July 29, 2024 Emerson Automation Solutions
Emerson, a global leader in automation and technology, is updating its industry-leading Ovation™ automation platform with a software-defined architecture that enables utilities to better leverage data, new technologies and artificial intelligence (AI). The enhancements will help the industry achieve new levels of operational excellence and meet growing demand for reliable, affordable and sustainable power and water.
Energy transition, global sustainability goals, and today’s progress towards “electrifying everything” are transforming the power and water industries. Solving these complex challenges requires modern, adaptive technologies that interconnect previously siloed data and provide a holistic operational view to improve performance and availability.
Emerson’s Ovation 4.0 automation platform is built on the company’s Boundless Automation™ vision to integrate and deliver valuable reliability, safety, production and sustainability data across the enterprise to optimize operations. Enhancements to the software-defined platform include advanced automation, simulation and AI capabilities.
“Our next-generation platform helps modernize power and water operations, unlocking predictive strategies and enabling utilities to meet the changing pressures of the industry,” said Bob Yeager, president of Emerson’s Power and Water division. “Ovation 4.0 delivers a single automation platform with real-time data, empowering customers to respond to a rapidly changing marketplace and providing the insights they need to work smarter, better and faster.”
Electric and water utilities with complex portfolios of distributed energy resources (DERs) – including combined cycle plants, wind farms, hydroelectric plants, solar panels, battery storage, microgrids and electric vehicle charging stations – can leverage Ovation 4.0’s Grid Edge Ecosystem to manage bidirectional inputs in real time and deliver distributed data across their networks. Through a fast, localized computing environment across DERs, Grid Edge Controllers provide a more detailed view of the grid, placing rich data safely closer to operators for improved load and demand management.
Emerson’s latest Ovation software-based platform is part of a robust solutions portfolio designed to help future-proof utilities, including a full suite of advanced pattern recognition and machine learning technologies to monitor, control and optimize assets. These technologies can be used in local or remote operational control centers to centralize knowledge, predict maintenance requirements and optimize operations. The new Ovation View human-machine interface and integration with Ovation Green renewable supervisory control and data acquisition software provide a clear view of operations, advanced analytics and predictive tools. This Ovation 4.0 integration, combined with these new capabilities, improves overall awareness across traditional and renewable generation and energy storage segments, reducing costs while improving plant safety, reliability and sustainability.
The Ovation 4.0 platform also delivers generative AI models trained on secure Ovation knowledge base data to provide prescriptive guidance on operations and maintenance practices. Equipped with AI models, Ovation digital twin technology delivers limitless analytical computing power that enables data-driven decision-making, business-wide collaboration, and on-demand support.
All Ovation 4.0 technologies are seamlessly supported through the Guardian™ digital customer experience, a single point of access to real-time monitoring, detailed analytics and actionable insights.
“With our broad portfolio integrated into the Ovation 4.0 automation platform, power and water companies now have access to a comprehensive technology ecosystem, unmatched industry expertise, consistent customer support, and decades of engineering innovation and efficiency,” Yeager said. “With this enhancement, we strengthen our position as the go-to partner to help customers modernize with a software-defined architecture that delivers cutting-edge control systems without having to completely overhaul their existing infrastructure.”
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