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Plant and field operations
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Workforce enablement
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Industrial security
ICS/SCADA connectivity
Connect devices across your facility on a wired/wireless network to collect data and optimize operations.
Case study
EmersonBusiness overview
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Industry drivers
- More robust connectivity for an increasing number of devices and machines
- Improved operational efficiency
- Real-time production visibility
- Demonstrated compliance
- Lowered operating and maintenance costs
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Business needs
- Increased efficiency through multi-site sensor data management
- Visualization of sensor data to anticipate failures
- Reduced costs and downtime through predictive and remote maintenance
- Lesser breakdowns and greater equipment uptime
- Adaptability and support for next generation systems
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Capabilities
- Sensors deployed on key equipment transmitting process data
- Real-time edge processing and forwarding of critical data
- Unified and centralized dashboard for data analytics and data visualization for different manufacturers or protocols
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Business outcomes
- New insights based on factual models and anomalies
- Improved uptime by preventing equipment issues before they occur
- Improved performance through optimized parameters that lead to better asset operations
- Quantifiable benefit: Annual $1.5M due to performance monitoring, process condition optimization, and predictive maintenance
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Stakeholders
- Industrial network architect
- Reliability manager
- Process engineer
- Facility manager
- Project engineer
- Enterprise architect
- Plant manager
- Engineering director
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco |
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Routing |
Industrial Router (IR) Integrated Services Router (ISR) |
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Switching |
Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Connected Grid Router (CGR) 1240 Connected Grid Router (CGR) 1120 Industrial Router (IR) 5xx Industrial Wireless Access Points |
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WAN |
Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) SD-WAN |
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Network performance |
Field Network Director (FND) |
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Application performance |
AppDynamics |
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SCADA apps |
Cygnet ClearSCADA WonderWare |
Partnerships overview
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Wireless instrumentation
Connect devices and instrumentation (such as flow meters and tank level monitors) on a wireless network.
Case study
EmersonBusiness overview
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Industry drivers
- Reliable operations to reduce unplanned downtime
- Efficient operations to lower operating costs and maintain a productive working environment
- Safe operations to detect and mitigate dangerous conditions to protect employees and community
- Optimize operations to drive excellence and create a competitive differentiation
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Business needs
- Increased speed and quality of decision making
- Early identification and mitigation of risk
- Intelligent analysis of information
- Data capture and analysis, and sharing in real time
- Workflow-focused automatic dissemination approach
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Capabilities
- Enable real-time visibility into field asset conditions for faster diagnostics
- Ability to access and process data faster
- Enable remote monitoring and predictive maintenance
- More efficient deployments
- Automated data gathering
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Business outcomes
- Improved business operations
- Leverage automation and data
- Maximize uptime and lower costs with reduced turnaround time
- Improved labor productivity
- Improved incident response and worker safety
- Cost reduction
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Stakeholders
- Environmental health and safety team members
- Reliability manager
- Process engineer
- Facility manager
- Project engineer
- Enterprise architect
- Plant manager
- Engineering director
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | |
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Routing |
Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 829 |
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Switching |
Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Aironet 1552 Outdoor Access Point and Industrial Wireless portfolio Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) |
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Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
Partnerships overview
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Asset monitoring and maintenance
Analyze data from your connected meters and sensors so you can monitor and maintain your systems and equipment more effectively.
