Invensys, the world leader in industrial asset performance management, mid April introduced the world’s first industrial system - InFusionTM enterprise control system, which goes beyond the plant or other industrial operations to provide a true enterprise view.
The new system combines industry-leading capabilities from across Invensys with advanced enterprise information and integration technologies from both Microsoft and SAP to dramatically reduce integration costs. With InFusion technology, most existing plant floor and enterprise systems can now be cost-effectively integrated into a common system. In conjunction with a suite of new performance services, Invensys’ InFusion system will help industrial enterprises more effectively align plant operations and maintenance departments with the business to optimize overall asset performance management.
With more than 60 issued and pending patents/patent applications, the InFusion enterprise control system delivers a unique set of capabilities not previously available from any single automation or information system. These include unprecedented integration across virtually all existing plant floor systems (DCS, PLC, etc), subsystems, and intelligent field devices, regardless of vendor or protocol; low-cost, standards-based information interoperability between plant floor, manufacturing execution (MES), and enterprise systems; a unified engineering and support environment across both plant floor and MES systems, plus a powerful application object model that simplifies the creation and re-use of innovative new equipment-, unit-, and plant-level strategies, while dramatically improving engineering productivity; and real-time visibility into both the plant and the business with a unified view across operations and maintenance domains to help align overall plant performance with business objectives.
InFusion unifies Foxboro’s industry-leading process control capabilities with Wonderware’s industry-leading HMI, plant intelligence, and device integration capabilities into a new Invensys’ ArchestrA-based system.
By reducing the cost and effort required to integrate existing plant and enterprise systems into a unified enterprise control system and providing an object-based environment for application development, deployment, and reuse, the new InFusion enterprise control system represents a major leap forward for the automation industry.
To help process manufacturers obtain maximum business advantage from this advanced platform, Invensys offers a number of different asset performance management consulting services.
In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions and Performance Management services groups, Invensys’ automation businesses includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world’s largest upstream projects, refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills. The Invensys Group (
www.invensys.com) is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.
Since the beginning of business in Vietnam, Invensys has successfully participated in projects such as the Ruby A gas field development, Condensate Processing Plant, Thu Duc and Can Tho power plants, Viet Tri paper mill, Vinamilk factory, Heineken Beer factory, Song Thao Cement Plant and the National Convention Centre. It has also established cooperation with leading organizations such as LILAMA, PetroVietnam and Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) to bring latest technologies and know-how to support the industries of power, cement, steel, chemical, oil and gas for Vietnam’s infrastructure development.
According to Mr. Darren Lim, Invensys Country Manager Vietnam, Vietnam is an emerging and promising market for Invensys products thanks to the country’s high economic growth in recent years and priority on industrial development with a large number of industrial plants to be built in coming time.
Apart from focusing on its market segment of heavy industries with giant clients, providing solutions and services to small and medium-sized enterprises and private ones is also major business strategy in Vietnam. Invensys has already provided solution and services to SMEs with small-scale plants such as sugar and pulp mills so far. In term of technology transfer, Invensys is also working with smaller enterprises to address this market sector, provides Vietnamese companies with technology and the know-how how to engineer its products, and supports system integrators to better support the end users.
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