EMERSONTest Platform for Automation System

Abstract

There are different automation systems to control processes in industry. One of them is 

DeltaV, which is a product from Emerson Process Management. Recently, Sandvik 

Coromant, bought the DeltaV automation system for using it in production. To increase 

the knowledge about DeltaV at Sandvik Coromant a project was initiated with the aim to 

create a test platform and a course compendium for self learning. This thesis describes 

how the test platform was developed and its functionality

Testplattform för styrsystemet DeltaV 

Examensarbete vid Skolan för Elektro- och Systemteknik 

Sammanfattning 

För att styra processer i industrin finns det olika styrsystem. Ett av dessa är DeltaV, som 

är en produkt från Emerson Process Management. Nyligen köpte Sandvik Coromant 

styrsystemet DeltaV för att använda det i sin produktion. För att öka kunskapen om 

DeltaV på Sandvik Coromant initierades ett projekt: Att utforma en test plattform och ett 

kurskompendium för självlärning. Denna uppsats beskriver hur tesplattformen har 

utvecklats och dess funktionalitet. 

Foreword

This report presents a Master’s project at the School of Electrical Engineering at the 

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. 

The project has been performed at Sandvik Coromant in Västberga, Sweden. I want to 

thank Sandvik Coromant for accepting me and Stefan Hedberg and Patrik Schütt for 

their support throughout the project. I would also like to thank my supervisor, Professor 

Håkan Hjalmarsson, at the School of Electrical Engineering, KTH, for his support. 

I have performed this project in collaboration with Daniel Engdahl, who also is a member 

of this project

Chapter 1 

Introduction 

Sandvik Coromant is the world's leading manufacturer of cutting tools for the 

metalworking industry. Advanced production processes require advanced automation 

systems for the control. 

Production processes normally consist of a number of devices like valves, engines, 

sensors, transmitters and controllers. These devices are controlled and monitored from 

an automation system. 

Sandvik Coromant has recently bought a new automation system, DeltaV, which is a 

product from Emerson Process Management. To increase the knowledge about the 

automation system at Sandvik Coromant, a project was initiated with the aim to create a 

test platform and a course compendium for self learning. 

This chapter describes the problem to be solved, the background to the automation 

system DeltaV and gives the outline for the rest of the report. 

1.1 Problem 

In the following subsections the problem is described. 

1.1.1 Task 

The task in this project was to create a portable test platform for an educational purpose 

for one of the automation systems, DeltaV from Emerson Process Management, that is 

used at Sandvik Coromant. Along with the test platform, there should also be a course 

compendium that describes how to learn DeltaV by using the test platform. The test 

platform and the course compendium should together work as selflearning tools for the 

personell at Sandvik Coromant. The platform should be small enough to be portable, so 

that it can be brought to people who needs to learn DeltaV, independently of where they 

are stationed. 

Since the purpose of the task was not to learn how the production processes work, there 

was not any requirement that the test platform should be similar to any process where 

DeltaV is used at Sandvik Coromant. The only required similarity between the test 

platform and the production processes at Sandvik Coromant was supposed to be that 

similar measurement equipment was used.

1.1.2 Purpose 

The DeltaV automation system has been used at Sandvik Coromant for two years. The 

purpose of creating a test platform was to increase the knowledge of the automation 

system among the personnel. 

Since production processes are in general very costly to interrupt, a test platform was 

needed to experiment with the functions of DeltaV. With the test platform the personnel 

at Sandvik Coromant should be able to learn more about the automation system on their 

own by testing how to control a physical process. The test platform along with the course 

compendium should work as a selflearning tool. 

1.1.3 Previous work 

This is the first test platform and also the first course for DeltaV that has been developed 

at Sandvik Coromant. The manufacturer of DeltaV, Emerson Process Management, 

provides DeltaV courses. However, these courses do not come with a portable test 

platform. 

1.1.4 Description of the problem 

The desire from Sandvik Coromant was to have a physical process, a software with 

control algorithms for controlling the physical process and a course compendium on how 

to learn DeltaV. 

The requirement on the hardware in the physical process was that it should at least 

include basically the same equipment as the production processes that are controlled