Fundamental
New Architecture
Unlike today’s DCS, PLC, Hybrid,
and component solutions, the DeltaVTM system’s unrestricted information flow
between intelligent field devices, the DeltaV system, and enterprise resource
planning systems gives you a tremendous advantage in ease of use, a significant
acceleration in the speed with which your process can be managed, and
integrated capabilities, such as fieldbus, advanced control and batch.
Smart
Plants Made Easy
Designed with this new architecture in
mind, the DeltaV system fully integrates ‘smart plant’ capabilities
including HART®, FOUNDATION™ fieldbus, high-speed discrete busses,
and embedded advanced control. This seamless, intelligent field integration
enables Asset Management Solutions (AMS) for quick, easy re-ranging,
configuration and diagnostics. The result is better process efficiency and
reduced process variability.
Any
Size You Want
DeltaV is scalable in both size and
functionality. It’s the first system to offer you a single architecture
with full functionality from small to large, so you can cost-effectively
implement applications of any scope. You pick the functions that work best for
your application across the entire system size. No longer are you constrained
to an automation solution based on project size.
Leading
the Way
The DeltaV system has delivered a host of industry firsts—including simple plug-and-play OPC integration, and embedded FOUNDATION fieldbus, batch, and advanced control technologies. Being first with these technology innovations has made our users pace-setters in their industries. But more important, it’s delivered dramatic operational improvements. The kind of improvements you can start profiting from today.
The
Result
The return on your total automation
investment is higher with the DeltaV system —because your operational
benefits increase while your automation costs decrease. In the following pages,
you’ll see how the DeltaV system is expanding the boundaries of process
automation, improving your project cycle time and your operation
performance—from installation and start-up, to daily maintenance and
operations—all made easy.
The revolutionary PlantWeb architecture
changes the economics of process automation, and the DeltaV system makes it
easy.
The
DeltaV system scales the complete range of applications from an isolated
process area to a complete plant-wide automation system. Whether you need tens
of I/O or tens of thousands of I/O—any size you want! The DeltaV system
provides all the tools to manage your process easier than ever before.
Controllers
The complete family of controllers is available
to power your most advanced control strategies. Full controller and power
supply redundancy is available for your mission-critical applications. The
controller and I/O sub-system is rated for Class I, Division 2 and Zone 2
environments to reduce your installation costs.
The DeltaV system has the I/O technologies to meet your toughest applications. These include:
iFOUNDATION fieldbus. Field-proven since 1997, FOUNDATION fieldbus fundamentally changes your project economics. It’s built from the ground up into the DeltaV system.
iDiscrete Busses. AS-i bus, Profibus DP, and DeviceNet provide you with high-speed discrete bus solutions.
iHART. The DeltaV system supports the full breadth of information HART-based field instruments provide.
iSerial. The DeltaV system can act as both a MODBUS master and MODBUS slave device to fully integrate with any automation system you currently have. Other popular drives are available.
iClassic. The classic I/O interfaces support a full range of analog, discrete, thermocouple, and RTD card types.
iIntrinsically Safe. Available for many popular Classic and HART I/O types.
DeltaV workstations are based on the
latest Intel-based microprocessors running the Microsoft Windows NT operating
system. A complete range of applications is provided to cover system
configuration, operator interface, engineering, maintenance, and integration
functions.
The DeltaV control network—a
high-speed Ethernet LAN—provides system communications and connects the
various system nodes. The control network can be fully redundant. DeltaV
remote services
extend the operations, engineering, and diagnostic applications across your
enterprise network.
The DeltaV system is built on fundamental ideas that support plant automation - made easy.
Built
for Bus.
The DeltaV system is credited with the
world’s first FOUNDATION fieldbus installation. This and other
installations are delivering formidable results. Like 74% reductions in field
wiring, 93% reductions in required control room space, 80% reductions in field
device commissioning time.* And that's just the beginning!
The DeltaV system incorporates the
FOUNDATION fieldbus function block set, enabling you to run control where it
makes most sense; either in the fieldbus device or in the DeltaV system.
The DeltaV ‘built for bus’
architecture auto-senses FOUNDATION fieldbus devices as they’re added to
the fieldbus segment, greatly simplifying the installation and engineering
process. High speed discrete busses AS-i bus, DeviceNet, and Profibus DP
—also key to the DeltaV ‘built for bus’ architecture
—the ability to address those areas where many discrete devices are
located.
