AMS 6500 ATG Online Protection System
Not Your Old-Fashioned Protection System
The old-fashioned protection systems running in your plant today comes with very specific limitations. It lacks the prediction data for advanced warning of developing problems. It requires an OPC server to tie back to the digital control system. And it requires a trip to the control room or field cabinet to view data. Modern protection system address these limitations.
The AMS 6500 ATG protection system is a modern protection-plus-prediction system that is designed to easily replace obsolete protection systems while still making use of the existing cabinets, cables, sensors, and the like. The AMS 6500 ATG comes with flexible cards that can be configured to acquire prediction data, an embedded OPC server, and a mobile app for viewing data from anywhere on the plant network.
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While hard to believe, many of the world’s leading manufacturers have plants today using 30+ year-old-protection systems for critical production assets like compressors, turbines, generators, and many others. Additionally, widely adopted legacy vendors have left many long-time customers and end users to absorb the blows associated with long lead times, unavailable spare parts, supply chain challenges or poor support. and many others. Additionally, widely adopted legacy vendors have left many long-time customers and end users to absorb the blows associated with long lead times, unavailable spare parts, supply chain challenges or poor support.
Plants looking to implement modern protection technology are turning to the AMS 6500 ATG system – field-proven protection system with embedded prediction tools. Now operators can identify developing faults and analyze conditions during transient stages – the startup and shutdown of turbo machinery – when equipment is most likely to fail.
AMS 6500 ATG version 5.0 and enhanced AMS Machine Works software enable continuous data streaming for deeper startup and shutdown analytics
The latest version of AMS 6500 ATG delivers enhanced machinery protection and predictive monitoring capabilities for critical turbomachinery assets. Designed to work seamlessly with AMS Machine Works, the updated platform helps operations and reliability teams gain deeper visibility into equipment behavior, improve decision-making, and support safer, more reliable operation of turbines, compressors, generators, and other high-value rotating assets.
What's New:
- Continuous Data Streaming for Full-Cycle Visibility – AMS 6500 ATG 5.0 now supports continuous, unlimited transmission of protection system data to AMS Machine Works, enabling users to monitor and analyze machinery performance across entire startup, shutdown, and operating cycles.
- Enhanced Protection with Deeper Operational Insight – By extending access to high-resolution machinery data, operators and analysts can better understand dynamic machine behavior, identify process or mechanical anomalies, and make more informed decisions during critical operating events.
- Advanced Visualization and Programmable Dashboards – New web-based dashboard capabilities provide configurable views of machinery condition, alarms, trends, and key performance indicators, helping users quickly assess asset health from a single interface.
- Real-Time Monitoring and Alarm Awareness – Live data visibility gives operators greater awareness of changing machine conditions, while tighter integration with analytics allows reliability teams to correlate events, trends, and alarms for faster issue identification.
- Modern Connectivity and Cybersecurity Enhancements – Simplified integration capabilities, including Modbus-independent connectivity, help streamline deployment while supporting modern cybersecurity requirements and long-term machinery monitoring strategies.
Machinery Protection System Expertise
Plants looking for the advantages of a modern protection system are turning to Emerson’s AMS 6500 ATG system – an API 670-compliant protection system with embedded prediction technology.
Hours Protecting Critical Assets
Emerson systems have amassed more than 3 billion hours protecting critical assets like steam turbine generators, gas turbines, boiler feed pumps, and many others.
Years of Experience
Spanning the last five decades, Emerson has designed and delivered protection and prediction technologies to the world’s leading manufacturing customers.
Protection Systems Replaced
Emerson has modernized more than 1,000 obsolete or outdated protection systems around the world.
Protected Machines
More than critical 5,000 turbomachines – and more each week – are protected by an AMS system across numerous industries.
Customer Success Stories
Learn why Emerson’s AMS 6500 ATG is the foremost modernization option for machinery protection across process and manufacturing industries worldwide.
When Legacy Protection Fell Behind, Ingomar Moved Forward with AMS 6500 ATG
A leading supplier of premium industrial tomato products, Ingomar Packing modernized its compressor protection by replacing an obsolete GE system with Emerson’s AMS 6500 ATG—reusing existing sensors, integrating cleanly with DeltaV, and gaining both protection and predictive monitoring in one simple, cost‑effective upgrade.
