Asset Management Options for Legacy Installed Bases
Grant Gerke | October 19, 2016
A recent asset management study, from Genpact Research Institute, reveals that management is ready devote more resources in conjunction with Industrial Internet of Things advances. However, “only 25 percent of those surveyed believe they have a clear IIoT strategy and, of those, only 24 percent are happy with its execution.”
With so many legacy manufacturing plants and maintenance techs looking at options, some older installed bases have a limited approach in presenting instrument data to operators. Industrial networks, such as Fieldbus, are the de-facto standard for many legacy process applications and they’re not going anywhere.
However, smart field data is a real desire for lean operations and maintenance (O&M) teams.
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One solution has been to add more diagnostic data to field applications with smarter devices and current networking in place. Field Device Manager from Honeywell, which supports Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) and Field Device Tool/Device Type Manager (FDT/DTM) is an option to leverage smart device data and move it higher in the enterprise architecture.
This solution relies on a system solution approach that leverages a powerful control architecture, such as the ABB’s Experion system and server.
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