Emerson has released its Ovation™ Curation Tool, a first-of-its-kind synchronisation software for water control systems, delivering an easy way to maintain version control and detailed change history between multiple Ovation systems and simulators.
The Curation Tool automates management of changes between power plant production systems and their digital twins to improve testing and training accuracy, save engineering time and enable faster troubleshooting and stronger governance.
One of the primary challenges of managing digital twins is ensuring that both the simulation and production are properly synchronised.
Operators and engineers make regular changes to production systems to solve problems, improve performance and develop new control strategies.
Over time, these changes cause the configuration of the plant’s control systems to drift from the digital twin simulation model. Manually tracking and implementing changes can take hours of engineering time, making the process both time-consuming and labor-intensive. The Ovation Curation Tool automatically tracks changes to the control system over time and enables fast and easy deployment of those changes to other control systems and simulations via an intuitive dashboard.
“Keeping a digital twin continually synchronized with live systems has always been a challenge, and that challenge continues to increase as workforce shortages make it more difficult to find and retain expert personnel,” said Rick Kephart, vice-president of technology for Emerson’s power and water business.
“The Ovation Curation Tool helps teams deliver lifecycle value for Emerson’s Ovation Digital Twin by making it easy to ensure simulations stay relevant, providing continuous benefit through improved training, testing, engineering and forecasting.”
Emerson delivers synchronisation software for water control systems
