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Wonderware Midwest is now GS PlantOptics, an AVEVA Select Partner in the Midwest

Melissa Shearer — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 22:14:58 +0000

Leveraging AVEVA’s Entire Portfolio of Leading-edge Industrial Software, GS PlantOptics Continues to Help Customers to Accelerate their Digital Transformation Journeys

PRESS RELEASE | Brookfield, WI, Feb. 28, 2022 – Wonderware Midwest has become an AVEVA Select partner for the Midwest under a new name GS PlantOptics. Being an AVEVA Select partner allows GS PlantOptics to deliver AVEVA’s full portfolio of leading-edge industrial software solutions to customers that will help them become more sustainable and profitable.

The new name, GS PlantOptics, reflects our refined focus on industrial data infrastructure for improved productivity and operational agility, and a nearly 40-year history in data collection, storage and analytics.

The AVEVA Select partnership has accelerated the value that GS PlantOptics can provide, empowering their customers and partners to optimize engineering, operations, and asset performance.

With AVEVA’s Engineering solutions, they can assist customers in efficiently delivering capital projects on time and within budget. The AVEVA Operations suite eliminates supply chain value leaks while improving operational efficiency and enhancing collaboration. GS PlantOptics can also empower customers and partners to balance operating expenses and risk to optimize performance with AVEVA Asset Performance Management.

“GS PlantOptics’ customers and partners will continue to get the same desired support, with an impressive added value of wider access to AVEVA’s complete portfolio, which assures a new level of Performance Intelligence using technologies such as AI, IIoT, big data and cloud. The AVEVA Select program helps our distributors to optimize on opportunities and to support their customers in digital transition,” said Kerry Grimes, Head of Global Partners, AVEVA. “We are pleased to welcome GS PlantOptics to the AVEVA Select family and look forward to developing and capitalizing on mutually beneficial growth strategies.”

We’ve enjoyed more than 30 years working as Wonderware in this region and this will continue, now as an AVEVA Select partner. GS PlantOptics is our new operating name that captures our past as GS Systems, but with an eye to the future where increasingly, leveraging plant data offers a key strategic capability for continuous process improvement.

~ John Gardner, President, GS PlantOptics

About AVEVA Select
The AVEVA Select program is designed for partners with full access to AVEVA’s comprehensive software portfolio, enabling them to help companies accelerate their digital transformation journey. AVEVA Select aligns to both market and technology trends, with programs designed to suit every product and solution specialization in the engineering and industrial segments. By leveraging the breadth of the AVEVA software portfolio, AVEVA Select partners can now help customers simplify design, optimize production, and maximize performance. More at https://www.aveva.com/en/about/partners/aveva-select/

About GS PlantOptics
GS PlantOptics, formerly Wonderware Midwest, is the AVEVA Select channel partner serving the upper Midwest with local sales and technical services for the full AVEVA Software portfolio. AVEVA industrial software solutions empower users to solve the most challenging operational problems. At GS PlantOptics, we help customers build and leverage their industrial data infrastructure to achieve operational excellence, agility, and sustainability.

About AVEVA
AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software, driving digital transformation and sustainability. By connecting the power of information and artificial intelligence with human insight, AVEVA enables teams to use their data to unlock new value. We call this Performance Intelligence. AVEVA’s comprehensive portfolio enables more than 20,000 industrial enterprises to engineer smarter, operate better and drive sustainable efficiency. AVEVA supports customers through a trusted ecosystem that includes 5,500 partners and 5,700 certified developers around the world. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with over 6,500 employees and 90 offices in over 40 countries. Learn more at www.aveva.com.

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As AVEVA looks to advance industries while enhancing the human experience, it’s key to add clarity and simplicity into our solutions. Following close collaboration with customers to streamline how our offerings are presented, we’ve decided to update product names across our portfolio.

You will continue to see some of our product names being updated to remove legacy brand associations and become functional. The goal behind the change is to make it easier for users to understand the wholistic benefit that AVEVA offers and to simplify the complexity that comes with a myriad of legacy brand names. While we are updating product names in our portfolio, there will be no changes in your contracts and relationships with AVEVS or Wonderware Midwest.

If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to our team.

