Boundless Automation

Boundless Automation℠ is Emerson's vision for an industrial automation platform that integrates operations across the intelligent field, edge and cloud to empower enterprise-wide visibility, optimization and autonomous operations. 

Unlocking Multifaceted Value with Boundless Automation

Emerson streamlines your experience with one cohesive framework. Unlock intuitive use, scalable growth, and these key benefits:

Unifying Operations Data in One Industrial Ecosystem

Standardizing on one solution breaks down silos by eliminating the need for bolt-on solutions and integrating all operational areas into a single software ecosystem.

Innovation Through Seamless, Software-defined Architecture

The cohesive nature of the boundless automation architecture eliminates the need for resource-draining integrations of new operational technologies.

Enterprise-wide Optimization Via Multi-Domain Tensioning

Standardizing on a single ecosystem allows for comprehensive operations, as all data can be interconnected, providing a holistic view for easier decision-making and optimized operations.

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Boundless Automation propels us into the future with a tri-fold strategy: intelligent field, edge computing, and the cloud combine to form a secure, flexible software platform. This seamless data highway allows software applications to run directly in smart field devices, advanced edge computing, and the cloud.

Intelligent Field

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Free your data from the control layer with intelligent field devices. Using enhanced connectivity, these devices transmit large volumes of data to cloud and edge applications for better visibility, instant alerts, and detailed analytics.

Edge

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Enable seamless data flow between edge nodes and the cloud, without compromising core control access. Experience easier data movement from the control layer to enterprise systems, maintaining vital metadata for deep AI and ML analytics.

Cloud

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Access simulation, analytics, predictive maintenance, and more from anywhere in the world, at any time.

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Peter Zornio

Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

“Boundless Automation is Emerson's vision of the next generation of automation architecture that will enable the freer flow and democratization of data across the enterprise,” says Zornio. “With Boundless Automation, enterprise customers will be empowered to optimize their manufacturing facilities in multiple domains and balance production goals with reliability and sustainability goals.”

Kickstart Your Journey to Boundless Automation with Project Beyond

Project Beyond is the first software-defined, OT-ready digital platform that enables you to take your current automation solutions beyond what they can do today. We are building an enterprise operations platform that seamlessly integrates and optimizes industrial operations - and delivers on our vision of Boundless Automation.

Leveraging innovations in software-defined control, data management, zero-trust cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, Emerson's new enterprise operations platform will integrate your automation assets, bridging the present with the future while protecting your current investments.

Embarking on Your Boundless Automation Journey: Steps to Success

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Identify Goals

Teams embracing a boundless automation mindset recognize a need for change, whether to eliminate data silos inhibiting project success or to achieve specific goals such as sustainability initiatives.

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Modernize

To implement Boundless Automation, teams will modernize legacy systems. They will embrace next-generation control systems and advanced technologies like Ethernet advanced physical layer, 5G, OPC UA, hyperconverged infrastructure, containerization, and Kubernetes.

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Standardize

Boundless Automation integrates every technology layer—tools, software, control—to democratize data. New solutions must fit into the overall vision. Like some of today's best digital ecosystems, it offers a seamless app-based experience, allowing data to flow freely across field, edge, and cloud, turning it into critical enterprise information for easy, optimized performance adjustments.

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