ABB with Advant Controller 400 series

Get more done better with Advant Controller 400 series
Get more done better with Advant Controller 400 series StepUp is program of ABB's for upgrading older process control equipment to the latest Advant OCS solutions at particularly favorable terms. The theme of the program varies from time to time; this time the turn has come to users of MasterPiece 200⁄1 controllers to upgrade to the latest Advant Controller 400 series process controllers, at substantially reduced prices. You gain performance; Count on three to five times the speed of your current machine(s) (vs. Advant Controller 450) and multiple amounts of more memory. Higher processing speed and more memory means more work done faster, as well as more space for trend data storage. You gain functionality; Advant Controller 400 series offers a number of important functional improvements, e.g.: • Support for a number of new, popular communication protocols, e.g. Advant Fieldbus 100, Profibus DP, LONWorks and Allen-Bradley's DF1. These make your new controllers able to use ABB's new S800 I⁄O system and easily able to communicate, with other external controllers, with ABB's vari able speed motor drives and with smart motor-control centers.

• More backup redundancy available, e.g.:- Smarter solution to CPU redundancy, eliminating critical, common, compo nents,- Full dual redundancy, covering, media and communication in inter faces, for S100 I/O and Advant Fieldbus 100. • A self-tuning, adaptive process control ler (AC 450) that makes short work out of setting up control loops accurately and responsively, even in difficult applications. • Fuzzy logic control, a control method based on degrees of truths as opposed to conventional binary logic that only recognizes two states: true or false. A control strategy that is often able to untangle elegantly control problems that are difficult to solve in other ways. • Windows NT-based engineering tool, You save money; StepUp includes: • attractive prices on controller cabinets with all the hardware and software required. • further savings on future software upgrades by subscription to the ABB Software Advancement Program (de scribed further on). Left: Advant Controller 450 with local S100 I/O. The use of separate connection units for the process cabling simplifies cable marshalling and keeps destructive voltage spikes away from the central electronics Right: The S800 I/O system communicates over Advant Fieldbus 100 or Profibus DP with its parent AC 400 series controller. The units of the system are small enough and rugged enough to be installed in the field. Upgrading: as easy as ABC Advant Controller 400 series machines are 19" rack-based like its predecessors. They are also compatible with existing S100 local I/O and S400 remote I/O. And finally, they run AMPL programs just like their forerunners do, only better. Consequently, the stage is set for the smoothest possible change-over. Simply, disconnect your existing controller from the surrounding world, remove the con troller rack from the cabinet it is installed in, install the new controller, put all cables back on, upload your existing application software and switch on. From then on you are ready to start taking advantage of the additional functionality and processing power that Advant Controller 400 series offers. So far, hundreds of step-ups to the AC 400 series have already been made, confirming this simplicity. Says Hans Nilsson, instru mentation and control manager at the LKAB Malmberget mining company in Northern Sweden in confirmation: “Thanks to good planning we were able to complete the entire upgrade during our regular summer shutdown. In a single day, we were able to replace three controllers, including replacing controller cabinets and verifying the application software.