Don Pearson and Travis Cox from Inductive Automation, Arlen Nipper, the president/CTO of Cirrus Link Solutions and co-inventor of MQTT, and Gregory Tink, managing owner of The Streamline Group address the improvements to data access to help solve business challenges as well as explore the digital oilfield.

2. Moderator
Don Pearson
Chief Strategy Officer
Inductive Automation

3. Today’s Agenda
1. Introduction to Ignition
2. State of the Industry
3. Panel Discussion
• Industry Challenges
• Implementation at Major Midstream Co.
4. Conclusion/Q&A

4. About Inductive Automation
• Founded in 2003
• HMI, SCADA, IIoT software used in 100+ countries
• Supported by 1,400+ integrators
• Used by hundreds of oil & gas companies
• 60% average annual growth rate since 2010
Learn more at: inductiveautomation.com/about

5. Used By Industries Worldwide

6. Trusted By Oil & Gas Companies
Oil & Gas case studies:
• Enerchem International, Inc./Kymera Systems
• Pantera Energy Company/Champion Automation
• Black Mountain Disposal/Ashley Automation
• Aguas Andinas (Metrogas)/Tactical Controls LLC
• KSB Industrial Services
• Failsafe Controls
Case studies available at:
inductiveautomation.com/scada-software-solutions/casestudies
Hundreds of oil & gas companies around the world

7. Web-Based
Deployment
Unlimited
Licensing
Security
& Stability
Real-Time Control
& Monitoring
Rapid Development
& Deployment
Easy
Expandability
6 Reasons Why Ignition is Unique

8. Gregory Tink
Managing Owner
The Streamline Group
Panelists
Arlen Nipper
President & Chief
Technology Officer
Cirrus Link Solutions
Travis Cox
Co-Director of Sales Engineering
Inductive Automation

10. Disruptive technologies set off a new industrial revolution:
• The Internet of Things
• Big Data
• The Cloud
• Mobility
• Social Technologies
Disruption

11. The unprecedented increase in data is changing everything
• Major companies are leading in the “ongoing digitization and ‘data-fication’ of industry”
Source: “An Internet to Call Our Own,” Smart Industry
Magazine
The ‘Data-fication’ of Industry

12. • Aging infrastructure and equipment creating obsolescence
• Global competition forcing co.’s to lower costs and increase profitability
• Price of oil pushing even more on lowering operating costs
• Tech trends (IIoT, Cloud services, wireless technology & mobility)
driving the process industries to embrace change
• The status quo with expensive DCS upgrades no longer viable
• Other industries have an open, standards-based, secure & interoperable
control system. Why not in oil and gas?
State of the Oil and Gas Industry

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14. Recent developments at ExxonMobil:
• Challenging traditional automation technologies and practices to
significantly shorten project cycle times and lower capital investments
• Asking automation suppliers to be innovative and not just make incremental
improvements
Source: “ExxonMobil Makes Another Push to Overhaul Process
Automation,” Automation World
ExxonMobil’s Push for Innovation

15. In the IIoT era, more companies are moving toward platforms:
• Editor-in-chief of Automation World writes: “a confluence of trends
that appear to indicate a move by both automation suppliers and
end users toward an automation platform approach … a move
away from the long-held practice of buying discrete devices,
software and/or systems for specific operations goals”
• Prediction from ARC Advisory Group: “Suppliers of all kinds will
tout the power of their ‘platform’ in 2016”
The Rise of ‘Platforms’

16. OT-IT Convergence

17. Information Technology (IT):
• Software, hardware, telecomm &
other services for processing and
transmitting info, facilitating
communication, and generating
data for enterprise use
• Used mainly at management level
• Built from the top down
• Personnel adept at SQL databases,
Java, etc.
Operational Technology (OT):
• Used for machinery and other
physical equipment, monitoring
and control systems, etc.
• Used on the plant floor
• Built from the ground up
• Personnel adept at PLCs, HMI/SCADA
systems, etc.
Comparing IT and OT

18. Two Separate Worlds …
“IT worked from the top down, deploying and maintaining data-driven
infrastructure largely to the management side of business. OT built
from the ground up, starting with machinery, equipment, and assets
and moving up to monitoring and control systems. For a long time,
these two divisions kept to their own turf and found their own
effective solutions to problems …”
Two Worlds Collide

19. … Until Something BIG Happened:
“Then came smart machines, Big Data, and the Industrial
Internet, and the worlds of IT and OT suddenly collided.”
- GE.com, “Converge and Conquer”
Two Worlds Collide

20. Definition of IT-OT Integration:
"IT/OT integration is the end state sought by organizations
(most commonly, asset-intensive organizations) where instead
of a separation of IT and OT as technology areas with
different areas of authority and responsibility, there is
integrated process and information flow.”
– Gartner
OT-IT Integration

21. Benefits of OT-IT integration:
• More information for the enterprise (better decisions, more field
device data, OT data benefits business applications)
• Reduced costs
• Lower risks
• Optimized business processes
• Faster development and integration
• Standardized communications and control
OT-IT Integration

22. • Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) technologies allow for decoupling of device
protocols from applications
• MOM provides for more efficient information distribution, increased scalability, and
much shorter development times
• Publish/Subscribe replaces traditional polling methods
• Data goes into infrastructure and not directly into applications
One that Decouples Device Protocols from Applications:
A Different Data Architecture

23. Ignition bridges the gap between
the enterprise and the plant floor
by converging OT & IT.
Ignition IIoT

24. • While a number of different communication protocols are currently in
use, the Message Queueing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) transfer
protocol is quickly emerging as the standard for IIoT
Which Protocol to Use?
MQTT Protocol for IIoT

25. Publish/Subscribe:
• Edge-of-network
devices publish to
MQTT server on- or
off-premise
• Easily push data
from thousands of
devices to a central
location where
industrial & business
applications access it
Super-Efficient Data Pipeline

26. Inductive Automation
Universal industrial applications platform: open, standards-based,
cross-platform, database-centric with unlimited connectivity.
Streamline Group
Overarching architecture and migration approach to solve business
problems and leverage newer technologies.
Cirrus Link
OT-led IT solutions become real by leveraging the MQTT Protocol
Today’s Approach

27. Discussion Topic: Industry Challenges
Panel Discussion

28. Q: What are some of the biggest technology challenges
affecting the industry?
Panel Discussion

29. Q: In what ways is technology progressing in the
industry?
Panel Discussion

30. Q: How cost-effective are solutions for upstream oil and
gas?
Panel Discussion

31. Q: What are some of the big environmental &
regulatory challenges?
Panel Discussion

32. Discussion Topic: Implementation at Major Midstream Company
Panel Discussion

33. Objectives – Implement middleware in the process
control environment to:
• Increase access to data from the field devices, without
impacting control systems
• Create a process control data hub
• Risk management – “de-risk” the business
• Manage technology and prepare for future growth
• Save money on licensing and software upgrades (~30%)
• Improve network performance (expect 85% from some sites)
• Improve leak detection sensitivity
Panel Discussion

34. Benefits achieved:
• Efficiency and business performance
• Technology evolved
• Cost savings
• Increased opportunity to innovate
• Data management
• Improved security
Panel Discussion

35. Legacy Architecture

36. Middleware Architecture

37. Q: Why was Ignition chosen over other competitive
products for this project?
Q: How did you use Ignition to accomplish the goals
of the projects?
Panel Discussion

38. Q: What is the long-term vision for the middleware/MQTT
in the ICS environment?
Panel Discussion

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Panelists:
gregory.tink@streamlinecontrol.com
arlen.nipper@cirrus-link.com
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