Next Generation DCS: More Than Control
Next Generation DCS: More than Control
The state of DCS systems is changing. No longer are people looking for simply a system to control their process, but are looking for a system that can help them control their business. The ability to control the process with accuracy, flexibility, and high availability is more important than ever to increasing quality, productivity and providing a sustainable competitive advantage, but now the ability to link that control system to the business systems is changing the game.
Collaborative Process Automation Model
GE Intelligent Platforms was one of the first vendors to embrace what ARC has defined as a new model called Collaborative Process Automation. In it they described how barriers to information still exist between automation systems and operations management and enterprise systems, but how companies are not only looking at how to, but actually removing those barriers with new and innovative approaches.
“Proficy Process Systems is more than just GE-IP’s answer to a collaborative production system. It is the foundation of an approach to process automation that can provide much more. GE-IP’s capabilities in areas such as condition monitoring, advanced process control, environmental monitoring, and even wireless technology all provide promising synergies that the company is developing to become a true global player in process automation.”
ARC Advisory Group – February 2008
Closing the Information and Automation Gap
With Proficy Process Systems, GE Intelligent Platforms provides an advanced DCS that delivers the power and effectiveness of a distributed control system with unmatched flexibility, openness and price affordability. With our Proficy software layer inherently architected into our process control system, optimization and analytics, production management are simply layered on.
Partnering with GE Intelligent Platforms for your process control needs provides benefits that can give you the edge in today's competitive global economy:
- Results. With GE Intelligent Platforms Process Solutions, you'll achieve improved performance, increased productivity and lower Total Cost of Ownership.
- Experience. Long a leader in process technologies, GE Intelligent Platform's network of qualified system integrators and our own professional services teams work together to deliver the industry- and application-specific domain experience necessary to create a solution that's right for your business.
- Freedom. Our solutions free you from the restraints of traditional DCS and PLC systems, and give you the flexibility to configure, scale, deploy, and maintain your system the way you want to.
- Contemporary Solutions. Not only is our technology state-of-the-art and industry-leading, but our flexible service and support model is innovative as well, allowing you to create a customized solution that's tailored to your business needs.
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