Emerson Is First of Many to Begin Shipping Open Standard WirelessHART(TM) Automation Products
Company's standard-enabled Smart Wireless offering will help customers easily adopt wireless and realize benefits in plant-wide use
AUSTIN, TEXAS (September 30, 2008) - Acknowledging the importance of broad multi-vendor availability, Emerson Process Management announced today that it is the first of many suppliers to begin shipping open interoperable WirelessHART standard products. Just as its wireless technology has opened a new era for industrial process automation, standardization will support broad adoption.
"We are thrilled that our Smart Wireless products are first to ship with the new WirelessHART standard built in," said John Berra, president of Emerson Process Management. "We're also excited that customers will have a growing range of WirelessHART applications from the industry-wide member companies of the Hart Communications Foundation that approved the standard in September2007."
"Our customers face increasing challenges of complex production, tougher feedstock, and environmental and safety requirements," continued Berra. "They are urgently seeking more information to increase plant and asset utilization and performance. Our standard inter-operable Smart Wireless field networks can deliver the information for step-change improvements while being easy and low cost to deploy."
Emerson has begun shipping WirelessHART products from its Smart Wireless range of pressure, flow, level, temperature, vibration, pH, and discrete transmitters and gateways, AMS® Suite predictive maintenance and Wireless SNAP-ON software, 375 Field Communicator, and native wireless interface of DeltaV(TM) and Ovation® digital systems. The continuous stream of future new products from Emerson will also use the standard, including the soon-to-be-released valve position transmitter, and Smart Wireless THUM(TM) Adapter that will unleash stranded diagnostics in legacy devices.
In keeping with the mandates of HCF and WirelessHART, Emerson's Smart Wireless brings broad innovation without taking away or changing existing HART functionality. This ensures backward compatibility, preserving the investment users have in tools, training and knowledge.
According to Berra, HART 7 wired and wireless technologies will coexist in plants. Wired solutions will continue to dominate safety and critical control applications. Early applications of WirelessHART include easy and quick upgrades of existing facilities to monitor variables previously out of reach economically or physically. The wireless applications are expanding to include non-critical closed loop control or open loop control with humans in the loop.
"On the strength of the high reliability and performance of self-organizing WirelessHART mesh technology and the major economic advantages of wireless, we believe WirelessHART technology will account for more than 20 percent of the signals in new plants within five years," said Berra.
About Emerson Process Management
Emerson Process Management (www.emersonprocess.com), an Emerson business, is a leader in helping businesses automate their production, processing and distribution in the chemical, oil and gas, refining, pulp and paper, power, water and wastewater treatment, mining and metals, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and other industries. The company combines superior products and technology with industry-specific engineering, consulting, project management and maintenance services. Its brands include PlantWeb®, Fisher®, Rosemount®, Micro Motion®, Daniel®, DeltaV(TM), Ovation®, and AMS® Suite.
About Emerson
Emerson, based in St. Louis, is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions to customers through its network power, process management, industrial automation, climate technologies, and appliance and tools businesses. For more information, visit www.Emerson.com.
Contacts:
Jerry Moon, Emerson Process Management
1 (512) 832-3089, Jerry.Moon@Emerson.com
Lisa Eisenbrey, Emerson Process Management
1 (512) 834-7106, Lisa.Eisenbrey@Emerson.com
Emerson Process Management, 12301 Research Blvd, Bldg III, Austin, TX 78759 United States
