Integrating Process Safety, Visibility, and Cybersecurity
Following its acquisition by Hexagon, PAS explains how its software integrates with Hexagon’s technologies to address critical industrial process operations factors.
Feb 11th, 2021
At the 2021 ARC Industry Forum, representatives of PAS highlighted how its software products addressing process safety, digitalization, and cybersecurity complement Hexagon’s industrial software and sensor technologies. Hexagon acquired PAS in late 2020.
Process safety, one of PAS’s earliest emphases, is covered by PlantStateIntegrity, which can now be integrated with Hexagon’s j5 Operations Logbook, an application that allows users to record and manage operational, process, and safety metrics, such as control loop deviations, process disturbances, and alarm frequency. By using PlantStateIntegrity to feed information into the j5 Operations Logbook, complex manual shift handovers can be replaced by the creation of automatically generated digital reports, said Jaclyn Arnold, vice president of owner-operator business at Hexagon. This capability is particularly helpful amid social distancing requirements imposed by COVID-19, which render physical shift handovers not just inefficient, but potentially dangerous.