Emerson launches Plantweb Optics.
Emerson announces Plantweb Optics, a new mobile-ready collaboration software platform that connects technicians, engineers and plant management, and provides a view of plant reliability and operational performance. With access to data across an organization, Plantweb Optics translates equipment health data into a user-friendly format and instantly and securely delivers it to relevant personnel so they can make more informed decisions impacting production, according to Emerson. The collaboration software reportedly improves the user experience with intuitive visualization and customized alerts to reduce or eliminate irrelevant data. On mobile devices, personnel can quickly access equipment health scores any time, from anywhere, and can combine multiple views for easier monitoring of facilities across multiple locations. Plantweb Optics is a part of Emerson’s Plantweb digital ecosystem, the company’s comprehensive Industrial IoT platform.“Getting the right data into the hands of the right people is paramount for our customers, and Plantweb Optics aggregates asset health information from various sources and not only prioritizes the most important and relevant asset data, but easily targets actionable data to the people responsible for acting on it,” says Jim Nyquist, group president of Emerson’s Systems and Solutions business. “It transforms how companies have traditionally managed data and puts companies on the right path to digitally enable their workforce.”
Today, plant management is often unable to see critical data from various siloed systems and its impact on broader operations, according to Emerson. Options exist to connect plant data to other users through complicated mapping processes, but those options deliver only raw data, leaving behind the rich information available from asset management systems. Using industry-standard, embedded communications protocols, Plantweb Optics can share data with big data machine learning and analytics software to create new strategies for asset management and reliability. The software provides a platform to integrate more enterprise applications in the future for better reliability and operational performance, says the company.
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