Industrial Mobility: How Modern Factories Will
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1. tation when scanned Thus every motor can be assigned a QR code that delivers a terminal server session of its related user s manual in PDF form This same location dependent contextual information can be united with user based contextual information to deliver differ ent applications to different users based on job skills and operational needs within a specific geography Eventually this needs based computing technology will evolve to in clude event triggers that signal a user application context to change Consider an alarm event that triggers based on a component failure and in turn delivers a maintenance application to the maintenance person with the proper skill set to repair the failure who is actually closest to the event In a needs based computing world users get what they need where and when they need it That s what Relevance delivers Vand Automation World tacticat BRIEF Content Provided by ACP THINMANAGER COM Primacy of Information A confluence of trends around mobility always on networks and information is having a tremendous effect upon automation and manufacturing By Gary Mintchell Co Founder and Editor in Chief Things always seem to come in bunches when you re studying something had just finished writing my article for the July issue of Automa tion World about where the worlds of automation and Lean manu facturing come together mostly around information Then because I m on the tec2. ThinManager MDM features include MultiSession support and adaptive application delivery Quickly choose from multiple applications using screen gestures or let ThinManager Relevance deliver applications to your device based on your current location user skill set or process state Third You re going to need a solid wireless network There s really no get ting around this one Do your home work and consider a site survey by a reputable company with experience in manufacturing environments There are a number of hardware providers that specialize in wireless products for industrial automation environments Fourth Where PCs thin clients and OP panels are almost always tethered to one spot tablets can be taken just F j Content Provided by tal ACP THINMANAGER COM about anywhere including outside of your factory If you want to use your mobile device outside of your network boundaries you re going to need a secure cloud infrastructure ThinMan ager Anywhere Access provides ex actly that and it works seamlessly with ThinManager 7 0 XLi and ThinManager enabled mobile devices Finally Choose a Mobile Device Management tool that lets you migrate from existing PCs and thin clients to a combined solution that includes mo bile devices ThinManager is the only product on the market that can give you a single interface for management of PCs thin clients and mobile devices running RDP sessions Vand 6 15
3. by multiple users with differing job functions ACP incorporated an application context management feature into ThinManager whereby applications could change at a terminal client when a user accessed the terminal by authentication This feature called TermSecure gave each thin or fat client device the ability to adapt to the current user s needs While an unauthenticated terminal may by default present the op erator HMI any maintenance or supply user could be given permis sion to override the default configuration to add or replace the HMI with maintenance or supply applications Thus as a user moves from place to place on the factory floor his or her applications can be ac cessed from any ThinManager managed client device Now that we have entered the mobile generation this adaptive needs based computing can be extended to incorporate location specific application context in addition to user specific application context Thus users can actively via QR code scans or passively us o P o World TACTICAL BRIEF Content Provided by vant ACP Needs based Computing A Methodology Discussion ing internal positioning technologies designate their current location and their applications can be delivered to mobile clients based upon computing needs within range of a location or process component For example a QR code anywhere on the process can be configured to deliver a localized HMI application or relevant piece of documen
4. lt q gt Needs based Computing A Methodology Discussion Now that we have entered the mobile generation this adaptive needs based computing can be extended to incorporate location specific application context in addition to user specific application context Manufacturing made a dramatic move towards Windows comput ing in the late 1980 s driven by HMI software that could produce what was at that time an almost unbelievable level of graphic visualization Early on rendering such complex graphics required localized processing which resulted in a transition away from exist ing server based processing and towards workstation computing Because data still needed to be stored centrally and shared between users we actually ended up with a mixed computing platform called peer to peer client server Microsoft actually created two OS plat forms in Windows Workstation and Windows Server designed to meet this need Somewhere shortly after the year 2000 the CPU inside of even an average PC reached a level that allowed us to move processing back to server PCs even when the applications were graphically inten sive Combined with a recently developed OS extension from Citrix called MetaFrame and Remote Desktop from Microsoft many chose to move back to centralized computing Workstations on the Automation World TACTICAL BRIEF F j Content Provided by tal ACP factory floor were either modified to include a fat client application
