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ERP system would not have direct access to the control system network, says Todd Stauffer, Siemens PCS 7 marketing manager. Though some may see that as defeating the purpose of integration, it actually is the best way to keep the control architecture safe, and it can bring IT and automation cultures together, Stauffer says. The question is, who owns the quarantined area between the control and the enterprise network? The answer: no one at the moment. To make this integration work, IT and plant personnel need to talk and create a cross-functional team. Integration is not just about technology; there is a culture shift that has to happen as well, Stauffer says. “It’s a matter of creating a team focused on what the business needs to accomplish in order to make it work,” Stauffer says. Other vendors are creating their own variations on the collaborative team approach. For example, when Invensys struck up a partnership with Microsoft a few years ago to help design a service-oriented architecture for its Archestra integration architecture — which is the heart of InFusion, the enterprise control architecture released in April 2006 — it proposed 28 extra services that Microsoft needed to add to its core .NET infrastructure to convert it from its basic enterprise offering to an industrial offering. “We formed a team of Microsoft and Foxboro architects to develop a wrapper around .NET, which would convert it to an industrial SOA,” says Peter Martin, Invensys’ vice president and general manager of performance management. Similarly, Rockwell and Cisco have been in cahoots for a few years, designing a version of Cisco’s Ethernet switch, called Catalyst, that is built for the factory floor and can be inte- “[Wireless] will drive down costs and provide a new set of values that couldn’t be achieved in the wired world.” — Honeywell’s Urso grated as part of the production control suite. The Rockwell version of the Cisco Catalyst switch is scheduled to be available in July, officials say. “What’s really changed is that they are combining the best of both worlds,” says Craig Resnick, a research analyst with ARC Advisory group. “They are using chips and componentry that are available in the enterprise world [and adding] the ruggedness, re- liability, and durability that are needed on the factory floor.” Perhaps there’s no better place to see how IT has influenced industrial automaAUTOMATION ON THE UPTICK tion than in wireless. Durable Automation markets for both discrete and wireless chipsets, intelligent process industries are tracking steady growth over the next few years. sensors, and industrialstrength wireless communiDISCRETE: The worldwide market for discrete cations protocols, such as automation systems is expected to grow at a Wireless HAR T and the compounded annual growth rate of 6.8% over the emerging ISA-100 standard, next few years. $23 $22 $21 are providing automation venbillion $19 billions billion $18 $17 dors with the tools they need billion billion billion to finally build a cohesive, yet easy-to-use, and reliable wireless architecture for the plant. “We see wireless as helping to change the game,” says 2006 *2007 *2008 *2009 *2010 *2011 Jason Urso, Honeywell’s director of marketing for ExpePROCESS: The worldwide market for process automation systems is expected to grow at a rion PKS, which now has a compounded annual growth rate of 9.6% over the wireless aspect to it that the next few years. $47 company calls OneWireless. billion $43 “It will drive down costs and billion $40 provide a new set of values billion $35 that couldn’t be achieved in billion $32 $30 billion the wired world,” he says. billion For example, Honeywell’s OneWireless includes an equipment health monitoring application that feeds field instrumentation data back to the distributed control system (DCS) for predictive mainte2006 *2007 *2008 *2009 *2010 *2011 nance purposes. “There’s a *Projected Source: ARC Advisory Group great oppor tunity in that space, but the bigger opportunity is in places where customers are doing things like writing manual measurements on a clipboard. Instead, they could be taking a tablet PC out to the field to do the measuring, and then take that [electronic information] back to the control system.” Wireless technology opens doors to applications that have been cost-prohibitive until now, and many customers are seeing a quick payback as a result. Gary Borham, operations manager of the hot strip mill at a major steel manufacturer, put a Smart Wireless system from Emerson into his site last summer to monitor and measure water flow, bearing temperature, roll coolant water pressure, and grease system pressure throughout the mill. In that environment, which has overhead sprays and a 450’-long run-out table, running con- big picture Photo courtesy: Honeywell 31 March 2008

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