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    Emerson Named ‘Industrial IoT Company of the Year’ for Fifth Time

    Posted by Community Contributor on Feb 10, 2023 1:47:38 PM

     

     

    Award recognizes Emerson’s leading global industrial software and IoT expertise provided through the power of Plantweb with AspenTech.

    IoT Breakthrough Award

     


    ST. LOUIS (Jan. 12, 2023) — Global technology and software company Emerson (NYSE: EMR) has been named the IoT Breakthrough 2023 “Industrial IoT Company of the Year” for the fifth time — an honor the company also received in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022. This year’s award recognizes the power of Emerson’s industry-leading Plantweb™ digital ecosystem, which now includes the AspenTech (NASDAQ: AZPN) suite of plant optimization software solutions.

    Leveraging decades of innovation and expertise, Emerson delivers the broadest suite of automation technology to manufacturers across all industries. Emerson and AspenTech’s leading portfolio of sensor, edge, control and software solutions – the Plantweb digital ecosystem – enables companies to optimize operations and performance of their plants and enterprise.  

    “Emerson is proud to be consistently recognized as an automation leader with a demonstrated commitment to innovating and providing leading solutions that help customers meet their business and sustainability goals in today’s dynamic markets,” said Ram Krishnan, chief operating officer of Emerson. “By integrating AspenTech into our industry-leading Plantweb digital ecosystem, we provide customers the most comprehensive digital transformation portfolio in the industry, backed by deep automation expertise.” 

    Plantweb, including the AspenTech portfolio of asset optimization software, enables companies to “See, Decide, Act and Optimize” across their operations. Through its sensing and visualization, predictive diagnostics and monitoring, precision control and AI-powered analytics, Plantweb empowers companies to boost performance, improve safety and achieve sustainability targets through emissions reduction and greater energy efficiency. 

    “Emerson continues its decades-long streak of digital innovation and leadership across all automation categories, and the company’s breakthrough Plantweb digital ecosystem, optimized with AspenTech, represents a next-generation IIoT platform to help their customers optimize operations and meet business and sustainability goals,“ said James Johnson, managing director at IoT Breakthrough. “Emerson’s robust suite of sensors, software and control technologies are empowering organizations to ‘See, Decide, Act and Optimize’ like never before, and we are thrilled to congratulate the Emerson team for taking home our marquee ‘Industrial IoT Company of the Year’ award in the 7th annual IoT Breakthrough Awards program.” 

    IoT Breakthrough, which recognizes excellence, creativity and success of Internet of Things (IoT) companies, technologies and products, received more than 4,000 nominations for the 2023 competition. The awards honor the world’s best companies, leaders, technologies and products in a range of IoT categories — from industrial and enterprise, to consumer and connected home. Winners are selected by a panel of senior-level professionals experienced in the IoT space, including journalists, analysts and technology executives. 

    For more information on Emerson’s automation solutions, please visit Emerson.com. 

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    Emerson (NYSE: EMR) is a global technology and software company providing innovative solutions for the world’s essential industries. Through its leading automation portfolio, including its majority stake in AspenTech, Emerson helps hybrid, process and discrete manufacturers optimize operations, protect personnel, reduce emissions and achieve their sustainability goals. For more information, visit Emerson.com.

    Oil and gas producer pumps up operations with SCADA

    Posted by Community Contributor on Nov 3, 2022 10:14:02 AM

     

    Canvas Energy, an Oklahoma City-based independent oil and gas producer with operations in the oil and liquids-rich portion of the Anadarko Basin in Oklahoma, has a future vision it calls “Operation by Exception (OBE).” Over the last decade, a key component of its successful operation, particularly in a business with a need to be flexible to the ups and downs of the oil market, is its supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA, system.

    Getting through its digital transformation to where its automated processes and data usage are today has been a journey, according to Kylie Odorisio, production engineer at Canvas, who was on hand at this week’s Emerson Exchange to discuss its transformation.