5. or replaced altogether with thin client devices Applications were moved to servers where a single install could support twenty or more sessions for an equal number of connected clients with each client providing a single operator interface for one end user Fast forward to today Almost every Windows application is terminal server compliant Converting a workstation based system to a thin client based system can be completed in about a day with little or no changes to existing applications If you are a fan of virtualization then by all means virtu alize your terminal servers And if you want to make everything work better together manage your system with ThinManager So where do we go from here With many of our factory floor applications now residing in server environments the next hurdle becomes application delivery From its inception ThinManager was designed to help administrators de 1 5 q gt THINMANAGER COM Needs based Computing A Methodology Discussion liver Windows applications to the appropriate computing devices whether they are thin client operator stations fat client supervisory PCs or even mobile clients i e iPad or iPhone Considering thin and fat client hardware is normally tethered by power and networking connections delivery of an application was almost always to a known location and the applications were most often location specific For cases in which a single client device was being used
6. or the computer hardware they currently 3 15 lt gt ThinManager Platform Moves Factories into the Mobile Future Delivery Sending applications to mobile devices requires knowing who Is using that device and where they are ThinManager Relevance will offer a new way to organize applications data and users More importantly it will allow for that delivery to be based on a user s ID location a specific time or an event or any combination of these criteria ThinManager delivers this relevant a information to virtually any device way to organize applications data and users including PCs thin clients and mo More importantly it will allow for that delivery bile tablets or smart phones deploy ThinManager Relevance will offer a new to be based on a user s ID location a specific time or an event or any combination of these criteria ThinManager delivers this relevant in formation to virtually any device including PCs thin clients and mobile tablets or smart phones Now operators have the ability to perform their duties react to changes in production and solve problems from any location No matter where your facility is today in this new industrial evolution ThinManager s Adap l World TACTICAL BRIEF Content Provided by Vent ALCP tive Platform Technology will allow you to become the nimble company of tomorrow by letting you choose when and how you move your process into the future Regardle
7. as aS ER PRY i Ay _ EOR miian SPa foii ge ve haa thin chents Automation Worl TACTICAL CONTENTS BRIEF 02 Moving factories into the mobile future 05 What a transition to mobile computing will look like d E aga 07 Needs based computing a methodology discussion n U st ril qa l M O DI l ty 10 Primacy of information gt How Modern Factories Will Deliver 14 Mobile devices on the factory floor the bottom line Relevant Content to Every Device SPONSORED BY Vans ACP THINMANAGER COM ThinManager Platform Moves Factories into the Mobile Future The days of running a manufacturing facility that stands alone on an island or Operates within a vacuum are over Technology is a constantly evolving ecosystem within which everything it encounters is pre sented with the option to adapt or risk becom ing antiquated This holds true for the Manu facturing sector as well as the people who drive it History has shown time and time again that industries only remain competitive if they are willing to adopt and make real use of new tech nologies that drive efficiency productivity and profitability Those who choose to ignore or fight against the inevitable evolution of innova tion often become mere footnotes in the history of pioneers and juggernauts that continue to thrive today For over a century the basic premise of the moving assembly line pioneered by Ford Motor Company has essentially remain
