Experion PKS differs from PlantScape in many ways

Experion PKS differs from PlantScape in many ways.

It is important to understand that Experion PKS will not be delivered with separate flavors like PlantScape was with PlantScape Vista, PlantScape SCADA, and PlantScape Process. Experion PKS, as a single product, provides all the capabilities of the PlantScape varieties by allowing the user to select a mix of point types.

These point types are known as Process Points (points created with Control Builder for C200s and ACE) and SCADA Points (points created with Quick Builder for SCADA interfaces to RTUs, PLCs, etc.).

Enhancements for systems using Process & SCADA points:

(Further explanation of each of these enhancements is detailed after the listing)

Server Enhancements

-Support for Electronic Signatures

-Areas spanning servers

-Alarm & Event System

-Print as report from Alarm/Event/etc. summaries

-Event Table in HMIWeb Display Builder

-User comments on events

-HMIWeb Enhancements

-Station message zone enhancements

-Security level restrictions for HMIWeb pages

-Support for frames

-Performance optimizations for static graphics

(combine/uncombine)

-Performance optimizations for script-based graphics

-Copy/paste from chart in HMIWeb

-Script support for operator keys on Icon/OEP/IKB

keyboards

-Save HMIWeb displays as single file

-Support for bar style

-Control of polygon or polyline node points

-Display Analysis Tool

-HMIWeb template displays

-Create point detail and template displays

-Display Builder Assistant for maintenance across multiple displays

-Updated System Displays

-Report Subsystem improvements

-TDC 2000 BOS replacement

-Display File Replication Service

-Redirection Manager support for redundant servers

Platform

-Support of Windows 2000 domains

-Windows XP clients

Enhancements for systems using Process points:

New Communication Protocols Supported

-HART I/O

-DeviceNet

Fieldbus Enhancements

-Fieldbus Interface Module Redundancy

-Block Instantiation

-Methods

Engineering Tools Enhancements

-Hierarchical Building

-Templates

-Qualification Version Control System

Profibus Enhancements

-New generic PROFIBUS Diagnostic Channel Block

On Process Migration and Release Interoperability

Detailed Functional Descriptions

Support for Electronic Signatures

Experion PKS Server provides new functionality to help customers meet the requirements of United States Food and Drug Administration 21 CFR PART 11 regulations for electronic control systems. Enhancements that have been introduced with Experion PKS R100 include:

Support for single and double electronic signatures on SCADA point controls and

C200 messages that is integrated with Operator Security.

Optional change tracking in Quick Builder

Optional username and password required for downloads in Quick Builder.

DSA Subsystem

In PlantScape, Areas were required to be unique on each server. Distributed Systems

Architecture has been enhanced to allow areas with the same name to exist on more than

one server, thereby allowing an Area to span servers.

Alarm & Event Subsystem

Current view of Alarms & Events Summaries can now be printed. Output is similar in

form to an Alarm/Event report.

A custom HMIWeb display can now contain an Event Table.

Station & HMIWeb Display Builder

The Station message zone and command zone have been redesigned to be both more usable and noticeable to the operator HMIWeb displays can be given restricted access based on operator security level, as well as area HMIWeb displays can now be made part of an HTML frameset and viewed in Station.

Construction of HTML framesets is not support in the HMIWeb Display Builder,

however.

A group of non-data-bound vector graphics objects (e.g. lines, circles, rectangles) can be combined into a single object with the Combine command, significantly improving page call-up performance. Combined objects can be uncombined/recombined for maintenance purposes.

Displays and shapes that rely heavily on script to process large amounts of data no longer need to rely on hidden alphanumeric to retrieve the data they need. Script data can be defined on a per-element basis, and using this new mechanism significantly improves call-up performance for these displays.

The HMIWeb chart element now supports copy/paste (e.g. copying data to an Excel

spreadsheet). It is activated via + The OnOperatorKey event has been added to the HMIWeb object model, to allow scripting of operator keys on display pages HMIWeb displays can be saved as a text-based display archive, which encapsulates the display and all its associated files (e.g. bitmaps, data definitions) into a single file. This helps integration with source control systems, and facilitates easier transmission of displays via email.

HMIWeb chart now supports bar style (in addition to line style).

The position of node points on a polygon or polyline object can now be controlled from script within a HMIWeb display. Refer to the description of the Node object in the HMIWeb Display Building Guide for details.

