The InFusion Engineering Environment offers a highly intuitive graphical design and engineering tool that facilitates the creation of reusable libraries thereby greatly enhancing both productivity and quality. This engineering suite allows for configuring application and control objects, and provides a consistent environment and common method for implementing engineering designs.
Features such as user-defined templates, object inheritance, and control strategy nesting provide a rich environment for the creation of reusable intellectual property libraries thereby promoting standardization and reducing project-specific engineering. Bulk generation of project databases, bulk edits via scripting languages and object attribute propagation where users write once and use many times, significantly reduce the labor content to specify, test and correct manual entries.
In addition, self-documentation (WYSIWYG), a Visio-based graphical rendering engine and sophisticated printing options greatly enhance the user experience and reduce the learning requirements needed to effectively maintain the system throughout its commissioned lifecycle.
Enhancing the capabilities of the InFusion Engineering Environment is the InFusion Application Environment - a plant information and automation software platform that brings together all aspects of the plant in real time. By allowing every facet of the plant to be presented in one standard, composite way, a collaborative environment emerges that makes visible the impact of decisions on every part of the operation.
Application objects are the core component of the InFusion Application Environment and represent various functional elements that can contain data, execute programs, or transact information in real time. Because today's plants are so dynamic, application enhancements that require extensive programming are unproductive. With application objects, functional enhancements can easily be made and quickly deployed throughout the enterprise. Not only do the objects capture knowledge, but they can also be bundled and reused within and across multiple plant sites, allowing for the consistent use of best practices.
With the InFusion Engineering Environment, solutions are limited only by the imagination. Reusability features optimize the engineering workflow so engineers can focus less on mundane tasks and more on improving control strategies.