8. ative iOS or Android HMI application on the device and a lot of integration effort to redevelop screens If you re not already doing it save yourself a lot of time and money and move your visualization applications to a Win dows Remote Desktop environment In almost every case this transition can be completed in one day Once that s complete you can connect to your terminal servers start sessions and view the same applications you run today from your mobile devices Second Consider using a mobile device management MDM tool like ThinManager 7 0 XLi Unmanaged mobile devices are limited to running a single Windows RDP session with ter minal server and session settings that must be pre configured and manually modified from the Content Provided by lat ACP THINMANAGER COM New and Old Mixed Use Environments ThinManager Choose a Mobile Device Manage ment tool that lets you migrate from existing PCs and thin clients toa combined solution that includes mobile devices ThinManager is the only product on the market that can give you a single interface for management of PCs thin clients and mobile devices running RDP sessions 5 5 lt gt ee fe a 2 g GORR y A 44 A fy 4 P 4 a Lex ji abby hf lit OLGA ThinManager industrial freedom manage all of your devices n dias t hte World TACTICAL BRIEF Transition to mobile computing on the factory floor device when application needs change
9. ed where and when they need it The Relevance TM mobile computing platform is the first to offer application independent user and location spe cific content delivery for the Windows remote desktop environment In addi tion with so much currently invested in plant floor computing it goes without saying that initial implementations of Content Provided by Vand ACP THINMANAGER COM mobile computing on the factory floor must work in conjunction with existing tethered solutions built using worksta tions terminal servers and thin clients Relevance TM is designed to work with your existing computing infrastructure allowing you to transition or duplicate content to mobile device users without affecting critical operations 5 5 lt
10. ed the same World TACTICAL BRIEF Over time automated processes have been added and improved upon to increase speed and output but the true improvement to the basic model has been the platforms created to monitor and manage the systems that drive those processes Because of this and the pro liferation of the global economy the very basics of manufacturing must now be re examined and challenged to move forward from the Industrial Age into the Modern Computing Age The days of running a manufacturing facil ity that stands alone on an island or operates within a vacuum are over The modern factory will have to be more connected and nimble able to adapt quickly to changes in manufactur ing techniques and the demand for customized products These facilities will need to be able to F j Content Provided by t ACP Be Nimble Mobility will have the edge in the future The days of running a facility that stands alone on an island or operates within a vacuum are over The modern factory will have to be more connected and nimble able to adapt quickly to changes in manufacturing techniques and the demand for customized products 2 15 gt x lt ThinManager RELEFSTANCE he mobile platform for the factory of the future has arrived World TACTICAL BRIEF ThinManager Platform Moves Factories into the Mobile Future expand quickly or even be replicated within short time constraints to stay one step ahead of the co
11. hnical committee of MESA International the Manufac turing Enterprise Solutions Association which is focused on improv ing operations management proofed a couple of white papers Julie Fraser an analyst working with MESA has done some outstand ing research looking at manufacturing companies over the past few years One of the white papers reflects her latest research Although you must become a premium MESA member to see en tire reports l Il give you a summation Companies that have a regular discipline about collecting and using information tend to perform better than those who don t My research into Lean practices often revealed companies who have constructed creative ways to automatically compile and display information They have had more success and more successful Lean events than those who try a Lean approach but fail to use data gt gt Visit bit ly awhistorians to find products feature articles videos Automation Vorld TACTICAL BRIEF Coy l Sponsored by tal ACP and columns on all things historians Some data collection can just come from the automation system into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or a standard data historian Oth ers use a more sophisticated MES MOM application Either works depending upon your particular needs Check out this month s article by Renee Robbins Bassett on historians for more on the topic You might also just check out all the benefits of becoming a MESA member and learn how to
12. improve your processes with information www mesa org Network is the computer The primacy of information is inextricably linked to the ability to get at relevant data points Google s developer conference in late June yielded some interesting automation related news That s because much of what Google is doing is sort of a fulfillment of a statement or wish from Sun s Scott McNealy that the network is the computer Google has based its vision on the connected world and online applications Not surprisingly at about the same time saw a Gartner report that said Microsoft Windows will slowly drift off to oblivion as a desktop product Let me throw a couple of other ideas at this Tony Perkins who had skyrocketed and then crashed with the technology business maga 0 5 lt q gt THINMANAGER COM Continued Primacy of Information zine Red Herring started a Website several years ago called Always On www aonetwork com based on the premise that we are always on the network Always On morphed or pivoted to use a contem porary Silicon Valley term to a live conference company See it was a desktop site but we aren t always on with desktop technology We re always on with a smart phone and less so but close with an iPad or other tablet So what does this have to do with industrial automation Some time ago attended the ACP Thin Client user conference Part of its value add is the value of the
