Invensys demonstrates enhanced InFusion Condition Manager at Avantis User Group Academy
Invensys' InFusion Condition Manager is a real-time asset condition management component for the company's InFusion enterprise control system (ECS) and other platforms. It collects real-time condition data from a broad range of plant data sources, analyzes and contextualizes the data, and then triggers and manages the appropriate operations, engineering, or maintenance actions.
Other vendors' condition monitoring solutions tend to focus on basic monitoring of field devices and/or rotating equipment. In contrast, InFusion Condition Manager collects, aggregates, and analyzes real-time data from the full array of plant production assets, including (but not limited to) sensors and actuators, pumps, motors, compressors, turbines, dryers, and heat exchangers; and even entire process units.
The InFusion Condition Manager interoperates with all Invensys and third-party applications supported through the InFusion application environment. Thanks to recent version 2.2 enhancements, equipment condition and maintenance information can now also easily be displayed on plant process control and engineering HMI workstations. This information was previously only available on Invensys' own Avantis.PRO enterprise asset management (EAM) system or other computerized maintenance management systems.
The InFusion Condition Manager can now also feed data to a variety of different plant Historian packages to allow the data and actions to be historized and made available to other plant and enterprise systems.
And to more easily facilitate bulk deployment throughout industrial plants with a large number and diversity of production assets, the enhanced InFusion Condition Manager offers improved template capabilities. These templates save time and drive best practices.
"Our InFusion Condition Manager provides a powerful toolset that can enable industrial plants to avoid unnecessary maintenance and downtime via predictive, reliability-centered maintenance and operations to help improve overall asset performance management," commented Isauro Martinez-Cairo, director of Avantis product strategy at Invensys Process Systems.
Invensys demonstrated the full range of InFusion Condition Manager capabilities at the Avantis User Group Academy conference in Denver, September 10-12, 2007 and other venues.
Date 17 September 2007
Yokogawa to Supply Control Systems for Petrochemical Complex in Singapore
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its Yokogawa System Center Europe and Yokogawa Engineering Asia subsidiaries have received a package order from Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd (SEPL) to supply control systems for the Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex (SEPC) in Singapore.
At the SEPC, which is on Singapore’s Jurong and Bukom islands, SEPL is constructing a new petrochemical plant that will annually produce 800 thousand tons of ethylene and 750 thousand tons of mono-ethylene glycol and upgrading an existing petroleum refinery with a refining capacity of 500 thousand bpd. The new plant will be fully integrated with the existing refinery and the integrated complex is scheduled to start operation in 2009 or 2010. Yokogawa plans to deliver the control systems using the latest FOUNDATION fieldbusTM technology for these upgrade and expansion projects by December 2008. The delivered systems will include the CENTUM CS 3000 R3 Integrated Production Control System, ProSafe-RS Safety Instrumented System, and Exaquantum Plant Information Management System (PIMS). The Company will also deliver DPharp EJX pressure transmitters/differential pressure transmitters.
Teruyoshi Minaki, Executive Vice President of the International Business Headquarters, said, “We were awarded as Main Automation Contractor because we have the ability to improve the operability and safety of large-scale plants by integrating their production control and safety instrumented systems. In addition, Shell values our ability to propose solutions from the user’s perspective, and our worldwide maintenance service system. Through our implementation of these control systems for the SEPC, we will strengthen our relationship with Shell. We aim to increase orders by proposing solutions to users.”
Date 30 August 2007
Invensys successfully completes major automation revamp at Samsung Total complex in Korea
Invensys Process Systems has announced the successful completion of its automation project in a major expansion of the Samsung Total petrochemical complex in Daesan, Chungnam Province, Korea.
The process revamp included an overhaul of the ethyl benzene (EB) and styrene monomer (SM) units at the complex. The Invensys project scope included automation replacement and expansion with Foxboro I/A Series
distributed control systems (DCS), and the implementation of a Triconex emergency shutdown (ESD) system, both supported by extensive technical design, engineering, and implementation services.
"We are very happy with Invensys Korea for their professional engineering support, dedication, and rapid response to our requirements," said Yae, Byungkook, Samsung Total EB/SM Expansion Project Manager. "As a result, we were able to complete this work within the project schedule."
The EB and SM unit expansion project, now up and running, was accomplished while the Samsung Total petrochemical complex continued to run, which added to the engineering challenges. "Further, in response to a change in the SM process reactor technology, Invensys Korea engineers created an integrated control network and operator interface that helped increase overall productivity," said Kim, Heung II, Samsung Total project engineer. "For example, in the styrene monomer unit, the new automation helped to increase capacity from 670,000 TPY to 870,000 TPY, while reducing costs and increasing our competitiveness."
