Industrial Automation Solutions with EcoStruxure Plant

We innovate at every level to help you safely optimise efficiency, cybersecurity, and environmental sustainability while driving measurable operational profitability improvements.

Next-generation efficiency, sustainability, and resiliency

EcoStruxure^TM Plant empowers people to make Industry the best it can be. Together with our partners and customers, we can reduce emissions while meeting the needs of today’s employees, customers, and investors.

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Our Industrial Automation Solutions with EcoStruxure Plant enable the scalable design and operation of connected systems with best-in-class cybersecurity built in at each layer to drive measurable operational profitability improvements.

EcoStruxure Automation Expert delivers on engineering and operational efficiency

With EcoStruxure Automation Expert, our smart distribution centre in Shanghai delivers engineering and operational efficiency. The new EcoStruxure Automation Expert-based warehouse control system is IoT-ready and more sustainable across the lifecycle.

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery uses brewmaxx by ProLeiT

The Dogfish Head Craft Brewery is able to design its beer production more effectively and efficiently while being well-prepared for future expansions. Seth Limanek, Brewery Manager at Dogfish Head, is convinced that the business has taken another major step towards controlled and coordinated beer production thanks to brewmaxx automation.

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Reliable SCADA solutions for Water and Wastewater

Responsible for distributing approximately 45 million litres of potable water every day, Shoalhaven Water was looking to upgrade their existing SCADA system to optimise its water network system. We helped modernise their operations with EcoStruxure Geo SCADA Expert and Trio radios – equipping operators with better visibility, shorter downtimes and water security for Shoalhaven Water customers.

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Digitally transform your operations with EcoStruxure Plant

Boost plant efficiency and profitability

Reduce cost - increase productivity - maximise profits

Empowering your people and understanding the profitability of your production assets and your entire business means you need to easily, securely, and seamlessly access aggregated, meaningful information and turn it into useful business intelligence.

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Respond to changes in the market and business condition in real-time.

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Understand and Improve profitability/financial performance real-time.

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Empower your staff to make decisions that continuously improve productivity.

Reliability and performance optimisation

Maximise return - reduce cost - minimise risk

The largest portion of capital invested in an industrial facility is invested in its production assets. It stands to reason that these production assets must operate reliably, profitably, and for the required lifetime of the plant if businesses are to optimise the key financial measure of return on capital employed (ROCE).

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Shorten time to market while minimising CaPex and project risk.

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Ensure effective operation and maintenance of capital assets.

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Get the most out of your assets and ensure maximum production uptime.

Sustainability and business opportunities

Energy neutral - social commitment - diversify business

The need for sustainability has driven several innovations that improve the efficiency and cost of raw materials, energy, and resource use in industrial operations. Industrial digitisation could offer customers ways to make their use of energy and raw materials more sustainable.

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Become an energy-neutral business with organised supply and consumption.

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Reduce environmental impact while building a “green” company.

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Leverage the digital transformation to expand and diversify your business.

Safety and security businesses

Protect people - secure assets - simplify compliance

Industrial businesses must prioritise safety and cybersecurity to protect their employees, production assets, data, intellectual property, and customers. In a digitally transformed enterprise, the same networks are often used for both control interlocks and data, so safety and cybersecurity are closely linked.

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Protect your people, assets, and the environment.

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Secure business continuity, data integrity, and confidentiality.

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Meet applicable regulations and maintain the licence to operate.

Discover software, services and products for EcoStruxure Plant

A suite of tools and information that is easily actionable can turn plant personnel into business decision-makers who can contribute to optimising your operations.

Software

EcoStruxure™ Maintenance Advisor

EcoStruxure Process Safety Advisor
Spare parts management services

Modernisation and upgrade services

Cybersecurity services

Safety lifecycle services

Industrial automation training services

Our connected control platforms provide better insight into operations, reduce time-to-market and process energy consumption and improve productivity.

EcoStruxure™ Automation Expert

EcoStruxure Control Expert (Unity Pro)

EcoStruxure™ Process Expert

EcoStruxure Process Expert for AVEVA System Platform

Triconex Safety Systems

EcoStruxure™ Operator Terminal Expert
Harmony P6

EcoStruxure™ Geo SCADA Expert

PLC, PAC and Dedicated Controllers

Our connected products bring intelligence to your system, enabling your assets to provide advanced process data for smarter operations.

Variable Speed Drives and Soft Starters

Measurement and Instrumentation

Telemetry and Remote SCADA Systems

Contactors and Protection Relays

Zelio Solid-State Relays

Industry System Integrators

Grow your revenue, expertise, and profitability through membership in the Alliance Programme. Benefit from close collaboration, personalised technical support, and standardised educational content for your business.

