ABB IndustrialIT System 800xA Harmony/INFI90 System

ABB IndustrialIT System 800xA Harmony/INFI90 System

DESCRIPTION

SYMPHONY Harmony is a proven process control system used for demanding  applications in various industries. The wide range of Harmony references includes the  power generation, chemical, pharmaceutical, pulp and paper, water and wastewater,  petrochemical, metals and mining, food and beverage, cement, and sugar industries.

These system owners first acquired their ABB distributed control system because  it offered the best set of solutions that helped them be successful and competitive.  Whether it was ease of engineering, system scalability, powerful control applications  or ergonomically designed user interfaces, the system met the company’s needs in an  effective and efficient manner.

Features and Benefits

■  Extending the Return-on-Investment  of Harmony Systems: New system  hardware and software releases increase  operating efficiency and extend the life of  installed systems. New products and programs make the decision to evolve existing  systems straightforward and easy. 

■  Achieving an Extended Automation  scope with System 800xA: - Personalized User Workplaces:  Reduced time to decision and action  is achieved with 800xA Process Portal  personalized workplaces. Information  and workplace layouts are optimized to  maintenance, engineering, management,  and operating personnel preferences and  needs. 

- Wide-ranging control functionality: Applicable for control and safety  applications, AC 800M Control and  I/O meet all plant automation needs.  AC 800M integration with Harmony  systems is made easy through the INFI90  Function Code (FC) Library and peerto-peer communications with Harmony  controllers. 

- Device Management: Device Management features lower lifecycle costs through  significant savings in the design, implementation, and operation of field equipment. 

- Asset Optimization: Significantly  increase process uptime and reduce  maintenance costs through optimized  remediation work processes and early detection of asset performance problems. 

- Information Management: Improve visibility of integrated information results in  effective decision-making. 

■  Lowering System Lifecycle Costs  and Risk through System Evolution:  Evolution programs ensure that automation systems are continually optimized to  support customer business goals.

To be successful in today’s highly competitive business markets,  companies drive their production facilities toward Operational  Excellence (OpX) with defined goals of maximizing Return on Net  Assets (RONA), lowering Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), sharing  best practices throughout the enterprise, and driving profitable,  sustainable growth. Achieving these goals require more than what a  traditional Distributed Control System (DCS) can offer. It requires a  plant automation system that can improve:

■ Plant effectiveness – the ability to combine the right decisions  with optimized work processes 

■ Plant agility – the ability to make ‘on-the-fly’ adjustments as business opportunities present themselves with the same  proficiency as when performing the routine 

■ Performance visualization – the ability to provide users with realtime performance and feedback

Harmony BRC Controller Features

■ Form, fit & functional equivalent for Harmony rack controllers 

■ Deploys advanced Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) microprocessor  technology – Motorola 32-bit Coldfire 

■ Retains Harmony controller (BRC, MFP, etc.) hardware and software architecture 

■ Enhanced controller reliability 

■ Provides approximately (2x) function code execution rate vs. BRC100, (4x) vs. MFPxx,  and (8x) vs. MFCxx 

■ Extended user configuration memory; 30,000 function blocks (BRC400 version) 

■ Preserves existing control logic configurations, providing predictable and risk-free evolution: 

■ Function code execution 

■ Custom user programs 

■ Foreign device interfaces 

■ Fast fail-over redundancy 

■ High availability and fault tolerance in a redundant pair configuration 

■ Controller configuration supported by the Composer engineering tool 

■ Supports all Harmony I/O systems, simultaneously providing support for installed I/O systems  and expansions: 

■ Rack I/O 

■ Block I/O 

■ S800 I/O (System 800xA) 

■ Support for Module Bus and Controlway communications

Composer  Engineering Tools  for Harmony

Composer’s multiuser client / server architecture allows configuration information to be  accessed, created, and modified simultaneously by different users. Composer’s project  explorer provides the user with the ability to organize, navigate, and manage Harmony  system configuration documents. Once documents are located, Composer’s explorer  can be used to launch the editors which are used to develop Harmony configurations.

Composer tools include: 

„ View and Monitor: Provides the ability to view control configurations with live data  from any Windows based web browser application on the network  

„ Online Maintenance Tools: Provides users with the ability to trouble shoot, perform  diagnostics, and maintain the operating Harmony system 

„ Standalone Configuration Viewer: Offers users an option to view CFG files or view  and tune configurations in a controller without requiring Composer software or  projects „ Power Tools: Suite of add-on applications that extends the capabilities of Composer  and reduces the amount of time required to engineer and configure a Harmony  system. Applications include Control Logic Editor, Revision Manager, Automatic  Drawing Generator, and Advanced Trend (runtime monitoring and tuning) 

„ Batch Data Manager (BDM): A family of engineering tools used for creating, editing,  managing, downloading, and debugging batch, sequential, and user defined  function code configurations. BDM is discussed further in the section “System 800xA  Production Management for Harmony”