For every industrial company, the risks and impact of severe environments – storms, lightning strikes and other severe weather – have increased the possibility of unplanned shutdowns in essential facilities.
In an interesting article in Electronic Design last year (before GE became a part of Emerson), Rich Carpenter, general manager, product management, Machine Automation Solutions, Emerson, says, “For high-value assets, companies often use control redundancy to ensure continuous operation of their automation systems. What has been missing in the industry is a scalable solution that seamlessly works across high-, medium-, and low-value assets to prevent unplanned downtime, reduce risk, and increase safety.”
He adds, “Customers are demanding a more dynamic, rugged, and compact redundant control system that seamlessly activates a hot-backup controller in the event of an unplanned system failure.”
He then goes on to discuss how that’s now possible. Check out this article here.
Are you using redundant systems to cope with increasing system failures?