The only way to pursue operational excellence and productivity is by creating an environment that produces the right information in the right context at the right time, with visibility of the entire enterprise,” commented Ygor Guilarte. “The concept is very aggressive and challenging, but it is the right path to take for the next decade.”

As managing director Mexico and Central America of Invensys, he is introducing InFusion ECS to the Mexican market, an innovative solution that optimizes both the availability and utilization of legacy automation and control systems, expanding their life cycle.

“With minimal investment in comparison to a traditional implementation, we offer maximum return through business optimization, raising productivity levels and increasing our clients’ focus. We believe that putting the right platform and the right architecture in place will offer more value than buying the latest computer or the latest chip. Departments that typically worked separately and had different targets are linked by InFusion, which will optimize economical value,” explained Ygor Guilarte. This shift in targets makes the implementation more difficult to achieve.

“We believe that by providing dynamic, real-time performance measurement, we can help our customer realize the undeniable benefits of their automation investment,” stressed Guilarte. “That is important from a cash-flow and capital expenditure point of view for our customers, who are continually demanding higher quality at lower costs.”

Similar products have been considered by Invensys’ competitors. Most of these actually created middleware layers to fill the gap between the different applications. “We took that technological vision of unified automation to the next level and broke the cycle of delivering just the next version of a Distributed Control Systems and, instead, created the next generation of automation and control - the Enterprise Control System,” boasted Ygor Guilarte.

A few areas of PEMEX have already tried the middleware approach and have recognized issues such as the maintenance of duplicated databases, delays and underperformance associated with these solutions.

According to ARC Consulting Group, Invensys has a 2- to 3-year window before the market will react to its technology. “Of course, similar products will be introduced and, sooner or later, there will be competition, but we are established as the visionaries introducing the concepts and we will capitalize on that advantage,” stated Guilarte. “We have moved forward from only closing the control loop of the plant to closing the business loop of the organization.”

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I tried to find information about the automation show we attended mayb 7 or 8 years ago and cound not find it. Does anyone else remember? GL, ads