    “We started looking at SCADA just under 10 years ago. Our first question was that we always had a flat infrastructure system. So being able to integrate different data sources and being able to bolt-on different platforms was our first-step mission,” Odorisio told the audience.

    The company, working with Emerson’s Zedi SaaS SCADA unit and Emerson impact partner Vinson Process Controls, started its journey with tank-level monitoring, tank-level alarm and artificial lift, real-time pressure monitoring, to name a few projects. Odorisio said the ultimate goal of the digital transformation was to “empower our employees to make correct decisions,” which is the basis of the company’s OBE strategy.

    That entails both field-level transformation and office-level transformation, according to Odorisio. At the field-level, it’s about using the data to provide successful operational improvements. At the office-level it is centered on creating aggregated KPIs that can be further digested into trends and patterns for making strategic business decisions.

    Key to success

    The company needed to satisfy three key areas in its digital transformation. It needed its operation to be proactive. It needed to be able to leverage multi-disciplined personnel, and it needed to be scalable for further mergers and acquisition, a point vital to a capital-aggressive company such as Canvas. To get there it needed a long-term technology partner, according to Emerson’s Adin Nand, director of business development for Zedi Saas SCADA. Nand and Jared Frederickson, business unit leader for digital transformation at Vinson Process Controls, both joined Odorisio during the presentation.

    “During our initial meeting with Canvas, they sort of stopped us and said, ‘We have a vision. We don’t know exactly how we are going to get there, but we want a long-term partner to help us figure it out,’” Nand said. “Obviously, we said, ‘Let’s do this.’”

    Frederickson added that his company’s domain space expertise—it has worked with Canvas since 2014 and in oil and gas for quite longer—was another difference maker. He also pointed to Emerson’s extensive technology stack as the clincher.

    “We can bring Emerson’s entire portfolio in and leverage it to the Canvas operation-by-exception platform,” he said.

    Frederickson added the transformation centered on reaching near autonomous operations that would be driven by outcomes. A stack of Rosemount wireless sensors, Vinson’s ProductionManager Edge and cloud analytics via Emerson Zedi SaaS SCADA, allowed the companies to apply several machine learning and artificial intelligence tactics to achieve success.

    Up to the task

    One of the biggest aspects of the system design is that it allows for speed in a world of rapidly changing market conditions. “Sometimes you have to do a lot with very little. Sometimes you buy assets and you need to have transparency in your equipment [when onboarding],” Frederickson said.

    That was particularly true for Canvas, which saw one of its biggest business results from the new system when the company made a recent asset acquisition that added approximately 1,900 barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) per day to its production over an additional 39,000 net acres of operations, according to Odorisio.

    “Drilling inventory existed and it had a pretty strong production base, but one thing we also saw was lots of hardware on site that we felt we could better utilize than what the current operator was doing,” Odorisio said. “Upon the acquisition, we used that existing hardware and brought it into the SCADA platform within 60 days at a low cost of two cents per BOE.

    “Rather than going to each site, day-by-day, which is what the previous operator was doing, we were able to do everything directly from the office and/or another field,” she continued. “We feel that is a strong competitive advantage from a merger and acquisitions standpoint. It is a quantified value beyond just production.”

    The ability to reduce field miles and better engage in remote operations is a broader business advantage to Canvas’ SCADA system. “Being able to route data into our field data capture as well as layering on some addition visibility with our SCADA system we allow our lease operators to make virtual visits,” Odorisio said. “If there are now critical alarms and they are comfortable that there is likely not a spill, rather than making physical trips we let them virtually visit.”

    The results, she said, include a reduction of more than 27,000 field miles driven per year. The company has reduced its physical field visits by 20%, according to its most recent ESG report.

    In the end, the partnership was able to lead Canvas Energy to success in achieving it’s three primary goals of the digital transformation: creating proactive operations, leveraging its multidiscipline personnel to help its lease operators and field staff, and create scalability to accommodate its future M&A activities.  

