EMERSON US

Emerson is a technology company that provides clients with real-time, safety-focused monitoring of their most valuable resource – people. Its technology-enabled systems are designed for ease of implementation and lower upfront investment, while offering features that digitally enhance and transform facility safety.

Drivers

Bringing new levels of safety to manufacturing workers around the world is both essential and complex. Installation challenges have long been a major barrier for sites considering safety solutions, making fast and simple deployment a top customer priority for the Location Awareness system.

The goal was to reduce common, recordable personnel incidents by more than 70 percent. Key needs included improved safety mustering, reliable identification of man-down events, and real-time visibility into employee locations.

In emergency situations—when every second counts—managers need the ability to quickly account for personnel across a facility and take immediate action to ensure their 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.