Invensys launches new control system
Posted: 01 October 2007
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Business automation developer Invensys has introduced the first generation enterprise control system (ECS) for the oil and gas industry in the Middle East.
The InFusion Condition Manager version 2.2 was unveiled last week in a press briefing in Dubai . The system is directed to oil and gas processing infrastructures such as refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants and remote upstream installations.
Ken Fox, Vice President for International Marketing, said they are in talks with major oil and gas companies and expects that the system will be fully-implemented in the next two to three years.
The unified information platform, which consolidated German SAP solutions, is able to collect and analyse real-time diagnostics from plant production assets, drives the appropriate actions, and now share that information with plant databases.
“The new platform will enable clients to monitor direct data status from a broad range of plant data sources, analyses and contextualises the data,” Fox said.
“It then triggers and manages the appropriate operations, engineering, or maintenance actions,” he explained the business value improvement which underscores financial visibility into manufacturing.
Using wireless technology, the seamless system is closely integrated in the framework to interface with all possible devices and systems used in a process plant or manufacturing unit.
He highlighted the capability to enhance the value of workforce mobility which allows clients for synchronised asset tracking.
“It has the ability to interconnect with other plants in various locations while it is integrated with other in-plant values such as real time performance management,” Fox said.
He added that operators have the ability to draw conclusions regarding process events while critical immediate assessments can be made by decision-makers at the same time.
Invensys’ industrial asset performance systems such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world. |
