Avantis.PRO enterprise asset management software now supports Simplified Chinese language

New language support enables asset-centric enterprises in China to take advantage of the powerful capabilities offered by Avantis.PRO EAM software to meet their increasingly sophisticated maintenance requirements


BURLINGTON, ONTARIO, CANADA – January 5, 2006 – The Avantis unit of Invensys Process Systems today announced that its Avantis.PRO (R4.1) enterprise asset management (EAM) solution now supports Simplified Chinese language. This move is intended to encourage utilization of this advanced technology to increase maintenance productivity and effectiveness in a variety of Chinese industries, including Chemicals, Power and Utilities, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Metals and Mining, Pharmaceuticals, and Pulp and Paper.

“Now that many key industrial processes in China have been automated to improve quality and yields, the next challenge is to maximize the availability of industrial assets while reducing maintenance and spare parts costs,” said Neil Cooper, general manager of the Avantis unit of Invensys Process Systems. “Avantis.PRO provides a well-proven, easy to implement, and highly cost-effective solution for accomplishing this.”

“Avantis.PRO represents yet another important technology in the Invensys portfolio that we can use to help our forward-thinking customers in China to improve both the utilization and availability of their industrial assets,” added John Sun, general manager of Invensys Process Systems in China. “We’re very pleased to be able to offer our customers a Simplified Chinese version of Avantis.PRO. We’ve also added additional personnel at both our Shanghai and Beijing technical centers to be able to provide local implementation, training, and technical support for Avantis products.”

Several customers in China are currently implementing Avantis.PRO. This includes a pilot project under way at the Sinopec Shell Yueyang Coal Gasification Project, where Avantis.PRO will be used to manage critical procurement, inventory, and maintenance activities. As Main Automation Vendor for this important project, Invensys is also providing and implementing Foxboro field instrumentations and I/A Series automation systems, Triconex safety instrumented systems, Triconex integrated turbine compressor controls, plus integration to a variety of third-party sub-systems.

About Avantis and the Avantis.PRO EAM solution

For more than 20 years, customers throughout the world have relied on Avantis enterprise asset management (EAM) solutions to improve resource productivity by driving down operating costs, minimizing the risk of unplanned downtime, and maximizing financial return on capital assets.

Utilizing the latest Microsoft .NET technology, the Avantis.PRO EAM solution is designed to meet the sophisticated maintenance management requirements of today’s asset-centric organizations. Designed with unmatched functionality and flexibility, Avantis.PRO helps provide operations a competitive edge by exploiting the power of plant floor information, transforming isolated data into asset intelligence: the insight needed to confidently make informed business decisions.
For more information visit, www.avantis.net.

About Invensys Process Systems in China

Invensys Process Systems (http://ips.invensys.com ), a business unit of Invensys plc, provides products, services and solutions that enable today’s industrial process plants to monitor, manage and improve the performance of their production assets. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions group, Invensys Process Systems includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products help automate and optimize more than 100,000 plants across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world’s largest upstream projects, pipelines, refineries, gas plants, power plants, pulp and paper mills, petrochemical and other process plants.


With the formation of the Shanghai-Foxboro Company Limited (SFCL) in 1982, Foxboro became the first major American manufacturer to establish a joint venture in China. Today, SFCL manufactures a wide variety of state-of-the-art automation products at its factory in Shanghai for both domestic use and export purposes. In 1991, SFCL became the first company in China to be certified under the stringent ISO 9001 international quality standard.

SFCL has implemented state-of-the-art process control systems in hundreds of different world-class industrial facilities throughout China. These include offshore production platforms, pipelines, oil refineries, petrochemical plants, electric power generation plants, steel mills, cement plants, float glass plants, pharmaceutical plants, and food processing plants.
To be able to better meet the Chinese industrial market’s requirements for comprehensive and well-integrated automation solutions, Invensys recently formed Invensys Process Systems China, which consolidates the operations of SFCL, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, and Avantis. Invensys Process Systems China offers the most comprehensive portfolio of automation products and services available from a single company. To complement this market presence, Invensys Process Systems China has recently opened a new technology center in Beijing.

The Invensys Group (www.invensys.com) is made up of five businesses: Process Systems, APV, Eurotherm, Rail Systems and Controls. The Group is headquartered in London, England and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.
 

Invensys, I/A Series, Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis are trademarks of Invensys plc, its subsidiaries, or affiliates. All other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.