Giving yourself choices: The present and future value of Independence
Combine technologies for better results
For as long as we can remember, automation technology developers have sought to contain you. They want to be your exclusive source for systems, components, support, training and expansion.
You, on the other hand, want to increase, not limit, your options. You want the freedom to choose and use the most capable, flexible and cost-efficient solutions. You want to have alternatives for support and service for your automation, integration and development projects.
With good reason. When you have choices, you get more of the functionality and benefits you want. Your lifecycle costs decrease.
We noticed this strong demand for freedom while developing, marketing and supporting control systems for a major vendor in the 1980s. In 1989, we started RoviSys to offer process and batch producers the best available automation, control, integration and development solutions—regardless of technology we knew already or what any vendor wanted us to do.
Freedom increases your possibilities
The present value of independence? When you insist on open, connectible and standards-based solutions, you get more for your money.
The future value and one that might be more significant than whatever you save today? Flexibility and possibilities.
When you deploy open and standards-based systems, ones that readily connect with everything else, you’ll find it is easier to adapt to whatever changes might be required now and in the future, including unanticipated requirements. You can move things around, change parameters and add capacity and functionality.
When all you do is react, all you do is solve immediate problems. You don’t have time to improve your possibilities. It becomes a self-defeating. You’re not building in connectivity, flexibility or possibilities, so when something changes in the future, all you’ll be able to do is react.
Why lock yourself in to automation limitations?
You want to be independent of limiting solutions and approaches. So why buy limitations. You can do more than readily react to client, regulatory, front office and other “forced” demands.
Why lock your self in when you can be free?
Free to create something new. To produce faster. To make available more colors or other features. To lower costs. To improve (or even decrease) quality. To better track orders, production, quality and performance.
To do things you haven’t even thought of yet.
Independence enables you to:
- Choose the combination of technologies and capabilities that you believe will work best for you.
- Grow your capabilities modularly and progressively, rather than in one expensive chunk.
- Choose how you want to support your systems, and then change your mind later.
- Even transform your locked-in legacy systems like VAXs, Bailey Distributed Control Systems and others into lasting and useful members of your current automation structure (see OPC Servers).
Vendor neutral
Like you, we are free to favor any technology we want. We’ve always favored the one or ones we believe will produce the best results for you.
Technology vendors have a natural inclination to consider a close working relationship with us as a commitment to recommend their solution no matter what.
When it comes to choosing between your needs and vendor demands, there is no balancing. There’s not even a scale. We chose you.
Annoyed vendors could ignore us, of course. Except we recommend or directly purchase millions of dollars of technology every year. If we put our vendors ahead of our clients, we believe we would not be in this position today. Which is …
No one combines multiple technologies and vendors better
Today’s automation solutions typically bring together systems and components from a number of vendors. Because we work all the time with every major and many minor automation technologies, it is unlikely that any other company knows how to make it all work together better than us.
That’s a bold statement, but consider:
- With more than 125 people, we’re large enough to have under the one roof significant staff in every automation discipline: controls, integration and development.
- We’ve done more than 2,500 projects for more than 300 customers in 100 or so industries.
- We can take projects from problem identification (see Vision) to engineering to implementation to support to upgrade, expansion of replacement.
- We have a deep working knowledge of legacy systems (we created some of them in our previous jobs) as well as the newest technologies.
- We have a highly-advanced project management and collaboration system (GrandView) that makes it easy for us move expertise and resources in and out of projects. That provides the skills you need while keeping everything on track on budget. And it helps us focus on results, not technologies or accidentally limiting language in your requirements.
- We readily locate, evaluate and manage specialized outside expertise when needed to get your work done right and on time.
- We also have the proven capability to work in highly-regulated environments such as validation projects for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Independence and Processibilities
We formed RoviSys to be a capable and independent automation provider, to create automation strategies, systems, software and controls that give you Processibilities: Connectabilty, flexibility, expandability and supportability.
The success of the RoviSys approach—of striving to enable, not limit, clients, of favoring open systems over closed—continues to be proven by our growth and many happy long-term clients.
We maintain our economic and technological independence so you can be free.
If you come back, project after project, it will be because you want to. That’s real freedom.