Boundless Automation™
Emerson Sees Boundless Automation™ as Industry Turning Point for Addressing Data Barriers and Modernising Operations
With its innovative leadership, Emerson, a global technology and software company, is poised to transform industrial manufacturing with a next-generation automation architecture. The architecture is designed to break down data silos, liberate data, and unleash the power of software through Boundless Automation™.
As many companies strive to unlock the full value of digital transformation, there is a growing awareness of the limitations of today's automation architecture. Technology stacks built around each function, including production, reliability, safety and sustainability, have resulted in fragmented data that is difficult to integrate or use. As a result, the new business models promised by digital transformation remain elusive.
To address this challenge and help customers improve their operations, Emerson is introducing a vision and actionable strategy to put more computing power where it's needed most and to create a blueprint for a modern industrial computing environment. This environment includes the flexibility to deploy software across the entire smart site; the software-defined modern edge; and the cloud. All three areas will be connected through a unified data model that will help maintain the data environment and improve data availability and security.
Konslai spoke to industry leaders at the Emerson Global User Conference. The conference is for customers in the chemical, life sciences, metals and mining, power, hydrogen, biofuels, carbon capture and energy industries.
Emerson's modern software-defined automation architecture will break down hierarchical automation networks to securely enable democratised, contextualised data models for workers and artificial intelligence (AI) engines that rely on a continuous flow of information. Emerson continues to develop rich technology solutions that will lay the foundation for a future of borderless automation.
Emerson's Borderless Automation Architecture breaks down the barriers of data silos using a cloud, edge, and intelligent field architecture. Combining these disparate systems with a unified data model provides new paradigms and helps companies optimise operations in terms of production, reliability, safety, sustainability and workforce.
Smart Site
The smart site will simplify access to large amounts of data from a wide range of sources and increase the diversity of applications. With smarter devices and new connectivity technologies such as 5G and APL, customers can simplify connectivity from different locations around the globe and streamline integration across new architectures.
The Edge
The new OT edge creates a modern, secure, low-latency computing environment that puts new software tools and actionable data as close to the user as possible. The enhanced edge environment builds a platform for IT and OT personnel to innovate and collaborate more easily.
Cloud
Provides complex operational and engineering capabilities in the field and across the enterprise by delivering powerful analytical computing capabilities, enterprise collaboration, attractive lifecycle costs, and on-demand support and services.
Reprinted from Emerson
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