This document discusses remote operations management and how FOUNDATION for ROM can help address challenges in that area. It notes business drivers for remote operations like resources being found in hard to reach areas and efforts to reduce personnel requirements. FOUNDATION for ROM provides a wired and wireless infrastructure to remotely monitor widely dispersed assets. It can help end users through benefits like real-time access to asset data, predictive maintenance, and reduced costs. The document provides examples of remote operations management applications in industries like oil and gas, mining, and pharmaceuticals.

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2. Outline
• Remote Operations Management:
Definition and Business Challenges
• Introducing FOUNDATION for ROM:
Technology and Application Examples
• What FOUNDATION for ROM can Bring to
Remote Operations
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3. Remote Operations Management Applications
• Oil & Gas Pipeline
SCADA
• Offshore Platforms
• Oil & Gas Fields
• Water & Wastewater
SCADA
• Tank Farms &
Terminal Automation
• Mining
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4. Business Drivers for Growth in Remote Operations
Management Market
• Plant operations are becoming more
geographically dispersed
• Resources are being found in
increasingly hard to reach and
hazardous areas
• Drive to subsea production
• Effort to get people out of harm’s way
and reduce personnel requirements :
“Lights Out” operation
• Need to transport resources over
greater distances
• “…a new generation of mega pipelines
is being built to bring massive amounts
of natural gas from some of the most
remote regions of the world to many of
the most densely populated centers of New Generation of Mega Pipelines
commerce and industry. “ – Forbes Source: Forbes
Magazine
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5. The Business Challenges
• Traditional approach does not work
• Move from steady state to dynamic
environment
• Dynamically changing supply and
demand
• Tighter production specifications
• Increased regulatory pressure
• Human resources challenge:
Increasingly challenging to send
operators to check remote service
areas
Workers Check a Pipeline in China
• Integration of wireless technology Source: AP
• Increased focus on cyber security
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6. Upstream Capital and Operating Costs Rising
• Need to reduce capital and
operational costs
• According to IHS/CERA, “The rising
costs of both building and operating
upstream oil and gas facilities
continued to increase in the past six
months
• “Both cost indexes registered their
largest increases since the Great
Recession during the Q3 2010-Q1
2011 period.”
• “Costs for construction labor and
engineering and project management
posted strong gains, 9 percent and 6
Source: IHS/CERA
percent, respectively. “
• Users are building ever larger
installations. The engineering and
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7. End User Requirements
• Users need a real time view into
what’s happening in widely
dispersed remote assets
• Users need to know the state of the
assets as well as the state of the
process
• Process must keep running safely
in the event of loss of
communication with remote
assets/process
• Solution must provide high level of
both physical and cyber security
• A lot of complex equipment. Need to
link in people that understand this
equipment in a secure fashion
around the world
• Faster time to startup
• Reduced operational costs
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8. The Old Remote Operations Management Model
• Systems collect historical data
• End users analyze the data using their tools and their intellect
• End user make decisions about the future based on their conclusions and historical data
• Steady state environment
• “Coordination comes from a central location in a rigid, hierarchical fashion”: ARC Advisory
Group
• Hard wired
• Large degree of customization is often the case
• Run to failure
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9. Introducing FOUNDATION for Remote Operations
Management
• Provides a wireless and wired infrastructure for remote assets and applications, all
within FOUNDATION fieldbus
• Integrates Wired Infrastructure, Remote I/O, ISA100.11a and WirelessHART®
• Incorporate remote operations data into FOUNDATION Fieldbus infrastructure for data
management with direct access to device diagnostics
• FOUNDATION for ROM has the potential to transform remote operations, providing
greater reliability and reduced costs.
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10. Application Example
Control Room
BACKHAUL:
WIFI, WIMAX,
SATELLITE
CELLULAR, ETC.
Remote Process
Wireless Backhaul Enables
HSE Wired and Wireless Backhaul Access To Remote Sensors
Using
Standard Wireless
FOUNDATION for ROM Device Technologies
I/O
H1 HART
Wireless
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11. What are FOUNDATION for ROM Products?
• More than a simple protocol
translation gateway
• Capability Can be Embedded
into Existing RTUs, Controllers,
etc.
