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Emerson News - Plantweb Digital Ecosystem Takes Users to IIoT Land
The travel brochure for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sure looks attractive—a paradise of connectivity and communications, delivering big data from all sectors, improved decision-making by users, and enabling new levels of efficiency, optimization, productivity and profit. Sounds great, but few process control users and their legacy applications have had the tools to reach the IIoT's sunny shores and take advantage of it, until now.
Like an airline opening a new and much-needed route, Emerson Automation Solutions announced Oct. 24 that it's leveraging decades of digital automation expertise to launch its expanded Plantweb digital ecosystem. Unveiled at a press conference on the first day of Emerson Global Users Exchange 2016 in Austin, Texas, the Plantweb digital ecosystem is a scalable portfolio of standards-based hardware, software, intelligent devices and services for securely implementing IIoT to help users achieve measurable business performance improvement.
“We’ve been improving operations performance for many years, and many of today's efforts such as IIoT are built on older practices and technologies. In fact, process automation is a unique lever for connecting operations to business performance and its data, connectivity, analytics, expertise and mobility. That sounds a lot like IIoT, but we've already been doing it for awhile,” said Peter Zornio, chief strategic officer, Emerson Automation Solutions. “In 1997, Emerson revolutionized the automation landscape with Plantweb, the first field-based digital plant architecture. Now, we're doing it again by harnessing the power of IIoT to give customers the technology foundation for Operational Certainty.”
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