EDS Mobile 1.9

The EDS Mobile application offers enterprise-level access in a portable format, providing supervisory oversight, decision support, and more. As a reviewer, I find that it effectively transforms an iPad or iPhone into a real-time decision-making tool by consolidating critical data for remote access.

Navigation within the app is intuitive, employing Multi-Touch gestures to explore a comprehensive multi-level organizational view that accurately reflects the company's structure. It enables users to compare plant performance side-by-side through key performance indicators (KPIs) at a macro level or drill down into granular data, such as the details of individual bits in control system registers. The app also responds promptly to live alarms generated from calculations, measurements, or predictive alerts imported from the control system.

The visualization capabilities are robust; detailed process diagrams of industrial automation systems are displayed in high fidelity and updated online. Users can analyze operational history by reviewing and plotting historical events and data points, providing valuable insights into plant performance over time.

It is important to note that the EDS Mobile App comes pre-configured for seamless connection to an Emerson virtual plant environment for real-time and historical data access. For creating custom dashboards tailored to specific control system data, users should consult the App Support page and request an EDS server installation.

The application supports diverse methods for exploring enterprise data according to user preferences:

• Utilize map displays for plant location identification
• Access assets on a unit-by-unit basis through tapping and scrolling
• Use filtered lists to consolidate data from multiple locations
• Display groups of measurements alongside selected KPIs
• Obtain detailed information and plot values at any time

Performance comparisons across multiple plants are facilitated via a plant grouping tool, which allows users to define analysis scopes. Various group filters enable targeted information retrieval. Multi-panel scrolling aids in comparing performance metrics, and users can drill down to lower-level detailed views for comprehensive situational awareness.

The app ensures users do not miss critical information in the broader operational context. Alarm propagation functions help trace issues back to their source, with features for displaying live alarms, reviewing historical alarm logs and events, and plotting both current and past data values for any relevant parameter.

Operational trends can be monitored continuously or explored retrospectively through features such as live process diagrams and engineering tools that provide hardware-level details, timestamps, and statuses. Tooltip explanations for multi-bit register status words further enhance understanding of complex data points.