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Increased output. Lower
costs.
With PlantWeb, you can have both. |
As a key component in Emerson's PlantWeb® digital architecture,
Ovation® offers a growing and unequaled array of fully
integrated products and capabilities to help you gain and
maintain a competitive advantage for years to come.
PlantWeb is an automated solution that delivers asset management,
process control and management execution through intelligent
field devices, industry standard platforms, and integrated
modular software. It provides seamless connection to widely
adopted digital 'smart' device communication protocols including
HART, FOUNDATION fieldbus, Profibus DP and DeviceNet.
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New Project Benefits
An Ovation PlantWeb architecture can reduce project installation
costs up to 30% through significant savings in wiring and
conduit requirements, reduced engineering expense during
system configuration and commissioning, and earlier, more
trouble-free plant startup. In fact, a recent independent
study showed that on a new 600 MW coal-fired power plant,
the implementation of a PlantWeb architecture can result
in savings of as much as $20 million.
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Operational Benefits
The standard platforms in a PlantWeb architecture
have been field proven in hundreds of applications to improve
plant efficiency by as much as 2% by boosting plant availability,
capacity and response while reducing operations and maintenance
costs.
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Leveraging Digital
Intelligence
The Ovation PlantWeb digital plant architecture begins
with a strong foundation of intelligent field devices from
industry leaders such as Fisher and Rosemount. With their digital
capabilities — including onboard microprocessors, embedded
software, and open-standard communications — these devices
can:
- Deliver precise measurement and control to reduce process
variability
- Handle multiple variables to reduce the number of devices
required
- Perform diagnostics to monitor device health and predict
problems
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Connecting Your Plant
PlantWeb uses open communications standards to link
field intelligence, systems and applications in a plant wide
network that delivers information when and where it's needed
most.
Open, industry-proven communications standards let you select
the best components to meet your needs, integrate them with
other plant and business systems, and add more products or
capabilities in the future.
Besides supporting popular protocols from 4-20 mA and Fast
Ethernet to DeviceNet, Profibus DP, and Modbus protocols,
PlantWeb is the only architecture that provides a single,
integrated architecture that delivers the full capabilities
of HART, FOUNDATION fieldbus, and OPC.
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Controlling the Process
The Ovation PlantWeb digital architecture provides the precise,
efficient control you need for better process performance.
Process and equipment information from intelligent digital
devices not only enables you to predict and remedy conditions
that could otherwise lead to unexpected downtime, but helps
reduce process variability by keeping devices and instruments
performing at their best. This, in turn, enables you to
reduce costs, improve quality, and increase output by running
closer to optimum.
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Optimizing Your Assets with
AMS Suite™
The AMS Suite of applications is a core component of the proven
PlantWeb digital plant
architecture. AMS Suite powers PlantWeb by using predictive
intelligence to improve availability and performance of production
assets including mechanical equipment, electrical systems,
process equipment, instruments and valves. AMS Suite applications
include:
- AMS Suite Asset Portal — Consolidates valuable
information from AMS Suite applications allowing experts
to view current status, active alerts and historical trends
to expedite decision making.
- AMS Suite Intelligent Device Manager — Provides
a powerful tool for predictive diagnostics, documentation,
calibration management and configuration of intelligent
devices. With the Intelligent Device Manager, the Ovation
expert control system offers seamless communication with
intelligent field devices and bus technologies like HART
and FOUNDATION fieldbus to deliver the power of predictive
intelligence.
- AMS Suite Equipment Performance
Monitor — Provides
details of equipment degradation and calculates the optimal
maintenance schedules in terms of financial impact.
- AMS Suite Machinery Health Manager — Tracks
the condition of rotating machinery including vibration,
infrared thermography, oil analysis, ultrasonics and motor
diagnostics.
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