13. informa tion In crisis situations with many hundreds and even thousands of simultaneous alarms physical cooperation and communications become overwhelming and human intervention is ineffective International safety standards such as IEC 61511 require end users to conduct analysis of hazards and risks in addition to allocating safe ty functions to protection layers However becoming just standards compliant falls far short of proactive safety management Up to now safety professionals have focused primarily on person nel and occupational safety More focus is needed on process safety says Eddie Habibi CEO of PAS a company focused on industrial pro cess alarms and operator effectiveness In the future human opera tors will gradually be designed out of directly managing highly critical Automation Vorld TACTICAL BRIEF Coy l Sponsored by tal ACP abnormal situations Safety instrumented systems SIS embedded in designs will account for human factors Alarms must be able to direct the operators attention to the most important problems that need to be acted upon using priorities to indicate the degrees of importance plus the corresponding correc tive actions that must be taken Improved effectiveness comes not from training the operator to use increasingly complex systems but from developing systems that adapt effectively to maximize through put with a minimum of operator involvement What s needed are full p
14. mpetition And even more importantly they must do so in conjunction with other facili ties and operations that are equally adaptive Mobile computing is the evolving technology that will meet the demands of the modern plant floor and offer the agility required to drive it What modern manufacturers need is a sys tem platform that will allow them to move toward this mobile future with as little disruption to their current process as possible ACP s ThinManager is an Adaptive Platform Technology APT that is designed to allow facilities to move into this new mobile industrial evolution at a pace that is reasonable for their particular facilities F j Content Provided by tal ACP THINMANAGER COM This is essential because far too often a technology is introduced that forces a leap forward from the industry standard and more often than not that technology is nothing more than a bridge that spans what was and what is to come This is why ThinManager has positioned itself as a platform that can drive the processes of today as well as offering the mobile agility that will be required tomorrow ThinManager will now offer a brand new location based technology called Relevance This Adaptive Mobile Plat form AMP will allow plant managers and operators to have customized com puting experiences that are completely relevant for the work they perform regardless of the specific environmen tal demands of their facilities
15. network over the value of a heavy weight PC as a work tool see several automation companies play ing with these light weight always on mobile tools for operations technicians and engineers even or especially for manufacturing executives Certainly there is a confluence of trends around mobil ity always on networks and information that is having a tremendous effect upon automation and manufacturing And that effect is positive At Achema the large chemical industry trade show in Germany held in June organizers issued a report say ing Automation technology is a major factor which drives industry forward Automation orld tactical BRIEF Sponsored by SACP INMANAGER COM 1 15 lt 4 gt Process Safety Futures Process safety systems have arrived at a juncture of transformation By Jim Pinto Technology Futurist Automation Commentator Most process safety systems in use today were installed during the first wave of distributed control systems DCSs and programmable logic controllers PLCs in the 70s ARC Advisory Group estimates that the value of the installed base reaching the end of useful life could be in the neighborhood of 8 billion worldwide Conventional control systems are inherently limited in their ability to make cognitively complex decisions Most operations are based on central operator consoles that require training and need close attention They display too much data and too little relevant
