ABB Plantguard Fault Tolerant Technology Architecture and Software

ABB Plantguard Fault Tolerant Technology Architecture and Software

Plantguard

Fault Tolerant Technology

With an increasing awareness of personnel safety, environmental protection, and  process profitability,

the Plantguard fault tolerant control system offers a safe solution with near zero downtime.

It’s powerful, flexible and extremely configurable.

• No compromise design - TUV

certified fault tolerant without

repair time restrictions. Always

fault tolerant, always safe.

• Maximise plant up time - TMR

architecture identifies and outvotes

CPU mismatches and keeps

running.

• Certified safe - certified by TUV to

AK6 and meets IEC61508 SIL1-3

requirements.

Plantguard Architecture

PLANTGUARD EXPANDER

PLANTGUARD CONTROLLER

• Certified to NFPA72C for Fire and

Gas detection applications.

• Simple user programming - familiar

IE61131-3 based programming

allows users to configure both

safety and continuous process

programs.

• Plantguard features full online

(Bumpless) module replacement

with no process interruption.

• HIFT keeps it simple, keeps it safe

Hardware implemented fault

tolerance design reduces operating

system size, minimises systems

software and increases processing

speed, offering the end user the

safest and simplest design.

• Buy only what you need - wide

range of configurable, fault tolerant,

multi function I/O modules to suit

most applications

Fault Containment

Distributed hardware voting prevents hardware fault propagation.

Fault containment allows the system to operate safely with multiple faults.

Up to 320 TMR I/O

in a single chassis

system

Up to 480 TMR I/O

in each expander

Largest I/O Capacity

Plantguard  can support systems of over 7000 I/O points. Using the same

architecture for applications from 16 to 7000 I/O means less training and

fewer spares.