New Modernization Program from Invensys Improves Performance of Aging Plant Assets
英維思現代化升級計劃提升工廠老化資產績效

Invensys Operations Management, a global provider of technology systems, software solutions and consulting services to the manufacturing and infrastructure operations industries, has unveiled a new program designed to help clients modernize and improve the performance of their aging control systems and other plant assets. The program guides clients in justifying modernization costs, reducing risk, deploying advanced technology and approaching plant upgrades strategically and systematically.

制造業和基礎設施運營行業的技術系統、軟件解決方案和咨詢服務的全球領導供應商――英維思運營管理推出一項新計劃，旨在幫助客戶提升其老化的控制系統和其它工廠資產的績效并實現現代化。該計劃可指導客戶調整現代化改造成本、降低風險、部署先進技術，并戰略化、系統化地實現工廠升級改造。

“Today’s manufacturers are facing new, more complicated challenges, even as their equipment and workforce continue to age,” said Dave Gaertner, global consulting director, Invensys Operations Management. “In order to comply with increasingly complex regulatory guidelines, minimize downtime and maintain safe, environmentally friendly operations, many companies are seeking to modernize their plants with a holistic view of their business requirements instead of making like-for-like equipment replacements. Taking advantage of their existing assets, modernization allows companies to link their business and production processes; remove traditional barriers to collaboration; and empower their most valuable resource-- their people.”

英維思運營管理全球咨詢總監Dave Gaertner表示：“如今的制造商正面臨著更加復雜的新挑戰，而其設備和勞動力卻持續老化。為遵守日益復雜的監管條例、最大程度地縮短停機時間并保持安全和環保地運營，許多公司在對其工廠進行現代化升級時，都設法從業務需求的整體角度出發而不是采用更換同類設備的方式。在充分利用現有資產的同時，現代化升級能使公司將其業務與生產流程連接在一起;消除傳統的協作障礙;并且為最寶貴的資源——他們的人員賦予動力。”

A holistic approach to modernization can provide the clearest, most cost-effective pathway to improving plant efficiencies, increasing production rates and sustaining profitability. Under the Program, Invensys will deliver full-scope consulting; project management; engineering; installation and maintenance services; and products and solutions that minimize the risk of operating obsolete technologies. The company’s hardware and software offerings address all operational areas of the plant, including instrumentation, I/O and HMI, safety and critical control systems, turbo machinery assets, process safety lifecycle components, cyber security systems and other cross-enterprise assets.

整體現代化升級可提供最為明確、性價比最高的方式，以改進工廠效率、提高生產率并維持利潤率。英維思的這一計劃將提供全方位的咨詢、項目管理、工程、安裝與維修服務、以及產品和解決方案，從而將運營過時技術的風險降到最低程度。英維思公司的硬件和軟件產品涵蓋工廠的所有運營領域，包括儀器儀表、I/O與 HMI、安全與關鍵控制系統、渦輪機械資產、流程安全性生命周期元件、網絡安全系統以及其它跨企業資產。
 
“Modernizing existing assets to meet today’s new business challenges has many, many benefits,” Gaertner said. “A full-scope modernization program can help reduce total cost of ownership; increase production rates; meet regulatory guidelines and manage risks; extend the life and performance of their systems; and improve response to changing business demand.”

Gaertner 表示：“將現有資產進行現代化升級以滿足當前的新業務挑戰讓企業受益匪淺。 全方位的現代化計劃有助于降低總體擁有成本、提高生產率、滿足監管要求和管理風險、擴展系統的壽命和性能、并能提高對不斷變化的業務需求的響應能力。”

For companies that know they need to modernize existing assets, but do not know where to begin, Invensys starts with an assessment to understand the company’s business initiatives and issues. The input received is then used to develop a long-range strategic plan that meets the plant’s business and technology needs. As part of the assessment, Invensys also helps clients establish return-on-investment targets.  

對于認識到需要將其現有資產進行現代化升級但卻無從下手的公司，英維思可以從評估開始入手以了解該公司的業務計劃和問題。然后利用獲得的信息來制定一個長遠的戰略規劃，以滿足工廠的業務和技術需求。作為評估的一部分，英維思還幫助客戶建立投資回報率目標。

“Invensys consultants carefully reviewed our issues and the results we wanted to achieve, then they quantified them based on information such as replacement power costs and other forms of ROI,” said Mike Hull, a computer controls supervisor at Arizona-based Salt River Project, the third-largest public power utility in the United States. “Furthermore, Invensys evaluated which of their products and services could address these issues and achieve our desired results. Invensys Operations Management’s modernization program is a game-changer in the industry.”

美國第三大公共電力設施亞利桑那州鹽河項目計算機控制主管Mike Hull表示：“英維思的顧問仔細審核了我們的問題以及我們想要實現的結果，然后他們根據諸如電力置換成本和其它形式的投資回報等信息，對問題和目標進行量化。不僅如此，英維思還評估了哪些產品和服務可以解決這些問題并能實現我們期望的結果。英維思運營管理的現代化升級計劃改變了這個行業的游戲規則。”

For companies that have already developed a modernization plan, but need help executing it, Invensys provides highly-qualified resources, including PMP-certified project managers and engineers who have performed hundreds of modernization projects across the globe.

對于已經制定了現代化升級規劃、但是需要幫助執行規劃的公司，英維思提供各種優質資源，包括通過PMP認證的項目管理人員和工程師，他們都曾在全球各地執行了數以百計的現代化升級項目。

About Invensys Operations Management
關于英維思運營管理

Invensys Operations Management, a division of Invensys, is a leading provider of automation and information technology, systems, software solutions, services and consulting to the global manufacturing and infrastructure industries. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, its solutions are used by more than 40,000 clients around the world in more than 200,000 plants and facilities.

英維思運營管理是英維思集團的一個業務部門，是為全球制造行業和基礎設施建設行業提供自動化和信息技術、系統、軟件解決方案、服務和咨詢業務的領先提供商。英維思運營管理總部設在美國德克薩斯州的休斯敦，其解決方案被遍布全球的超過4萬個用戶廣泛應用于全世界20多萬家工廠和機構。