Most digital-system experts would agree that perhaps the greatest threat to Yeager’s vision would be something impossible to envision back in the mid-1990s: cybersecurity. This capability was certainly stressed-tested in the last few months as Emerson and its customers grappled with a COVID-19 ravaged landscape. Indeed, not only is the Ovation platform all that, it has also become the gateway for services and expertise provided from, well, anywhere. “With the continuous evolution of our Ovation automation platform, we are a protection and condition monitoring, failure prediction, excitation, simulator, advanced monitoring and diagnostics, data analytics, advanced visualization, and a PLC (programmable logic controller) company.” For that matter, today the vision for Ovation platform now encompasses the entire electricity supply and delivery chain (Fig 1), not just the powerplant. “We are no longer just a distributed control system company,” Yeager said in his traditional opening remarks. At the company’s 2020 virtual Ovation Users’ Group Conference (OUG), it became clear that Yeager is tantalizingly close to achieving that vision. That executive was Robert Yeager, long-time president of Emerson’s Power and Water Solutions. Twenty-five years ago, at least one powerplant controls company executive articulated a vision of integrating disparate and siloed software applications into a unified whole, anchored by the distributed control system (DCS). Goal of an integrated power plant knowledge platform nearly reached
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