alternative. Epique (Ethanol Production Information and Queries) is designed to fill this void and to guide Ethanol plants towards a paperless environment.

Because Epique is a distributed, web-based application it opens a wide communication channel for all employees in the plant," said Chris Ferrier, CTO Ibeque, LLC. Any employee who has access to a web-browser and to Epique, regardless of location, knows the status of fermentation, plant equipment, lab equipment, meetings, current problems and much more. Within days employees will seamlessly realize that there is a much easier way to retrieve and deliver information."

Epique utilizes a relational database backend providing a dynamic environment. A user-friendly interface allows an operations manager to quickly and accurately view trends, compare trial data to baseline data, make adjustments when parameters are out of spec and effectively make use of the data that is collected on a daily basis. Statistical analysis of the data is readily available to make scientific decisions regarding product trials or process changes.

Epique stores, trends and displays data starting from the grain received, to the ethanol and by-products produced. Epique allows you to track your suppliers, products, lab consumables, plant equipment, enzymes and more. Tools are also provided to maintain daily logs, procedures, equipments status, and process limits all neatly wrapped into one affordable package complete with a database.

Were very excited with the release of our first product and the future of the industry," said Eric Belaski. Through the development of this product and discussions with numerous plant managers and operators we have started development on several new exciting products to further integrate plants and their data".

Ibeque, LLC is a software provider that delivers simple, cost-effective, solutions for the ethanol industry. Ibeque is a privately held LLC based in Denver, CO, USA. For information, please call 720-270-5030 or visit us online at www.ibeque.com.