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Emerson Launches New Plantweb™ Digital Ecosystem
Leveraging decades of digital automation expertise, Emerson (News - Alert) (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 (News - Alert) 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:
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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.
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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.
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Plantweb Inight 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 (News - Alert).
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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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