Samsung Total operates a large petrochemical complex, consisting of a naphtha cracking center (NCC) with 15 plants, at Daesan, in Korea's Chungnam Province. Output ranges from olefins to polyolefins such as polypropylene and polyethylene, to base petrochemicals such as styrene monomer. The complex also produces byproduct fuels, solvents and other downstream petrochemicals used in everyday life. Samsung Total Petrochemicals Co. is using advanced technology to strengthen its competitive position, allowing them to offer top quality products and unique services to global markets.
Date 7 Aug 2007
CRC-EVANS automatic welding equipment specified for major pipeline project in Wales and England
CRC-Evans Automatic Welding is supplying equipment for a major pipeline project under construction in the Welsh and English countryside. Following a 122-mile (196 km) route from Felindre, near Swansea in South Wales, to Tirley, Gloucestershire, the pipeline runs from a new compression station at Felindre to a new pressure reduction installation at Tirley, where it connects with the existing gas pipeline network. National Grid is the owning company.
Because a sixteen-mile section of the route must pass through the scenic Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales, careful routing and environmental impact assessment took place from October 2004 to summer 2006, while consent and land acquisition extended from winter 2005 to February 2007. Construction on this section began in February 2007. When completed, the entire project will deliver twenty percent of the gas needed to meet UK consumption levels.
For the Brecon to Hay on Wye portion of the pipeline (35 km), PPS Pipeline Services is working on the project as subcontractor to Murphy Pipelines, Ltd. Murphy will complete 73 km of the pipeline from Hay on Wye to Tirley. Specifications are for 48-inch diameter pipe with wall thicknesses of 15.9 mm and 22.9 mm. Murphy and PPS are using the full CRC-Evans Automatic Welding system with the P260 external welder, to provide tip-to-work tracking, 32-pass programmable welding, and position-based parameter control.
CRC-Evans Automatic Welding designs and builds the world's most widely used automatic welding systems for land or offshore pipeline construction. In addition to renting or selling these systems to contractors, the division provides other specialized services such as engineering, on-site technicians, and training.
Date 7th June 2007
Invensys supplying Foxboro distributed control systems for two new Husky energy grassroots ethanol refineries in western canada
Invensys Process Systems is providing Foxboro I/A Series distributed control systems (DCS) for two new Husky Energy grassroots ethanol refineries in western Canada. The Invensys implementations include the latest mesh control network-based I/A Series system technology, intelligent measurement and instrumentation equipment, and a range of professional services. Husky Energy's ethanol plant at Lloydminster, Saskatchewan commenced operations in September 2006. The company's second ethanol plant at Minnedosa, Manitoba is scheduled to start up in late 2007. The plants are the largest of their kind in western Canada.
Each of the two new plants will produce 130 million litres (34.3 million
gallons) of ethanol annually, to be blended up to 10 percent into gasoline products to help motorists reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The grain-based processes will use high-starch feed-quality wheat as feedstock, consuming approximately 350,000 tonnes annually for each plant.
The Foxboro DCS implementations each communicate with approximately 1,800 direct I/O points and 2000 I/O points through multiple PLCs. The plants'
networked control systems each include three pairs of Foxboro ZCP 270 control processors in fault-tolerant configurations connected with distributed I/O cabinets at nine process units throughout each plant. The systems perform a wide variety of control functions, including batch processing applications. At the Lloydminster site, the ethanol plant controls are integrated with existing I/A Series control consoles at the adjacent existing Husky Lloydminster heavy oil upgrader facility, which has been under I/A Series control since 1992.
Invensys Canada is also providing various professional services for each DCS implementation, including database engineering, graphics development, configuration services, start-up assistance and training for engineers and operators.
Date 3rd April 2007
Advanced Automation forms global joint venture with South Asian Automation solution provider
Advanced Automation, a leading provider of technology solutions to manufacturers in North America, and EIAL – Engro Innovative Automation (Pvt.) Ltd., a global provider of industrial automation and engineering support products and services, announced today the formation of a joint venture that will enable Advanced Automation to localize its capabilities for its major Fortune 500 clients – and others companies – that do business on a global basis.
The new company, whose legal name will be Advanced Automation LP, will be known as Advanced Automation, with worldwide headquarters in Exton, Pennsylvania.
“This move is part of a global restructuring of our company,” said Robert Zeigenfuse, formerly president and CEO of Advanced Automation Associates, Inc., who will serve as President and CEO of the newly formed Advanced Automation LP. “It will make Advanced Automation much stronger, with significant working capital, and the ability to leverage the technology and business process knowledge from a global community."
