Учебники CALS(SE) / Enterprise Control Systems Unify Manufacturing and Business Systems to Provide Operational Excellence

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The InFusion Collaboration Environment is user definable and configurable. Capabilities and functionality can be defined by the individual user or class of user. The interface can reside on the user's desktop, on a dedicated touch-screen, on a wireless tablet or PDA, or on the “wall” display itself. Displays can be mirrored and display content recorded while information can be shared, annotated, merged, and controlled from any point in the system.

InFusion View

InFusion View builds upon the InTouch HMI technology from Wonderware. One of the key advantages to building InFusion View upon InTouch is the very large pool of certified InTouch engineers that are available worldwide. If the user is already familiar with InTouch, they can do engineering with InFusion View. For InFusion View, Invensys has added several functions on top of InTouch, such as pre-configured alarm management, navigation, system management, integration with alarm panels, scratchpad trending, and generally provided defaults that make it easy to engineer and easy to operate. Infusion Remote View is a variant of Infusion View and is designed for deployment as a thin client able to be viewed remotely with low bandwidth network connections. The client hardware can be a myriad of differing form factors such as PDAs, tablets, and web browsers.

InFusion System Manager

InFusion System Manager is a multi-pane display environment that reports on the health and status of the InFusion system. By providing both current and historical information for trending and profiling process equipment,

InFusion Engineering Environment

The InFusion Engineering Environment is a graphical design and engineering tool that facilitates the creation of reusable libraries, and serves as the single unified engineering platform for InFusion. This engineering suite allows for configuring application and control objects and provides a consistent environment and common method for implementing engineering

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designs. Features such as propagation, bulk generation, nesting, selfdocumentation, and reusable templates create an environment can improve productivity and reduce commissioning times. Because it employs Visio, users have a familiar interface for graphical rendering as well as the ability to view a very complex control strategy on a single page.

InFusion Field Device Manager

The InFusion Field Device Manager -- an add-on extension to the InFusion Engineering Environment -- is an open toolset to configure, commission, maintain, and diagnose FOUNDATION Fieldbus, Profibus PA, and HART devices throughout their entire life cycle. Together Field Device Manager and the Engineering Environment provide an integrated engineering and maintenance environment. Field Device Manager is one of the first products available on the market that supports both FDT and Enhanced EDDL technologies.

InFusion Field Device Manager provides reusable engineering through customizable templates for each device model. Attributes and settings for configuration, upload, download, linked documentation, and setup of online views for a given manufacturer and model of device can be engineered once in the template and automatically inherited by each individual device. A Commissioning Wizard automates all the steps of device commissioning, making it easier for lesser skilled personnel to replace failed devices.

InFusion Supports Wonderware Components

Because it is built upon a common ArchestrA framework, the full suite of Wonderware applications is also compatible with InFusion. These include the ActiveFactory real-time trending and reporting tool, the SuiteVoyager web-based display tool, Production Events Module (PEM), and SCADAlarm application, which integrates with the alarm database within InFusion and provides alerts to devices such as cell phones and pagers.

The Business Value Proposition of

InFusion ECS

InFusion provides a single environment for managing data and turning it into useful information. This information is available to anyone that needs it at any time from any point in the system, which is a necessary require-

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ment for ARC’s Collaborative Process Automation System (CPAS) model and our model for Collaborative Manufacturing Management (CMM). The important question is who gets access to that information and what can they do with it? InFusion is not meant to be used only by engineering and operations, but by anyone at the operations and enterprise level, including management, maintenance, and even accounting. It is this ability to create a knowledge workforce that forms the foundation of the business value proposition of InFusion, along with other elements such as legacy platform independence, bridging the gap between operations and IT, scalability, and several other factors.

InFusion Aims to Create Knowledge Workers at All

Levels of the Enterprise

The real promise of InFusion is that it provides a powerful mechanism to empower a knowledge workforce at all levels of the enterprise, not just from the field or plant floor to the control room. To date, management has never really had a real-time view into the financial performance of operations. The ability of InFusion to feed real time accounting information directly into SAP financial modules, for example, opens a whole new world of information and decision making capabilities to

the financial side of the business.

The Collaboration Environment is another important example of how InFusion has the potential to radically change work processes and procedures within manufacturing enterprises. Providing a unified

“mission control” style view to workers, particularly at the higher management level, can have a profound impact on operations and, more importantly, multiple facilities or plants along the value chain. Process automation systems that are available today provide a great view into the performance of operations at one location, but many fall drastically short in providing a coherent view into what is happening across multiple plants or locations and the impact on both ends of the supply chain.

