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Invensys announces real-time condition management

PlantServies.com

Educating its customer base on the game-changing potential of the enterprise control system (ECS) in principle — and the company's InFusion ECS in particular — was an overarching theme of the 2006 Invensys Process Systems Customer Conference held December 3 to 6, 2006 in Dallas.

In concept, the InFusion platform acts as a middleware layer, eliminating the fragile and labor-intensive point-to-point efforts typical of past integration efforts. The system's components fall into three functional groups including platform pieces for engineering, applications and integration; visualization tools for viewing and collaboration; and an information suite for information management and analysis.

Among the new functionality announced at the conference is the InFusion Condition Manager, which builds upon the company's Avantis.CM technology to provide the ability to collect real-time condition data. InFusion Condition Manager collects, aggregates and analyzes real-time data from a wide array of plant production assets. These can include intelligent field devices such as sensors and actuators; rotating and non-rotating equipment such as pumps, motors, compressors, turbines, dryers, and heat exchangers; and even entire process units. This real-time asset information is then put into proper context and made available to other plant and enterprise systems within the InFusion ECS environment.

"InFusion Condition Manager can help enable organizations move from a reactive to a proactive environment in which they can effectively predict and prevent problems before they occur to be able to focus resources on improving asset performance," says Neil Cooper, general manager of Invensys' Avantis enterprise asset management (EAM) unit.

"Effective condition management has become even more critical as today's industrial organizations are dealing with a shortage of skilled technicians due to an aging workforce," adds Grant Le Sueur, InFusion marketing director. "That's why we're so pleased to be able to offer InFusion Condition Manager as a very cool new capability within the InFusion enterprise control system."