ABB Advant Controller 400 series

ABB Advant Controller 400 series

Advant StepUp Project overview:

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

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 vari- able 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.

A control strategy that is often able to untangle elegantly control problems that are difficult to solve in other ways