October / November User Group Events Provide the Opportunity to See Reality to Industry Trends

October / November User Group Events Provide the Opportunity to See Reality to Industry Trends

I am stting on a plane to LAX, on the first of many over the next 6 weeks, as I visit many of the Invensys Operations Mgmt User Groups Events, providing a more direct environment for users and potential users to engage with each other and the thought leaders.

I hope many of you are going to these events, found on the Invensys site.(www.iom.invensys.com)

As I talk with customers and engineering houses this is an exciting time of evolution, as companies continue to drive to a holistic view across their industrial facilities, and agility. Below shows the big trends we saw about 5 years ago, these are no long future they are reality. The user groups events will show case studies, and technologies enabling reality to these transitions.

I have talked about the transition from “replacing people” to “Empowering People” at length, this I believe is one of the biggest transitions in automation history. The move to realtime, with a holistic view, with the requirement to be agile, while now managing the production, not the traditional focus on process control. Process control will come naturally when production management is sustained and efficient.

One of the exciting concepts being introduced at these events is the new contextualization process analysis which really starts to information tools “out of the box” to a new level. Providing not only the traditional trending but the ability be aware of the other context associated with that data, event etc. Yes, many of us have built this in the past but now to have natural tools with this capability brings value faster.

This is all apart of the much trend to “Situational Awareness”, (which I will expand on next week) the ability to be aware of situations, and associations, so the "discovery experience to understanding" is natural. No matter if it is alarms, a batch, and event, and process variable, as operators, and personal oversee more data awareness must be easy.

Also the introduction of new modules for quality, and significant historian architecture enhancements.

Initially starting in USA, theses events go on to Europe and Asia.

Please content me via email (tim.sowell@invensys.com) if you would like to meet up and discuss any of the concepts I talked through in this blog, or others that you interested.