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News Release from: Emerson Process Management - Systems and Industry
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 04 September 2001
Fisher-Rosemount businesses to change
name
Fisher-Rosemount is changing its name to Emerson Process Management to reflect the company's products and technologies, expanded consulting and management services, and links with its parent
Fisher-Rosemount is changing its name to Emerson Process Management to reflect the company's comprehensive offering of products and technologies, expanded industry-specific consulting and management services, and its strong synergies with St Louis-based parent company Emerson
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 12 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The name change and adoption of a new logo complement a corporate-wide branding strategy launched by Emerson in December 2000.
"Simply carrying a broad line of leading products and technologies isn't enough today," said John Berra, Executive Vice President of Emerson with responsibility for the process management business.
"Customers are looking for suppliers with experience in bringing together superior technologies and engineering expertise to create industry-specific and customer-specific applications that can help them grow their business continuously and efficiently over the long term.
Emerson Process Management is uniquely positioned to be that supplier of choice." Emerson Process Management provides industry-leading automation and process control technologies and it includes well-known product brands such as Fisher Controls, Micro Motion, Rosemount, and Westinghouse Process Control, and the innovative PlantWeb field-based process control architecture.
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"These core brands continue to serve as a mainstay of our product and technology offerings," said Berra.
"Now, by integrating the asset optimisation, engineering and industry services that we've been building within our Performance Solutions unit, Emerson is positioned to offer a more robust and integrated organisation with a single face to serve all of our customers' process management needs." "Just as our customers' plants, platforms, mills and pipelines are becoming more integrated, we as an organisation need to become more interconnected," explained Berra.
"Customers are streamlining their entire supply chains, and they need to link information everywhere and use it to improve business processes.
They do not want to grapple with linking islands of technology.
They want connected solutions.
Emerson Process Management is the first organisation to bring together the technology and process management solutions customers are demanding." The range of customer solutions offered by Emerson Process Management includes: * Industry-leading products for measurement, analysis, final control.
* Innovative, proven control systems and asset management software.
* Integrated automation solutions based on open, standards-based PlantWeb field-based architecture.
* Automation contracting engagements including consulting, process and information technology (IT) engineering, commissioning, project management, and optimisation.
* Performance-sustaining maintenance and asset utilisation services.
Customer support is foremost in Emerson Process Management's business focus.
The company continues to centre its business on the experience and expertise of its local representative and direct-sales channels.
In keeping with its expanded capabilities, the company has added industry and services experts to help deliver precisely tailored process management solutions for customers.
An initiative is under way to centralise all transactional activity for the expanded company through a common business system.
A secure extranet environment for this resource is simultaneously in development and scheduled for rollout in 2002.
Emerson Process Management is strengthened by the renowned Emerson business acumen and investment philosophy that soundly and continuously grows its engineering and technology for access by customers.
As part of the Emerson branding initiative announced in December 2000, Emerson Process Management's new corporate identity will be tied closely to other Emerson business competencies, which include Network Power, Motor Technologies, Climate Solutions, Professional Tools, Appliance Solutions, Storage Solutions and Industrial Automation.
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