The Evolution of Industrial AI for Reliability
Artificial Intelligence has quietly transformed condition monitoring long before it became a cultural phenomenon. Emerson’s AMS technologies have embedded AI-driven insights for decades—helping users detect anomalies, optimize maintenance, and enhance asset health. Today, with advances in IIoT sensing, machine learning, and generative AI, reliability teams can scale condition monitoring like never before.
White Paper: The Evolution of Industrial AI for Reliability
Discover how Emerson is redefining reliability by combining embedded edge analytics, wireless vibration monitoring, and scalable AI architectures. Learn how these technologies work together to deliver actionable insights, greater efficiency, and measurable business value across your entire asset lifecycle.
Asset Management with an Intuitive Approach to Drive Reliability
Emerson’s AMS portfolio enables the Emerson vision for Boundless Automation by unifying data, systems, and people across the enterprise to achieve improvements in safety, production, reliability, sustainability and workforce empowerment.
Brochure: Asset Management with an Intuitive Approach to Drive Reliability
The AMS Reliability portfolio helps Reliability Engineers, Maintenance Technicians, Operations Managers, Automation Engineers, Instrumentation Specialists, Process Engineers, Control Valve Specialists, Vibration Analysts, and many others do their jobs more efficiently—from field, to workshop, to boardroom, and beyond.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The AMS 6500 ATG Online Protection System is Emerson's machinery protection platform for critical rotating equipment. Designed for applications requiring continuous monitoring and protection, the system measures vibration, shaft position, speed, temperature, and other machinery health parameters to help prevent equipment damage while providing data that supports broader reliability and predictive maintenance programs.
The system is frequently applied to turbines, compressors, boiler feed pumps, blowers, turbo exhausters, generators, and other critical rotating equipment found in oil and gas, refining, petrochemical, power generation, and other process industries where equipment reliability is essential.
Machinery protection and condition monitoring serve different purposes. Machinery protection systems continuously monitor critical operating parameters and can initiate protective actions when dangerous conditions occur. Condition monitoring focuses on identifying developing faults and maintenance issues before they become critical. The AMS 6500 ATG helps organizations achieve both objectives by providing protection functions along with data that can support condition monitoring and reliability analysis.
The AMS 6500 ATG is designed to conform with API Standard 670 for machinery protection systems and supports the vibration, position, speed, temperature, and protection monitoring requirements commonly specified for critical turbomachinery applications. Emerson has published a detailed API 670 conformity assessment covering system capabilities and implementation requirements.
Yes. The AMS 6500 ATG can provide electronic overspeed detection functionality and supports multiple voting architectures used in machinery protection applications. For applications requiring higher levels of functional safety, Emerson also offers the AMS 6300 SIS overspeed protection system.
The AMS 6500 ATG continuously evaluates machinery health measurements and can identify abnormal operating conditions before they lead to severe equipment damage. By providing real-time protection and monitoring, the system helps reduce the risk of catastrophic failures, unplanned downtime, and costly repairs.
Yes. In addition to machinery protection, the AMS 6500 ATG can provide asset health information that helps reliability teams identify fault trends, assess equipment condition, and support predictive maintenance strategies across critical assets.
The AMS 6500 ATG can communicate machinery health and protection data to AMS Machine Works, allowing reliability teams to combine protection system data with information from vibration analyzers, wireless monitoring devices, and other condition monitoring technologies. This provides a more comprehensive view of machinery health across the facility.
Yes. The AMS 6500 ATG provides continuous machinery protection while also collecting valuable machinery health information. This allows organizations to use a single platform to support both equipment protection requirements and long-term reliability improvement initiatives.
Protection with Embedded Prediction refers to the ability to combine real-time machinery protection with advanced condition monitoring and diagnostic capabilities. Rather than simply responding to dangerous operating conditions, the AMS 6500 ATG helps organizations identify developing faults earlier, allowing maintenance teams to take corrective action before operational risks increase.
The AMS 6500 ATG serves as the machinery protection foundation within Emerson's AMS portfolio. It complements solutions such as AMS Machine Works, AMS 2140 Machinery Health Analyzer, AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor, and AMS Asset Monitor by providing continuous protection and machinery health data that supports enterprise-wide reliability and asset performance programs.
