REDMOND, Wash. — June 12, 2012 — M.G. Bryan Equipment Co., a leading heavy equipment and machinery OEM for the oil and gas industry, is using cloud computing for remote asset management of high-tech fracturing equipment. Designed and integrated with Rockwell Automation, M.G. Bryan’s new equipment’s control and information system leverages Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Azure cloud-computing platform to help provide secure remote access to real-time information, automated maintenance alerts, and service and parts delivery requests. With Rockwell Automation, M.G. Bryan designed a simple, user-friendly system using the cloud to improve productivity and business intelligence.
Hydraulic fracturing releases petroleum or natural gas from reservoir rock for extraction. “In the oil and gas industry, production has to follow the resources and never takes a break,” said Matt Bryan, president, M.G. Bryan. “Fracturing vehicles operate in extreme, isolated environments. They typically require new oil filters every 200 hours and complete engine rebuilds after 4,000 to 5,000 hours of service. Leveraging the cloud, we can cost-effectively keep tabs on our equipment and help customers maximize asset uptime, dramatically improving their return on investment.”
Rockwell Automation upgraded M.G. Bryan’s fracturing equipment with a tightly integrated control and information system that brings together disparate information sources, including historical, relational and transactional data. To fully leverage this rich data without requiring M.G. Bryan or its customers to build and manage their own datacenters, Rockwell Automation turned to cloud computing. Using mobile technology and the seamless transfer of business information over the cloud, M.G. Bryan has access to a higher degree of connected intelligence, enabling new levels of customer service in this industry.
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