Russ Novak, Director of Consulting for ARC Advisory Group, commented that “This joint venture is an example of what must occur in the Flat World era if clients of solution providers are to gain the values needed to achieve true competitive advantage.”
“In the United States,” Zeigenfuse said, “Advanced Automation will continue to provide the same level of manufacturing technology solutions, support and service – in control systems, manufacturing execution system (MES) deployment, and technology support services – that has been the hallmark of our company for more than two decades and,” he added, “earned us ‘2007 System Integrator of the Year’ honours.
“Globally,” he explained, “we will support Engro Innovative Automation in its sales and support activities in Europe, the Middle East, China, and South Asia in offices formerly maintained solely by EIAL.
“In today’s world,” Zeigenfuse continued, “having a global presence is a business necessity for major manufacturers as well as the companies that support them. For Advanced Automation,” he said, “it is absolutely critical that we put in place the resources that ensure service consistency, regardless of location!
“’Location’ of our clients is an important consideration,” he noted, “whether it is Dubai or Denver. For that reason, we continue to expand our commitment to open local and regional offices to better serve our domestic customers, large and small,” adding that “we expect to open additional regional support locations throughout North America.”
Date 17th Feb 2007
INVENSYS announces three different limited time offers for plant-level
performance services
To encourage users of Foxboro or other vendors' control systems to take advantage of innovative
performance services designed to help improve plant performance and safety,
Invensys Process Systems today announced three different limited time offers
for plant-level performance services:
1. Control Performance Analysis provided at no charge for the first 50
plants that submit appropriate data by November 30th, 2006 (no purchase
required)
2. One Industrial WiFi wireless hot spot provided at no charge for customers
who sign up for a paid Wireless Site Assessment Study by November 30th,
2006, or?
3. Elimination of up to 20 nuisance alarms at no charge for customers who
sign up for a paid Alarm Management Study by November 30th, 2006
Readers should visit www.foxboro.com/LTO for complete details and terms and
conditions of these attractive offers.
"Invensys performance services can help industrial plants improve plant
performance and safety to help maximize utilization of base-level automation
assets," commented Nathalie Marcotte, vice president of performance services
at Invensys Process Systems. "This represents a key element in the Asset
Performance Management approach to business optimization that Invensys
announced last year." Asset Performance Management utilizes a patented
methodology and unique three-tier services model to enable industrial
enterprises to continuously balance asset utilization and availability to
meet changing business requirements.
"Invensys plant-level performance services are critical to improving plant
performance and safety," said Marcotte. "For example, our Control
Performance Management service combines advanced diagnostic methods with
expert services to determine current control loop performance and recommend
remedial actions for process control loops that are not performing as well
as possible. Invensys' Alarm Management service utilizes a well-proven
tool set and expert services for rationalizing process, system, and
equipment alarms to dramatically reduce nuisance alarms and virtually
eliminate the possibility of alarm storms. And our Industrial Wireless Site
Assessment service provides a critical first step for companies that want to
take advantage of the many important asset management and other benefits
that can be obtained by deploying wireless communications safely and
securely in demanding industrial environments."
Date 5th October 2006
Honeywell to supply process automation system for Vietnam’s first oil refinery
Honeywell has been awarded a $17.5 million contract to supply process controls for Vietnam’s first oil refinery. The Technip Consortium – which will build the refinery in Dung Quat for state-owned company PetroVietnam – selected Honeywell to supply its award-winning process automation system, the Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS). The refinery will begin production in central Vietnam in early 2009.
“We wanted to make sure this refinery enters the market with leading-edge technology, and Honeywell’s reputation made the decision an easy one,” said P.K. Singh, Technip Consortium director. “Automating and integrating process controls is a very effective strategy for refining large amounts of oil in a timely manner. Experion will help us achieve that goal and shape the future of the Vietnamese process industries.”
Located in Quang Ngai Province near the South China Sea, the Dung Quat refinery symbolizes Vietnam’s technological advancement since trade embargoes were lifted in the 1990s. Trade agreements have since paved the way for technology companies like Honeywell to help Vietnamese businesses expand.
The Dung Quat refinery will process 148,000 barrels of crude oil per day and will produce products such as propylene, liquid petroleum gas (LPG), motor gasoline, jet A1 kerosene, auto diesel and fuel oil. Experion will integrate the refinery’s subsystems to give operators a clear view of how the refinery’s processes are functioning. Honeywell will design, test, install and commission Dung Quat’s system. In addition to Experion, Honeywell will supply Safety Manager for Emergency Shutdown along with fire and gas protection systems.
