Product category:
Factory data acquisition
News Release from: Invensys | Subject: InFusion Condition Manager version 2.2
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 October 2007
Plant diagnostics analysed, shared in
real time
Software system collects and analyses real-time diagnostics from plant production assets, drives the appropriate actions, and shares information with factory databases and HMIs.
Invensys' InFusion Condition Manager version 2.2 software is a real-time asset condition management component for the company's InFusion enterprise control system (ECS) and other platforms It collects real-time condition data from a broad range of plant data sources
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 2 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Invensys said that other vendors' condition monitoring solutions tend to focus on basic monitoring of field devices and/or rotating equipment.
In contrast, InFusion Condition Manager collects, aggregates, and analyses real-time data from the full array of plant production assets, including (but not limited to) sensors and actuators, pumps, motors, compressors, turbines, dryers, and heat exchangers; and even entire process units.
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The InFusion Condition Manager interoperates with all Invensys and third-party applications supported through the InFusion application environment.
Thanks to recent version 2.2 enhancements, equipment condition and maintenance information can now also easily be displayed on plant process control and engineering HMI workstations, said Invensys to Manufacturingtalk.
This information was previously only available on Invensys' own Avantis PRO enterprise asset management (EAM) system or other computerised maintenance management systems.
The InFusion Condition Manager can now also feed data to a variety of different plant Historian packages to allow the data and actions to be historised and made available to other plant and enterprise systems.
And to more easily facilitate bulk deployment throughout industrial plants with a large number and diversity of production assets, the enhanced InFusion Condition Manager offers improved template capabilities.
These templates save time and drive best practices.
Director of Avantis product strategy at Invensys Process Systems, Isauro Martinez-Cairo, said: "Our InFusion Condition Manager provides a powerful toolset that can enable industrial plants to avoid unnecessary maintenance and downtime via predictive, reliability-centered maintenance and operations to help improve overall asset performance management".
* About Invensys - Invensys is the world leader in industrial asset performance management, a strategy designed to help today's industrial enterprises to effectively balance the availability and utilisation of their production assets to match changing business requirements.
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 is headquartered in London, UK, and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.
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