Invensys participates in Open O&M interoperability demonstration at IMC conference

Invensys participates in Open O&M interoperability demonstration at IMC conference

Demonstration links process operations and maintenance data at the plant level with enterprise applications using OPC, MIMOSA, ISA-95, and other standards

TAMPA, FLORIDA, USA (International Maintenance Conference) – Invensys’ Process Systems and Wonderware business units, along with other major automation and IT companies such as Rockwell and SAP, are participating in an important demonstration of the Open O&M (Operations & Maintenance) initiative at the International Maintenance Conference (IMC) in Tampa, Florida, December 6-8, 2005. The IMC is a premier annual information-exchange event for maintenance, reliability, and operations professionals.

The Open O&M initiative is an effort by multiple standards organizations (including MIMOSA, OPC Foundation, ISA, and WBF to provide a harmonized set of information standards for the exchange of operations and maintenance data and associated context with business applications. The goal is to enable more agile business operations and enhanced visibility, providing the potential for condition-based maintenance and production operations. Open O&M is a virtual organization, maintained by MIMOSA (www.mimosa.org), which serves as an umbrella for collaboration.

At IMC, Open O&M is demonstrating standards-based multivendor interoperability at multiple levels within a manufacturing enterprise, from ERP and EAM, down to OPC process data collection. The demonstration includes various Open O&M-enabled applications for maintenance and operations utilizing ArchestrA technology inside applications from Invensys’ Wonderware unit. These include distributed applications functionality via the Industrial Application Server, plant floor visualization via InTouch HMI software, and data historization via Industrial SQLServer.

In addition to its active participation in this important demonstration, Invensys executives serve at senior levels in all the participating standards organizations, including the OPC Foundation, ISA-95, and MIMOSA.
“The simultaneous convergence of Maintenance and Operations at the plant level with Finance, Supply Chain, and Logistics at the enterprise level via standards-based interoperability -- as opposed to point solutions -- will serve as the catalyst that enables manufacturing enterprises to move to the next level of business performance,” commented Peter Martin, vice president of performance management at Invensys Process Systems in Foxboro, Massachusetts. “We believe that the Open O&M initiative will serve as an interoperability foundation for future enterprise control and information systems.”