ABB Ability ™ Symphony ® Plus S+ Engineering

ABB Ability ™  Symphony ®  Plus S+ Engineering

Overview

ABB Ability ™  Symphony ®  Plus S+Engineering is an integrated engineering tool designed for Symphony Plus control systems, aimed at addressing the automation component management needs brought about by the development of new technologies in the process industry. It provides a unified platform, integrates various automation processes, achieves unified data management, reduces repetitive operations, improves engineering efficiency, and is suitable for engineering design, configuration, debugging, and maintenance in all aspects from control system components to network architecture, advanced applications, etc.

This tool takes into account the current situation of intensified industry competition, shortened project delivery cycles, and dispersed engineering tasks. By optimizing workflows, supporting multi-user access, and allowing flexible modifications during the start-up and commissioning phases, it helps EPC contractors and end-users shorten project design cycles, commissioning start-up times, and reduce operation and maintenance costs.

Core Features

Fundamentals of Efficient Engineering Platform

Client/Server Technology: Supports multi-user operation in a network environment, with a configuration server that can simultaneously accept up to 10 client connections, enabling shared access to system configuration information and real-time factory data, ensuring a single source of data, reducing duplicate entries, simplifying database management, and automating configuration tasks. Supports import and export of multiple commonly used file formats.

Engineering and operation separation: Strictly distinguish between engineering and operating environments, support flexible offline engineering workflows, and during the debugging phase, multi-user and remote access capabilities are crucial for on-time delivery. Debugging can be carried out from loop level to controller basic functions.

Tool integration and automation: seamlessly integrate various tools, with powerful workflow automation and batch import/export functions, to improve engineering efficiency; Integrated version control and version comparison facilitate progress tracking and shorten debugging time; Support native language display and ensure data consistency throughout the project lifecycle through intelligent batch interfaces.

Compatibility and Reusability: Supports the reuse of control systems such as Symphony and INFI 90 OPEN from previous generations. Based on ABB's experience in the power and water industries, we provide proven solutions to optimize factory design.

Intuitive engineering interface and management functions

User Management: Configure user information for Windows domains or workgroups, including subdomains or organizational units, through an intuitive interface. Create user profiles and roles, project access permissions, and support copying user and role lists from existing projects to achieve fine-grained authorization management and ensure system security.

Project Management: Integrated project management functions allow authorized users to create system, control, equipment, and electrical engineering projects with just one click, perform user allocation, project backup and recovery, database maintenance, and project upgrades.

Multi user engineering: supports multiple users to access engineering tasks simultaneously. Users can reserve the entire application or part of the content for exclusive use, enabling multiple people to collaborate simultaneously without interfering with each other. Various engineering tasks can be processed in parallel.

Audit Tracking: Provides complete audit tracking functionality, tracks and archives user operations and system configuration changes to a central database, and can also be archived in system history records to meet industry compliance requirements.

Intuitive Navigation: With the help of a graphical user interface, context menu, navigation window, and help function, intuitive navigation is achieved. It supports navigation from tags to relevant control logic documents in the engineering environment, seamlessly crossing navigation with the S+Operations human-machine interface, making it easy to quickly associate relevant information and third-party documents.

System topology and operation engineering

System topology engineering: Through the system topology builder, users can drag and drop visual construction control projects, support logical and detailed network development, automatically generate charts through wizards, automatically configure communication ports, share topology information to S+Operations, generate document reports, etc. It also supports multiple virtual factory network interfaces and multiple historical server configurations.

Operation Engineering: Integrating S+Operations human-machine interface for operation engineering configuration, achieving seamless data exchange with other components, supporting remote deployment configuration, providing parallel deployment, incremental deployment, and differential viewing functions, and efficiently controlling the deployment process; Suitable for traditional DCS and SCADA applications, supporting multiple common protocol configurations.