Honeywell Process Solutions in India recently unveiled PlantCruise by Experion at a grand launch event in Mumbai to celebrate India as the second country to gain access to this product.

The launch reinforced Honeywell’s commitment to India as a high growth region and illustrated the company’s continuous innovation to deliver locally relevant solutions that leverage proven technology and meet global quality standards.

PlantCruise by Experion is a distributed control system, purpose-built to efficiently meet the plant automation needs of mid-sized industrial applications. It is an extension of Honeywell’s award-winning Experion process knowledge system (PKS), which has successfully helped thousands of industrial customers worldwide improve their business performance. PlantCruise by Experion enables users to maximize uptime, improve plant reliability and efficiency while lowering cost of ownership.

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Rockwell Automation introduces the Connected Components Accelerator Toolkit (CCAT), a bundled, one-stop solution that simplifies and expedites complete, cost-effective, small-machine control design and implementation. The CCAT combines a simple, yet powerful controller with a full suite of compatible components and class-leading application development tools that enable OEMs to focus engineering and development resources on creating compelling and differentiating machine features.

The CCAT speeds the basic, common design functions that every machine design requires. By providing this functionality, the CCAT allows the OEMs to invest their design work in developing better, more competitive machines. The CCAT’s pre-configured Building Blocks include automation engineering design tools for comprehensive control application development from layout and component selection to troubleshooting. For example:

• Quick Starts provide information to use the CCAT and set up individual components.
• Selection tools and example bills of material streamline component and accessory selection.
• Wiring diagrams and panel layout drawings, in native AutoCAD Electrical and EPLAN formats, save weeks of design effort.
• Controller programming handles all communications, commands and status updates.
• Common application starting system examples jump-start control design.
• Sample human-machine interface (HMI) screens provide a superior operator interface, plus diagnostics, alarming and start-up assistance.

For more information:

• Connected Components Accelerator Toolkit: http://www.rockwellautomation.com/components/connected/ccat.html
• Connected Components Workbench software: http://ab.rockwellautomation.com/Programmable-Controllers/Connected-Components-Workbench-Software
• Connected Components Accelerator Toolkit diagram: http://flic.kr/p/drtVpY

ABB announced recently that it has released the newest version of its Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system , SCADAvantageTM version 5.4. This release helps oil and gas companies manage their latest operational challenges with precise liquid metering and instant status checks of remote operations, and brings safety and availability to companies responsible for the critical energy infrastructure.

As exploration and production has moved to increase the output of oil and condensate, accurate liquid metering has become more important. SCADAvantage now supports V-cone and liquid measurement data. This new data is integrated with alarming, trending and historian information to further optimize operations and manage by exception. For specific markets such as Canada, the product complies with the latest ERCB Directive 17 requirements.

ABB worked with leading midstream companies to develop a new liquid volume balancing and leak detection application in this release, to better support safe and reliable liquids transportation.

ABB SCADAvantage includes features to ensure business continuity providing protection against threats from the environment, malicious attacks and other sources. Disaster Recovery works in warm-standby for ultra-fast failover and includes tools for configuring and stepping through a recovery scenario in a safe yet expedited manner.

The new release also includes the latest Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping capabilities. Using the latest mapping software from ESRI®, SCADAvantage allows companies to easily customize the map views to meet their operational needs.

With on-demand text message reporting, operators can be alerted and follow-up on issues or drill down into the data easily with a simple text message on their mobile phone. Text reports can also be requested from SCADAvantage by sending a text message with a particular report identifier.

“With the growing importance of produced liquids, we have created a robust solution for managing liquids measurement data that eliminates the need for costly and risky integration with third party packages,” said Richard Dilcher, SCADAvantage Development Manager at ABB. “Our customers asked for one SCADA system corporate-wide to manage production to minimize training and overall maintenance costs.”

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Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it will release the enhanced ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system on November 28. This new version, ProSafe-RS R3.02.00, features input/output modules that will operate reliably in the high-temperature conditions typically encountered in desert locations. Support of an open communications protocol has also been added, enhancing ProSafe-RS's compatibility with other vendors' distributed control systems (DCS).

Overview of Enhancements:

• High temperature resistant input/output modules
• Modbus/TCP protocol*1 support

Takashi Nishijima, a Director and Senior Vice President, and Head of the Industrial Automation Platform Business Headquarters, comments, "The latest version of ProSafe-RS was developed to achieve safety excellence at our customers' production sites, which is one of the aims of our VigilantPlant solutions .Safety is the most important consideration in plant operations. With this new version, ProSafe-RS is now capable of ensuring under high-temperature conditions that our customers' systems work precisely and safely. The tighter connection not only with CENTUM systems but also other vendors’ systems makes it easier for companies to adopt our highly reliable safety instrumented system. We will continue our efforts to develop products that support our customers' plant operations."

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