Emerson is a technology company that provides clients with relevant-time, safety-focused monitoring of their most valued resource – people. Enabled technology systems provided by Emerson focus on lower investment, easy implementation, and features that digitally transform their clients facility’s safety.
Drivers
Bringing new levels of safety to manufacturing workers across the globe is a task that is needed and difficult. Installation complexity has been a major roadblock to sites considering safety solutions. Fast, simple installation was a customer need and a big priority with the Location Awareness system. Reducing common personnel-recordable incidents by more than 70 percent was the goal. Bettey safety mustering, identification of man-down events, getting an accurate snapshot of employee locations were all needs to be solved. In an emergency, when every second counts, managers needed an increased ability to be able to quickly account for employees’ locations in the plant or facility and act to ensure safety.
Solution
The Location Awareness system provides companies with relevant-time, safety-focused monitoring of workers. Enabled by WirelessHART® Anchors and battery-operated Personnel and Asset Tags, the Location Awareness system is less than half the investment of existing Wi-Fi location systems. The Plantweb™ Insight Location application includes geofencing, safety mustering, and safety alerts, helping digitally transform facility safety.
Outcomes
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.
It helps reduce more than 70 percent of common personnel-recordable incidents, and is efficient for safety mustering and man-down events, and worker location.
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.
ClientEmerson USProductLocation Awareness Asset Tag
