HIMax® Nonstop safety for everyone who thinks ahead

Why HIMA?

HIMA is the world’s leading specialist for safety-related automation solutions. HIMA solutions provide maximum safety and maximum availability and can be integrated into any automation environment. More than 35,000 HIMA systems have been installed in over 80 countries, protecting the assets of the world’s largest companies in the oil, gas, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and power generation industries for more than 45 years. In the fields of rail, logistics and machine safety, HIMA solutions are leading the way to increased safety and profitability.

HIMA develops solutions that provide both maximum safety and availability for processes, plants and machinery – nonstop.The HIMA LIFECYCLE SERVICES concept gives customers an overview of all the requirements of ‘functional safety’ allowing them to always make the right decision at the appropriate time.

HIMA solutions therefore offer maximum safety, strengthen a plant's productivity and profitability whilst ensuring compliance to global statutory requirements.

HIMA was founded in Germany in 1908. Since 1970, the company has achieved numerous milestones in the field of safetyrelated automation engineering, including the introduction of the world’s first TÜV-certified safety system. HIMA now has over 800 employees with every third member of staff at the headquarters in Brühl working solely in research and development.Through a steadily growing network of group companies, sales and service centres, as well as representatives in more than 50 countries, HIMA implements projects of all sizes all over the world. Thanks to its corporate independence, the family-run company is able to work in any project structure – taking on complete projects or partial tasks, and working both directly for end customers and as part of a team with EPCs, MACs and DCS manufacturers. This enables HIMA to continue to concentrate on safety solutions. The results are quality products, unrivalled specialist knowledge and customer confidence built on decades of successful projects.

Protecting against common-cause failures:

HIMax offers reliable protection against common-cause failures through the physical separation of the redundant system components. Supposing critical components of the

safety system fail in a control cabinet due to fire or water damage, the redundant components located in another control cabinet continue to operate, ensuring the system

complete functionality.

This results in enhanced availability, system runtime and productivity.

High plant productivity thanks to intelligent safety solutions:

Do you wish safety solutions that neither cause unscheduled shutdowns and nor need to stop the plants for maintenance works, changes or extensions? Do you think that safety systems are neither supposed to limit the productivity of a system nor to cause excessive and unnecessary investments?

Then you need intelligent safety solutions that both ensure maximized safety and availability, and increase plant productivity.

These safety solutions can, for example:

1 Reduce lifecycle costs

2 Reduce investment costs

3 Minimize planning and operating failures

4 Reduce costs due to operating stops

HIMax will meet your expectations:

1 No compromises in safety!

2 No compromises in productivity

Major solutions:

High-availability solutions with HIMax guarantee safe and uninterrupted operation for every safety-critical process in your facility. Emergency shutdown systems (ESD), Fire & Gas systems or high-integrity pressure protection systems (HIPPS) are but a few typical applications.

Additionally, HIMax is the core element of the new complete solutions developed for the process industry:

1 FlexSILon TMC for turbines and compressors

2 FlexSILon BCS for burner control and boiler protection

3 FlexSILon PMC for the management of gas and liquid fuel pipelines

HIMax provides the flexibility you need. Because HIMax offers safe SIL and standard NonSIL modules. In case of a safety related revalidation of a machine you are able to substitude NonSIL for SIL modules quickly and easily afterwards.

Profitability on top:

1 Buy only what you need. HIMax adapts to meet virtually any application requirement.

2 HIMax can be your single platform for all I/O count, response time and fault-tolerance requirements, as well as centralized or distributed applications.

3 Save engineering time and costs using a flexible, intuitive and easily adaptable platform.

4 HIMax integrates with any DCS that you use today or in the future.

5 HIMax offers virtually unlimited expansion – hardware and software changes can be performed on demand, without interruption, for the full life cycle. Cabinet size is minimised,because there's no need to allocate slots for spares.

6 Benefit from HIMax’s unprecedented performance and system flexibility by integrating more I/Os or greater application complexity per system.

7 HIMax is a cost-effective solution with different rack sizes to match your physical space requirements.

8 No hidden software costs. With a SILworX® software license,you get a single intuitive software tool for all tasks.

Sophisticated mechanics

For the best possible handling:

1 Fully enclosed modules

2 Replace module without disturbing I/O or power wiring

3 All racks are panel mountable; the 15 slot is also available for 19-inch rack installation

4 Fully integrated and protected power distribution

5 Two different field wiring options, i. e., direct wiring using terminal strips or system cables on field termination assemblies

Requirement based rack sizes

1 Three available rack sizes: 10, 15 and 18 slots

2 In case of using X-CPU 31, up to 4 slots can be used with additional I/O or COM modules

Performance pays off:

HIMax is the most powerful safety platform ever invented.

Its unprecedented performance is based on high-performance components and smart system architectures.

1 Cycle time of 50 ms with 1,000 I/Os (split 50% analog/digital)

2 Unlimited complex calculations

3 Impact of calculation of 1,000 PIDs on cycle time: 10 ms

4 Signal conditioning directly on I/O modules with no impact on CPU performance

5 Up to 2,048 I/Os per cabinet

6 A system with up to 12,800 I/Os

7 Up to 200 I/Os in up to 16 racks per system

8 250 systems per network

9 Multitasking: Set fixed scan times for dedicated applications

10 Sequence of event (SOE), 1 ms resolution quality

Online expandability:

In case of expanding the update is written to a second memory area, after which the system switches seamlessly to the update.This method of intelligent memory management ensures that  the controller is always operational regardless of whether it is

mono or redundant. There is no limit to the number of times

a program can be reloaded during operation. Even operating

systems can be updated during operation.

I/O modules, their associated connector boards, base plates

and remote components can also be added during operation.

The same applies to new base plates and remote components.

All can be modified without having to stop the plant. Online

expandability of hardware and software guarantees maximum

flexibility during the entire life cycle

SILworX highlights:

1 A single fully integrated software tool for all tasks

2 One licence for all functions

3 IEC 61131-3-compliant, supporting all functions and variable types for safety-related programming

4 Flexible programming using function block diagrams,sequential function charts

5 Supports reload funcitonality for hardware and logic changes

6 Project saved automatically each time it is loaded

7 Safe comparator for hardware and logic changes,including detail view and Go to ... functionality

8 Program validation inlcuding offline simulation, online test

9 Secure double code generation with code comparison

10 Monitored forcing of signals

11 Project-wide cross-references and navigation

12 Password protection for projects and controller access

13 ST (Structered Text)

14 Supports SOE programming

15 Supports multitasking for up to 32 independent programs

16 Hardware import/export via XML

17 Library including function blocks developed in accordance with IEC 61511

18 C Code function block option