{"id":32893,"date":"2026-07-10T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engineernewsnetwork.com\/blog\/?p=32893"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:57:12","slug":"synchronisation-software-for-power-and-water-control-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineernewsnetwork.com\/blog\/synchronisation-software-for-power-and-water-control-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Synchronisation software for power and water control systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emerson&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.emerson.com\/en\/automation-systems\/distributed-control-systems-dcs\/ovation-distributed-control-system\/ovation-curation-tool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Ovation Curation Tool<\/strong><\/a> is synchronisation software for power and water control systems, delivering an easy way to maintain version control and detailed change history between multiple Ovation systems and simulators. The Curation Tool automates management of changes between power plant production systems and their digital twins to improve testing and training accuracy, save engineering time and enable faster troubleshooting and stronger governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the primary challenges of managing digital twins is ensuring that both the simulation and production are properly synchronised. Operators and engineers make regular changes to production systems to solve problems, improve performance and develop new control strategies. Over time, these changes cause the configuration of the plant&#8217;s control systems to drift from the digital twin simulation model. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manually tracking and implementing changes can take hours of engineering time, making the process both time-consuming and labour-intensive. The Ovation Curation Tool automatically tracks changes to the control system over time and enables fast and easy deployment of those changes to other control systems and simulations via an intuitive dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Keeping a digital twin continually synchronised with live systems has always been a challenge, and that challenge continues to increase as workforce shortages make it more difficult to find and retain expert personnel,&#8221; said Rick Kephart, vice president of technology for Emerson&#8217;s power and water business. &#8220;The Ovation Curation Tool helps teams deliver lifecycle value for Emerson&#8217;s Ovation Digital Twin by making it easy to ensure simulations stay relevant, providing continuous benefit through improved training, testing, engineering and forecasting.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Curation Tool software can be set to run at an organisation&#8217;s desired frequency \u2014 weekly, monthly, ad-hoc \u2014 to automatically identify and track any changes made to the control system. Users no longer need to perform\u00a0labour-intensive manual comparisons, and\u00a0they have access to detailed change history and auditing via the intuitive dashboard, which shows what changed, who made the changes, and when they occurred. This audit trail reduces the\u00a0risk of undocumented or unexpected changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once changes have been validated, a user can launch automated synchronisation between the production system and the digital twin, or between the digital twin and other Ovation control systems. Before deployment, the simulation snapshot impact analysis tool details any disruptions the changes will cause to the target system and suggests resolutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using a system of repositories, the Curation Tool moves data between the production system and the simulator while maintaining synchronisation of the data. 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