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40th ANNIVERSARY–DCS DRIVING PROFITABILITY Process end users desire a
system that offers the benefits of a modern experience
without the burdens that come with a traditional DCS
Analytics Enabled – Process end users
recognise the value of analytics in realising profits, so this release has purpose-built frameworks that easily connect live and historical data from the DCS into reporting and analytical tools. – Enables extended experiences, such as
Augmented Reality, using workflows aligned with process strategies controlling plant operations. – Allows extensible scalable analytic
packages leveraging predictive and prescriptive models for process applications such as soft sensors, anomaly detection, or model predictive control. Commenting on the release of PlantPAx 5.0
Richard Sturt (right), Solution Architect Manager
The DCS has been controlling our plants for over 40 years. Rockwell Automation brings the technology right up-to-date with the release of PlantPAx 5.0, which helps improve productivity, drive profitability and reduce risk across the plant
industrial producers positively impact the lifecycle of their plant operations with plant- wide and scalable systems to drive digital transformation and operational excellence. New system capabilities help digitally
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transform operations by introducing process functionality native to the controller, improving the availability of system assets driving compliance in regulated industries, while enabling the adoption of analytics at all levels of the enterprise. Intuitive workflows and the use of cybersecurity standards will help teams design, deploy, and support a DCS infrastructure which reduces time-to-market and helps plants realise profit at a faster rate. Features of the new release include: Reduced Footprint – PlantPAx 5.0
introduces new process controllers and extends the Logix family with the processing power and capacity to reduce the complexity of PlantPAx architectures. A smaller footprint reduces total cost of ownership of the system throughout the lifecycle. Project Consistency –With native process
ockwell Automation has released the PlantPAx 5.0 distributed control system (DCS). This latest DCS version helps
instructions embedded in the controller firmware, project teams can adopt approaches to control strategies that drive consistency for individual projects or multi- site deployments. Consistency simplifies the lifecycle management of deployed systems as teams modernise their automation infrastructure. Consistency lowers total cost of ownership (TCO). Streamlined Workflows – PlantPAx 5.0
provides improved design and operational user experiences. Development teams will realise savings in the configuration of instrumentation, alarms and diagnostic system elements. Operators will have the extended ability to view underlying control logic in a safe and secured manner. Maintenance will have controlled view access for troubleshooting. TÜV -Certified for Cybersecurity – To
operate at peak performance and minimise cybersecurity threats, PlantPAx 5.0 system architectures are TÜV certified to the international standard ISA-99/IEC 62443-3-3 which provides guidance on the implementation of an electronically secured system.
Richard Sturt, Solution Architect Manager, Rockwell Automation, said: “Plant PAx 5.0 offers dedicated process control hardware. The more powerful controllers mean users are able to do more with less, so fewer controllers are needed for any given control, and the number of servers required is also reduced. “Usability has also been improved.
The operator interface makes it much easier to see what is going on in the plant, especially under fault conditions.” Sturt says the COVID-19 pandemic
has accelerated the adoption of some technologies. He explains how Rockwell
Automation made its Vuforia Chalk software available for free during the height of the pandemic, allowing customers to perform remote troubleshooting and access virtual support. FactoryTalk InnovationSuite Vuforia Chalk is
a collaboration and communication tool for experts within an organisation to provide real- time assistance to technicians facing complex or unfamiliar challenges. It allows users to quickly scale problem-solving guidance, support and expertise to factory operations and service teams with Augmented Reality. Vuforia Chalk allows users to record faulty equipment using any device and identify problem areas. Throughout the pandemic, Rockwell
Automation has also identified COVID-19 related projects, such as vaccine development and ventilator manufacture, and put them on a ‘fast track’ programme, in order to provide the products and support needed in a time-efficient manner. Sturt concludes: “The pandemic has
accelerated trends that were already happening. People are now passed the immediate shock and it is business as normal. Manufacturers have been creative and have found ways of carrying out projects remotely.”
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