There is no doubt that you already have some very talented people working in your organization. They've been working hard to help increase production and profits in your operation, and now it's time to help them. Added stress from fewer skilled workers in the workforce can escalate to burn out, safety risks, and lost production that can all quickly add up to lost time, lost profits and serious risk factors to people everywhere.

Upskill your people (help people increase their skills) and optimize their own performance with a few easy to implement ideas that can take your operations to the next level of performance in a very short amount of time - all while increasing your people's abilities, confidence and produce positive short and long term outcomes.

Well that was fast!

2023 certainly flew by and while we've all been busy helping our customers and end users become more productive, profitable and sustainable our IIoT platform developers have been making important updates to make it run better, faster and easier to use all while making the Zedi platform even more secure with a total of 26 updates in 2023.

And if that wasn't enough we're proud that we now have over 3.1 million sensor points worldwide, 140 million daily readings and over 11,000 downloads of Zedi Go, the mobile app so all of our end Users can securely keep going and enter, monitor and manage their production from anywhere at anytime.

Another year of impactful cloud-native IIoT platform updates - Here are our favorites we wanted to share with you.

Is your company realizing but hesitating on the need to add automation for remote monitoring and diagnostics, whether onshore or off?

Here are some words of wisdom.

In the words of the Borg, of Star Trek: The Next Generation, it may seem that “Resistance is futile.” Change is always a challenge, but moving from paper reports and long wellsite trips worthy of Voyager is a change that will pay off really quickly. In truth, the more assets you have, and the more distant they are, the faster a cloud-native SCADA system will pay off.

You and your amazing employees have worked hard to build your OEM business and it shows in your long-term success and happy end customers. Now that you have created processes that are tried and true to your business model and fully support your company sustainability, you may be thinking its a good time to think about how you can take it all to the next level through building out stronger efficiencies and better work-flows that will simply day-to-day operations and also present your people with the right data they need to make better, faster decisions.

You and your dedicated staff have all worked very hard to get your production levels to exactly where you want them to be - not an easy task, and certainly not an easy one to keep rolling without loads of serious challenges. Sure, every company has obstacles and set-backs here and there; but when it comes to production - one tiny hiccup can result in several factors of safety, profitability and even your organizations long-standing sustainability.

It's no secret that production downtime can be significant and negatively impact your operations very quickly.

These challenges happen with the blink of an eye - and cause long-standing times of downtime, lost profits and serious safety impacts. Here are five keys to prevent production downtime to help you remain up and running while keeping your people safer, profit margins up and maintaining your operations for a life-time of strong returns for generations.

"There is no life without water."

 - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist

Municipal water utilities have one of the most important—and unappreciated—tasks in civilization. They bring water to citizens located far from rivers or streams; located instead in apartment buildings, houses and businesses along city streets and highways.

There is indeed, “no life without water.” But to be useful, that water has to be stored, distributed when needed, and contained. For most organizations today, whether commercial or municipal, there is no industrial life without data. But that data must be available, understandable and actionable. It’s amazing to learn that more than 50% of businesses (and this could include municipalities as well) have more data than they have the data analytics capacity to handle or analyze effectively.

When you’re watching a great movie it absorbs you into the story, the action and the characters. It's probably not a great movie if you find yourself thinking about other things like; “How did they get that camera angle?” Or “These are really strange sound effects" or even worse "Did I put the laundry in the dryer?" 

There’s a strong correlation between the movie production mechanics and your operations. On your computer or smart device, you want just to see the data from local and remote locations—production, measurements, down time, machine health, maintenance schedules, utility costs—or whatever, as long as it's data you can action upon to help you increase your production, safety, profits or sustainability. You don’t want to fumble around with reporting, why you’re not getting data from the sensors in the compressor, or what happened to last month’s figures. If your current system causes you to do that, you’re ready for a change.

When the real estate market is booming, home buyers will fight for virtually any house that hits the market. It's nice for sellers while it's happening, but eventually, the buyers who chose the best location will hold the properties with the greatest value. Of course there is much more to factor into your decision before committing yourself to a purchase that large; you probably have poured over the area data to see what the crime rate is, how the schools are, what the resale market holds, how far it is to conveniences, how close the neighbors are (or are not), etc...

Predicting long-term market value of anything isn't easy, but there are some tell-tale things to look for before you sign the dotted line that can help give you insight into the long-range value. The most important is of course all that data you can find today, on just about anything!

Purpose developed and built new features and tools bring a pile of benefits to customers utilizing Emerson's Zedi SaaS SCADA. We offer faster, more immediate ways of getting you your actionable data while helping you reduce unnecessary costs. Our experts work to solve your problems by developing tools that give your company more control over your operational assets.

Recognizing the importance of time, we've introduced new tools within the Zedi Cloud SCADA platform to help your operations become much more accessible than ever.

You don't have to be a data analyst, automation expert, brain surgeon or even a rocket scientist to gain hassle-free access to your data analytics to increase your production, profits and sustainability. We've got the experts you need already in place and ready to roll up their sleeves and get to work for you today.

Our SaaS (Software as a Service) delivers the right analytics to all the right, authorized users to enable better business decisions across your organization. When you partner with Emerson we make sure you have a hassle-free experience, because we realize you have far more important tasks at hand than trying to juggle special projects along with your daily core focused activities.