     

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    Emerson Supports Sustainability with Improved Cloud-Hosted Industrial Control Platform

    Posted by Community Contributor on Mar 29, 2022 11:03:48 AM

     

    AUSTIN, Texas (March 29, 2022) Zedi Cloud SCADA platform moves to Microsoft Azure for superior scalability and tighter security to help industries meet sustainability goals–

    Emerson, a global software, technology and engineering leader, has improved the scalability, data protection and threat intelligence of its Zedi™ Cloud SCADA software-as-a-service control platform by moving it to the Microsoft® Azure cloud platform. The more robust cloud host enables customers to securely scale their supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems quickly and easily to achieve environmental, social, and governance (ESG) commitments, better safeguard critical business assets, and empower users to adapt their operations to changing requirements while mitigating risks and operational costs.

    Most industrial operations are challenged to efficiently meet cost reduction targets and demonstrate actions to attain sustainability goals. Emerson’s Zedi Cloud SCADA platform uses advanced automation and software, including proven machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence to build predictive models that lead to autonomous operations over time, helping support sustainability efforts in oil and gas, water/wastewater and other data-intensive industries. Critical data from those predictive models can then be stored in an operation’s data historian to more easily track and trend performance and emissions and demonstrate compliance to regulators.

    “By moving to Azure, we can better provide managed IIoT services across the edge and cloud that easily connect, monitor and control assets around the world with multi-layered security, increased global data centers, and enhanced infrastructure,” said Nathan Pettus, president of Emerson’s process systems and software business. “The change improves Emerson’s already strong positioning to lead successful digital transformation efforts for several industries, providing solid and sustainable results with a vastly scalable, cloud-based solution that’s highly secure and extremely cost-effective.”

    Zedi Cloud SCADA platform moves to Microsoft Azure for superior scalability and tighter security to help industries meet sustainability goals

    The move to Microsoft Azure provides the best scalability and enterprise-level functionality of all available cloud platforms. Users can add or remove assets as needed to manage traffic spikes, which is particularly useful as organizations acquire other businesses and need to scale rapidly to accommodate new assets and bring them online quickly. Azure also provides greater hybrid cloud flexibility to enable users to work remotely while maximizing existing on-premises assets for a faster path to safe and effective autonomous operations.

    “I'm excited to see our customers expand their use of Microsoft products,” said Gary Nafus, vice president, manufacturing, Microsoft U.S. “The ultimate win is building trust with our customers when they select our products for critical operations, as we aim to continue to empower their business and tech efforts. I look forward to seeing Emerson’s use of Microsoft Azure to help power their Zedi Cloud SCADA platform– improving performance, ultra-high data resolution, and more flexibility for increased scalable and collaborative work. ESG efforts are very important today and this expansion will help push those efforts forward in a strong way.” 

    The Zedi Cloud SCADA platform helps personnel manage advanced analytics in formats that present authorized end users with clear, easily understood data accessible in the cloud anytime from anywhere. This improved access to intuitive data enables easy remote monitoring of assets, helping users improve operational performance even in rugged, dangerous, or distant locations. Increased layers of cybersecurity and the more robust network afforded by the Azure platform enable customers to further protect data for advanced continuity of operations.

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    Emerson (NYSE: EMR), headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), is a global technology and engineering company providing innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial and residential markets. Our Automation Solutions business helps process, hybrid and discrete manufacturers maximize production, protect personnel and the environment while optimizing their energy and operating costs. Our Commercial & Residential Solutions business helps ensure human comfort and health, protect food quality and safety, advance energy efficiency and create sustainable infrastructure. For more information visit Emerson.com.

    Digital Oil's Next Frontier - E & P Magazine

    Posted by Community Contributor on May 3, 2017 5:08:08 PM

    The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

    Zedi’s CTO and President, New Ventures, James Freeman, wrote an article discussing “The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)”, which has been featured in E & P Magazine as “Digital Oil’s Next Frontier”.

    The article presents the IIoT as an emerging investment opportunity that will give companies the best chance to make stronger and quicker business decisions, while growing towards running a successful digital business.

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    Keep Go-ing...with Zedi Go!