Maintaining your plant field devices
need not require sending technicians into harsh, remote, or hazardous locations
to check instruments. The Asset Management capabilities inside DeltaV allow
easy FOUNDATION fieldbus and HART device configuration, re-ranging, and remote
diagnostics.
In another industry breakthrough, the
DeltaV system delivered the world's first OPC and Microsoft Distributed COM
solution.
The DeltaV OPC server allows simple
plug-and-play integration of information from any external OPC-compliant
system. The DeltaV system's data acquisition and calculation applications let
you seamlessly add external information into your graphical displays, control
strategies, and smart alarms.
The DeltaV system’s use of OPC
and MODBUS technologies means you can easily integrate with your existing
PROVOX®, RS3TM, Honeywell, Bailey, or other systems. If your process
application requires complex batch processing, the DeltaV system’s
‘built for batch’ architecture can make it simple. This
architecture provides a comprehensive set of easy-to-use tools for
cost-effective batch control solutions.
Both batch control and recipe
management components are tightly integrated, eliminating multiple
configuration databases and ‘no value’ data mapping exercises
commonly associated with many ‘flanged’ batch solutions on the
market today.
Unlike PLC/HMI solutions, the
completely integrated DeltaV system features a single database that coordinates
all configuration activities. System configuration is globally distributed in
the run-time environment.
This distributed real-time database
creates a common communications foundation that provides:
iAccess to all system information by name. No physical location references are required.
iAutomatic and transparent node-to-node communications.
iSingle global system database.
No database mapping is required for
communication between DeltaV workstations and controllers.
Other suppliers’ OPC-enabled applications
can use the same communications foundation to access any system information by
name.
All configuration, operating,
diagnostic, and history applications can be securely accessed remotely across
your plant LAN and via modem. Additionally, the DeltaV Web Server gives you
access to all your operating and trend information through a standard web
browser.
Easy
to Learn
The DeltaV system is inherently easy to learn and use. Examples of this built-in ease of use include:
iIntuitive user interface similar to the Microsoft Explorer.
iIntegrated, context-sensitive, on-line help.
iOperator graphics layout including display navigation and alarm management.
iAuto-sensed controllers are physically connected to the control network and auto-sensed IEC 61158 FOUNDATION fieldbus devices are connected to a fieldbus segment.
iA library of pre-engineered control modules reduces your engineering efforts.
iCut, copy, and paste control strategy development uses simple drag-and-drop modification built to the IEC 61131-3 standard for control strategy development.
iAnd if the system’s built-in control strategies don’t fit your operating and control philosophies, you can quickly and easily create new ones that do.
DeltaV modules let you manage system
information as modular components, similar to how you already manage your field
devices. These modular components have unique names and specific
characteristics, and can be downloaded and modified independently from one
another.
Modules are defined as one or more
field devices and their related control logic. Loops, motors, and pumps are
typical examples. Each module has a unique control tag and contains control
strategy diagrams, parameters, alarms, conditions, events, and history.
DeltaV modules are:
iunderstood system-wide by all DeltaV components
iautomatically available throughout the system
ia focal point for system-wide access to all contained control data
icommunicated within the system by their name
icommunicated to integrated external applications by their names.
These capabilities are not limited only
to those modules that are pre-engineered and supplied with the system. You also
have complete flexibility to create your own standard modules that use all of
the same capabilities.
The DeltaV modules are based on the IEC
61131-3 and the S88.01 definitions of hierarchy and offer a modular approach to
configuration development. The S88.01 standard provides a sound structure for
control development, while allowing full latitude to define modules appropriate
for your process needs.
The DeltaV modules put you in control
of the configuration process, making it easy for you to engineer your system,
your way—whether you do bottom up or top down design and implementation.
The DeltaV system’s
pre-engineered module templates enable fast, easy system implementation. Using
simple drag-and-drop features, it takes only seconds to create a completed
module. All modules are fully customizable for you to add your solutions to the
library and to share across your organization or with other users across the
internet.
The system’s auto-sense
capability builds your configuration as you plug in the system and FOUNDATION
fieldbus components. Just plug in your DeltaV cards and fieldbus devices and
you're ready to go.
Easy
to Upgrade
The DeltaV upgrade utility makes it
easy to upgrade your DeltaV system from one revision to the next. Most tasks
are performed automatically and the others guide you step by step through the
process. Both on-line and off-line upgrades can be performed.
Better plant performance is now
possible by combining the information in intelligent field devices with the
DeltaV system’s advanced control applications. From advanced tuning,
through continuous process inspection, predictive modeling, and simulation, you
can easily leverage this new wealth of information. And, these advanced control
solutions are easy to deploy and maintain with the DeltaV system.
