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Ovation® System & Product Overview



 

A key component of Emerson's PlantWeb® digital plant architecture, the Ovation® expert control system gives users higher levels of plant availability, reliability and environmental compliance. Optimized for the global power generation and water/wastewater treatment industries, Ovation embodies Emerson's four decades of unsurpassed expertise in the control and management of these complex operations.

Ovation® provides seamless interface with the most widely adopted bus standards allowing you to incorporate smart device technologies into your process. And, Ovation's embedded advanced algorithms and proven industry-specific control routines assure that you can optimize your operations to maximize efficiency, productivity and profitability.

Gaining a Competitive Advantage
The Ovation expert control system was designed from the ground up to help you achieve operational excellence and create a sustainable competitive advantage.

Ovation's field-proven control design techniques developed over the last four decades provide tighter, more precise and predictable control while a host of advanced control and process optimization software allow you to further enhance operations by automatically balancing the process for optimum results.

From basic control and monitoring, to fleet-wide or district-wide integration, Ovation offers seamless communication with fieldbus networks, intelligent field devices and integrated asset management solutions to deliver the power of predictive intelligence to operations and management personnel.

Keep Pace with the Latest Technology
By incorporating commercial, off-the-shelf technology throughout the system, Ovation provides a powerful yet adaptable platform that gives you greater operational flexibility that other systems while also protecting your engineering investment by allowing you to continually modify and expand the system to meet new challenges.

This means that your Ovation can evolve incrementally as your process grows or technology progresses. Ovation eliminates fears of rapid obsolescence by allowing you to stay current with state-of-the-art developments in communications, processing and advanced applications.

Ovation utilizes commercially available, off-the-shelf technology to provide a powerful and secure architecture while allowing your system to easily progress with rapidly advancing computer technologies. It provides a seamless interface with the most widely adopted bus standards allowing you to incorporate smart device technologies into your process. And, Ovation's embedded advanced algorithms and proven industry-specific control routines assure that you can optimize your operations to maximize efficiency, productivity and profitability.

System Design Features:

  • Designed to meet the unique needs of the power generation and water/wastewater treatment industries.

    • Power Generation — Ovation incorporates embedded applications such as fully coordinated boiler/turbine control, emissions monitoring, economic dispatch and fleet management

    • Water/Wastewater Treatment — Ovation incorporates a SCADA interface for wide-area monitoring and control, seamless PLC integration, and comprehensive diagnostics programs

  • Uses widely recognized, commercially available hardware, software, networking and communication interfaces allowing you to easily and cost-effectively keep pace with changing technology.

  • Provides seamless integration with intelligent field devices and widely adopted bus technologies such as HART, FOUNDATION fieldbus, Profibus DP and DeviceNet.

  • Offers integrated asset management solutions to deliver the power of predictive intelligence to operations and management personnel.

  • Incorporates a comprehensive suite of intuitive programming tools that help minimize engineering and configuration time.

  • Easily accommodates the integration of third-party products
 
   


Ovation® Powers PlantWeb®

Ovation® and Digital Bus Technology

Ovation® and Integrated Asset Management

Ovation® Network

Ovation® Controller

Ovation® Relational Database

Ovation® Engineer Workstations & Engineering Tools

Ovation® Operator Workstations

Ovation® Operator Keyboard

Ovation® I/O

Ovation® Link Controller & Special I/O

Ovation® Interface to GE Genius I/O

Ovation® Historian for Solaris-Based Systems

Ovation® Report Server for Solaris-Based Systems

Ovation® Process Historian for Windows-Based Systems

Ovation® SCADA Communication Server

Ovation® Connectivity Products

Ovation® Tuning Tools

Ovation® Interface to GE Mark V & VI Turbine Controllers

Ovation® Integration with Allen-Bradley PLCs

Ovation® Data Links

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