Companies across the globe understand the benefits gained by monitoring traditional plant assets such as valves and tanks.
How many of those same companies take the same precautions to monitor their IT assets?
IT assets allow plants to maintain a fast tempo of day-to-day activities, and are often overlooked as part of a plant’s monitoring infrastructure.
What is the cost to a plant if these IT assets fail?
Will operators still be able to make critical decisions and respond to alarms?
If a router does down an operator cannot properly respond to an alarm condition if the message that the router was carrying failed to reach the operator.
If an IT asset is functioning, but functioning outside normal tolerances, operators may make a misdiagnosis of a problem and cause greater damage. This leads to a greater expense to the plant in terms of rework, repairs, or lost productivity.
MatrikonOPC Health Monitor is an advanced OPC Solution that monitors IT assets and attributes of the windows operating system. Health Monitor zeros in on the exact problem and relays to operators if the problem lies in a piece of equipment, or in the IT infrastructure.
This webcast will examine the specifics of MatrikonOPC’s IT Health Monitor and provides viewers with information on the following key points:
- The case for IT Asset Monitoring
- IT Asset monitoring at the Process Control Layer (PCL)
- The benefits of MatrikonOPC’s IT Asset Monitoring Solution and how it improves your business layer.
In order for Plant’s to remain competitive in a changing global economy they must implement a comprehensive monitoring and control solution. It is essential to include IT assets in addition to the traditional asset monitoring plan. A poorly performing application or router can be a much more time consuming problem without easily integrated tools like MatrikonOPC IT Health Monitor.