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We call it InFusion.
More Asset Performance.
More. You always need more. More time. More money. multiple systems. A system that assures full open
More asset performance. And there are really only two communication and visibility between the plant and the
ways to squeeze more business value from the plant. enterprise with seamless information integration within
Improve asset availability or improve asset utilization. and across multiple plant sites. A system that encourages
Period. The trick is to do both—by striking a delicate a collaborative environment for improved business and
balance between availability and utilization simultaneously. plant operational agility.
Balance both in real time and you begin to achieve a
Different from traditional automation systems made up
high degree of optimization and economic improvement.
of DCSs, Safety Systems, PLCs and SCADA, an ECS
This methodology for process plants to safely maximize
platform encompasses much more, easily and affordably
the business value from every plant asset is called Asset
integrating the entire plant floor with top-level business
Performance Management.
systems like CRM, ERP and HR. And, unlike other
Asset Performance Management essentially allows solutions with clumsy, expensive bridges to business
manufacturers to move from closed-loop process control systems, an ECS does so in a simple, elegant way—with
to closed-loop business control. Until now, this balancing a high degree of interoperability—faster, easier, cheaper.
act has been impossible to
Only one company offers the breadth and depth of
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Problem Problem
Want more assurance that system is yielding promised ROI Priorities between Maintenance and Operations aren’t
always aligned
Have to do more with less to be more competitive
Lack of trust in the information presented
Dynamic market requires fast response
Increasing liability concerns
Need system that will last 20-30 years and can cost-
effectively take advantage of new technology Need better training for operators to be more effective
Solution Solution
The InFusion ECS does more than promise ROI, it The InFusion ECS makes it easier, faster and more
actually delivers it by driving maximum results from cost-effective to make sure the plant operates smoothly,
your plant-wide assets and integrating your systems seamlessly, without incident and at peak capacity. It
into one, unified business environment. enables you to communicate more clearly and effectively
with operators—and by revealing information relevant
The InFusion ECS lets you control your business
to both Operations and Maintenance, the InFusion
as well as your process by providing standardized
ECS makes visible the relationships between asset
and predictable plant behavior and enhanced safety.
performance and profitability. You’ll not only see
With unprecedented plant-wide visibility, the InFusion operational improvements, you’ll easily share them
ECS lets you see what’s happening on the plant floor with management, using simple-to-execute reports
so you can take appropriate action in real time. enabled by the InFusion ECS.
Because the InFusion ECS unifies automation and
Invensys recognizes that Operations must have complete
information systems, you get operational intelligence
faith in the integrity of the information presented. And,
in a consistent, meaningful context, making information
that it must be presented in a timely fashion. The
easier to mine from data. You react faster to market
InFusion ECS does both by utilizing data validation
dynamics. You’ll not only see what you need to know,
techniques as well as transacting information in real
but what you need to do about it. Supremely interoperable
time, eliminating the need for manually entered
and open, the InFusion ECS allows you to do more
information done periodically. Because the InFusion
with less. Upgrade your existing automation system
ECS aggregates information from all plant systems, it
without having to rip out and replace existing assets.
easily presents useful information such as enterprise-
Start as big or as small as you like—the InFusion ECS
wide safety integrity, delivering enhanced visibility
evolves and grows with you, enabling you to add and
“With the InFusion ECS, I get the plant floor information I need, and one less thing to worry about.
exploit new technologies as they emerge. This flexibility
lets you remain agile as well, so you can respond quickly As a unifying platform, the InFusion ECS has the
right on my desk, in a context I understand so I see exactly to a dynamic market while remaining highly competitive. capacity to provide operators with a consistent,
single view of the entire enterprise. This approach
which assets are performing, which ones aren’t and what enables operators to predict abnormalities and
effectively respond to emergency situations with
I need to do about it.” confidence. And proven Invensys simulation ensures
Maximize results from assets that operational staff are continuously recertified in
Improve plant safety reacting to abnormal plant conditions.
More process control. More business control.
Do more with less
Respond faster to market
Reduce risks and costs
Improve operator response and efficiency
Communicate effectively with maintenance
More Ease of Use. Less Cost.
