Open automation system to accelerate energy transition

Today's industrial automation systems are closed, proprietary, and hardware-driven, making it hard and expensive for companies to merge various technologies. Their designs don't easily blend with data-driven IT structures, resulting in disjointed systems.

The absence of standard objects creates engineering challenges and inefficiencies. These isolated systems are hard to maintain, costly to update, and not suited for modern data-driven automation.

OEMs/licensors in new energy applications need more modular processes that require faster execution time to scale from pilot to commercial production.
This need poses additional challenges such as:

• Lack of standardization, protect process know-hows, design variations to meet different customers’ requirements
• Scaling for mass production and integrating new components with existing systems seamlessly 
• Balancing cost with performance and efficiency of the systems design with limited data

The proposed solution is an open software-centric universal automation system, allowing you to decouple your software from the underlying hardware.

This solution also allows you to have:

• Efficient Engineering & Design: Reduce development time, streamline workflow, and optimize your supply chain by avoiding vendor-locked hardware.
• Modular & Scalable Architecture: Enable efficient replication and reuse of automation objects with IP protection, allowing you to have a plug-and-work system that scales at the required speed by modularizing your application.
• Improve Performance & Cost: Native IT/OT convergence enables integration of advance data analytics such as artificial intelligence and digital twins, into control architectures.

The system can easily combine hardware from various vendors and scale across sites, enhancing automation efficiency and sustainability. It also simplifies troubleshooting, adjusts to unique customer demands, and offers a custom but scalable solution.