Emerson Launches New Plantweb™ Digital Ecosystem
October 24 2016 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
Pervasive Sensing™, Secure First Mile™,
Connected Services and New Software Bring the Most Comprehensive
Industrial Internet of Things Portfolio to Industry
Leveraging decades of digital automation expertise, Emerson
(NYSE: EMR) today introduces the expanded Plantweb digital
ecosystem, a scalable portfolio of standards-based hardware,
software, intelligent devices and services for securely
implementing the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) with
measurable business performance improvement.
Plantweb becomes the most comprehensive and integrated
Industrial IoT portfolio in the industry. In addition to highly
secure process control, safety and asset management systems,
Plantweb now supports enterprise-wide operations with an expanded
portfolio of Pervasive Sensing field instruments, the Secure First
Mile family of software, gateways and security devices, the
Plantweb InsightTM and Plantweb AdvisorTM scalable suite of
software applications, the AMS ARESTM Platform, and
Microsoft-enabled, cloud-based remote expert Connected
Services.
First introduced as the industry’s most advanced process control
and safety network, Plantweb now harnesses the power of Industrial
IoT to expand digital intelligence to the entire manufacturing
enterprise, while also providing an architecture for on-premise
applications. Plantweb provides a comprehensive framework to help
manufacturers achieve Top Quartile performance in the areas of
safety, reliability, production and energy. Top Quartile is defined
as achieving operations and capital performance in the top 25
percent of peer companies.
“In 1997, Emerson revolutionized the automation landscape with
Plantweb, the first field-based digital plant architecture,” said
Peter Zornio, chief strategic officer, Emerson Automation
Solutions. “Now, we are doing it again by harnessing the power of
Industrial IoT to give customers the technology foundation for
Operational Certainty.”
Emerson’s Plantweb digital ecosystem includes several new
products, services and partner-enabled solutions:
- Pervasive Sensing: Expanding the
industry’s largest portfolio of measurement and analytical
technologies, Emerson is introducing a non-intrusive temperature
sensor, as well as new sensing technologies in the area of
corrosion detection, medium voltage electrical protection, and
hazardous gas leak detection, among others.
- Secure First Mile: A security
architecture backed by a portfolio of technologies and services
that allow customers to selectively connect highly secure data from
protected control and operation systems (OT) to operational
performance applications in the cloud environment (IT). The
portfolio, which includes a robust, secure and flexible family of
servers, gateways, data diodes and services, ensures that experts
gain immediate access to the information they need, whether on
premise, in a private company cloud network or to a third-party
service provider. Emerson’s wireless gateways and Smart FirewallTM
are among the critical infrastructure components that ensure the
Secure First Mile within the Plantweb digital ecosystem, including
one-way data transmission and prevention of network
compromise.
- Plantweb Insight
Software: A comprehensive, lightweight portfolio of
IT-friendly applications with analytics for monitoring asset
health. Plantweb Insight applications can run independently of
existing business systems and distributed control systems (DCS) and
provide a simple yet powerful entry point to Industrial IoT. These
applications are perfect for proving an Industrial IoT strategy and
gaining quantifiable business impact. Plantweb Insight applications
can be deployed as a single asset class and scale to a wide range
of assets, each with low entry cost and simplified set up. Virtual
machine-based deployment makes Plantweb Insight a low IT
requirement application.
- Plantweb Advisor Software: A
robust suite of integrated analytical expert applications for asset
health, performance modeling and facility-wide energy optimization.
Health Advisor, Performance Advisor and Energy Advisor applications
are scalable to thousands of assets across multiple facilities for
enterprise-wide equipment and energy analytics. Plantweb Advisor
applications can be run on premise, in a private company cloud
network or through a third-party cloud services arrangement. The
widely adopted OSIsoft PI System’s highly scalable open data
infrastructure is used as a platform for these applications.
Plantweb Advisor suite applications are an easy migration and
extension of investment in the Plantweb Insight applications when
users seek a more advanced, integrated analytical environment.
- AMS ARES Platform: An
easy-to-deploy software asset management platform that aggregates
the health of assets from multiple business systems, and pushes
this data to relevant plant personnel depending on their roles and
responsibility, either on desktop or mobile device.
- Always Mobile: Enabling the
mobile professional access to role-based tools, analytics and
dashboards anywhere, anytime, Emerson extends the reach of Plantweb
by adding mobility to the AMS and DeltaV™ process automation
platforms. Experts can now have secure, mobile access to the
information needed to perform their jobs, regardless of where they
are. The DeltaV Mobile application allows users to securely and
remotely monitor their process and receive notifications on
user-selected process alarms. The AMS Trex™ Device Communicator
provides maintenance technicians with a consumer-quality user
experience in a rugged tool built to withstand harsh industrial
environments in order to isolate and repair problems without
interrupting production. AMS Asset View’s persona-based alert
system ensures that reliability personnel receive the important and
relevant alerts needed to ensure asset health critical to
production.
- Connected Services: An
Industrial IoT-enabled cloud services offering for real-time
monitoring of important assets’ health, energy consumption and
other operational applications. Emerson experts constantly monitor
and report on asset and operational performance, prioritized repair
and asset trending. The service is highly scalable, leverages
existing technology investments and utilizes advanced security
capabilities of Emerson and Microsoft.
- Microsoft Azure and IoT Cloud:
Emerson has standardized on the cloud-based Microsoft Azure IoT
Suite to enable Connected Services, expanding the Plantweb digital
ecosystem to provide a secure, flexible platform for private cloud
networks and third-party cloud service relationships.
According to research conducted by IndustryWeek, only five
percent of industrial manufacturers have a comprehensive Industrial
IoT strategy, while more than 50 percent see improved business
performance as a reason to invest in Industrial IoT
technologies.
“We have heard from customers and industry analysts alike that
there is a paradox creating gridlock for customers today,”
continued Zornio. “Market volatility is driving a cautious, ‘grind
it out’ mentality, yet company operating performance goals demand
new, transformational thinking and action. Technology is offering a
vast set of new options, yet customers are left wondering how and
where to begin this digital transformation.”
Emerson’s recently announced Operational Certainty program
provides a clear business case for Industrial IoT investment, with
an emphasis on targeting specific business challenges and achieving
measurable success with limited effort or investments. As business
impact is achieved, customers can then scale their adoption based
on project return on investment.
“There is a lot of talk about the promise of Industrial IoT,”
said Zornio. “Emerson is delivering that promise today with a
compelling, flexible business case in Operational Certainty and the
most robust, scalable technology and service platform with the
Plantweb digital ecosystem. Emerson is putting the ROI in IoT.”
About Emerson
Emerson (NYSE: EMR), headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri (USA),
is a global technology and engineering company providing innovative
solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and residential
markets. Our Emerson Automation Solutions business helps
process, hybrid, and discrete manufacturers maximize production,
protect personnel and the environment while optimizing their energy
and operating costs. Our Emerson Commercial and Residential
Solutions business helps ensure human comfort and health, protect
food quality and safety, advance energy efficiency, and create
sustainable infrastructure. For more information, visit
Emerson.com.
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