Emerson Launches New Location Awareness System to Protect Employees, Enhance Industrial Safety
Business Wire 3-Oct-2018 9:00 AM
Tech Advancement Expands Plantweb™ Digital Ecosystem, Creates Secure,
Cost-Effective Way to Safeguard Industrial Manufacturing Workers
Emerson today announced the launch of Location Awareness, a new offering
in its Plantweb™ digital ecosystem that advances industrial safety to
protect employees at refineries, chemical plants and oil and gas
platforms. By leveraging the secure industrial wireless infrastructure,
this personnel location system offers industrial companies an enhanced
option to protect their most important asset – workers.
Emerson's Location Awareness technology could help reduce more than 70
percent of common personnel-recordable incidents. Used for safety
mustering and man-down events, Location Awareness gives managers a
snapshot of employee locations through rechargeable wearable tags. In an
emergency, when every second counts, managers can quickly account for
employees' locations in the plant or facility and act to ensure safety.
"Safety is one of Emerson's core values, and this latest technology
advancement will help us bring new levels of safety to manufacturing
workers across the globe," said Lal Karsanbhai, executive president of
Emerson Automation Solutions. "We know that installation complexity has
been a major roadblock to sites considering similar solutions. With its
fast, simple installation, Location Awareness is making it easier than
ever before to implement a best-in-class safety system to protect
employees."
With scalable features, Emerson's Location Awareness is the first
personnel safety technology powered by the WirelessHART
infrastructure, a secure standard adopted in tens of thousands of plants
and facilities worldwide. It can be installed in just days, compared to
weeks for existing systems, and costs less than half of traditional,
existing alternatives.
The Location Awareness system combines a new software application in
Emerson's Plantweb™ Insight suite with gateways, access points, location
anchors and personnel tags certified for hazardous conditions. The
software includes: a safety-mustering feature that shows which employees
have or have not checked in to their muster points during an emergency;
man-down alerts that allow personnel in dangerous situations to initiate
an alert for emergency response teams; and a geofencing feature that
designates perimeters around areas and sends an alert if and when that
perimeter is crossed.
Location Awareness will be available in July 2019. For more information,
please visit www.Emerson.com/LocationAwareness
About Emerson
Emerson (NYSE:EMR), headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), is a
global technology and engineering company providing innovative solutions
for customers in industrial, commercial and residential markets. Our
Emerson Automation Solutions business helps process, hybrid, and
discrete manufacturers maximize production, protect personnel and the
environment while optimizing their energy and operating costs. Our
Emerson Commercial & Residential Solutions business helps ensure human
comfort and health, protect food quality and safety, advance energy
efficiency and create sustainable infrastructure. For more information
visit Emerson.com.
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