Problem Problem
Too little time and resources to learn a lot Need short delivery time
of different tools
Reduce costs, labor, parts, equipment
Need one engineering environment
Hate unplanned calls
Want a system without limits
So much equipment—need first pass diagnostics to
Difficult to communicate and share information know who to deploy
with plant-wide systems
Need all systems talking
Need a reliable and secure system that
Want to evolve system, not replace
maintenance can easily handle
Solution
Solution
Improving the availability of plant assets has a direct
The InFusion ECS provides a unified configuration
impact on the bottom line. The InFusion ECS allows
and engineering environment. It is designed with
you to maximize asset availability, while also reducing
simplified and common software toolsets, common
costs, labor, parts and equipment, providing a
human interfacing and standardized template-
reliable, secure system your maintenance people
based objects. Objects can be easily deployed and
can easily use. The InFusion ECS is equipped to
reused across multi-site operations. Based upon a
handle your equipment load.
standardized function set, configuration of the ECS
now becomes a matter of assembling application With better access to information, you’ll know when
objects in a fashion similar to constructing a something goes wrong and how best to direct your
process flow diagram. By shifting the emphasis energies to fix the problem. Consistent information
away from programming and toward assembling means you’ll spend more time where it’s really
strategies, engineers can now spend more time needed, and less time on unplanned calls.
devising better, safer control strategies. Consolidated information is easy to mine for
KPIs and easy to share with managers. Superior
The InFusion ECS not only reduces mundane
interoperability means all your systems can now “With the InFusion ECS, I spend less time on the
programming tasks, but makes it easier and far
communicate with each other and you can
less risky to make application changes—ensuring mundane programming tasks that keep the plant
communicate better with Operations.
global consistency and best practices. The cost of
project implementation is greatly reduced, making Better still, the InFusion ECS provides a system running and more time improving system
engineers’ lives easier and more productive. that evolves over time, so you won’t have to
replace it every ten years. and plant performance.”
The Infusion ECS extends the tradition of the
Invensys Continuously Current philosophy,
allowing the incorporation of new technologies as
they evolve. The extensible nature of application Reduce costs, labor, parts and equipment
objects also means that functionality can continue
to evolve over time without being stuck with the Avoid unplanned calls
fixed bill of materials typically associated with Leverage advanced diagnostic capabilities
legacy systems.
Evolve, don’t replace, your system
LifeTimeSM Services
More than the integration of best-in-class technology, risk by reducing incorrect methods, applications and
the InFusion ECS is the convergence of Invensys’ designs and improve performance while improving
unmatched breadth and depth of expertise, insight revenues and margins.
and know-how. We offer an array of value-driven,
performance-enhancing LifeTime Services that capitalize LifeTime Support Services
on our intellectual property. Available to you 24/7, our integrated global network of
Customer Support Centers is dedicated to delivering
Designed to support and complement the InFusion ECS, our
reliable and timely support to maximize your investment.
LifeTime Services encompass every stage of automation,
supporting the operating asset lifecycle from: installation LifeTime Automation Services
to ongoing options to upgrades monitoring to implementing
Invensys offers a proven track record in managing,
to extending the training to technical support to advanced
implementing and completing automation projects
remote and field engineering services.
on time, on budget and as promised. Our LifeTime
LifeTime Learning Services Automation Services leverage the field-tested project
management and leadership skills of our team to assure
Through a curriculum of over 200 training courses and
smooth project completion and well-documented results.
solutions, our LifeTime Learning Services are designed to
establish consistent methods and applications, manage
service, support, and solutions.” Complementing the InFusion ECS platform and LifeTime The second level provides Asset Performance Services
Services are a suite of Performance Services — this for industrial asset sets such as distillation columns,
unique and powerful combination has made Invensys the exothermic reactors and cooking ovens. The asset sets
leader in delivering true Asset Performance Management. at this level are very specific to the type of industrial
The InFusion ECS enables new world-class performance operation under consideration.
services that generate measurable economic value.
The highest level of Performance Service offered by
Invensys Performance Services are comprised of three
Invensys looks at the overall industrial business as an
interrelated disciplines:
asset set and provides Performance Services for the
Base Asset Management business as a whole. These Performance Services, referred
Asset Set Optimization to as Business Performance Management, offer up-front
Business Performance Management consultation to realize
business value from
These three levels of Performance Service offerings are your industrial assets.
based on the three fundamental levels of assets in
industrial plants.