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5 Ways to Maintain Operational Flexibility and Stability

admin_gsplant — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:29:27 +0000

Have you hit an efficiency roadblock with your AVEVA InTouch or other HMI application? Faced with ongoing operational challenges like an aging workforce, demand for standardization, and increasing dependence on high resolution data, it could be time to consider migrating to a superior supervisory visualization application.

Bring Context to Your Application, Empower Operators

AVEVA System Platform, formerly Wonderware, with Operations Management Interface (OMI) helps you securely visualize operations across the organization using an asset model to pull context in real time, including:
- Processes
- Alarms
- Events
- Archived historical data
Working with a single, common information stream makes system design and maintenance more efficient and flexible. It empowers operators with greater situational awareness that improves performance. The responsive framework re-imagines the traditional HMI experience to offer optimal viewing – whether you are on a desktop in the control room, or using a tablet on the plant floor or in the field.
Standardize Your Implementation, Unify Operations

With current resource constraints being felt all over, the standardization of your SCADA implementation helps:
- Capture tribal knowledge.
- When the aging workforce retires, their vast knowledge and experience goes with them. Standardization of information allows the necessary information to be retained in the SCADA system.
- Speed up on-boarding, training, and cross-training of new and existing employees.
- A system that looks and acts the same allows operators from any area to understand and utilize applications across the entire plant.
- Expand the system efficiently.
- Completing all implementation and design work with a templatized approach enables quick and easy expansion into new areas of the facility; or into new facilities altogether.
AVEVA System Platform provides a collaborative, standards-based foundation that unifies people, processes, and assets across all facilities for continuous operational improvement, real-time decision support, and scalability.
Implement Disaster Recovery, Protect Your Data

Virtualization technologies such as High Availability and Fault Tolerance are great for ensuring that your system encounters little to no downtime in the case of an operating system failure. This technology should be taken advantage of, but it is not a cure-all for disaster recovery and redundancy of your SCADA System. If a lesser failure occurs (i.e., with connectivity or data collection issues), the system will not sense a malfunction. AVEVA System Platform offers redundant data acquisition and data collection out of the box to protect your SCADA system from failures that aren’t caught by virtualization technology alone.
Modernize Data Management, Gain Peace of Mind

Data collection is more important than ever, with many organizations gathering as much data as possible from the plant floor and using it to apply advanced analytics for improved decision making. Assigning which attributes you want to log to Historian has never been easier. Simply check a box and that attribute will begin logging into the Historian. Quickly analyze complex trends using AVEVA Historian Client to facilitate troubleshooting, identify inefficiencies, and minimize the time to takes to locate data.
Enhance Your Alarm System, Reduce Operator Distraction

The alarm .NET controls within System Platform are more fully functional and feature-rich than legacy InTouch ActiveX Controls. The alarm severity system is only available in System Platform. It allows users to set parameters that filter out nuisance or “bad actor” alarms based on severity and reduce operator distraction, so they are focusing on the most relevant process information on their screen.

Watch a Customer Share their AVEVA Experience

Listen to Genentech explain how their digital transformation boosted operations in their plant by reducing process variability and making better business decisions based on data.

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8 Reasons to Upgrade Your AVEVA SCADA System

admin_gsplant — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 19:03:55 +0000

The journey to operational excellence is multifaceted and spans many aspects of an organization. It requires ongoing attention, dedication, and focus on continuous improvement. Keeping your systems well-tuned and current is one of the many ways to protect your investment so you can be nimble and efficient in responding to challenges and opportunities. Upgrading starts with the software, and benefits extend to keeping the company protected and efficient.

1. Get Current: Security, Features & Functionality

Every AVEVA release contains new features and functionality for your control system. These may include simple stability and/or performance enhancements to the product; or larger feature updates that introduce completely new functionality to the application.

How do you benefit from new releases?

Mitigate Security Vulnerabilities: Upgrading comes with the latest cybersecurity updates for your system.
Modernize Graphics: Provide a better user experience and refreshed visualization of data with updated graphics.
Visualize PLC Code: Gain the ability to look at PLC code directly from the HMI, or – in the case of Operations Management Interface (OMI) – receive a completely new HMI option.
Improve Performance: Enhance functionality that allows the system to run smoother and quicker than previous versions.

2. Security, Security, Security

It is worth repeating. Cybersecurity considerations are now a routine part of any SCADA implementation. AVEVA System Management Server, a feature on newer installations of AVEVA software, provides support for secured communication between all nodes in your SCADA implementation. New security enhancements are also released with every version of Microsoft Windows Update.