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Invensys used this idea to great effect when they showed the hypothetical example of the DaCosta Chemical Company during the InFusion launch. One of the company’s plants had generated excess feedstock for another plant that was downstream, but then discovered that the downstream plant could not use the feedstock because they had scheduled a maintenance turnaround. The company lost money because the feedstock had to be sold quickly on the spot market. With InFusion, it is possible to achieve this visibility into the operations of all the plants within the manufacturing enterprise, so when decisions are made they will take into account the impact they will have across the entire enterprise. The Collaboration Environment can provide this kind of visibility by presenting key information points from several different sources within the enterprise, so the end user can make decisions that based in context with what is happening across the enterprise.

These include getting optimum performance out of assets, acting with maximum agility when business opportunities arise, and providing increased visibility into the enterprise. Most importantly, InFusion provides a common platform that allows users to significantly drive down integration costs and total cost of ownership for the many disparate automation and production management systems that exist in today’s plants.

Legacy Platform Independence and Legacy

Interoperability Provides Scalability

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build on it over time. InFusion can actually prolong the useful life of a legacy platform through its ability to adapt to legacy environments. Because InFusion is not a DCS, it does not need to be purchased in the same manner as a DCS. InFusion is sold in a series of components that are designed to be scalable, so the end user can start with a comparatively small investment and scale up as the need arises.

InFusion Bridges Gaps Between Traditional

Manufacturing Enterprise Domains

Many gaps exist between the various domains of the manufacturing enterprise, and these gaps have increasingly become a source of conflict for companies and can be a real source of pain for end users. One prime example is the gap between manufacturing operations and IT. For years, there has been a schism between IT departments and operations. This divide is a product of the different needs and uses of IT in the business and manufacturing environment, along with the different skills necessary to implement, use, and maintain systems. As the technology that each group uses begins to merge, there are significant opportunities to leverage common technology, approaches, skills, and knowledge to drive improved

performance not only in terms of enhanced service levels and lower costs, but also in leveraging information throughout the entire organization.

InFusion is not deployed at the “DCS” level – it is deployed at the operations management level in the zone that lies between the plant floor opera-

tions and enterprise operations. Because InFusion bridges the gap between the operations and the enterprise, it is much easier to engage IT personnel in discussions and bring their expertise into the overall picture. Even with using commodity technology in manufacturing, the complexity of the manufacturing IT environment is increasing, and neither their IT department nor operations have all of the skills required to manage this new environment properly. Achieving the maximum benefits requires collaboration between people, who often have different, but equally valid views and perspectives. InFusion provides a good environment for this collaboration to happen, not only between operations and IT, but also between operations and the enterprise and operations and maintenance.

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templates to allow customers to implement certain specific functions easily. These include a production events module, pump monitor, loop monitor, enterprise integration, refinery scheduling, wellhead optimization, instrument monitor, and many others. These templates can be strung together in a modular fashion to perform other specific functions. Templates can of course also be created by the end user and quickly reproduced.

InFusion ECS Incorporates Standards

Incorporation of standards is a key requirement for end users, and ARC is a strong advocate of standards because they promote choices and provide a high degree of predictability and interoperability. InFusion is built on a foundation of international standards, and Invensys has created a model with InFusion that conforms to the ISA 95 and ISA 88 standards, as well as OPC. The Production Events Module, for example, contains segment names that match the segment names in the ISA 95 standard. Aside from international ISA and IEC standards, InFusion supports standards and best practices from other groups. InFusion is built around the MIMOSA and Open O&M group best practices for maintenance and reliability. From an IT perspective, InFusion can access data provided by Microsoft SharePoint Services, Oracle Databases, and other platforms.

Recent Successes and the Road Ahead

InFusion is real and products are shipping commercially today. This includes the various software components as well as the predefined industry and functional templates from both Invensys Process Systems and Wonderware. Several InFusion projects are already up and running with between 10 and 20 systems installed to date ranging from small applications costing several thousand dollars to multi-million dollar facilities.

InFusion has the advantage of being flexible enough to be sold through multiple distribution channels. ARC expects that there will be many

smaller opportunities that both Invensys and Wonderware will be able to take advantage of, since the users are afforded the ability to start small with InFusion and expand their application over time.

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InFusion is off to a good start, but Invensys still has several challenges ahead. The message of what InFusion really is and what it can do need to be articulated clearly to the marketplace. It must be made clear that InFusion is not a DCS nor is it a replacement for I/A or A2 or any other legacy platforms from Invensys. It also must be made clear that InFusion is not simply a collection of existing Invensys and Wonderware components bundled together in a new package. Some of the components that comprise InFusion are built on existing applications and solutions available from Invensys, but the key aspects of the system from the Historian to the Application Environment, the Field Device Manager, the Engineering Environment, and other key components are new components and not just a reconfiguration of existing offerings. Finally, the real proof that InFusion provides the benefits that it promises as a unified environment for operations management will come through the experience of the end users in the field.

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Analyst: Larry O'Brien

Editor: Dick Hill

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