Advanced Applications
Our Advanced Applications business within Invensys Operations Management supplies software and solutions which enable the safe and efficient operation of sophisticated manufacturing and power generation facilities. This business uses industry-leading software technology and engineering solutions to help our customers to improve their performance.
ArchestrA®
Our ArchestrA® open-platform software architecture allows system-ready applications to be assembled by using and reusing a set of standard library components, without the need for any scripting or compiling of code. ArchestrA forms the basis of Invensys Operations Management's InFusion capabilities.
ATO
In Invensys Rail, Automatic Train Operation (ATO) is the non-safety part of a train operation system related to station stops and starts.
ATP
In Invensys Rail, Automatic Train Protection (ATP) is the safety system which ensures that trains remain a safe distance apart and have sufficient warning to allow them to stop without colliding with another train.
Avantis
Within Invensys Operations Management, our Avantis® Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution forms the core of our Asset Performance Management (APM) solution set. These maintenance repair and operations solutions provide maintenance management, spares and inventory management and a complete procurement capability.
CBTC
In Invensys Rail Communications Based Train Control (CBTC) is an automated control system for mass transit networks that ensures the safe operation of rolling stock using data communication between various control entities that make up the system. CBTC is a modern successor of the traditional railway signalling systems.
Control and Safety
Our base Control and Safety business within Invensys Operations Management includes our Foxboro DCS and our world-leading Triconex safety and critical control systems.
DCS
A Distributed Control Systems (DCS) is a control system in which the controller elements are not central in location but are split up into separate areas for the major control functions of the plant (for example controllers, batch historians and displays). This helps to increase the efficiency of production: because the controls are not in a single box, one can fail without production ceasing. Because they use a data network rather than hardwired control points parts of a system controlled by a DCS can more easily be upgraded and replaced.
DTG-R
In Invensys Rail and part of the ATP system, Distance-To-Go Radio (DTG-R) is the system measuring where the train is relative to the next train or signal.
EHS
Environmental Health & Safety.
EHS&S
Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability - an Invensys-specific term highlighting our commitment to sustainable business performance.
EMI
Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI), a term which applies to the software used to bring a company's manufacturing-related data together from many sources for the purposes of reporting, analysis and passing data between enterprise-level and plant-floor systems.
Enterprise Control System (ECS)
We are combining all of our technologies into a single Enterprise Control System (ECS). This industry-first system integrates all aspects of plant operations, spanning DCS, safety, decision support, execution and visibility, in much the same way that ERP platforms have done for back office systems. Our InFusion ECS leverages an open architecture to seamlessly integrate the Invensys Operations Management portfolio, as well as third-party offerings provided by our vast ecosystem of partners.
ERP
Where MES informs decisions at the plant level, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) informs decisions for the enterprise, by integrating data and data management across the back office. ERP software ensures that departments are using the same figures for financial and management accounting, business analysis, purchasing, sales and other functions. ERP software is used to improve the quality of information available to business planners.
ERTMS
Part of our Invensys Rail offerings, ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System) is the common signalling system established to enable interoperability within Europe. ERTMS is however, rapidly becoming a world standard (i.e. not just within Europe) and is being implemented in suburban and commuter networks too (by Invensys Rail in Madrid and New Zealand) and not just in high-speed lines.
ETCS
Part of ERMTS, the European Train Control System (ETCS) makes it possible to transmit permitted speed information to the train driver and to monitor constantly the driver’s compliance with these instructions.
Eurotherm
Within Invensys Operations Management our Eurotherm branded products are leaders in control, measurement and data recording solutions and services to industrial and process customers.
EYESim
EYESIM™ is a solution linking control room operators to field operators and maintenance operators by means of a high-fidelity process simulation and virtual walkthrough plant environment. EYESIM provides complete plant crew training to improve skills that are safety-critical by enabling operators to perform tasks in a simulated environment, allowing them to react quickly and correctly.
Field Devices and Sensors (also called Measurement and Instrumentation Products)
Field devices and sensors both refer to monitoring devices in production industry. Field devices, including temperature, pressure and flow control valves and analytical instruments, are generally used in continuous process industry, whereas sensors (for example, proximity and positional sensors) are more often found in industries involving assembling products. Field devices and sensors can be connected in a field network, to provide networked production monitoring. Includes Invensys Operations Management's Foxboro® and Foxboro-Eckardt field devices.
Foxboro
Foxboro, an Invensys Operations Management brand, is a leader in measurement and instrumentation products, DCS and SCADA solutions for the industrial automation market.
