Control and Safety System Modernisation in the Chemical Industry
Enhanced capability of a modern automation system enables increases in plant efficiency, safety, throughput and profitability
Enhanced capability of a modern automation system enables increases in plant efficiency, safety, throughput and profitability
Ageing distributed control and safety systems can significantly impact plant efficiency, throughput and profitability. Unreliable hardware and software affects process availability and safety. An inability to leverage smart sensor and advanced control technologies prevents process optimisation. Outdated user interfaces reduce operator efficiency, increase the potential for errors and create inconsistent control practices.
Modernising your plant with an Emerson DeltaV™ distributed control system (DCS) and safety instrumented system (SIS) creates the opportunity to make step-change improvements in plant efficiency, safety, throughput and profitability. Combining the DeltaV DCS and DeltaV SIS safety system creates a modern automation solution able to run your plant at its full potential.
Modern high performance human machine interfaces (HMI) incorporating human centered design and alarm rationalisation help operators to control the plant more efficiently, identify issues quicker, make improved decisions, reduce errors and increase overall productivity. Remote access to critical control system data through DeltaV Mobile functionality enhances operator efficiency further, allowing issues to be addressed immediately and contributing to improvements in plant safety and throughput.
The DeltaV DCS provides access to new capabilities that unlock value in your plant. State-based control helps to increase production efficiency by transitioning from a reliance on operators to fully automated control sequences that ensure consistency and process optimisation. Advanced process control, process learning and adaptive control functionality enable optimisation of interactive processes and reduced variability under changing process conditions. This helps to reduce operator requirements, increase throughput and lower energy consumption.
A modern control system helps to increase safety by reducing the number of workers exposed to process, through automated situational handling and reducing the probability of incidents arising from human error. By continuously monitoring the status of safety devices and diagnosing the health of the entire safety loop, the DeltaV SIS dramatically reduces risk. Single button restarts help to remove procedure complexity and lower risk, while the implementation of a reliable modern SIS can eliminate nuisance trips, helping to increase process availability and throughput.
Smart I/O functionality available with DeltaV removes the barriers that prevent access to stranded data that can be used to optimise process control. This allows you to take advantage of the wealth of new information provided by intelligent sensors and multivariable transmitters that can be used to build better and more complex models for optimised control and greater throughput. Integrated device diagnostics, which can be embedded in control strategies, identify and resolve field instrument problems earlier, helping to avoid unforeseen shutdowns that reduce availability and throughput.
Emerson has extensive control system modernisation experience, supporting over 7,000 migrations to DeltaV solutions from all types of legacy systems. Established processes and people, together with artificial intelligence and machine learning tools are available to assess the state of your automation, quantify operational benefits, then plan and execute your project. With over 5,000 project resources worldwide, your control system modernisation can be executed flawlessly, on schedule, with minimum production impact.
Emerson provides a faster and easier pathway to replace your legacy control system. DeltaV IO.CONNECT makes the transition possible without the need to completely overhaul the existing automation equipment infrastructure. With no rip-and-replace required, this helps to preserve the existing IO infrastructure investment and simplify migration in gradual manageable steps. This reduces project risk and minimises interruption to manufacturing.
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Remote cloud engineering and virtual FAT necessarily to keep project on track while simultaneously redesigning process sequences.
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DCS reverse engineering, configuration, virtual FAT and redesign the batch implementation required within tight project schedule.