“This refinery will help Vietnam become a player in Asia’s oil market,” said Jack Bolick, president, Honeywell Process Solutions. “To compete in this market, the Dung Quat refinery will need state-of-the-art equipment. Experion will ensure a smooth operation from offloading the crude oil to shipping the finished product.”
The Technip Consortium includes engineering and construction service providers Technip GeoProduction and Spain-based Tecnica Reunidas, as well as Japan Gas Company. PetroVietnam, also known as the Vietnam Oil and Gas Corp has developed rapidly since it was established in 1975, and its activities, through various companies and wholly owned subsidiaries, now cover all the operations from oil and gas exploration and production to storage, processing, transportation, distribution and services not only within the boundaries of Vietnam but also in the global arena.
Date 8th August 2006
Invensys implements Operator Training Simulators and Process Models for EO/EG project in Thailand
Invensys Process Systems has recently completed a fast-track implementation of SimSci-Esscor (www.simsci-esscor.com) operator training simulators (OTS) being used at a new EO/EG (ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol) plant for TOC Glycol Company (TOCGC), a subsidiary of PTT Chemical Ltd. The new plant, located at the Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate in Rayong province, will supply feedstock products to various processing customers in and around Map Ta Phut, Thailand’s key petrochemical industrial cluster.
The OTS implementation includes the DYNSIM process simulation solution, for high fidelity plant modeling in dynamic and steady states. These models are being used to train control room and equipment operators and supervisors on the characteristics and interactions of plant’s systems and procedures. The simulation network also includes the TRISIM solution for replicating the control logic for the new plant’s Triconex (www.triconex.com) emergency shutdown (ESD) systems. In addition, Invensys provided a control system human machine interface (HMI) emulation and checkout for a Yokogawa DCS at the plant.
In addition, a fully integrated steady state simulation model covering the entire EO/EG process was developed using the PRO/II simulation platform.
The OTS system has been used to train the operators of TOCGC on the plant start-up and shut-down, as well as various standard and customer-specified malfunctions. This activity commenced at the end of April 2006 to prepare the operators for the actual start-up in June 2006. The PRO/II model will be used by the planner and process engineers for the production planning and engineering studies.
“We are pleased by Invensys’ effort to deliver the OTS on time under such a tight project schedule. The operating department found this system very helpful for them to better understand the first EO/EG plant in Thailand,” said Dr. Dhanes, EO/EG Project Director at TOCGC.
Chatsuda K., EO/EG OTS Project Manager at TOCGC, commented, “This is the first EO/EG plant in Thailand. We need to have a high-fidelity OTS system to train our operators the best we can, so that the start-up of this first plant will be a success. The OTS system delivered by Invensys helped us to meet our objective.”
The successful implementation was supported by a wide range of Invensys professional services, including project management, model development, simulation network configuration, set-up, integration with the control emulation/simulation system, testing, and training programs for TOCGC technical and operational personnel. Invensys is currently providing continuous support via the remote monitoring technology to provide the timeliest support to TOCGC OTS instructors.
The Invensys simulations utilize the flexible SIM4ME user environment, an integrated, intuitive and user friendly simulation solutions platform that uses a single graphical user interface across all of the models in the network. This improves inter-program data communications and leverages plant model equity for more effective command of plant and control simulation and training functions.
Date 20th May 2006
Emerson supplies PlantWeb® Digital Automation Architecture and System Integration services for Brunei Shell Petroleum Platform
Emerson Process Management today announced that its PlantWeb® digital automation architecture and system integration services have helped Brunei Shell Petroleum Co. Sdn Bhd (BSP) start up its Phase III Champion West oil and gas field platform. The platform, located off the coast of Brunei, operates completely unmanned.
PlantWeb uses a FOUNDATION™ Fieldbus network of intelligent devices and Emerson’s DeltaV™ digital system to provide an operational overview of the Phase III platform, which is monitored by engineers and operators at the main manned complex 10 km away, on the Champion West Drilling Platform - 1 (CWDP-1). The Phase III platform installation also features remote control and monitoring from Onshore Control Centre, in Brunei.
Emerson Malaysia is responsible for design, engineering, configuration, and commissioning of the PlantWeb digital automation solution. The contract was awarded in 2004, and the platform was commissioned and started up in December 2005.
The installed PlantWeb architecture included Emerson’s DeltaV™ digital automation system, networked with intelligent field devices using the open standard FOUNDATION™ fieldbus communications technology. Emerson supplied smart digital devices including Rosemount® pressure, level and temperature transmitters; Micro Motion® Coriolis flow meters; and Fisher® valves with FIELDVUE® digital valve controllers.
