New family of process control solutions

June 2001 System Integration & Control Systems Design

The EurothermSuite comes out of the same stable as the Foxboro I/A system, ie Invensys, and is being supplied as a complementary offering to the Foxboro I/A system, providing even greater scalability than the Foxboro I/A system.

Its flexibility and common architecture means that EurothermSuite can provide a great variety of totally integrated systems which grow with plant needs and investment programs. Major advantages include a single point of configuration, central relational database, data import capabilities, pre-built functionality and well proven automatic system design capabilities.

Improved throughput by realtime action

In operation, realtime access to performance measurements allows immediate management action to improve plant throughput on-line. This powerful feature contributed to a range of solutions which address the needs of operations, engineering, maintenance, financial and plant management.

Auto-build database for consistency

At the development level, Eurotherm Project Studio is a powerful suite of tools and facilities designed to configure and commission all EurothermSuite components. Amongst other features, it offers graphical object-oriented engineering and validation tools, a substantial library of predefined objects, extensive use of wizards and a useful autobuild feature. It includes the Project Developer feature which provides a central project database and the development environment to simplify system configuration. Single point tag data entry allows the autobuild facility to automatically create all of the configuration files needed within the system, and all data created here is available globally.

Increase process efficiency

At the unit level, cost-effective solutions can be rapidly provided to control basic plant units such as reactors, mixers, sterilisers and furnaces. The process interfaces available provide high-accuracy measurement and control and include distributed and modular I/O with universal configurable inputs.

Visual Supervisor solutions at this level can include plant mimics, VGA touchscreens and advanced control features such as alarm information, datalogging and programmer profiles. Inclusion of a unique setpoint programmer feature allows analog and digital setpoint profiles to be configured, viewed and executed. A powerful network capability also enables use of unit control solutions as a building block to plant-wide systems.

Control complete plants

Plant-wide solutions, which grow with requirements, can control complete plants in key industries such as metals, glass, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. By using a central database, configuration times and system changes are minimised, improving plant efficiency, product quality and distribution of information.

Open networking integrates with business system

At the enterprise level, enterprise clients provide high integrity traceability reports and open system connectivity including OPC and Active-X. Supported by information, batch and track manager applications, the system can provide all of the requirements needed to supervise production and integrate with enterprise management information systems.

Total management control

Based on MS SQL.Server, the Information Manager stores all of the data (realtime and historic) all of the time. It can provide configuration, event, summary and production data as required. Batch Manager, which is ISA-S88 compliant, provides a flexible, reliable and intuitive approach to the management of any batch process. Track Manager provides the integrated framework for managing and tracking the manufacturing operations.

Protea Automation Solutions, (011) 719 5700

[email protected]

www.patch.co.za

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