Emerson acquires Innovative Control Systems

艾默生收购Innovative Control Systems公司

July 1, 2010 — Emerson Process Management acquired Clifton Park, N.Y.-based Innovative Control Systems Inc. (ICS), a leader in turbine control upgrades for power generation applications. The acquisition expands Emerson’s capabilities in the growing combustion turbine automation market. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

7月1日消息——艾默生过程管理收购了位于纽约Clifton Park的Innovative Control Systems（ICS）公司，该公司是发电应用行业涡轮机控制升级的领导厂商。本次收购增强了艾默生在不断增长的燃气轮机控制市场的能力。此次交易的条款没有披露。

"We are delighted to gain ICS skills and experience in turbine control retrofits," said Bob Yeager, president of the Power & Water Solutions division of Emerson Process Management. "ICS capabilities complement Emersons, and together we look forward to helping even more customers cost-effectively boost the performance and reliability of their existing generating assets."

艾默生过程管理电力和水力解决方案部总裁Bob Yeager表示：“我们很高兴可以得到ICS在涡轮机控制改造方面的技能和经验。ICS的能力是对艾默生的很好补充，联合之后，我们期待帮助更多客户用更低的成本提升他们现有发电资产的性能和可靠性。”

ICS provides turnkey solutions – including planning, engineering, configuration, installation, and commissioning – for turbomachinery automation retrofits. This complements Emersons expertise in turbine condition monitoring and protection systems, instrumentation, analyzers and valves.

ICS公司为涡轮机械的自动化升级改造提供整套解决方案，包括规划、工程、配置、安装和调试。这与艾默生在涡轮机状况监测和保护系统、仪表装置、分析仪器和阀门方面的专长互相补充。

“Emerson’s global reach and technological leadership will help us to better serve our valued existing customers, as well as expand our customer base,” said Pat Nolan, president of ICS. “We share a common vision and passion for providing world-class turbine control solutions to the power-generation industry, as well as a strong foundation of project engineering expertise, an understanding of power generation processes, and a commitment to customer satisfaction. We couldnt ask for a better fit."

ICS公司总裁Pat Nolan表示：“艾默生的全球影响力和技术领导者地位，将有助于我们更好地服务于当前的客户以及扩大我们的客户基础。我们拥有共同的愿景和激情，就是为发电行业提供世界级的涡轮控制解决方案，以及强大的项目工程技术基础，对发电过程的认识，以及对客户满意度的承诺。我们找不到比我们更合适的了。”

Founded in 1991, ICS has completed more than 300 turbine control retrofit projects on turbines manufactured by GE, Siemens, Pratt & Whitney, Alstom, Rolls Royce, and Solar, among others. ICS employees have extensive engineering applications expertise and experience with customers located across the globe, primarily in North America, the Middle East and Latin America.

ICS公司成立于1991年，已向包括通用电气、西门子、普拉特惠特尼、阿尔斯通、劳斯莱斯及Solar在内的多个厂商生产的涡轮机提供了超过300套的涡轮机控制改升级造。ICS的员工有广泛的工程应用专业技术和主要位于北美、中东和拉丁美洲的全球客户经验。

Emerson is the leading automation and control system supplier for the global power generation industry. In fact, power plants using Emersons control technology represent approximately 725 gigawatts of the world’s total generating capacity. The company’s Ovation expert control system was designed specifically to meet the unique challenges of the power industry, and continues to be the platform of choice for the industry.

艾默生是全球发电工业自动化和控制系统的领先供应商。事实上，使用了艾默生控制技术的发电厂大约占了全球总发电量的7250亿瓦。该公司的Ovation专家控制系统是专为满足电力行业的独特挑战而设计，并一直是这个行业的首选平台。

As part of Emerson Process Managements Power and Water Solutions, ICS will continue to support its existing customer base and deliver hardware-independent engineered solutions while adding the Ovation platform to its expanded portfolio of combustion turbine control solutions.

ICS将纳入艾默生过程管理电力和水力解决方案部，继续支持其现有客户群，并提供独立于硬件的设计解决方案，同时为其扩展的燃气轮机控制解决方案业务组合加入Ovation平台。

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Emerson Process Management, an Emerson business, is a leader in helping businesses automate their production, processing and distribution in the power, water and wastewater treatment, chemical, oil and gas, refining, pulp and paper, mining and metals, food and beverage, life sciences and other industries. Its Pittsburgh-based Power & Water Solutions division is a global supplier of advanced distributed process control and information systems, and a recognized leader in developing plant-wide process control solutions for the power generation, water treatment and wastewater treatment industries. These systems and solutions play a key role in the Emerson mission of combining superior products and technology with industry-specific engineering, consulting, project management and maintenance services.

作为艾默生集团的业务之一，艾默生过程管理为工业生产、加工、分销提供自动化服务，应用在电力、供水和水处理、化工、石油天然气、精炼、纸浆和造纸、能源、食品饮料、生命科学以及其他领域。艾默生电力和水力解决方案是高端分布式过程控制和信息系统的全球供应商。公司总部位于匹兹堡，是一家为发电、水处理和污水处理工业开发工厂级别过程控制解决方案的公认领导者。电力和水力解决方案部在艾默生将先进的产品和技术结合在为不同工业而设计的工程、咨询、项目管理和维护服务中扮演着关键的角色。