HMIWeb Display Builder now provides a display analysis tool, which is accessible from the Tools menu in the builder and which can help identify performance problems with displays.

HMIWeb Display Builder allows the creation of displays based on multiple templates.

Refer to the HMIWeb Display Building Guide for details.

Custom properties on dynamic shapes in HMIWeb displays can now be set via script at runtime. This means the point a shape refers to can be dynamically changed at runtime.

HMIWeb Display Builder now allows the creation of point detail and template displays.

In order to support faceplates for Foundation Fieldbus point types, which typically use a single detail display but multiple group displays, faceplate names can now be keyed from the group detail name as well as the point detail name. Either name may be used for example, both the following formats will work:

PointDetailDisplayName_fp.htm

GroupDetailDisplayName_fp.htm

HMIWeb Display Builder now comes with the Display Builder Assistant, which lets you

perform display maintenance operations (such as renaming points) across multiple

displays.

When a display element is given an indirect data reference via custom properties, it is now indicated by the characters e.g. . Entering a data

reference enclosed in these characters will automatically create a new custom property with the name specified.

Station now provides support for the internal annunciator contacts in the IKB and OEP operator keys. These can be configured on the Sounds tab of the Station setup dialog box.

An Event Table object is now available in HMIWeb Display Builder, which can be added to custom HMIWeb displays.

Updated System Displays

Point detail and faceplate displays have been updated along the guidelines of the Abnormal Situation Management (ASM) consortium.

The icons used to denote the priority of an alarm on the Alarm Summary, detail display and faceplates now better match those used by TPS.

Report Subsystem

Allow multiple reports to be requested simultaneously. Reports still execute one at a time.

Report Span for time does not increment when periodic reporting is enabled and greater than 24 hours.

TDC 2000 BOS Replacement

Enhancements to TDC 2000 Data Hiway interface to support BOS replacement. Includes Ethernet connected Data Hiway Bridge, diagnostic displays and enhanced support for Extended Controllers.

File Replication Service

A File Replication Service has been added to support the automatic replication of display files to clients. This feature will typically be used to maintain a consistent set of display files across servers and clients.

Redirection Manager Support

Customers with Honeywell and third party OPC client applications can now automatically and transparently connect to whichever server is running as primary using the Redirection Manager software. OPC clients no longer need knowledge of the server redundancy architecture and behavior. Both OPC data and alarm/event clients are supported.

Miscellaneous

Ability to call up the associated display of a point on a 2nd Station.

Universal Modbus Interface has been enhanced to support the HC900.

Optional cascade mode support for Modicon interface.

ODBC Driver now supports Windows Integrated Security.

Server API updated to support new Alarm/Event schema.

LVL1 and LVL2 security level acronyms are now View only and Ack only

All the invalid point name characters will now cause errors during point building

(See Configuration Guide for invalid point names).

Improved summary displays for SCADA channels and controllers.

Support of Windows 2000 domains

Experion PKS supports the use of domain accounts for logging into Station and Control Builder (using Integrated Security accounts).

Windows XP

This release provides support for Windows XP on client nodes in addition to Windows 2000 Professional.

Additional Detailed Functional Descriptions for Systems with Process Points

HART I/O

Both Analog Input and Analog Output Modules are available which support the following features:

Analog Input - 8 isolated input channels to support 4-20 mA HART Transmitter signals. This HART AI Module is provided in the Series-A Rack I/O form factor for the Experion PKS System.

Analog Output 8 isolated output channels to support 0-20 mA HART Valve signals. This HART AO Module is provided in the Series-A Rack I/O form factor for the Experion PKS System.

Both modules support HART modem(s) such that users may access HART Digital Data through an API for each Channel on the Module.

DeviceNet

This feature provides implementation of DeviceNet interoperability between DeviceNet resident devices and the Experion PKS C200 controller by providing a CCL library of DeviceNet Function Blocks, including DeviceNet Bridge Module Function Blocks, DeviceNet Generic Device Function Blocks, and DeviceNet Generic I/O Channel function blocks.

