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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Thursday, December 07, 2006 4:16:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Invensys Process Systems group uses customer conference as an educational forum on its new InFusion enterprise control system, and reveals development and reseller partnerships to help the automation systems player deliver a more productive and intuitive user experience. |
| Keywords: | Invensys, Microsoft, Cutler Technology, Avantis, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, InFusion, decision support, enterprise asset management, condition monitoring, simulation software |
DALLAS -- Invensys Process Systems (IPS) used its North American customer conference here this week as an educational platform to expound upon the benefits of InFusion, the enterprise control system Invensys announced to glowing reviews earlier this year. InFusion is designed around the concept of asset performance management, which Invensys believes is critical to bringing engineering, operations, maintenance, and plant management operations into synch by balancing production availability with actual plant utilization. InFusion's control architecture, which is built on Invensys's ArchestrA technology, as well as Microsoft .NET and industry standards, is designed to present a unified view of operational systems, regardless of the vendor technology deployed across the manufacturing enterprise. Orders are starting to come in for InFusion, which is typically implemented in a piecemeal fashio. For example, Chemtura Corp., a specialty chemicals manufacturer, told conference attendees that it has begun its InFusion deployment at one facility in West Virginia. The plan is to tie Chemtura's Foxboro I/A system for process control to the Allen-Bradley PLCs on the packaging line as well as the SAP ERP software used in the back office. [Click to continue] |
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