Case study
EmersonBusiness overview
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Industry drivers
- Optimized performance of equipment during operation
- Ease of deployment with reduced deployment costs
- Prevention of faults before they occur
- Minimized skills and staff requirements for operation and support
- Rapid leak and rupture detection
- Reduced downtime
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Business needs
- Improved remote monitoring of sensors for better visibility and control
- Cloud-managed architecture for lean operations
- On premise-managed architectures for scale and compliance
- Secure remote access to quickly deploy for transient or intermittent monitoring
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Capabilities
- Application to track status of all assets in the plant in real-time, linked to PDF and pictures
- Triggering of notifications and physical alarms based on business rules
- Secure remote access
- Wellhead and wellhead cluster monitoring and optimization
- Manifold/storage tank leak detection
- Gas field leak detection
- Tank monitoring
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Business outcomes
- Reduced/eliminated manually intensive valve alignment and manual radio reporting process
- Eliminate human errors that result in product contamination, environmental and safety risks, and lower operational efficiency
- Improved visibility into real-time asset status
- Compliance and regulation
- Reduced service disruptions with more timely equipment maintenance
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Stakeholders
- Reliability manager
- Process engineer
- Facility manager
- Project engineer
- Enterprise architect
- Plant manager
- Engineering director
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco |
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Routing |
Integrated Services Router (ISR) Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 829 SD-WAN |
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Switching |
Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Aironet 1552 Outdoor Access Point and Industrial Wireless portfolio Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) |
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WAN |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
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Application performance |
AppDynamics |
Partnerships overview
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Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions such as:
- Consulting
- Valves and sensors
- And more
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Shutdown/turnaround optimization
Achieve faster maintenance turnarounds, with less scheduled downtime, by connecting workers and automated systems to improve overall productivity.
Case study
EmersonBusiness overview
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Industry drivers
- Strict adherence to refinery STO timelines
- Managing contractor performance
- Optimized maintenance schedule
- Employee safety
- Minimized operating and support costs
- Reduced Waste
- Health, safety, and environmental regulations
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Business needs
- Improved “on the job” wrench time
- Improved employee safety
- Compliance and regulatory needs
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Capabilities
- Real-time location information for STO workforce
- Tracking of tools and materials during process
- Historical data for analysis for process optimization
- Condition triggered alerts and actions
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Business outcomes
- Reduced non-productive time by decreasing duration of shutdown
- Safety improvements
- Improved asset uptime and performance
- Materials management solutions that provide real-time information and visibility of available materials across all projects and production sites
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Stakeholders
- HSE officer
- Reliability manager
- Process engineer
- Facility manager
- Project engineer
- Enterprise architect
- Plant manager
- Engineering director
Technical overview
Cisco products
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Routing |
Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 829 |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller |
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Wireless |
Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Aironet 2800 Series Access Points Aironet 1552 Outdoor Access Point |
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Collaboration |
Webex |
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Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
Partnerships overview
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Understand related partnerships
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions such as:
- Valves and sensors
- Risk and safety location tracking
- And more
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Mobile OT apps
Build the network which supports automated and digitized manual field workflows (i.e., permit to work, work order management, and maintenance procedures).
Case study
EmersonBusiness overview
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Industry drivers
- Automated manual processes (i.e., permit to work process)
- Utilized enhanced maintenance apps
- Increased worker productivity
- Improvements in provisioning and clearance time
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Business needs
- Better and faster decisions
- Reduced flat time
- Reduced operational downtime with real-time access to PM applications (i.e., P6)
- Proactive monitoring of equipment function and operations with access to maintenance applications (i.e., AspenTech)
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Capabilities
- Remote inspection of critical oil and gas assets (i.e., risers, turbines, BOPs)
- Secure mobile connectivity over Wi-Fi or LTE
- Ability to handle multiple wireless laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc. simultaneously
- Machine-to-machine communications for background and next step tasks while field crews are working
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Business outcomes
- Faster issue resolution/utilization with visual collaboration between sites and engineers
- Improvements in provisioning and clearance time
- Improvements in training effectiveness using collaboration technologies
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Stakeholders
- Reliability manager
- Process engineer
- Facility manager
- Project engineer
- Enterprise architect
- Plant manager
- Engineering director
- HR director
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | |
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Routing |
Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 829 |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller |
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Wireless |
Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Aironet 2800 Series Access Points Aironet 1552 Outdoor Access Point |
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Collaboration |
Webex |
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Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
Partnerships overview
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Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions such as:
- Augmented reality
- Location tracking
- And more
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Mobile collaboration apps
Provide secure collaboration tools, and the required plant and field networks, to enable workers to share information and communicate over voice and video, wherever they are.