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Explore our EcoStruxure Plant industries

Water and Wastewater

Our smart water technologies and services make water safe, reliable, sustainable, and efficient throughout the water cycle. We partner with our customers in their digital transformation to reach resilience and sustainability goals.

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Food and Beverage

EcoStruxure for Food and Beverage enables a digital transformation at every step of your value chain for improved sustainability, efficiency and traceability. In other words, smart food.

Mining, Minerals and Metals

Use our software, automation, and energy management solutions to build sustainable mining, minerals, and metals business that is responsible, efficient, and profitable through an integrated digital environment.

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Energies and Chemicals

We create a digital transformation solution for the energy and chemical industry by combining energy management automation systems and services with leading-edge industrial software.

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Automotive

Our digital solutions will help you to drive Automotive manufacturing efficiency and operational safety, as well as meet your decarbonisation goals.

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Transportation

From design to operation and maintenance, build collaborative digital environments for more efficient, more reliable and more sustainable transportation.

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Explore our customer stories for EcoStruxure Plant

Safety and stability for Sinopec Hainan with EcoStruxure

IoT EcoStruxure Plant: Advanced manufacturing for Granado Pharmacy

IoT EcoStruxure at Veolia delivers sustainable water treatment

Factory automation with EcoStruxure Plant for Wilmar Sugar

Sanwa achieves smart manufacturing target with EcoStruxure

Blue Ocean Technology innovates with EcoStruxure

Kunming Water digitises with EcoStruxure for a safe and reliable water supply

Explore the latest insights in EcoStruxure Plant

The future is sustainable and more profitable

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Success in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry

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No one can do it alone. Why co-innovation matters

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Smart operations require flexible material handling solutions

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Open automation empowers purpose-driven outcomes

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Virtual solutions transform traditional project workflows

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Digital tools can help you manage the changing industrial workforce and supply chain impacts

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Sustainability is key to business survival in the 21st century

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Transform factories and distribution centres into Industries of the Future

Process Automation insights: Futureproofing distributed control system (DCS) technology

EcoStruxure Architecture Builder V6.1 – Advanced offer

EcoStruxure IIoT solution optimises global supply chain efficiency

Meet EcoStruxure Automation Expert

EcoStruxure Control Advisor – Increase control loop performance efficiency

EcoStruxure Triconex Safety View

Data-driven asset performance management

Data-driven asset performance management can help food and beverage manufacturers leverage tools such as equipment efficiency solution.

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System integration for the water industry

How digital transformation can reduce costs, optimise efficiency, and improve conservation in water and wastewater processing.

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Improved operational profitability

New philosophies are required for a new age of industry. Asset performance management and real-time information combine to maximise reliability.

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Empowering the workforce to control the Plant of the Future

Technology alone is not sufficient to optimise business performance and profitability. Knowing the dynamics of the process is key.

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A bypass by any name is risky. Time for a rethink?

Bypasses by any name are risky. The need to bypass hasn't changed, but the means to execute more efficiently and safely has grown by leaps and bounds.

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Capturing the business value of the IoT Edge

Understand the edge of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its strategic implications, from insights to weighing the implications of cloud, edge, and hybrid environments.

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Realising the promise of data

Data has become a strategic asset in industrial environments, and future success depends on how such data is utilised, but how with the volume growing exponentially?

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Is cybersecurity the key to your business recovery?

The best approach to reducing, mitigating, and even eliminating current and future risks is to establish a strong cybersecurity foundation that addresses the dynamics of your people, processes, and technology.

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Innovation Talk webinar: the trends and challenges impacting operational technology (OT) cybersecurity

Taking control of industrial digital transformation

Innovation Talk webinar: industrial sustainability

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Hear from EcoStruxure Plant industry experts on best practices and trends for plant management and automation, cybersecurity, and business intelligence software.

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1. What are the benefits of our Industrial Automation Solutions?

Our Industrial Automation Solutions help to optimise efficiency, cybersecurity, and sustainability while measuring operational profitability improvements safely. With innovation at every stage of process control and process automation, we guide you to boost your plant efficiency, increase reliability and performance, and make your business safer, more secure, and more sustainable.

2. What’s at the core of our digital transformation

Our EcoStruxure Automation Experts focus on boosting plant efficiency and productivity, increasing reliability and performance, and maintaining sustainability, social commitment, safety, and security. We want our partners to operate reliably, profitably, and for the required lifetime of the plant. To offer more opportunities for their customers, to use energy and raw materials more efficiently, and to protect their employees, production assets, data, and intellectual property with our cybersecurity solutions.