ABB Advant Controller 400 series

ABB  Advant Controller 400 series

DESCRIPTION

StepUp is program of ABB's for upgrading older process control equipment to the latest Advant OCS solutions at particularly favorable terms. The theme of the program varies from time to time; this time the turn has come to users of MasterPiece 200⁄1 controllers to upgrade to the latest Advant Controller 400 series process controllers, at substantially reduced prices.

You gain performance; Count on three to five times the speed of your current machine(s) (vs. Advant Controller 450) and multiple amounts of more memory.

Higher processing speed and more memory means more work done faster, as well as more space for trend data storage.

You gain functionality; Advant Controller 400 series offers a number of important functional improvements, e.g.:

• Support for a number of new, popular communication protocols, e.g. Advant Fieldbus 100, Profibus DP, LONWorks and Allen-Bradley's DF1. These make your new controllers able to use ABB's new S800 I⁄O system and easily able to communicate, with other external controllers, with ABB's variable speed motor drives and with smart motor-control centers.

• More backup redundancy available, e.g.: 

- Smarter solution to CPU redundancy, eliminating critical, common, components, 

- Full dual redundancy, covering, media and communication in interfaces, for S100 I/O and Advant Fieldbus 100.

• A self-tuning, adaptive process controller (AC 450) that makes short work out of setting up control loops accurately and responsively, even in difficult applications.

• Fuzzy logic control, a control method based on degrees of truths as opposed to conventional binary logic that only recognizes two states: true or false.

• Windows NT-based engineering tool, You save money; StepUp includes:

• attractive prices on controller cabinets with all the hardware and software required.

• further savings on future software upgrades by subscription to the ABB Software Advancement Program (described further on).

ABB Software Advancement Program (ASAP) is a subscription scheme under which users obtain new versions of the software they are using as they become available. The program:

• Keeps your Advant OCS at the forefront of functionality and performance at all times. 

• Contributes to getting the most out of your production plant.

• Keeps your system maintenance costs low and budgetable.