• Will be Tested & Registered with
Fieldbus Foundation
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12. The Business Value of FOUNDATION for ROM for End
Users
• Enables real time operations
management and more effective use
of remote experts
• Data structures, data quality, EDDL
• Fewer Personnel
• Reduced engineering and operational
costs
• Familiar & comprehensible to a good
DCS engineer
• Highly configurable
• Enables Predictive Maintenance
Strategy
• Increased Reliability & Availability Source: Aramco
• Open and Interoperable Standard
• Less Customization
• Greener
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13. The Business Value of FOUNDATION for ROM for
Suppliers
• Fills key gaps in current remote
Secure Access
operations management capability
Traceability
by extending FOUNDATION
Data integrity
Technology to remote operations Management of Change (OSHA 1910.119)
• Accelerates next generation remote Interspersed functionality
operations management capability Same system or multiple systems
• Can greatly improve your value Multiple instances of the same data point
proposition for plant asset Risk management
management Crisis recovery
• Enables additional services - Personnel productivity
feasibly studies, application Systems health
services Potential Issues to be considered in an Automation Asset
Management Plan
• Inherent security in backhaul
Source: ARC
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14. Our Future Direction: Helping Users
Realize the Benefits
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15. Seeing Your Process in High Definition
• Diagnostic Data from FOUNDATION
Fieldbus Devices is Miles Ahead of
Other Technologies
• Incorporation of NAMUR NE 107
Diagnostics
• Transmission of multiple process
variables
• User layer!
• Physical layer diagnostics
• Distinguishing Device Problems from
Process Problems
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16. Managing Information
• You know you are getting a true
measurement, no digital to analog
conversion
• Persistent data storage: audit trail and
reporting
• Data is time-stamped
• FOUNDATION Fieldbus devices can
indicate data quality -- whether signals
communicating setpoints, PVs, etc.
have good, bad or uncertain quality.
• Structured data and data quality
means improved handling of failures
when one does happen.
• Failure is alarmed, handled by control
algorithm
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17. A Single Environment for Information in Context & Data
Quality
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18. Information Provided in Context
• Allows data to be managed and Business
System
placed in context. Publish
subscribe means that you only
get the data you need when you
need it.
Production Manufacturing
Management Work
• Easier traceability and ISA S95 Transactions Operations
Management
Processes
regulatory compliance.
Sensors, Actuators and Logical Devices
ISA S88
Real-Time
• Seamless connectivity to the Control &
Events
operations management layer
and enterprise layer.
Source: ARC Advisory Group
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19. Optimizing People and Processes
• Implementation of Predictive and Proactive Asset Management
Strategies
• More Effective Use of Shrinking Resources
• Role Based Diagnostics
• Alarms and Alerts
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20. Improved Integration of Functional Areas for ROM
• Machinery health
Monitoring
• Safety Interlocks
• Fire and Gas Detection
Systems
• Video Surveillance
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21. An Open Standard for Remote Operations
Management
• FOUNDATION Technology is a
Standard. Standards Promote
Choices
• Administered by an Open
Foundation, Vendor Neutral
• Products are Tested and
Registered
• Standards Based Solutions are
More Easily Replicated and
Administered
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22. Potential Market
• The worldwide market for SCADA rebounded
in 2010 after weathering the effects of the
global economic crisis.
• SCADA market is growing faster than overall
process automation market.
• As demand for oil recovers and funding is
freed up, project activity can be expected to
return to robust levels in coming years,
according ARC Advisory Group.
• Growth factors include the continuing
worldwide demand for additional energy
from carbon-based fuels, the shifting of
exploration and production locations to
more remote and hostile environments, and
end user requirements to link SCADA to
information technology and business
systems.
• Frost and Sullivan estimates global SCADA
market to be around $4.5 billion for all
industries
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23. Application Examples: Oil and Gas Fields
• Enables Integrated Operations
Source: CAP Gemini
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24. Application Examples: Pipelines
• API Monitoring, Custody Transfer
Source: Moxa
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25. Application Examples: Tank Farms
• Overfill Protection, Integration of Fire & Gas
Detection
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26. Application Examples: Mining, Hydro Fracking
• Coordination of widely dispersed automation assets
• Oil sands
• Concentrating data from multiple wellheads
• Smaller environmental footprint
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27. Application Examples: Pharma
• Faster Integration of Multiple
Skid Mounted Mobile Units
• Faster Commissioning
• Easier Validation
• Reduced Cost to Both End
User and OEM
FOUNDATION Fieldbus
Instrumentation on a Skid
Mounted Fermenter
Source: PharmaManufacturing.com
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