The
DeltaV workstations provide you with a complete user environment that supports
a broad range of functions—from operating and analyzing the process,
configuring and maintaining the system to integrating DeltaV to the rest of
your facility. Each function offers a simple, visually intuitive user
interface.
The
DeltaV workstation hardware is based on commercially available components.
These include high-performance PCs based on the latest Pentium processor technology
running the Windows NT operating system.
The DeltaV workstation grows in
performance as PC performance advances.
Since your DeltaV workstation arrives
pre-installed and ready to go, you can do more of what you want to do, instead
of spending time installing software. Ease of use defines the DeltaV
workstations. No fuss, no trouble-shooting —just plug-and-play.
DeltaV has all the options you need to
support any size installation. Dual head monitors, fault tolerant workstations,
rugged touchscreens and keyboards are all available. Check the latest product
data sheets on EasyDeltaV.com for the full range of options.
The DeltaV workstation software
delivers high performance, conveniently packaged software suites to meet your
needs.
All workstation software suites come
fully loaded and enabled with DeltaV integrated TCP/IP communications. Forget
the no-value fussing with DLLs or DDE. With DeltaV communications, you're ready
to go.
The DeltaV workstation software is
divided into four classes of functionality:
iSystem Definition. This software suite contains the global database where all aspects of your DeltaV system are defined and maintained in addition to the operations and engineering software suites.
iOperations. These applications are used by plant
operators and supervisors to control and manage the process.
iEngineering. These software applications are
typically used by the engineering and maintenance staff to optimize plant
operations.
iIntegration. Your DeltaV system would not be
complete without seamless integration to the rest of your plant. The DeltaV OPC
server and OPC Mirror facilitate sharing process data with client applications
across the plant local area network.
These four classes of software functionality have been bundled into suites for your convenience:
iProfessionalPLUS
iProfessional
iOperator
iApplication
iBase.
The
ProfessionalPLUS software suite contains
the DeltaV global database. This completely integrated database coordinates all
configuration activities. Forget about data mapping between separate databases
or referencing your process and engineering information by arcane registers or
numbers. All your DeltaV information is named and easily browsed by
name—just like you browse the files on your PC.
All
communications between the DeltaV workstations and controller nodes along the
control network is automatic and transparent to you.
The
ProfessionalPLUS software suite can
manage security and access to all of the DeltaV software applications. At each
DeltaV workstation with operator functionality, users can be limited to certain
plant areas for viewing and operating. This security feature can be defined for
an individual station, as well as for specific users. Out of the box, you get a
library of control strategies and operator controls to get you going quickly
and easily.
|
Function Station |
System
Definition |
Operations |
Engineering |
Integration |
Communication |
Description |
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ProfessionalPLUS |
a |
a |
a |
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a |
This suite contains
system configuration, engineering, operations and communications. Complete system-wide security and state-of-the-art
object-oriented database is provided. |
|
Professional |
|
a |
a |
|
a |
The Professional
suite contains engineering, operator, and communications functions –
allowing you to switch between engineering at startup to operations as the plant
comes on line. |
|
Operator |
|
a |
|
|
a |
The Operator suite
contains operations and communications software – all of the tools you
need for complete control over your process. |
|
Application |
|
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|
a |
a |
This is a multi-purpose
station available for iPlant history iBatch
history iIntegration
functions |
|
Base |
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|
a |
If none of the
options above meet your specific requirements, the base station suite gives you
the flexibility to individually select software applications from many
available. |
OPERATIONS
The
DeltaV operations software suite provides an easy-to-use environment for process
operation and information access. All operations applications are fully
remoteable for access anywhere on your plant LAN or via modem. Operations applications may include:
iOperator
Interface
iDiagnostics
iContinuous
History Viewer
With the DeltaV Operator Interface, you
get high-resolution graphics, providing detail and information display
flexibility. A standard operator desktop and operating philosophy for all
modules provide an easy-to-use, highly reliable operator environment. The
bottom line: less training time, and better process operations.
Even better, operating faceplates,
detail displays, and process equipment are already pre-engineered. Start with a
pre-built control strategy, give it a name, drag, drop, and install it in a
controller, and you automatically have associated operating
faceplates—easy.
The DeltaV Operator Interface
incorporates operator graphics, sophisticated alarm management and presentation,
real-time trending, and on-line, context-sensitive help.
You can easily create smart alarms.