HMI
Human-Machine Interface (HMI) systems provide a graphical representation of how a production process is working - presenting the raw data in a way more suited for a human operator to understand. HMI systems can provide diagnostic information to maintenance personnel, and allow an operator to control the processes it displays.
HVAC
In Invensys Controls, Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning systems.
IM Serv
Our IM Serv brand, part of Invensys Operations Management, is one of the UK leaders in carbon and energy solutions that help organisations in all sectors to save energy, reduce costs, control carbon and be greener.
Industrial Automation
The use of control systems to control and manage industrial machinery and processes, reducing the need for human intervention by automating processes and responses. Industrial Automation solutions help customers to increase process efficiency and profitability, meet statutory and validation requirements and improve their information flow and decision-making capabilities.
InFusion
Our InFusion TM ECS, based on our world-leading Wonderware(R) operations management software, ArchestrA, leverages an open architecture to seamlessly integrate the Invensys Operations Management portfolio, as well as third-party offerings provided by our vast ecosystem of partners.
IntelaTrac
Within Invensys Operations Management, Wonderware IntelaTrac is the industry-leading mobile workforce and decision support system. IntelaTrac includes configurable software and ruggedized mobile hardware solutions that enable workflow, data collection and general task management, for plant operations, maintenance management, production tracking and compliance applications.
Interlocking
In railway signalling, an interlocking is an arrangement of signal apparatus that prevents conflicting movements through an arrangement of tracks such as junctions or crossings.
Invensys Controls
Invensys Controls designs, engineers and manufactures products, components, systems and services used in appliances and heating, air conditioning/cooling and refrigeration products across a wide range of industries in residential and commercial markets.
Invensys Operations Management
Invensys Operations Management is a technology, software and consulting business that creates and applies advanced technologies that enable the safe and efficient operation of large industrial plants such as oil refineries, fossil fuel and nuclear power generation plants, and petrochemical works.
Invensys Rail
Invensys Rail is a multinational leader in providing state-of-the-art software-based signalling, communication and control systems that enable the operation of trains in mainline and mass transit networks across the world.
Measurement and Instrumentation Products
Our Foxboro® and Foxboro-Eckardt Field Devices offer high accuracy, long-term stability and field-proven robustness in the toughest applications. Our devices include valves, recorders, controllers and flow computers for flow, pressure and temperature.
MES
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are software solutions aimed at giving plant operators the tools to make manufacturing decisions based on data gathered on the plant floor. So, for example, an MES could tell the plant operators where products made at a certain time had been shipped to, or which batches of raw materials had gone into which finished products. Broader MES applications extend to analysing, planning and optimising production.
MRO
Maintenance Repair & Overhaul.
NPI
New Product Introduction.
OEM
Original Equipment Manufacturer.
PCB
Printed Circuit Board.
PID Controller
A Proportional Integral Derivative controller is a generic control loop feedback mechanism widely used in industrial control systems.
PLC
A Programmable Logic Controller is a standard method of using software to automate a system. The PLC reads data from input devices such as switches and sensors, then applies the instructions of a stored programme to evaluate the data and responds by generating outputs that control production processes and machinery.
Recorder
Hardware or software which allows the user to record, archive and manage data from various processes.
ROMeo
Within Invensys Operations Management, ROMeo® is an advanced, unified modelling environment delivering on-line optimisation applications to help users obtain peak performance from their operating units. On-line modelling and equation-based optimisation capabilities provide more accurate, current operating information to better manage changing market pressures, product values, energy costs and equipment performance.
SCADA
Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition. An industrial control system, monitoring and controlling a process by gathering and analysing real-time data.
Skelta
Skelta is a brand offering of Invensys Operations Management. Skelta enterprise-wide Business Process Management (BPM) workflow software solutions are for small to large-sized businesses worldwide and are built on today's cutting-edge Microsoft .NET, XML, and Web services technologies. This enables business users and developers to design and deploy BPM workflow applications using tools with which they are already familiar.
SimSci-Esscor SimSci-Esscor, an Invensys Operations Management brand, is a global leader in the development, deployment and support of process modelling and simulation software, process engineering services and plant operator training.
Triconex
Within Invensys Operations Management, our Triconex® system is the world's leading safety system and is used extensively in nuclear power stations, petrochemical plants and oil refineries. The Triconex system will automatically take over the plant in the event of a problem and bring it back quickly to a safe state. Triconex products are based on patented Triple-Modular Redundancy (TMR) industrial safety-shutdown technology.
Wonderware
Wonderware, an Invensys Operations Management brand, is the market leader in real-time operations management industrial software which includes: HMI/SCADA, production management, MES, mobile solutions, performance management and integration with asset management, supply and demand chain and ERP applications.