16. otebook and desktop PCs combined by the first quarter of 2015 Commercial accep Automation World TACTICAL BRIEF Video See a demonstration of ThinManager Relevance tance of these devices will eventually drive them into the manufacturing space That being said there is one significant re quirement that must be met before tablets can be widely accepted on the factory floor They must be managed to control access to applications based upon user skill set and cur rent location The mere implication that a user could override one or more interlocks from Watch the video to learn how location based software can deliver applications and content to the right person where and when they need a mobile device at a remote location with no visibility to the process should disqualify any mobile computing solution Acceptable mobile computing requires that teni the mobile device management system resolve Watch video gt the users whereabouts and deliver content specific to the users skill set and current loca tion interactively while moving from place to place within the plant environment The user Content Provided by lant ACEP THINMANAGER COM 4 5 q gt ACP ThinManager introduces RELEFANCE Its all aoout your location he mobile platform for the factory of the future thinmanager com Automation World TACTICAL BRIEF Mobile Devices on the Factory Floor The Bottom Line gets only what they ne
17. r com in Alpharetta Ga provides significant new mobile functionality Relevance software delivers itemized informa tion content to selected individuals who have the right skillsets are at a proximate location in the factory and are available to perform the needed services says Matt Crandell ACP s president Mobile device software has many wide ranging applications in gen eral factory and process environments With safety systems scheduling and priorities are handled by the system not human supervisors who may be stressed by the real time emergency It s a substantial shift in productivity and effectiveness Beyond the impact of mobile functionality in the factory the impact on safety systems is enormous This is not just another safety improve ment it represents a completely new paradigm in factory and process safety implementation This is the future of process safety systems AutomationWorld TACTICAL BRIEF Sponsored by AALP 3 5 lt gt THINMANAGER COM Mobile Devices on the Factory Floor Ine Bottom Line J z s i 2 i pay Fe AA m T aa g oC A m a amp B n iC L IS a eas B L a i e a 1 O f m O bi aa I LJ 3 S C L u UW N By Matt Crandell CEO ACP Mobile devices will take hold on the factory floor just as they have taken hold in households all over the world The fact is tablet devices based on iOS and Android operating systems will outsell n
18. rocess monitoring programs with diag nostics to provide not only early warning of accidents but predictive maintenance that effectively prevents accidents before they occur operating controls that effectively ensure safety with use of automat ed systems to change cognitive demands on operators Current DCSs and PLC based systems have received mostly incremen tal improvements since being built on 1970s technology Decades old deterministic architectures will likely give way to the non hierarchical distributed networks of the industrial Internet what the Germans term Industry 4 0 This is where the paradigm shift will occur The next wave of safety system designs will be tied closely to these changes The steep decline of tethered powered PCs in industrial environ ments is caused by a major shift in the landscape the use of mobile 2 5 q gt THINMANAGER COM Continued Process Safety Features devices Today every engineer and technician has a tablet and smart phone Many companies allow BYOD bring your own device and oth ers simply provide work area tablets The use of mobile devices improves operating efficiency boosts pro ductivity drastically reduces cost and increases throughput with existing people and resources Key benefit It allows applications to be easily dis tributed to the right person at the right location at the right time Software recently introduced by Automation Control Products ACP www thinmanage
19. ss of the current hard ware or software solutions you currently deploy ThinManager will extend your ability to control how you deliver information and how you interact with your manufacturing environment No other platform can offer a path that allows you to go from where you are today to where you want to be tomorrow like ThinManager x 4 5 d gt What a transition to mobile computing on lee Tactory pesto ra aan like iX The m It s reasonable to assume that given the ever increasing popularity of tablet based comput ing we will be seeing a number of manufactur ing facilities begin to make use of tablets on the factory floor in the very near future So how do we go from PCs thin clients and operator panels to iPads and Android tablets First off it s not going to happen overnight As with any new technology there s bound to be a transition period during which there will be a heteroge neous mix of old and new In fact it could be argued that PCs thin clients and OP panels may never really disappear entirely So how do we navigate this transition without compromising the integrity of the whole system Here are a few thoughts on making the transi tion First Don t immediately think that using Automation World TACTICAL BRIEF e 5 m dha goo a A ed use environment of traditiona nd modern computing devices H i are ee gr iai E oS ao a tablet on the factory floor for visualization requires a n
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