    Posted by Community Contributor on Mar 31, 2017 3:19:23 PM

    New mobile application launched by Zedi

    Calgary, AB – (April 3, 2017) – Operators can now view and manage operational and production data on the go, with Zedi Go, a mobile application released by Zedi, a leading oil and gas SCADA solutions provider. Zedi Go allows users to easily access current production and operational data, update settings, directly control field devices and is now available for download on iOS and Android.

    Built with operators and pumpers in mind, Zedi Go enables users to view all data, trends and alarms from any Zedi monitored device. Users can also change orifice plate settings and remotely control SCADA devices with demand polls and emergency shut-down (ESD) commands. Zedi TrueChart customers will now be able to enter daily chart estimates and have them accessible in Zedi Access.

     “Zedi has been a leader in oil and gas automation and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for over 25 years and we are excited to offer a mobile solution to strengthen our existing market leading platform,” said Matthew Heffernan, Chief Executive Officer of Zedi. “Zedi Go is another example of our commitment to proactively support our customers and ensure they get the most out of their production while being more efficient.”

    The addition of Zedi Go advances Zedi’s mission of helping our customers realize their production potential though industry leading technology and services. The combination of Zedi’s existing IIoT, automation and optimization capabilities through the convenience of mobile makes Zedi Go an important tool to help producers be more productive, more profitable and more sustainable.

    About Zedi

    Zedi is a leading oil and gas technology and services company in the field of production operations. Through technology backed by expert consultation and services, we help our customers realize their production potential. With our unique combination of award-winning automation, data management and field and professional services, we offer complete solutions for the challenges our customers encounter.

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    Rebecca Geddes
    Marketing Communications Manager
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    MultiTech Announces Interoperability with Zedi’s Field Gateway EdgeServer Software and ZediMote LPWA Device

    Posted by Community Contributor on Mar 29, 2017 10:45:36 AM

    Mounds View, MN – March 28, 2017 — Multi-Tech Systems, Inc., today announced interoperability between the MultiTech MultiConnect® Conduit™ gateway and Zedi’s Field Gateway Edge Server Software (FGES). The MultiConnect Conduit, used in conjunction with Zedi’s FGES Software, provides a secure and scalable application-hosting framework for custom gateway applications that enable connected solutions in a wide variety of IIoT applications.

    “IoT is not a ‘one-size-fits-all’ application,” said Daniel Quant, vice president, product management and strategic marketing at MultiTech. “We strive to enable connected solutions to the widest possible variety of IIoT applications and our new partnership with Zedi further expands this reach through further extending LoRaWANs groundbreaking potential.”

    The MultiConnect Conduit is the industry’s most configurable, manageable, and scalable IoT communications gateway. Quick to deploy and easy to use, the Conduit gateway supports both wired and wireless connectivity standards through two accessory card slots. The Conduit enables a wide variety of asset types to be optimally connected and controlled using a slew of different application and communication protocols.


    Zedi’s FGES Software is a Linux-based application framework originally designed for Zedi’s FG-400 and FG-600 series of edge IIoT Field Gateway solutions. It provides tight integration with Zedi’s cloud-based Zedi AccessTM platform, an established IIoT solution serving 1.3 million sensors primarily in the Upstream Oil & Gas sector.

    Zedi and MultiTech also announced that Zedi has paired its FGES-powered MultiTech Conduit gateway with a Zedi-designed ZediMote module, which incorporates the MultiTech MultiConnect® mDotTM module.

    “Zedi brings years of practical problem-solving experience using IIoT solutions in the Oil & Gas industry. We see adding LPWA capability at the edge of the network as an enabler to both extend our solution suites in our existing markets, while supporting a pivot into new industry verticals,” said James Freeman, Zedi CTO. “We have since completed a trial of MultiTech’s LoRaWANTM solution using a FGES-powered Conduit and our ZediMote in a retail food services industry application. The ZediMotes were retrofitted onto existing equipment, making it possible for us to extract sensor data from the machines and report them via a LoRaWAN hotspot to our Zedi AccessTM cloud platform, where customers benefit from our Tableau-powered visualization engine and HMI capabilities.”
    LoRaWAN is a low-power, long-range wireless technology that connects sensors and controls assets over miles, deep into buildings and through structures, on a single battery that lasts for years. Application examples include detecting and alerting on water leaks in large hotels or apartment buildings and controlling pumping systems deployed in industrial environments.