The Emerson instrumentation and equipment on the Phase III platform interfaced with that of other international vendors using open, standards-based FOUNDATION Fieldbus and OPC technology. The DeltaV system connected to third-party shutdown systems, multiphase meters, and a DCS on another platform.
“Champion West illustrates the exceptional capabilities of Emerson Process Management in the offshore industry,” said Mike Train, president of Emerson Process Management Asia Pacific. “We were delighted to have been named to supply PlantWeb digital architecture and services for the Brunei Shell Petroleum project.”
The Champion West project is one of the various projects Emerson has completed for Shell companies. Others included the Malampaya offshore platform for Shell Philippines, the E-11 Hub for Sarawak Shell, and South Furious for Sabah Shell. Most are unmanned, and use PlantWeb digital architecture.
Date 4th May 2006
Invensys introduces world’s first “enterprise control system”
New “InFusion” offering combines Invensys’ industrial-strength automation technology with advanced information technology to create a unified real-time control, information, and application environment across virtually all plant and enterprise systems.
Invensys today introduced the world’s first industrial system that goes beyond the plant or other industrial operations to provide a true enterprise view. The new InFusionTM enterprise control system combines industry-leading capabilities from across Invensys with advanced enterprise information and integration technologies from both Microsoft and SAP to dramatically reduce integration costs. With InFusion technology, most existing plant floor and enterprise systems can now be cost-effectively integrated into a common system. In conjunction with a suite of new performance services, Invensys’ InFusion system will help industrial enterprises more effectively align plant operations and maintenance departments with the business to optimize overall asset performance management.
“The InFusion enterprise control system that we’re introducing today is as revolutionary as our ground-breaking Foxboro I/A Series® automation system and Wonderware InTouch® HMI software were when first introduced,” said Mike Caliel, president of Invensys Process Systems. “By combining the latest capabilities from across Invensys into one unified architecture, Invensys has realized a step change in the utilization of open technologies and standards in a fully industrial system. By dramatically reducing both plant and enterprise integration costs, InFusion will help our customers finally break down stubborn technical and organizational barriers, while preserving and extending their equity in existing automation assets.”
With more than 60 issued and pending patents/patent applications, the InFusion enterprise control system delivers a unique set of capabilities not previously available from any single automation or information system. These include:
· Unprecedented integration across virtually all existing plant floor systems (DCS, PLC, etc), subsystems, and intelligent field devices, regardless of vendor or protocol
· Low-cost, standards-based information interoperability between plant floor, manufacturing execution (MES), and enterprise systems
· A unified engineering and support environment across both plant floor and MES systems, plus a powerful application object model that simplifies the creation and re-use of innovative new equipment-, unit-, and plant-level strategies, while dramatically improving engineering productivity
· Real-time visibility into both the plant and the business with a unified view across operations and maintenance domains to help align overall plant performance with business objectives
As introduced today, InFusion unifies Foxboro’s industry-leading process control capabilities with Wonderware’s industry-leading HMI, plant intelligence, and device integration capabilities into a new, ArchestrA-based system. (ArchestrA® is Invensys’ fully industrialized software architecture built on .NET and other Microsoft technologies.)
InFusion also incorporates additional Invensys and third-party capabilities as needed, including:
· Triconex triple modular redundant (TMR) safety and critical control
· Foxboro remote terminal units (RTUs) and intelligent SCADA applications
· SimSci-Esscor advanced control, simulation, and process optimization
· Avantis real-time condition monitoring and enterprise asset management
· Foxboro intelligent pressure, level, flow, and electrochemical transmitters, valve postitioners, and advanced, FDT-compliant diagnostic tools
· A comprehensive managed approach to wireless technology that makes it practical and cost effective to incorporate new wireless measurements into the system
InFusion reduces the cost and effort required to integrate intelligent plant floor devices and systems via standards such as OPC and an unmatched portfolio of device drivers. Process control, MES, and even ERP applications can be brought together into a common data model and a common best-in-class HMI to deliver timely, in-context information to all plant personnel.
The InFusion Collaboration Wall, a new concept in human interface, can also be used to provide plant operators, maintenance technicians, engineers, and managers with a shared view of process control, maintenance, performance, and business application displays to encourage and facilitate creative collaboration.
By reducing the cost and effort required to integrate existing plant and enterprise systems into a unified enterprise control system and providing an object-based environment for application development, deployment, and reuse, the new InFusion enterprise control system represents a major leap forward for the automation industry.
To help process manufacturers obtain maximum business advantage from this advanced platform, Invensys offers a number of different asset performance management consulting services.
Date 21st April 2006