Case studies
Baker Hughes EmersonBusiness overview
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Industry drivers
- Efficient operations to lower operating costs and maintain a productive working environment
- Optimize operations to drive excellence and create a competitive differentiation
- Employee safety and security improvements
- Productivity enhancements
- Diminishing field resources in workforce; reduced expertise
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Business needs
- Decrease plant shutdown time during turnaround or expansion
- Increase time on tools
- Location awareness
- Safety and security
- Modernize communications
- Mobile worker
- Attracting new and younger talent to workforce
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Capabilities
- Improved speed and accuracy to resolve issue in the field
- Immediate access to expertise and knowledge
- Remote troubleshooting and best practice sharing
- Enhanced communications across multi-functional teams at different locations
- Traceable sharing real-time video and photos for training and audit
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Business outcomes
- Reduced costs associated with turnaround
- Resource optimization and faster time to resolution; remote expert decision support
- Improved employee and contractor safety and risk management
- Field worker productivity and efficiencies
- Build next generation workforce
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Stakeholders
- HR personnel
- Reliability manager
- Process engineer
- Facility manager
- Project engineer
- Enterprise architect
- Plant manager
- Engineering director
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | |
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Routing |
Integrated Services Router (ISR) Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 829 SD-WAN |
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Switching |
Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Aironet 1552 Outdoor Access Point and Industrial Wireless portfolio Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) |
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Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
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Collaboration |
Webex Teams |
Partnerships overview
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Understand related partnerships
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions such as:
- Enterprise security
- Fast lane
- QOS
- User experience
- And more
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Employee location
Keep your workers safe, and optimize your productivity, by always knowing who is where and what they’re doing--in the field, along the pipeline or in the refinery.
Case study
EmersonBusiness overview
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Industry drivers
- Increased process and people safety
- Optimized production
- Improved operating efficiency
- Enabled cost control and contractor performance management
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Business needs
- People, vehicle, and asset tracking
- Employee health and safety
- Workforce optimization by eliminating redundancy in staff assignment
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Capabilities
- Real-time tracking within a plant environment
- Real-time tracking in field
- Dashboard illustrating employee location
- Alerts and rules for anomalous behavior
- Indicators for presence in risky environments
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Business outcomes
- Safety and security solutions such as location awareness technologies, GPS, RFIDs, and collision detection/avoidance improve safety
- Identity and security management programs track employees’ access rights, location, duration, training, safety certification, permissions, compliance, and site security
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Stakeholders
- Operation manager
- Process engineer
- Facility manager
- Project engineer
- Enterprise architect
- Plant manager
- Engineering director
- HR director
- Compliance manager
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | |
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Routing |
Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 829 |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller |
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Wireless |
Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Aironet 2800 Series Access Points Aironet 1552 Outdoor Access Point |
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Collaboration |
Webex |
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Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
Partnerships overview
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Understand related partnerships
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions such as:
- Risk and safety location tracking
- And more
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Find and engage partners
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Gas detection
Monitor more effectively for leaks and spills to ensure worker safety and prevent environmental damage.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Safety of employees, community, and environment
- Compliance and regulation
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Business needs
- Fixed location detectors provide limited visibility of leaks
- Need personnel location in relation to leaks for safety of employee
- Reduce work start delays due to gas detection surveys
- Fixed wired detectors are expensive to install
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Capabilities
- Mobile 4-way gas detectors for engineers, combined with fixed location detectors
- Wireless personnel location tracking
- Real-time gas monitoring and detection risk map viewable by operations, maintenance, and safety teams
- Historical analysis for gas leak prediction and automated evacuation route planning
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Business outcomes
- Improved productivity and time to start hot work
- Improved visibility into real-time gas detection and personnel location
- Operational cost savings through the elimination of significant gas testing efforts for hot work
- Reducing gas testing activities results in higher wrench time for contractors
- Tracking of individuals, especially during turnaround, increases safety
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Stakeholders
- Operation manager
- Process engineer
- Facility manager
- Project engineer
- Enterprise architect