Fieldbus Enhancements

Fieldbus Interface Module Redundancy

Redundant Foundation Fieldbus H1 interface technology provides continued communications between the system host and Fieldbus segment devices in the event of a primary Fieldbus Interface Module (FIM) failure. In addition to FIM redundancy, bus power redundancy insures high availability of devices in the event of a bus power supply failure. These features allow Experion PKS to provide the robustness to meet the needs of the most critical industries, including refining and petrochemicals. The implementation of a redundant Fieldbus interface consists of a pair of Fieldbus Interface Modules. In the event of a primary FIM failure, switchover occurs with minimal loss of Fieldbus segment messaging and with as minimal an interruption to process control as possible. Removal or failure of the primary FIM similarly results in a switchover to the backup FIM.

Block Instantiation

The Fieldbus Block Instantiation function gives the Experion PKS system the ability to support the block instantiation capability in Fieldbus devices. The Block Instantiation capability is intended to provide control engineers with the flexibility to choose the function blocks that will execute in a given field device. Device manufacturers deliver their transmitters, valves, etc with a set of function blocks that can execute inside them.

Today, most device manufacturers provide a fixed set of blocks within their devices. In the future, an increasing number of devices will support the ability to instantiate blocks.

Block Instantiation uses the same tools that users are familiar with from PlantScape R400 and later; namely Fieldbus Library Manager (FLM) and Control Builder.

Methods

A Fieldbus method is a device independent code segment written by a DD developer using a subset of ANSI C language. Methods are written to support the host access, manipulation, and display of DD defined objects.

Methods can be used for a variety of functions including automatic calibration, setting protection, setting up the instrument, etc. These methods are a predetermined sequence of steps for information required to setup, calibrate, and perform other functions on the instrument. The host system determines how the messages and prompts appear.

Methods describe operating procedures, so that the system can guide the user through a sequence of actions, for example to re-calibrate an instrument.

Engineering Tools Enhancements

Hierarchical Building

This feature provides the following functionality to assist with the organization of

Control Builder strategies:

Flexible, tree based containment of tagged objects (CMs, SCMs). Up to five user-named levels in a new Containment view, available in both project and monitoring.

Seamless navigation between objects in the hierarchy.

The ability for users to project parameters up to higher levels in the hierarchy, allowing for abstract objects which encapsulate the functionality of several strategies.

The ability to re-use hierarchies by creating hierarchical templates (see description of template functionality following).

Templates

Control Builder Templates will allow application engineers to create generic templates of commonly used devices and batch phase objects. These templates will be reusable components that the application engineers will be able to use many times during the configuration of a plant. Basing the plant configuration on templates will simplify maintenance by ensuring consistency between multiple components over the lifecycle of the plant.

Propagation of configuration information will improve the productivity of a team of application engineers, allowing changes made to one template to propagate to a large number of derived instances.

Qualification Version Control System (QVCS)

Versioning of control strategies is a feature that is especially useful to the pharmaceutical industry because they require validation by the user/manufacturer according to rules defined by the U.S. FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and other national and international agencies (e.g. EMEA). The FDA requires a complete document trail of changes made to a control system. Automated systems can reduce the work required by the system administrator dramatically. The requirements for the U.S. market are federal law (CFR Title 21). With the versioning capabilities now present in the device, Experion PKS users meet the applicable government requirements.

This feature provides extensive functionality for assisting users with the qualification of their process implementation, including automatic version numbers, sophisticated configuration management of strategies (including the ability to track and see differences between versions), and the ability to control the development life-cycle of strategies via a user defined development lifecycle consisting of qualification state and transition definitions..

PROFIBUS Enhancements

PROFIBUS devices exchange not only cyclic process I/O data with their respective PROFIBUS DP master, but publish also non-cyclic, event driven diagnostic data whenever they encounter partial failures, abnormal process conditions, limits or other exceptional situations. The PROFIBUS CCL has been expanded to include a new generic PROFIBUS Diagnostic Channel Block that allows access to diagnostic data, enabling control engineers, operators and control strategies to interpret the data and to react accordingly.

On Process Migration and Release Interoperability

This release introduces the infrastructure required to provide on-process release migration (OPM) for both the server and controller platforms, when configured redundantly. This optional feature makes it possible to migrate to a new release while the operator maintains view and control over the process. It is the intention that every new release after R100 supports on-process migration, especially bug-fix releases.

In addition to OPM, the system supports release interoperability. From Experion PKS R100 forward, this feature allows the user to choose which controllers need new functionality and may need to be migrated to a new release after R100. The controllers, which dont require that functionality, can be left at the current R100 release. This gives enormous flexibility and prevents unnecessary controller migrations in the future.