3. Increase Mobility

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that flexibility is very important when working with your SCADA system. You need easy access to your application, at any time of the day, from any location, on any device. Plus, it must be highly secure. This can be quite the list of requirements, yet all are essential to deliver the mobile access necessary for your organization. AVEVA serves this need with several mobile access solutions that can deliver your application to any device, securely, via any HTML5-compatible browser or mobile app. These solutions are easy to configure and utilize industry best practices in their implementation.

4. Predict Issues with Operational Intelligence

SCADA customers have been collecting data for many years and use it for trend visualization and regulatory reporting. This is a good start, but your data is much more valuable than that. AVEVA operational intelligence offers solutions that store your data, and help you predict potential problems within your process and equipment before it costs you downtime and repairs by using:

Machine learning anomaly feeds
Process performance calculations
Condition-based monitoring and alerts
Guided and advanced analytics models

5. Scale Your Application with your Business

AVEVA systems are sized to your needs with single node implementations up to unlimited site bundles (including unlimited I/O, tags, and clients), plus many variations in between. AVEVA System Platform, formerly Wonderware, has been tested and verified to run in the millions of I/O, so you will never be required to have a fractional application or several applications to accommodate everything.

6. Apply Situational Awareness to Make Informed Decisions with a High-Performance HMI

Abnormal situations in a plant often can be attributed to human error. This is in part because traditional HMIs create confusion by presenting too much information in a single screen without appropriate context. Putting operators on the spot to decide which information matters most may compromise critical operations. Situational awareness solves this challenge by presenting the user with highly contextualized and easily interpreted information that is specific to the most important process issues while filtering out the “noise” that can distract operators.

7. Become Cloud Ready

AVEVA software in the cloud drives business resilience and ensures a sustainable growth. It enables you to:

Pivot and transform faster when needed
Reduce costs
Easily scale in response to dynamic economic conditions
Remove organizational silos
Enable real-time collaboration
Increase deployment speed
Lower your total cost of ownership

8. Establish a Connected Workforce and Paperless Plant Floor

Expand your system and reduce the time it takes to get frontline workers up to speed on the basic skills needed to run today’s complex industrial operations. Tools like AVEVA Teamwork help create a digital knowledge repository that standardizes and stores best practices with detailed process knowledge before experienced workforces retire. Additionally, a solution like AVEVA Discrete Lean Management can replace time-consuming paperwork used for work management and data collection in discrete manufacturing facilities.

Contact our team for more on updating your system

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Wonderware Solutions are now AVEVA Solutions

admin_gsplant — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:40:08 +0000

As AVEVA looks to advance industries while enhancing the human experience, it’s key to add clarity and simplicity into our solutions. Following close collaboration with customers to streamline how our offerings are presented, we’ve decided to update product names across our portfolio.

If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to our team.

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Wonderware Midwest is now GS PlantOptics, an AVEVA Select Partner in the Midwest

Leveraging AVEVA’s Entire Portfolio of Leading-edge Industrial Software, GS PlantOptics Continues to Help Customers to Accelerate their Digital Transformation Journeys

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5 Ways to Maintain Operational Flexibility and Stability

Bring Context to Your Application, Empower Operators

Standardize Your Implementation, Unify Operations

Implement Disaster Recovery, Protect Your Data

Modernize Data Management, Gain Peace of Mind

Enhance Your Alarm System, Reduce Operator Distraction

Watch a Customer Share their AVEVA Experience

8 Reasons to Upgrade Your AVEVA SCADA System

1. Get Current: Security, Features & Functionality

How do you benefit from new releases?

2. Security, Security, Security

3. Increase Mobility

4. Predict Issues with Operational Intelligence

5. Scale Your Application with your Business

6. Apply Situational Awareness to Make Informed Decisions with a High-Performance HMI

7. Become Cloud Ready

8. Establish a Connected Workforce and Paperless Plant Floor

Wonderware Solutions are now AVEVA Solutions

As AVEVA looks to advance industries while enhancing the human experience, it’s key to add clarity and simplicity into our solutions. Following close collaboration with customers to streamline how our offerings are presented, we’ve decided to update product names across our portfolio.