- Plant manager
- Engineering director
- HR director
- Compliance manager
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | |
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Routing |
Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 829 |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller |
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Wireless |
Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Aironet 2800 Series Access Points Aironet 1552 Outdoor Access Point |
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Collaboration |
Webex |
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Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
Partnerships overview
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Understand related partnerships
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions such as:
- Risk and safety
- And more
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Find and engage partners
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Cybersecurity
Protect your operations and data from cyberthreats, with segmentation and visibility of the OT environment, using a smart industrial network--so you share information with those who need it, and keep it out of the hands of those who don’t.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Protect critical business, customer, and supplier data
- Maintain strong regulatory compliance
- Mitigate risk exposure for shareholders and SCC demands/GDPR
- Safe and secure adoption of IoT/digital initiatives
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Business needs
- Increase system uptime and availability by mitigating risks due to internal and external cyber threats
- Keep business critical resources safe and secure--human, machine, and intellectual property
- Enable the adoption of new operating models while controlling risks--remote operations, data sharing, and automation
- Maintain compliance against internal and external mandates
- Meet due diligence requirements
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Capabilities
- Enable visibility into OT systems and segment OT/IT operations in order to inventory and baseline
- Secure and traceable user access into OT systems
- Enable and inform rapid incident response
- Secure application deployment to the local data center or cloud
- Enable auditable secure access, system updates, and anomaly detection
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Business outcomes
- Improved risk management and compliance
- Improved system reliability and resiliency
- Boost productivity from reduced downtime
- Reduce costs and system complexity through compliance management
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Stakeholders
- CISO
- Environmental health and safety team members
- IT security team
- Reliability manager
- Process engineer
- Facility manager
- Project engineer
- Enterprise architect
- Engineering director
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | |
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Routing |
Integrated Services Router (ISR) Industrial Router |
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Switching |
Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Industrial Wireless Access Points Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) |
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Security software |
Stealthwatch Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) Identity Services Engine (ISE) Duo multi-factor authentication |
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Firewall |
Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) with Firepower Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Industrial Security Appliance (ISA) 3000 |
Partnerships overview
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Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions such as:
- Consulting
- And more
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Physical security
Maintain constant oversight of your operational areas and critical systems so you always know who is accessing restricted equipment or information.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Reduced risk to employees, community, and resources
- Quickly deliver valuable information to the right people in emergency situations when time is critical
- Reduced cost-time due to injuries
- Effective risk management
- Concerns of public safety
- Protection of people, property, and infrastructure
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Business needs
- Health and safety of personnel
- Ability to proactively view potential health and safety threats
- Real-time and retroactive monitoring of assets that provides real-time information and visibility of available materials across all projects and production sites
- Protect personnel and material investments
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Capabilities
- Integrated physical safety and security solution encompassing video surveillance and video analytics to proactively monitor and manage potential threats
- Surveillance software and hardware that supports video transmission, monitoring, recording, and management
- Superior performance in a wide variety of environments with high-resolution, digital cameras
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Business outcomes
- Smart, safe, and secure community and work environments
- Intelligent surveillance to monitor plants/sites for fire and explosion, falls, contact with toxic objects, harmful exposure, and accidents with machinery
- Help companies use their security resources more efficiently
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Stakeholders
- Operation manager
- Process engineer
- Facility manager
- Project engineer
- Enterprise architect
- Plant manager
- Engineering director
- HR director
- Compliance manager
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | |
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Routing |
Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 920 |
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Switching |
Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Industrial Wireless 3700 Series Access Points Aironet 1572 Access Point |
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Cameras |
IP Phone 8000 Series |
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Video management/ |
Video Surveillance Manager (VSM) Cisco CSS Video |
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Integration services |
DevNet |
Partnerships overview
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