    MultiTech’s Conduit gateway supports cutting-edge IoT connectivity like that enabled by MultiConnect mDot and MultiConnect® xDot™ LoRaWAN compliant modules. The MultiConnect xDot is a secure, CE/FCC/RCM LoRa Alliance Certified™, ARM® mbed™ programmable, low-power RF module, that provides long-range, low bit rate IoT data connectivity to sensors, industrial equipment and remote appliances. The MultiConnect mDot (MTDOT Series) offers significantly longer range and improved radio performance compared to traditional wireless solutions—resulting in greater transmission range and reduced capital expense.

    About Zedi

    At Zedi, our core technology business is about managing data, adding value to it, and generating insights for our customers to make better business decisions and realize the potential of their producing assets. Our 60 years of continuous operations in North America and recognition as one of the industry's best workplaces, sets us apart in the production operations landscape. With our unique combination of award-winning automation, data management, and field and professional services, we offer solutions to our customers' challenges and help them realize their production potential.

    MultiTech Press Contact:

    Jennifer Costello, MG Communications; Tel: 781-715-4870; Email: jennifer@mgresults.com.

    For more infomation visit: www.multitech.com

    Zedi Receives 2015 IoT Excellence Award for New Analytic Capabilities

    Posted by Community Contributor on Apr 12, 2016 2:12:59 PM

    Zedi Inc. is pleased to be recognized by TMC and Crossfire Media for the 2015 IoT Evolution Excellence Award. The award honors innovative products that support the better business the availability of information being deduced, inferred and directly gathered from sensors, systems and anything else that is supporting better business and personal decisions.

    The company was specifically recognized for developing analytics supporting issue detection associated with oil and gas production. The analytics spot and diagnose issues as they arise, which can jeopardize production or can damage producing assets, ensuring faster issue resolution and cost savings for our customers.

    “Zedi has built a next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) platform that reliably connects to our customers’ remote sites and provides industry-leading monitoring solutions,” says James Freeman, Chief Technology Officer at Zedi. “We’re thrilled and humbled to be recognized for this outstanding achievement as it recognizes our ability to deliver meaningful innovations to the market”.

    Zedi’s IoT platform is built upon four core technologies. The first is field instrumentation, including our new generation of IoT Gateways, the Field Gateway, which allows customers to connect a variety of sensors and instrumentation to the platform. The second is our private wireless network utilizing M2M technologies from leading service providers around the world.  The third element is Zedi’s Cloud-based platform, which integrates Zedi proprietary solutions together with best-in-class third-party connectivity and business intelligence platforms. The final element is Zedi’s investment in Applications that provide insights from Analytics into a world-class user experience.

    With a unique capability to pull data from remote locations, Zedi’s platform adds value and insight for our customers to make better business decisions and realize their production potential.

    Zedi Awarded 2015 TechRev Innovator

    Posted by Community Contributor on Oct 8, 2015 12:11:00 PM

    Zedi is pleased to be recognized by TechRev as a winner of their annual Innovator's Award. The 2015 TechRev awards were held on October 7 in Calgary, hosting a group of tech entrepreneurs, industry partners, investors, and key stakeholders.

    This is the second time Zedi has won this award. Zedi was the recipient of the TechRev Innovator – Leader and Pillar in Technology Sector Award in 2012.

    TechRev celebrates and recognizes local technology innovators with standout accomplishments that represent the most forward looking and promising tech ventures underway in southern Alberta.

    www.techrev.ca/techrev-2015-innovators-announced/

    Zedi Awarded Outstanding Commercial Achievement

    Posted by Community Contributor on Nov 24, 2014 10:10:00 AM

    ASTech Foundation Recognizes Zedi for Leadership in Technology

    CALGARY, Alberta – (November 24, 2014) – Zedi Inc. (www.zedi.ca) was awarded Outstanding Commercial Achievement in Science and Technology at the Alberta Science and Technology (ASTech) Foundation Awards Gala on October 24, 2014. The award recognizes a company that demonstrates achievement with measurable results in a science and technology related business.

