NECI, with our partners at Emerson (a global technology and software company), are thrilled to bring our vision of a new, software-defined automation architecture into reality. Through the Plantweb™ digital ecosystem, this next-generation architecture will enable companies through ‘boundless automation’, helping them manage, connect, and deliver operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) data seamlessly across their entire enterprise.
Coming from the latest expansion of Plantweb with the Aspen Tech industrial software portfolio, NECI and Emerson aim to accelerate manufacturing today and allow our customers to optimize their business and sustainability performance.
“The industrial sector is facing a pivotal moment, with the intersecting priorities of safety, productivity and sustainability forcing a crossroads between ‘the way things have always been done’ and the tech-powered vision of tomorrow,” said Mark Bulanda, executive president of Emerson’s Automation Solutions business. “As an automation leader with expanding software capabilities through our AspenTech addition, Emerson is well-positioned to help the industries we serve navigate a path to a digital future.”
Currently, the more common automation architecture used across most essential industries isolates operational data from hardware and software systems, barring any opportunity for meaningful data use. This is because such a siloed approach results in separate layers of automation that block data access from one layer to another.
To leverage the full potential of automation, OT data must be accessed securely and put to work synergistically across layers to optimize processes, reliability, safety, and sustainability simultaneously. This is especially crucial at a time when new technologies and applications combined with market needs call for a new automation paradigm where a unified environment streams data across the enterprise effortlessly, whenever and wherever the data may be needed.
Emerson’s software-defined, data-centric, and app-enabled architecture can help democratize critical data, enabling companies to harness the true potential of digital transformation applications and programs.
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get in touch with one of our Experts 24/7/356 at
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