Company launches new configuration suite, improves cybersecurity

13th March 2015

  

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Processing technologies and services provider Emerson Process Management in December introduced the world’s first remote terminal unit (RTU) and highway addressable remote transducer (HART) configuration suite – the OpenEnterprise Field Tools software suite – which enables local and remote configuration and real-time HART device monitoring in remote oil and gas applications.

OpenEnterprise improves productivity by streamlining configuration and monitoring and helps improve personnel safety by eliminating unnecessary trips to the field. The software suite streamlines servicing and maintenance of multiple RTU platforms and HART transmitters across remote sites, which improves operations and field personnel safety.

The new single software toolkit enables the configuration of Emerson’s family of RTUs, flow computers and presets including products under the ROC, FloBoss, and ControlWave brands.

OpenEnterprise Field Tools is a fully functional HART communicator that supports configuration, troubleshooting and maintenance of all wired HART and wireless HART transmitters. It enables the seamless commissioning of HART devices by leveraging HART pass-through by Emerson RTUs and flow computers. HART pass-through enables tunnelling over complex supervisory control and data acquisition, or Scada, infrastructures using native Emerson RTU communication protocols, explains Emerson Process Management remote automation solutions business marketing VP Stuart Miller.

“Field Tools provides a unique, integrated and safe solution to complex remote device configuration challenges. “Installation and field set-up time can now be streamlined by leveraging the single configuration tools suite across both RTUs and field devices. Our field architecture eliminates the need for HART multiplexers, as well as the complexity of Modbus data mapping,” he adds.

Cybersecurity
Emerson Process Management in December announced that it had developed a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity services designed to help its Ovation control system customers in the power industry secure their cyber assets and meet compliance regulations.

Emerson Process Management power and water solutions president Bob Yeager says the expanded services portfolio complements the company’s existing cybersecurity products and service solutions and not just the Ovation system.

“Security has always been top of mind for Emerson and, over the years, we have consistently taken a proactive approach to helping our customers address evolving security challenges,” he notes.

Yeager concludes that formally launching the comprehensive cybersecurity service portfolio enables the company to better serve its customers by helping them address their specific cybersecurity goals.

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Edited by Samantha Herbst
Creamer Media Deputy Editor

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