These can be a combination of other alarms and process conditions. Unlike other
control systems, which require a separate expert system to achieve smart alarms,
the DeltaV system’s are built right in.
The real-time trends in the Operator
Interface give you a quick overview of your process performance. One or more
real-time trends can be embedded in the process graphics.
The DeltaV Diagnostics Explorer gives
you a complete top-to-bottom, system-wide view—even down into your smart
field devices. If you know how to use an explorer, you already know how to use
DeltaV diagnostics. Nothing to build or engineer. Diagnostics are ready to use,
right out of the box.
View any node across the control
network and incorporate diagnostic data into operator graphics, smart alarms,
Excel, or OPC applications.
The DeltaV Continuous History Viewer,
built on OSI's PI Server, helps you pinpoint trends and events affecting plant
operation. View your operation's continuous, event, and batch data with
real-time and historical trends.
The DeltaV system makes history
collection and control easy. Each control module—the fundamental building
block of control strategies—maintains the historical configuration
information for all of the module parameters. Click and drag plant areas in the
DeltaV Explorer onto the historian folder and all modules within the area are
automatically historized—easy.
You can add additional OSI PI
components like the PI System Gateway to SAP R/3 for
enterprise integration and PI DataLink
for easy Excel integration, to name a few options.
The DeltaV Continuous History Viewer
gives you a view into operational events, such as operator changes, control
module installations, alarms and device status changes.
If you use the DeltaV Batch capability,
the Continuous History Viewer provides you a view of recipe execution data on a
batch basis so you can make batch-to-batch comparisons and analyses. It also
displays important production data from each batch run. If you are a DeltaV
Batch user, check out the DeltaV ‘built for batch’ brochure for
more on the most integrated batch history available.
ENGINEERING
The
DeltaV suite of engineering tools handles configuration management, both
locally and remotely, for all aspects of the DeltaV system. Users can
concurrently configure the system and access the global configuration database.
To
make your project engineering activities easy, a library of pre-engineered,
reusable module templates and pieces of control strategies (composite
templates) is built in. You have full control over modifying pre-engineered
control strategies to meet your operational philosophies. You can save, share,
and swap your control modules in the library.
The
DeltaV Explorer—the primary navigation tool for DeltaV system
configuration— automatically highlights items that have modified
configurations and that need to be downloaded. You can select to download a single
change, multiple changes, or the complete system.
Key
elements of the DeltaV engineering applications include:
iDeltaV
Explorer - presents the complete system configuration in a single view and
allows direct access to any item.
iDisplay
Configuration - provides display and dynamic graphic symbol configuration.
iControl Studio
- provides graphical control strategy configuration, on-line view, and debug
capability.
iConfiguration
Assistant - a software tool that takes you step by step through system configuration.
iAsset
Management Inside - an application which performs configuration, re-ranging,
and remote diagnostics for your FOUNDATION fieldbus and HART devices.
iRecipe
Studio—an environment that develops and manages batch recipes.
The DeltaV Explorer is the primary
navigation tool for system configuration. It presents the complete system
configuration in a single view and allows direct access to any item.
The DeltaV Explorer allows
drag-and-drop moving, copying, and assigning of items. You can copy a control
module template from the library by selecting it and dragging it to the area
where you want to create a new module.
When a new controller and I/O are
connected to the system, the controller is immediately auto-sensed. When you
select the controller, drag it to the control network, and give it a name,
you’ve defined a new controller. The I/O interfaces are also displayed as
components of the controller.
Display configuration is simply a mouse
click away. Use standard tools such
as cut, copy, paste, and drag-and-drop to easily configure your displays. You can easily use scanned plant images
with actual process dynamics, attach sound to a display, and even build your
own animated movement into graphic symbols.
The pre-defined standard operator
desktop template simplifies the typical effort of designing your own displays
and operating display layout. What information is important, where it should be
displayed, and common operating navigation methods are all provided,
simplifying your engineering effort.
The pre-defined graphics and dynamic
display symbols have embedded script language and logic capabilities. This
gives you built-in coordinated display management and dynamic symbol
definition.
In addition, the standard module
templates include pop-up faceplates, trends, and detail displays, and support
discrete, analog, and sequential control module operation.
All DeltaV information is available for
display on any process graphics. Unlike other pieced-together solutions,
‘no-value engineering’ is eliminated—special database mapping
of the information is no longer necessary.
You do not even need to know the
physical location of a module to use its information in a graphics display. All
you need to know is the name of the module, and you can simply browse the
system for that loop. This browsing even extends to any parameters of modules,
including setpoints, status, and tuning.