The first level provides Performance Services that balance
availability and utilization for base industrial assets such
as instruments, valves, pumps, motors and automation
systems. Invensys refers to this level of Performance
Services as Performance Monitors.
More Innovation.
SimSci-Esscor The world’s most High-performance, Powerful interoperable World’s foremost Leading supplier of Groundbreaking
By allowing all of today’s technologies to perfectly
comprehensive offering supervisory, distributed simulation and supplier of safety, industrial automation industrial automation
interoperate, the InFusion ECS unifies the whole plant Simulation, modeling and advanced control play integral of enterprise asset process control and optimization software critical control and and information and information
and enterprise—providing more asset performance at roles in the InFusion ECS platform. SimSci-Esscor delivers management solutions precision instrumentation. and services. turbomachinery software. software architecture.
significantly less cost—giving you greater business excellence in steady-state and dynamic simulation, on-line and services. solutions.
performance. In addition to uniting other vendors’ and off-line optimization, advanced process control and
automation and informationtechnolgies, the InFusion operator training simulators. Supporting more than 750
can also be configured with Invensys’ industry-leading client companies in over 70 countries, SimSci-Esscor®
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Wonderware
The InFusion ECS leverages Wonderware® expertise in
powering intelligent plant decisions in real-time. Renowned
for powerful, yet easy-to-use software tools, such as Achieving true Asset Performance Management means
Production and Performance Management application getting the most from your assets. And to do it right
software. Wonderware provides unsurpassed IT and requires both an enabling system platform and a
plant-level interoperability, endorsed by global software comprehensive set of solutions complemented by the
leaders Microsoft and SAP. Wonderware solutions allow best industry and application know-how. Only Invensys
users to visualize, analyze and optimize plant operations has the talent and technology to transform the APM
in real time, in over 100,000 plants worldwide. business goal into business reality. The InFusion Enterprise
Control System platform along with a complete suite of
Triconex Performance Services and knowledgeable people
Triconex injects the InFusion ECS with a highly is what qualifies Invensys as the leader in Asset
reliable control engine delivering top-to-bottom fault Performance Management.
tolerance to ensure 99.999% availability. Since 1983,
Triconex has installed over 5,000 systems in safety More than a platform for Asset Performance Management,
critical and turbomachinery applications. Triconex® the InFusion ECS is a platform for innovation, limited
systems provide process plants with the highest combined only by the imagination. Put the InFusion ECS to work
levels of safety and reliability, allowing users to in your plant. Contact Invensys today.
maximize plant uptime and profitability.
Avantis
The InFusion ECS leverages Avantis® expertise in asset
availability and utilization. Avantis delivers enterprise
asset management (EAM) solutions to capital-intensive
customers. Avantis customers maximize availability and
reliability of equipment, control costs and mitigate risk,
generating a greater return on their asset investment.
ABOUT INVENSYS
Get More from One.
At Invensys, everything we do improves our customers’ return
from their production assets. Our focus on Asset Performance
Management helps them balance the availability and utilization
of their people, equipment, energy and inventories.
Regardless of the customer’s industry, our model is always the same—
use business knowledge, the latest technology and exceptional
service quality to measure, analyze and implement enterprise-wide
performance improvement through innovative solutions.
Invensys Asset Performance Management solutions enable our
customers to monitor, predict and effectively manage both the
availability and utilization of their industrial assets to help maximize
overall asset value and improve business performance. These
applied APM solutions draw upon technology and expertise from
across Invensys and its technology partners. The Invensys family of
APM solutions is being continually expanded to encompass industry-
specific asset sets.
Proven Invensys product lines, Avantis, Foxboro, SimSci-Esscor,
Triconex and Wonderware represent the most comprehensive portfolio
of automation solutions available for the manufacturer. Invensys delivers
the power of these automation leaders, joining expertise, resources,
and technologies, united for the sole purpose of improving our customers’
operational performance and bottom line.
©2006 Invensys Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. ArchestrA, InFusion, Get More from One., Avantis, Continuously Current, Foxboro, I/A Series, InTouch, Invensys, LifeTime, SimSci-Esscor, Triconex and Wonderware are trademarks of Invensys plc or its
subsidiaries and affiliated companies. All other product names may be the trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. Printed in U.S.A. Bulletin A-91 04/06