Invensys Operations Management today announced a revamped enterprise asset management offering designed for ease of use and visibility that extends beyond typical plant floor assets to areas such as contractor management.
The Avantis.PRO 5.0 enterprise asset management (EAM) release has been in development for two years, officials said. The software uses a Microsoft .NET framework and Windows Forms to create a an interface that can be tailored to a user’s role in the organization. The updated software includes new levels of data-type awareness, which through a “tree map” user interface can display the health of a specific piece of equipment, as well as all of the other assets that equipment impacts, officials said.
The Avantis brand falls under Invensys Operations Management unit, an umbrella organization under which three businesses — Invensys Process Management, Wonderware, and Eurotherm — have been integrated to help customers converge their own operations. The result is an expanded definition of EAM, which traditionally has been dedicated to plant floor equipment such as pumps or boilers, for example.
“For Invensys, the definition of an asset is anything in the plant that you want to manage, be it cost, work history, or statistics,” said Kim Custeau, director of product marketing at Invensys Operations Management, in an interview with Managing Automation. “It is the core assets running the process of the plant. And, all of these assets are linked in a parent-child relationship, which makes it easy to flow cost up” through the equipment hierarchy, she said.