PROCESS AUTOMATION


interoperability and portability alleviates many challenges facing industry today. Adoption of a common standard across vendors ensures different hardware and software systems can communicate with each other. Universal automation eliminates many of


the pain points of automation adoption. New technologies can be introduced, upgraded and integrated without wasting time and resources for refactoring. By utilising cybersecure IT architectures and technologies natively within a robust automation infrastructure, manufacturers can integrate advanced data-driven applications easily. The interoperable system also has great


potential for maintenance and efficiency. With a single, open and heterogenous automation system, maintenance engineers can rapidly find and fix faults and incorporate innovative maintenance technologies to avoid issues. This includes proactive and predictive maintenance – the process of repairing a plant asset before it fails. This type of maintenance lowers risk, minimises unplanned downtime and helps address small faults before they become expensive systematic failures. Indeed, predictive maintenance saves roughly 8% to 12% over preventive maintenance and up to 40% over


reactive maintenance. A different future is within reach. With


universal automation, we can achieve intelligent automated operations with production lines attaining self-configuring and self-healing capabilities.


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