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    Process Control & Safety Systems

    Enjoy greater operational insight for faster, safe, secure, and accurate production while preserving your investment with future-proof technology.

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    EcoStruxure™ Triconex® - Tricon CX

    We understand that you need more from your safety instrumented systems than just keeping your operations safe - you need to keep operations running continuously, avoiding any unexpected downtime or interruption that impacts profitability.
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Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS)

A complex process like a petroleum refinery can have thousands of controllers. A large installation can have >200,000 hardwired inputs and outputs and > 500,000 digital inputs and outputs over the data bus. Advanced process control and on-line optimisation are being increasingly used for maximising the safety and economic performance of the process and is linked to production control.
 

Solutions

An ICSS solution integrates the process control and safety system at all times autonomously, compared to the traditional approach of isolated control and safety systems. ICSS manages and regulates the production process by means of a Distributed Control System (DCS) and Safety Instrumented System (SIS) using proven Foxboro and Triconex systems as well as a Fire and Gas detection System (FGS) and High Integrity Pressure Protection System (HIPPS) commonly used in complex refinery and petrochemical processes.
Processes are monitored in the form of visual alarm logs and historical archives. Operators are given real-time information necessary to make proper corrective actions. Should any unwarranted process upset occur despite operator intervention, the affected process units will be shut down automatically by the highly integrated SIS (safety integrated System) and brought to safe condition.

Benefits and Differentiation

> Agile response needed for changes in process inputs, operating conditions and ambient conditions
> Managing the data integration of several plants
> Ability to interface with servers, EPCs and process licensors

Highlighted Offer: EcoStruxure™ Foxboro DCS

EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS (an evolution of Foxboro Evo) is an innovative family of fault-tolerant, highly available control components, which consolidates critical information and elevates staff capabilities to ensure flawless, continuous plant operation. More capable than a traditional distributed control system (DCS) it enables strategic integration of the following industrial control system components: high availability control processor, powerful I/O, high performance HMI, cybersecurity protection, unified control and safety through integration with the industry-leading EcoStruxure Triconex safety systems and an intelligent interactive maintenance dashboard.

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> Preserve your investment with future-proof technology so you can grow easily and affordably
> Protect the operational integrity of your business for safe, secure, reliable production
> Enjoy greater operational insight for faster, more accurate decisions that enable better performance

Highlighted Offer: FLEX Automation Project Execution Methodology

A methodology, based on decades of project execution excellence, to reduce project capital cost up to 30%, to manage schedule to take automation off the critical path and minimise risks removing most of change requests.

FLEX is an innovative approach that uses project data as it matures from the earliest design phase down to complete detailed project engineering. This results in different project milestones and a new execution approach

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> Engineering Workbench
> Templates & Rules
> Virtualised Engineering
> SPI Integration
> Intelligent Enclosures
> Universal IO

Highlighted Offer: EcoStruxure™ Triconex Safety Instrumented Systems

Triconex is the only safety system with a proven track record in Safety and Critical Control, as demonstrated by its 30 years of experience in safety systems, in excess of 13,000 installed systems used today in safety and critical control worldwide.

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> Protect human and asset safety
> Comply with environmental and regulatory standards
> Meet and exceed production targets through maximum process uptime
> Supported by the large staff of TUV Certified
Functional Safety Engineers
> Patented fault tolerant Triple-Modular-Redundant(TMR) controller
> #1 market share leader in process safety

  • EcoStruxure™ Foxboro DCS Ignite Your Profit Engine

    Learn how EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS helps consistently deliver measurable operation profitability improvement safely, enabling 100% ROI in less than a year.
 

White Paper

Integrated Control and Safety: Assessing the Benefits, Weighing the Risks. This paper compares three integrated control and safety architectures — interfaced, integrated but separate, common platform — weighing the benefits and assessing the risks according to compliance with safety standards and cost efficiencies.
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Emergency Shutdown Systems (ESDs)

Emergency Shutdown Systems (ESDs) are high reliability and high availability systems that can operate autonomously to bring the complex processes to a safe state in event of any abnormal event. Thus protecting personnel, the environment and the asset. The safety shutdown system manages all inputs and outputs relative to emergency shutdown functions. The ESD shall achieve the safety integrity requirements as may be determined from HAZard, and OPerability studies (HAZOP), with full Layers Of Protection Analysis (LOPA), risk graphs, and so on…
 

