Emerson Wireless Technologies Lay Foundation for Industrial IoT Adoption Across Entire Manufacturing Enterprise
Emerson Celebrates 10 Years, 10 Billion Hours of Industrial
Wireless Operations Around the World
After a decade of pioneering wireless technologies for industrial
companies, Emerson (NYSE:EMR) predicts the next 10 years will see
exponential growth in the adoption of wireless and pervasive sensing
applications that help companies maximize safety and reliability,
optimize production and enable Industrial Internet of Things (IoT)
strategies.
A key technology of Emerson’s Plantweb™ digital ecosystem, wireless
products have transformed global industrial facilities around the world.
As many technologies of the past decade have accelerated and improved
information at people’s fingertips, industrial wireless has given
manufacturers the digital technology to access essential data to make
better decisions and improve operational performance.
“Wireless is arguably the most impactful technology for industrial
manufacturers since the introduction of digital instrumentation more
than three decades ago,” says Bob Karschnia, vice president and general
manager, wireless, Emerson Automation Solutions. “Over the past 10
years, industrial wireless combined with smart sensors have provided the
foundation that will support cloud-based applications, remote monitoring
and other industrial IoT programs over the next decade.”
By collaborating with customers on early installations, Emerson helped
introduce the world’s first industrial wireless automation standard in
2007. Since then, Emerson has surpassed 10 billion hours of wireless
operations across more than 32,000 networks, proving its reliability,
robustness and security. While initial adoption focused on harsh, remote
and difficult to reach environments, wireless has expanded customers’
automation ecosystems from core functions to new applications such as
acoustic monitoring, corrosion detection and power consumption
monitoring.
New plant construction is leveraging wireless technology for other
enterprise-wide applications, such as equipment health monitoring and
energy management, with upwards of 20 percent wireless infrastructure.
“Given the ‘new normal’ for oil prices and the intense focus on getting
more value from existing assets, companies are increasingly turning to
wireless as a cost-effective and highly efficient technology for
fleet-wide performance optimization,” Karschnia said. “In the next 15
years, there could be 100 percent wireless plants, just as many homes
today have cut the cord on wired telephone service.”
The Emerson wireless portfolio of gateways and devices support Emerson’s
Plantweb digital ecosystem that harnesses industrial IoT to expand
digital intelligence to the entire manufacturing enterprise, while
providing an architecture for either on- or off-premise monitoring.
Providing the communications network for Industrial IoT, wireless is
also helping customers collaborate with Emerson’s experts through remote
monitoring and other cloud-based services.
Emerson wireless technologies, based on the internationally recognized
WirelessHART standard approved by the International Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC) in 2010, are widely implemented in refineries, oil
fields, offshore platforms, chemical plants and other industrial
facilities around the world. With them, manufacturing personnel obtain
plant information on-demand to achieve operational certainty, including
greater reliability, worker and plant safety, reduced emissions and
lower risk of environmental impacts.
Emerson recently announced its new dual-mode wireless gateway which
helps customers establish a robust and flexible wireless plant
infrastructure, supporting both WirelessHART and ISA100 industrial
wireless communications standards. To help manufacturers minimize
potentially negative impacts on their operations, Emerson recently
introduced technologies for advanced wireless detection of piping
corrosion, steam and gas leaks, as well as wireless monitoring of power
consumption.
To learn more about Emerson’s wireless portfolio and customer successes,
visit www.Emerson.com/Wireless.
To learn more about Emerson’s Plantweb digital ecosystem, visit www.Emerson.com/Plantweb.
About Emerson
Emerson (NYSE: EMR), headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), is a
global technology and engineering company providing innovative solutions
for customers in industrial, commercial, and residential markets. Our
Emerson Automation Solutions business helps process, hybrid, and
discrete manufacturers maximize production, protect personnel and the
environment while optimizing their energy and operating costs. Our
Emerson Commercial and Residential Solutions business helps ensure human
comfort and health, protect food quality and safety, advance energy
efficiency, and create sustainable infrastructure. For more information
visit Emerson.com.
View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171010005660/en/
Copyright Business Wire 2017