SAN ANTONIO – Emerson, an industrial technology automation solutions, is optimizing autonomous operations with industrial artificial intelligence (AI) and data solutions for online, mission-critical applications. Emerson’s AI portfolio – supported by its recent acquisition of the Aspen Technology business – will help organizations implement AI solutions.
Emerson’s AI tools provide users with automated engineering workflows. Emerson’s AspenTech Optiplant AI Equipment Layout leverages GenAI to quickly and easily provide multiple viable design options for greenfield and brownfield plants. Users provide their requirements to AI that presents multiple options to fulfill them, enabling engineers to select layouts that are not only suitable for performance but also meet additional non-functional requirements such as buffer zones, safety and proximity, etc.
DeltaV Revamp uses AI to accelerate a low-risk transition of legacy control and safety system configuration to a modern DeltaV system, informed by data gathered from thousands of modernization projects across every industry. The AI tools in Emerson’s DeltaV Revamp analyze information learned from each control system update to further improve the core database for increased speed, accuracy and agility with each modernization.
AspenTech Strategic Planning for Sustainability Pathways leverages GenAI technology to navigate complex options and pathways to help companies more easily develop long-term strategies for decarbonization.
“Generic large language models are necessary for AI, but they are insufficient for a live, mission-critical industrial plant that cannot afford unreliable or unsafe results,” said Ram Krishnan, chief operating officer at Emerson. “Emerson’s solutions leverage industrial AI, built on decades of industry expertise and first principles constraints, to deliver correct, actionable guidance users can count on to make better operational and business decisions that will safely and rapidly drive competitive advantage.”
In addition, Aspen Virtual Advisor (AVA), an AI-driven advisor built into Emerson technologies, provides operational guidance to users across a range of experience levels as they navigate tools used for design, planning, scheduling and automation of operations. AVA leverages deep knowledge of Aspen PIMS planning software and Aspen DMC3 adaptive process control software, allowing users to ask natural language questions to identify process bottlenecks or find ways to achieve specific goals.
Other virtual advisors, like those built into Emerson’s Ovation 4.0 Automation Platform and Guardian Digital Platform, provide the tools users need to visually translate and simplify complex issues to easily understand what is happening in their control system.