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Plant and field operations
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Workforce enablement
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Industrial security
Digital process and production
Apply network, security, and data management technologies to industrial automation and control systems (IACS) for real-time plant and field 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 Nexus Switches (data center and control center) |
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Wireless |
Connected Grid Router (CGR) 1240 (downstream only) Connected Grid Router (CGR) 1120 (downstream only) Industrial Router (IR) 5xx (downstream only) Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points and IoT modules Industrial Wireless Access Points Industrial Wireless 3702 Access Point |
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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 |
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Edge intelligence |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 829 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
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.
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Production asset management
Automate the collection and integration of non-critical operational data and asset location with periodic, low-cost wireless communications into on-premise or cloud dashboards, ERP, DCS, or OT maintenance apps.
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
- Improved labor productivity
- 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) 829 Industrial Router (IR) 80x |
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Switching |
Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Catalyst IW6300 HazLoc Access Point Industrial Wireless 3702 Access Point Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) LoRaWAN |
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WAN |
Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) SD-WAN |
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Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
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Edge intelligence |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 829 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
Partnerships overview
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Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
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Equipment monitoring
Enable machine visibility, improve maintenance, and support two-way communications for monitoring and control by collecting equipment data in near real-time and publishing it to cloud and third-party applications.
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 | |
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Routing |
Industrial Router (IR) 829 Industrial Router (IR) 80x Connected Grid Router (CGR) |
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Switching |
Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
510 WPAN Industrial Router Catalyst IW6300 HazLoc Access Point Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) |
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WAN |
Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) SD-WAN |
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Location-based services |
Field Network Director (FND) |
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Edge intelligence |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 829 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
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:
- Consulting
- Valves and sensors
- And more
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Find and engage partners
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- Cisco customers, please contact your Cisco representative or request a call from sales to learn more about related partners.
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Workforce continuity
Enable the plant and field workforce to connect and collaborate with dispersed teams and maintain critical visibility into production operations through secure access.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Maintain operations when a standard working environment is impossible
- Enable internal and external operational staff required to work remotely/off-site
- Enhance communications across multi-functional teams at different locations
- Ensure employee safety by keeping employees off-site during dangerous incidents
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Business needs
- Maintenance of production during times of crisis or catastrophic incident
- Equipment visibility and/or utilization from off-site location
- Employee and contractor safety and risk management
- Operational continuity, including monitoring, control, and problem resolution
- Support broad business continuity strategies
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Capabilities
- Provide secure collaboration tools and the required plant and field networks to enable workers to continue to work efficiently
- Enhanced communications across multi-functional teams at different locations for sharing information
- Remote, secure connectivity into the operational domain for visibility, maintenance, and control
- Enable remote experts to assist on-site crews during production-impacting events
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Business outcomes
- Limited interruption to worker and machine productivity
- Resource optimization and faster time to resolution; remote expert decision support
- Reduced costs associated with returning to full functionality
- Business continuity and incident response during abnormal operating conditions
- Maintaining constant worker contact, support, and safety
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Stakeholders
- VP of operations
- CIO
- CISO
- Engineering director
- Control engineer
- Fleet manager
- HR personnel
- Reliability manager
- SCADA engineer
- Protection engineer
- Process engineer
- Enterprise architect
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco |
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Routing |
Integrated Services Router (ISR) 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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Video |
Meraki Video (MV) Cameras |
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Security |
Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints Duo multi-factor authentication Identity Services Engine (ISE) Security Connector (CSC) for iOS |
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Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
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Collaboration |
Webex Teams |
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Edge intelligence |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 829 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
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
- Fulfillment and industrial consulting
- And more
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Mobile worker
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 issues 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) 829 SD-WAN |
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Switching |
Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Catalyst IW6300 HazLoc Access Point Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) |
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Video |
Meraki Video (MV) Cameras |
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Security |
Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints Duo multi-factor authentication Identity Services Engine (ISE) Security Connector (CSC) for iOS |
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Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
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Collaboration |
Webex Teams |
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Edge intelligence |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 829 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
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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Health, safety, and environmental (HSE)
Enhance overall plant safety by leveraging data about employee location and plant environmental conditions from fixed and mobile sensors, enabling real-time operational insights and essential collaboration.
Case study
EmersonBusiness overview
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Industry drivers
- Automated manual processes, e.g., permit to work process
- Increased process and people safety
- Safety of employees, community, and environment
- Compliance and regulation
- Protection of air and ground water
- Minimize or eliminate downtime due to accidents
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Business needs
- Fixed location detectors provide limited visibility of leaks
- Personnel location in relation to leaks for safety of employee
- Reduced work start delays due to gas detection surveys
- Lower-priced alternative to fixed wire detectors that are expensive to install
- 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 or in the field
- Indicators for presence in risky environments
- Mobile four-way gas detectors for engineers, combined with fixed location detectors
- 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
- Improvements in provisioning and clearance time
- Safety and security solutions such as location awareness technologies, GPS, RFIDs, and collision detection/avoidance improve safety
- Improved visibility into real-time gas detection and personnel location
- Operational cost savings through the elimination of significant gas testing efforts for hot work
- Reduced gas testing activities resulting in higher wrench time for contractors
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Stakeholders
- HSE manager
- Process engineer
- Facility manager
- Plant manager
- Operation manager
- Compliance manager
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Aironet 2800 Series Access Points |
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Video |
Meraki Video (MV) Cameras |
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Security |
Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) Security Connector (CSC) for iOS |
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Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
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Collaboration |
Webex |
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Edge intelligence |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 829 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
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:
- Augmented reality
- Location tracking
- 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
| Component | |
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Routing |
Integrated Services Router (ISR) Industrial Router (IR) 1101 |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Industrial Router (IR) 829 Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Indoor Access Points Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) |
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Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
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Collaboration |
Webex |
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Edge intelligence |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 829 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
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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Cybersecurity
Manage cyber risks in operational systems--with the primary goals of ensuring system availability and integrity--by measuring, controlling, detecting, and responding to threats more effectively.
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
- Productivity boost from reduced downtime
- Reduced 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 validated designs
Cisco products
| Component | |
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Routing |
Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 80x |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Catalyst IW6300 HazLoc Access Point Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) |
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Security |
Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Email Security Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks Cyber Vision Duo multi-factor authentication Firepower Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) Identity Services Engine (ISE) Stealthwatch Tetration Platform Threat Response Umbrella |
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Edge intelligence |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 829 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
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:
- Industrial automation and engineering
- And more
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Find and engage partners
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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 and 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 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 explosion, fire, falls, harmful exposure/contact with toxic materials, 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 validated designs
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 |
Industrial Wireless Access Points Enterprise Access Point |
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Cameras |
IP Phone 8000 Series Meraki Video (MV) Cameras |
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Video surveillance |
Meraki Video |
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Integration services |
DevNet |
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Edge intelligence |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Industrial Router (IR) 829 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
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.
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Find and engage partners
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