Solutions

Manage and regulate the production process by means of Distributed Control System (DCS), Safety Instrumented System (SIS) using proven Triconex system, Fire and Gas detection System (FGS) and High Integrity Pressure Protection System (HIPPS) for complex petroleum refinery and petrochemical processes.
Monitor process by visual alarm logs and historical archives. Operators are given real-time information necessary to make proper corrective actions. Should any unwarranted process upset occur despite operator invention, the affected process units will be shut down automatically by the highly integrated SIS (safety integrated System) and brought to safe condition

Benefits and Differentiation

> Seamless integration of the control and safety systems, resulting in more reliable plant operation
> Elimination of common mode failures that could trip the process
> Reduction in engineering effort by utilising a common engineering workshop to configure both systems
> Reduced commissioning time

Highlighted Offer: Tricon CX

Tricon CX is the most powerful safety system from Triconex. Each Tricon CX controller is capable of handling 31 I/O racks, 186 I/O modules, and 5,900 physical I/Os. Up to 254 nodes can be networked in a single peer-to-peer network allowing in excess of 1,500,000 physical TMR I/Os to be managed.

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> Built-in high integrity and availability
> Fault-tolerant operation
> High-capacity handling — in excess of 1 million I/O points
> Fast scan times (from 10 milliseconds)
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Tricon CX. Superior protection for your people, your production and your profits.
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Prevent hazardous conditions from causing unsafe incidents.
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Integrated Power and Process Management

Integrated Power and Process Management is the integration of systems that control process including emergency shut down, safety systems to the power system for seamless interconnection. It is a 360 degree approach that covers the life cycle of a plant system starting from the plan & design phase and covers technology, construction, execution and services. In complex petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants effective process control is dependent on instrumentation, safety system and DCS (integrated control and safety system, ICSS) and electrical power distribution system. The plant needs seamless integration of the above three systems and a simplified architecture that makes it easy to implement changes during operations.
 

Solutions

Process & Power integrates the systems of Process, Safety, EMCS and iPMCC, all required in the O&G industry without gateways . Unified engineering tools, common HMI and asset manager are also incorporated to result in simplification for the end user and designer.
Foxboro EVO distributed control system and Triconex safety system create value for customers through ease of integration by facilitating them with seamless integration of intelligent control systems and providing dependability for maximum productivity in a safe, secure and a reliable ecosystem. The idea is to simplify complexities through an efficient platform with similar touch and feel which can interoperate and communicate effectively.

Benefits and Differentiation

> Seamless plant operations across DCS & EMCS
> Reduced engineering & commissioning time
> Site coordination simplified, smaller footprint
> Increased operator effectiveness
> Cost savings on Training

Highlighted Offer: Intelligent Power and Motor Control Center (iPMCC)

Type tested solution supporting smart device installation, application & system architecture, wiring recommendation, engineering guides and EMC compliance. Based on high dependability communication architectures.

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> Reduce costs and lead time at construction phase
> Detailed Low Voltage energy & process data visibility – anywhere and anytime
> Data-driven Energy Efficiency with more detailed and accurate information
> Predictive Maintenance and proactive alarming with possibility of transmitting all alarms immediately to appropriate users
> Totally integrated solution Low voltage with energy and automation control

Highlighted Offer: EcoStruxure™ Foxboro DCS

EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS (an evolution of Foxboro Evo) is an innovative family of fault-tolerant, highly available control components, which consolidates critical information and elevates staff capabilities to ensure flawless, continuous plant operation. More capable than a traditional distributed control system (DCS) it enables strategic integration of the following industrial control system components: high availability control processor, powerful I/O, high performance HMI, cybersecurity protection, unified control and safety through integration with the industry-leading EcoStruxure Triconex safety systems and an intelligent interactive maintenance dashboard.

> Find out more
> Preserve your investment with future-proof technology so you can grow easily and affordably
> Protect the operational integrity of your business for safe, secure, reliable production
> Enjoy greater operational insight for faster, more accurate decisions that enable better performance

  • Foxboro DCS

    Improve your operation profitability by mitigating risk to continuous production, empowering operations talent with insight and providing future-proof technology that enables your business to easily adapt to change.
 

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Integrated power and process management for effective project implementation and consistent plant operation.
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