ComBrio Announces VSI Automation and Control for Remote Monitoring and Management
ComBrio, Inc., providers of Remote Product Services (RPS) software for mission critical remote datacenter management, today announced the expansion of its Virtual Service Infrastructure (VSI) product suite to address the needs of enterprises in the automation and process industries for secure and controlled remote access of their automation and process-control network environment.
VSI Automation and Control is the first complete RPS suite that provides plant managers and automation engineers a cost efficient and secure solution for remote monitoring and management of Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) elements and applications such as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Distributed Control Systems (DCS), and Master Control Units (MCO). It is the only purposely built RPS solution that addresses the end-to-end needs of plant managers by providing them with a homogeneous platform to address both internal access controls, along with third party vendor services into automation network environments.
Through the use of VSI Automation and Control, manufacturing, production, power and fabrication organizations can increase availability and productivity of their process-oriented and discrete control systems. The VSI solution allows remotely located support and service personnel with the ability to gain secure, controlled and accountable access to SCADA devices located behind the operations network firewalls.
According to Dave Boulos, VP of product Management, ComBrio, “There have been many advances in embedded management of today’s automation/process control equipment. This coupled with the adoption of Industrial Ethernet as the standard for SCADA inter-device and inter-vendor communications, has opened up the opportunity for plant managers to improve productivity and increase uptime by leveraging a centrally located or distributed resource pool to monitor and service plant network segments remotely. However, manual process and the complexity of managing remote connectivity have impacted the adoption of IP-based remote automation network management, VSI Automation and Control solves this problem.”