The DeltaV Control Studio lets you
graphically create, modify, and troubleshoot your control strategies. All
module control strategies are easily and quickly assembled using drag-and-drop
and cut, copy, and paste methods which shorten and simplify your project
engineering.
With a choice of IEC 61131-3 graphical
control languages, you can select the language that’s appropriate for the
type of control functions your process requires:
iFunction Block Diagrams (FBD)—closed loop control functions and continuous calculations
iSequential Function Charts (SFC)—control tasks that are sequential
iStructured Text (ST)—advanced calculations and expression evaluation.
You can also intermix these control
languages within a single control module. Thus, a module can leverage function
blocks for closed-loop analog control and sequential function charts to perform
startup sequencing. All modules are treated as separate entities in the Control
Studio, letting you focus on a specific module without impacting other modules
running in the same controller.
Because the underlying languages are graphical, there is no translation
between what is viewed during configuration and what actually executes in the
DeltaV system.
This intuitive graphical representation
of your control strategies allows you to use your actual configuration as your
control strategy documentation, instead of creating separate
documentation. You can configure
modules without first defining the controller where the module will execute
which simplifies your engineering efforts.
The Control Studio runs in two modes:
edit, and on-line. Edit is where the control strategies are built, using simple
drag-and-drop techniques. On-line lets you view its actual execution. You can
also debug the strategy from this same graphical view, and use all the
troubleshooting tools you need, including breakpoints, single step, force, and
override control.
The Configuration Assistant provides
information and configuration guidance for new and occasional DeltaV system
users. Using an approach similar to
Microsoft Wizards, the Configuration Assistant teaches you system fundamentals
while you configure the system. The
Configuration Assistant takes you step by step through each section of the
system, providing context-sensitive help for each topic.
With the Asset Management Solutions
(AMS) built inside your DeltaV system, configuration, calibration, and remote
diagnostics of your field devices has never been easier. This integrated
environment eliminates the need for any additional hardware or parallel wiring.
This fully integrated approach is the first in the market to combine process
automation and asset management.
With AMSinside the DeltaV system,
maintaining your device database is easy. Device information is available
online. Time-consuming paper records management is eliminated.
You can quickly and conveniently change
configurations from the workstation and download them to field devices. This
auto configuration streamlines configuration in half the normal time, and
improves the accuracy of your work. You can set configuration parameters from
the control room, as well as minimize the time spent in validating a loop
problem.
Your fieldbus devices can be re-ranged and
calibrated from any workstation, significantly reducing time spent on routine
preventative maintenance procedures and improving accuracy of the work.
Automated tools reduce the time to commission devices.
You get more comprehensive remote
diagnostics than ever before. You have complete on-line access remotely from
your workstation to device status and diagnostics, reducing the number of field
trips that end up with ‘no problem found.’
The
DeltaV suite of embedded Advanced Control products gives you the capability to
develop the right control strategies for your plant automation needs, at a
fraction of the traditional cost. It continuously monitors the performance of
those strategies to improve and optimize them over time. All this makes for a
better performing automation system and a better performing plant.
Neural networks are capable of modeling
noisy and non-linear processes better than other techniques. The DeltaV Neural
embeds this advanced technology right into the controller with automatic
pre-processing, design, training, and verification.
Embedded in the controller, DeltaV
Predict comes with pre-configured operator interface that makes model
predictive control easy.
Consider DeltaV Inspect your own
personal loop inspector, focused on one thing— improving your
plant’s performance.
Simulations model process conditions,
enabling you to better understand the process being controlled. The simulation
uses the actual I/O of the DeltaV system to simulate field device behavior and
response. You get a complete set of simulation tools that allow process
information to be imported directly from the DeltaV system.
Far superior to PID control, fuzzy
logic control gives you faster response times, virtually no overshoot, and
greater tolerance for noisy signals. If your process experiences frequent set
point changes and load disturbances, DeltaV Fuzzy is your best bet to minimize
the impact. And, the best part of all, like all DeltaV products, it’s
easy to use.
To simplify tuning of fuzzy logic
loops, as well as standard PID loops, the DeltaV system has an easy-to-use
auto-tuning capability. Operators and maintenance personnel can quickly tune
loops to keep the process running at peak efficiency.
The
DeltaV Application workstation delivers complete integration with your entire
plant network.
The
Application workstation connects to both your DeltaV control network and your
plant local area network to get the right information to the right location
when you need it—securely and reliably.