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PlantStruxure

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Main drivers
Reduce engineering, operations and maintenance costs
Maximise plant and production efficiency
Improve production quality
Protect people, plant assets and the environment
Maximise return on investment

Solution in brief
PlantStruxureTM is a collaborative system that allows industrial and infrastructure companies meet their automation needs and at the same time deliver on growing energy management requirements. In a single environment, measured energy and process data can be analyzed and used to yield a holistically optimised plant.

Value proposition
Scalable for changing times
From tens of I/O to hundreds of thousands, the scalability of our system means that you can start out small and grow as your requirements change.
Flexible because your process is unique
Our system supports the architectures that you need for your application. Single site, multiple sites, distributed control, local control, discrete, process, safety, batch all within the one system.
Integrated to reduce risk
The system is integrated inside, from devices to MES all of the system components are designed to work together with each other and with our chosen technology partners.
Collaborative to increase efficiency
Our system is open to exchange information with other plant and business software, and fosters an environment of collaboration by delivering the process information you need in the way that you like to see it.

Architecture

Main characteristics

The unique features such as Global Data access, high availability and distributed architectures along with hot-standby redundancy and more, means that our system offers everything you need to meet your process automation requirements:

Energy Management
- iPMCC to optimise energy consumption
- Smart power and energy meters
- Variable speed drives for better energy efficiency
- Energy management software to measure and analyse
Manufacturing Execution System
- Real-time access to plant and business information allowing key personnel to identify and act on opportunities to maximize plant and process efficiency and to correct problems before they impact on supply chain, regulatory compliance and production.
Historian
- Collects all process, quality, energy and other data from across your site and generates detailed reports to help the decision-making process
- Based on industry standard technologies
- Data security to prevent unauthorised viewing or tampering.
Transparent Ready Networking
- Transparent communication between all system components
- Standard Ethernet technology and industrial protocols
- Dedicated device networksupport including Modbus TCP, EtherNet/IP, Profibus, CANopen, AS-Interface
- Support for dedicated instrumentation buses such as Profibus PA, Foundation Fieldbus & HART.
Operation
- The link between the operator and the process
- Easy system navigation
- Powerful alarm management
- Advanced trending and process visualisation
- A range of client options including web clients, PDAs, smart phones.
Control
- Scaleable family of programmable automation controllers to meet all control requirements
- Integrated SIL2 and SIL3 safety
- Hot-swappable processors, I/O and communications modules and power supplies
- Advanced process control functionality
- Configuration based on IEC61131-3 standard.
Engineering
- Engineer and modify your entire system from a single location
- Flexible engineering tools in order to support your efforts to be more efficient
- Reusable and extensible object libraries for standardisation
- Off-line simulation to reduce testing and commissioning.