Moving Control System Maintenance to a Proactive Strategy
In this episode of the Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered podcast series, we connect with Bart Winters of Honeywell Process Solutions to learn about shifting your industrial control systems from a reactive to a proactive maintenance strategy.
A Proactive Strategy for Control System Maintenance
Why proactive control system maintenance covering I/O health and performance, HMI/SCADA, and controllers is critical to avoiding unplanned downtime and providing line of sight into issues that need to be addressed.
May 9th, 2021
It’s long been known that a reactive approach to industrial control system maintenance is not an ideal strategy. Working from a reactive stance, in which problems are corrected as they occur, results in unplanned downtimes, lost production costs, as well as potentially higher repair costs as problems are not detected early enough to avoid additional impacts.
Moving to a proactive strategy, however, requires technology that can provide insights into control systems and their performance to alert users to the fact that specific maintenance or repairs are needed to keep the system in working order.
Universal I/O: Just in Time for the Digital Transformation
A standardized version of I/O provides users and machine builders with the opportunity to scale systems quickly, but traditional I/O still holds an important role.
May 5th, 2021
Whether it’s called universal I/O, flexible I/O, intelligent I/O, configurable I/O, electronic marshalling, etc., the use of smart I/O enables more flexibility for I/O changes an increasingly common occurrence as industry shifts to more customized and manufacturing-on-demand production processes. A major driver behind the push for universal I/O comes from large corporations, like ExxonMobil, looking to ease the commissioning process and enable changes to a control system.
How Digital Workflows Improve Manufacturing Operations
Operations workflow software is about more than directing workers from point A to point B; it can also dramatically reduce downtime, improve cybersecurity, and reduce labor and maintenance costs.
Mar 25th, 2021
Amid all the interest in the digital transformation of the manufacturing and processing industries, most discussions tend to focus on data and analytics. These factors are, of course, integral to industry’s digital transformation but ultimately, the analysis of manufacturing operations data is about delivering visibility.
Having visibility into production assets and using that info to drive improvements is the key to modern manufacturing and business in general these days. However, in the operations technology space, visibility on the plant floor has been a challenge due to the number of different systems and equipment used from a variety of suppliers, which often leads to an environment that s more reactive
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