    "Zedi utilizes the latest M2M, Cloud, and Analytics technologies available to reliably connect to our customers’ remote sites and provide industry-leading monitoring solutions," says James Freeman, Chief Technology Officer at Zedi, "We’re thrilled to be recognized for this achievement."

    Formerly, Z.I. Probes Inc., Zedi was also recognized by NRC/ASTech Foundation for Industrial Research in 1992 for technological expertise and innovation in the international energy sector.

    "We feel honoured and humbled to be recognized as a leader in science and technology innovation," says CEO Matthew Heffernan, "Without the tremendous amount of hard work and dedication from the whole organization across North America, it would not be possible to be recognized."

    ABOUT ASTech Foundation

    The Alberta Science and Technology Leadership (ASTech) Foundation is a non-for-profit organization founded through an industry initiative in 1989. The ASTech Foundation was created to showcase the substantial achievements in Science & Technology in Alberta and to promote the importance of these activities to social and economic benefit. ASTech has grown with the support of patron organizations spanning major industries – including agriculture, health, energy, and technology – all of whom recognize and celebrate excellence in science and technology in Alberta.

    ABOUT ZEDI

    Zedi Inc. helps the world's oil and gas producers be more productive, more profitable, and more sustainable through technology backed by expert consultation and services.  Our 60 years of continuous operations in North America and recognition as one of the industry's best workplaces, sets us apart in the production operations landscape.  With our unique combination of award-winning automation, data management, and field and professional services, we offer solutions to our customers' challenges and help them realize their production potential.

    Zedi Supports Sarah’s Wish Foundation in the 9th Annual Charity Golf Tournament

    Posted by Community Contributor on Aug 15, 2013 1:22:00 AM

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    On August 15th, Zedi was proud to serve as the title sponsor for the 9th Annual Sarah’s Wish Charity Golf Tournament at Springbank Links Golf Club, raising money for the Ronald McDonald House® of Southern Alberta. Sarah’s Wish Foundation is a charity that supports children with cancer through the form of subsidized accommodations and emergency funds. As you can imagine, many of the families who have a child going through cancer treatment experience a tremendous amount of emotional and financial stress and Sarah’s Wish in partnership with the Ronald McDonald House offer a comfortable place to call home for these families during this difficult time.

    It gives Zedi great pleasure to give back to the communities where we live and work and we were honored to support and participate in this year’s golf tournament for the second year in a row. Zedi donated a total of 200 hours to the planning and overall execution of the day. The tournament was a great success and raised $20,000, which will cover 1667 nights of stay at the Ronald McDonald House of Southern Alberta. Additionally, Zedi will be matching the $1,160 raised by a lemonade stand hosted by a family who had stayed at the Ronald McDonald House and experienced first-hand the support of Sarah’s Wish Foundation.

    “Contributing our time and effort to support a charitable foundation like Sarah’s Wish is an important part of the Zedi culture in giving back to the communities where we live and work. It was a fantastic day out on the golf course and we were so humbled and honored to be a part of it,” said Larry Spagnolo, Senior Vice President of Market and Customer Solutions.

    Zedi’s volunteer initiatives include donating over 50,000 hours to supporting various community organizations and educational institutions. Some of these include the Alpha House, Calgary Food Bank, Edmonton Food Bank. Fort Nelson Hospital Foundation, Inn from the Cold, Magic of Christmas, Meals on Wheels, The Mustard SEED, and the Northern Rockies Senior Society. Zedi also works with Partners for Life and Canadian Blood Services on a regular basis and continues to focus our efforts on helping with the Alberta flood clean-up.

    For more information on Zedi’s Community Involvement visit: www.zedi.ca/who-we-are/community-investment 

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