Rugged, reliable input/output (I/O) fits your distributed control system (DCS) operational needs. Durable design permits installation in harsh environments and allows plant engineers to cut wiring and installation costs.
Features of Standard I/O includes

• Fit-for-purpose I/O solutions — remote, local, universal, intrinsically safe I/O modules
• Ultra-high module reliability and quality with reduced component counts
• Hot-swappable modules
• Plantwide data integration
• Distributed local and/or remote
• I/O power distribution security
• Harsh-condition contamination protection (Class G3 — ISAS71.04)

Award-winning Foxboro Intelligent Marshalling reduces total cost of ownership. The universal and software-configurable nature of the solution offers flexible options for your IIoT requirements.
Intelligent Marshalling universal I/O delivers the flexibility to change the way you approach system implementation and design. There is no need to determine specific I/O type or loading — install now and configure when you are ready. This eliminates cost and schedule delays should a change to design be required down the road.
Along with other elements, Foxboro Intelligent Marshalling aims to significantly reduce your total cost of ownership. You see savings at every step, from project implementation to total system costs.
Features of Universal I/O includes

• Redundant configurations for optimum asset availability
• No extra hardware required — 100% software configurable
• Universal FBM 247 handles a wide variety of signal types — analogue, digital, HART® inputs and outputs
• Individual channels are configurable via software on a per-point basis
• Eliminates a significant portion of marshalling work

Proven, highly reliable Foxboro Compact 200 Series fieldbus modules (FBMs) feature an innovative design for significant footprint, weight and volume savings in your system installation. A narrow form factor enables more inputs/outputs (I/O) per baseplate, and more I/O per cabinet for increased I/O density overall. Foxboro Compact FBMs offer cost-efficient solution where space is at a premium.
Features of Compact I/O includes

• Future-proof support of multiple generations of controllers
• Optional redundancy and redundant power
• Power security and alarming
• Use of programmed I/O (PIO) bus
• Distributed local and/or remote I/O
• Support for Transient Data Recorder/Transient
• Data Analysis, Sequence of Events and PL

Our broad array of control system enclosures helps protect your automation system and components against intrusion or environmental effects, while meeting your plant’s physical and safety requirements.
Features of Enclosures includes

• Top or bottom cable entry
• Front-only or front-and-rear access
• Support for both system and termination equipment
• Doors supporting universal mounting for left or right-hand swing
• Door intrusion monitoring switch to provide alerts when enclosure doors are opened or closed
• Universal front and back enclosure lights to comply with performance criteria of EN 61326 annexe A
• Independent monitoring of high and low-temperature alarms, and of heating and cooling control for third-party equipment

All EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS technology is available pre-configured on secure, state-of-the-art, multi-purpose workstations and servers. These versatile, robust systems provide a platform for human/machine interfaces (HMIs), data acquisition tools, historians, engineering/configuration functions and applications. All support annunciator keyboards, up to four monitors, and touch screens, and comply with relevant cybersecurity standards.
Our proven, continuously current product design strategy facilitates upgrades to the latest technology. And as part of our unique Advantage Upgrade programme, it contributes to lower costs for the total workstation life cycle
Features: Challenging environments
Redundant fibre Ethernet connections to the plant control network for high-availability communications in electrically harsh environments
Mounting options

• General-purpose tower or rack mount
• Enclosure or operator console packaging

Experience true operational agility and production schedule integrity throughout your system’s lifecycle with EcoStruxure™ Foxboro DCS virtualisation technology.
From the start, the ability to host multiple virtual machines on a single control processor can significantly reduce the risk associated with project delivery cycles.
Virtualisation decouples system hardware from system design, and from the geographic locations of engineering experts. Last-minute changes become much easier to implement. Virtualisation technology also means software and operating systems need not be tied to specific hardware. So as your system evolves, maintenance needs and troubleshooting can be quickly addressed by Schneider Electric experts within the virtual environment.
Features:

• Virtualisation server host with high-end processor speed, up to 96 GB of memory, up to eight internal redundant array of independent disk (RAID) systems with hot-swap drive and redundant hot-swap power supplies
• Capability to host multiple virtual machines running Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 R2 Standard operating system
• Support of hypervisor technology with Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Manager
• Multicore processing
• Backup and recovery options
• Remote desktop capability Virtual machine “snapshot” feature
• Security enhancements provided by McAfee® VirusScan with AntiSpyware Enterprise
• HP® Dual and Quad Monitor thin clients

EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS annunciator keyboards easily and effectively organise alarms and process display — for faster operator response and resolution times. Operators find specific functions in assigned locations at all times, without taking extra navigation steps or entering numeric data.
When used as a conventional annunciator, the keyboard draws the operator’s attention to a specific control room area for quick resolution of alarmed conditions.
Features:

• Available with either USB and serial/GCIO connections
• Suitable for use with I/A Series and EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS workstations or servers
• May be free standing or workstation/panel mounted
• The audio alarms feature multiple pitches which indicate audible differentiation of system alarms and process alarm priorities
• An external audio output jack is available for an attachable, customer-supplied, audio amplifier with speakers, which can be heard even in noisy environment
• Lamp test function (LED test) simultaneously illuminates all the LEDs
• Overlay has positive tactile/audible feedback to assure proper switch closure

Modern monitors are offered in high-definition aspect ratio, as well as in a variety of customised workspace options. These versatile designs make ideal command centres and monitoring stations for industrial applications.
Features:

• Flexible display option to expand or focus operator’s view
• Crystal-clear visualisation
• Cost-effective life cycle management

Foxboro Control Network is scalable from one station connection to many thousands, at data speeds up to 1Gb. This advanced network supplies the performance necessary for existing and future expansion needs — without abandoning existing system or applications.
Features

• Standard fibre optic and switch technology (no proprietary cell busses, packaging, networks, etc.)
• Easy adoption of newer network technologies (including wireless) as they become industry-ready
• Faster throughput — communication speeds to 1 Gb per second, for rapid response to faults
• Availability from top to bottom — fully redundant control and field communications with no single point of failure
• Self-healing design to recover from multiple faults by automatically selecting alternate communication paths
• Flexible scalability — from one to thousands of station connections
• Patented, smart point-to-point data routing so multiple communications can run simultaneously
• Address translation station (ATS) — to integrate existing Nodebus-based systems into EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS for seamless information sharing
• High speed plus efficient utilisation of available bandwidth to ensure future-proof performance

Connect and integrate OPC UA Clients to the Foxboro DCS with a performant, scalable, robust and cybersecure OPC UA Server application which features patent pending protection technologies to ensure integrity and reliability of the connected DCS controllers.

Our control network interface (CNI) is an industrialised, high-availability, embedded method for interconnecting multiple EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS to provide greater operational efficiency and effectiveness. The CNI can also partition an EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS into independent but linked, stand-alone systems to protect operational integrity.
Features

• Ability to upgrade selected areas without impacting entire system
• Ability to isolate sections for reduced risk of cybersecurity vulnerability
• Ability to efficiently adapt operations and achieve compliance
• Fast, accurate view of production data across the plant
• Better, more informed decision-making to optimise plant production
• Easy sharing of operational data across geographically dispersed systems for maximised efficiency