challenges is to get people productive and knowledgeable in the space
That means that we don’t replace but align the existing applications,
of one or two years.
assets and systems and make them work together as if they were unified,” says Sowell. “Interestingly, Invensys Operations Management
Another challenge involves coping with the evolving real-time digital
has realigned itself to its own Enterprise Control Systems philosophy by
world where information and collaboration can be sourced from
aligning its solution offerings to that structure.”
anywhere in the world and collated with meaningful context before decisions are made – once again, anywhere in the world. They showed how the aim of current and future solution initiatives was to address improved operational control and decision support and to reduce the time-to-experience and time-to-performance of operational
“That means that we don’t replace but align the existing applications, assets and systems and make them work together as if they were unified,”
personnel. A second trend is that of addressing the following critical project
New releases and concepts
opportunities: All current and future releases focus on the simplification and • Network asset management - This involves measuring the
unification of resources as well as improved decision support, scalability
performance of all assets which may be at different plants all built by
and fault tolerance. There simply isn’t enough room in this article to
different people, in a consistent manner in order to compare apples
list what’s coming down the pipeline to support Invensys’ Enterprise
with apples.
Control Systems concept but here are a few examples:
• Managing multiple assets as part of a supply chain – Assets are not isolated entities but collaborative components in a supply chain
• The implementation of a high-security communications bus structure between variously-sized System Platform implementations.
and that’s the way they should be perceived and managed. • The release of a Historian that will cope with a tag count ranging • Flexible operational team coordination – With available technology, the operational team takes on a new and global
from 125 to more than 400 000 as well as the simultaneous operation of two Historians.
collaborative dimension with the sourcing of knowledge from anywhere and at any time.
• A new ArchestrA service bus to enable secure inter-Galaxy communications.
• Standardised operational control loops – With this in place, it would eliminate the inconsistencies of how operations are executed
• Quality Management in MES 2012
and provide a baseline for measurement and improvement. • Model-driven operations management to provide a unified approach These and other industry trends dictate the way forward for the
to model-driven (embedded) operations execution.
development of Invensys Operations Management solutions. “One of the key factors is that we must provide unification through federation.
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• Empower operators to contribute to operational innovation through