Ghouls, goblins and ghost tags…

In America, many people will celebrate Halloween this week.

They’ll dress up and go to costume parties, visit scary places and take their children around the neighborhood to ask for candy.

A strange observance to be sure.

Joining in the Halloween theme this year is Captain Integrity – super-hero of the automation industries.

Captain Integrity and his powerful namesake software, will be out there helping control engineers and other plant professionals find the ghouls, goblins and ghost tags that may be lurking in their automation assets.

Most control systems, real-time databases and even advanced applications that have been implemented across the process industries have had little or no change management process applied to them over the years.

The result?  Plenty of ghouls, goblins and ghost tags running around the automation system – consuming extra slots, spare memory and computing capability across the plant’s real-time infrastructure.

Sure, most of these are friendly old ghosts – remnants of applications, calculations and control schemes left for dead across the infrastructure like the dead and drying leaves blowing across the otherwise well-maintained landscape.

While most cause little problem for anyone in particular, they can raise their ugly heads when it comes time for troubleshooting, upgrading or migration, bringing countless hours of extra work for engineers and others as they have to turn over every leaf to see what exactly needs doing to meet their goal.

The solution?  Call in our Ghostbuster friend and every engineer’s hero, Captain Integrity.

Captain Integrity and his namesake software – the Integrity Configuration Management software – are there chase off all ghouls, goblins & ghost tags, and make the control engineer’s life much easier by automating backups, managing change and exposing a complete map of the entire real-time infrastructure across any plant.

This year, call Captain Integrity as your super-hero of choice.

You’ll be glad you did.

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