Fact Sheet
Find a contact near you by visiting www.gewater.com and clicking on “Contact Us”.
* Trademark of General Electric Company; may be registered in one or more countries.
©2013, General Electric Company. All rights reserved.
FScf_InSight_Web_EN.doc Jul-13
InSight*
Knowledge Management Solutions
Water and process applications generate or directly
affect vast amounts of operating data that can be
chemical, physical or performance in nature. Left
unmanaged, these meaningful insights that play an
integral part in lowering the total cost of operation,
are often unseen and lost.
Effective water and process operations depend on
data transformed into meaningful and actionable
information that enables:
Visualizing current conditions and their
trajectory
Diagnosing problems and seeing opportunities
for improvement
Alarming on events or trends before they
threaten asset production or integrity
Reporting on key performance indicators and
their impact on business objectives
Managing knowledge is paramount to achieving
outstanding technical and business results.
InSight delivers a user experience focused on simplicity and efficiency. Users receive intuitive and
seamless tools, delivering unparalleled functionality.
InSight will help you get more in return for every dollar spent in your water and process applications.
Description and Use
All stakeholders at your plant and company do not
have the same needs in terms of content, format or
frequency of information. InSight enables you to
choose the way you manage information with a
wide range of functionality.
InSight hosts data in a secure GE cloud that allows
the information to reach the people who need it,
when they need it and in a form they need it.
Graphics and reports functionalities enable users to simultaneously
assess performance of key performance indicators that dictate overall asset health.
InSight, GE’s cloud-based knowledge management platform, provides the means to capture and
translate data into valuable information. Ultimately providing the knowledge you need to get the
most out of your water or process applications
that support production assets, at the lowest total
cost of operation. InSight provides:
Analytics: Seeing, at any point in time, the
historical and current performance against
success criteria, and the trajectory of future
performance; where it’s on track, and the
weaknesses that need improvement.
Early Detection: Detecting emerging prob-
lems, so that action can be taken now, before
a failure is experienced in the future.
Asset Optimization: Identifying opportunities
to optimize the applications to which we are
entrusted, that lower the total cost of operations, without sacrificing production performance.
Safety: Acid leaks, chemical storage tank leaks
or chemical overfeed are common occurrences
that can be detected before a problem becomes
serious.
Productivity: Helping people get more done
with tools that enhance their personal productivity, enabling them to see and do more.
Collaboration: Communicating … recognizing
that each customer is comprised of different
groups of people with different roles, responsibilities and informational needs, and providing
each of them with the right information in terms
of its content, form and frequency so that it’s
meaningful and actionable. InSight enables customers to choose the way they manage information with a wide range of functionality.
Whether the “view” you need is a single application
or asset, a cluster of assets, an entire plant, or all the
plants in your company, InSight will enable you to
“see it.”
Features
Drill down capabilities allow for selection, review and analysis of
individual parameters.
Services Reliability Center: An extensive investment in the infrastructure, people and process
comprise the Service Reliability Center (SRC).
Once a customer has the data from one or more
assets (boilers, cooling towers, etc.) active with
InSight, the professionals of the SRC watch over
those assets … every day. They look for problems,
and notify GE field teams when they see one before it results in a failure. It’s an extension of the
GE field team, complementing local efforts, providing a new level of assurance and reliability.
Simplicity: InSight makes it easy to see how well
your applications are performing over a specified
time horizon.
InSight distills extensive amounts of data from multiple Key Performance Indicators into a simple aggregate performance indicator tailored to the view of the user whether that by an individual system,
collection of systems or an entire plant.
Graphics and Reports: Self-selected configurations
for graphics and reports put information into formats that have meaning, relevance, and are tailored
to the needs of a variety of user groups.
Every customer of InSight is automatically connected to and supported by the Service Reliability Center.
Data Sources: System architecture allows for data
to be acquired from a wide range of sources and
modes of capture. Some of these include:
Manual direct entry through personal com-
puters and mobile devices
Wireless connectivity with controllers, both
those proprietary to GE as well as commonly
available third party devices.
Page 2 Fact Sheet
Wireless connectivity with sensors, including
sensors for tank level monitoring
Plant Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and da-
ta repositories.
Wireless Data Collection: The water and process
applications supporting plant assets typically involve controllers, whether they are proprietary to GE
(e.g. TrueSense* or PaceSetter* Platinum) or a commonly used open market variety (e.g. Prominent
Aquatrac Multiflex and Agis1, as well as Walchem
Webmaster2).
Getting these controllers, and the assets they serve
“connected,” is enabled by wireless products and
services … global in their reach. Avoiding the exces-
sive cost of running communication wires in industrial plants gets customers connected fast, without
hassles and plant network intrusion concerns, and
at a low cost.
Wireless ultrasonic sensors make deployment of
tank level monitoring easy, fast and cost-effective.
Mobility: The functionality of InSight is complemented with mobile tools that enhance the
productivity of your plant personnel.
After connecting your data to InSight, you will immediately be able to utilize the mobile platform via
your tablet or smart phone. GE has personalized
the experience to get the right information, to the
right people, at the right time. As a result, you will
be able to make fast and conclusive decisions to
optimize the water and process chemicals applications that enable your production assets.
GE’s wireless capabilities like this gateway device makes getting data
from both proprietary GE and other commonly used controllers into
InSight fast and at a low cost, avoiding the costs complexity and delays
associated with running cable.
Wireless Tank Monitoring: Managing tank invento-
ry through a plant DCS can be costly due to the cost
of running cable for remote power or signals. With
GE wireless tanks sensors, connected through a secure network and gateway, InSight makes tank
monitoring and inventory management a low cost
“plug & play” reality. Tank level data is synced to a
secure GE cloud and made actionable via alarms
and reports.
The information provided is arranged with the device and user in mind, to make sure the experience is of great value and benefit. The mobile
applications provide the user with the same abilities to see system health, current data, trends, reports and even enter operational data and notes.
These mobile tools can be used for both data entry as well as accessing all the historical data in
the multitude of ways offered by InSight.
InSight mobile apps enable users to visualize and respond to system
performance with the daily challenges of priorities and time management.
Fact Sheet Page 3
InSight users have access to an “app” for the Apple iPad3,
making the power of this capability more mobile, more informing and
more impactful.
Take Action
Your GE representative can assist you in defining
the best application and utilization of InSight to
simplify your data management needs and take
you to the next level of performance and value.
InSight is a core element of a suite of complementary technologies and services from GE that represent world-class automation, process control
and knowledge management capability. Your GE
representative can help you realize the impact of
a total solution for achieving extreme costperformance and value from your water and process systems.
Notes:
1
Prominent, Aquatrac, Multiflex and Agis are trade-
marks of ProMinent Fluid Controls, Inc.
2
Walchem and Webmaster are trademarks of
Walchem, An Iwaki America Incorporated Company
3
Apple and iPad are registered trademarks of
Apple, Inc.
Security: InSight operates over a secure GE server.
Data is password-protected with role-based security that enables administrative users to be distinguishable from data collection and reporting users.
Performance Tested
InSight technology is the result of extensive research and development efforts by GE technologists
around the globe. Testing and validation in realworld industrial applications has resulted in a robust
commercial design that meets expectations for performance and reliability.
Page 4 Fact Sheet
Loading...