Category: ABB

Audit trail

Effective change management enables users to meet evolving business needs in a safe and secure

manner. Within the automation system, changes to system configurations must be carefully controlled

to ensure all modifications are traceable and accountable. S+ Engineering provides complete

audit trail support for those industries that require regulatory compliance. When deployed,

S+ Engineering’s audit trail functionality tracks and archives user actions including system

changes made at any engineering workstation onto a central database. These events can also be

archived in the system’s historian for long term security audit purposes.

Intuitive navigation

The workbench’s graphical user interface, object-re lated context menus, navigator windows and many

help functions provide intuitive user guidance. Within the engineering environment, users can freely navi

gate from a tag to its associated control logic documents (CLD). Cross navigation with S+ Operations

Human Machine Interface (HMI) is also seamless.

Users can right click CLDs to call-up a faceplate while operators in the HMI environment can right click on

graphic to go to the associated logic document via the view and monitor interface. From here, the oper

ator has access to the specific function code along with simulation via block detail utilities. Links to 3rd

party documentation like PDF user manuals, excelreports, etc. are also easily established.

System Topology Engineering

The System Topology builder allows users to visually build the control project through simple drag and

drop.

Features include:

• Logical and detailed network development

• Automatic diagram generation via wizard

• Automatic configuration of communication ports

• Topology information used to support central installation

• Shares topology information to S+ Operations

• Effortless documentation and report generation

• S+ publisher support for Edgenius

• Configuration support for multiple virtual plant network interfaces (VPNI)

• Multi-historian support for large historian projects

Project administration

The newly integrated S+ Engineering tool allows a very simplistic way of managing automation

projects. Users with their project administration privileges can perform the following activities in

just few clicks.

•  One shot project creation of System, Control,

Device and Electrical engineering

•  User assignments to projects

•  Back-up and Restore of projects

•  Project database maintenance

•  Upgrade of projects from previous versions

Multi-user engineering

Multi-user engineering provides high level of flexibility and efficiency in system configuration,

documentation, commissioning and maintenance. Engineering tasks can be accessed by multiple

users at the same time. Engineers can reserve a complete application or parts of it for their

exclusive access, enabling multiple users to work on the same project at the same time without

interfering with each other’s work.

All engineering tasks can be performed concurrently in S+ Engineering; from definition

of process points and loops to function design, system and cabinet layout and all the way to

service, diagnostics and library processing.

This enables different users to complete their engineering tasks without having to wait for

others to complete theirs.

Intuitive engineering interface –

for today and tomorrow

S+ Engineering’s workbench provides a comprehensive range of engineering tools.

Through a single unified environment, S+ Engineering supports easy configuration and

management of control system strategies, global configuration databases, system libraries and

intelligent field devices.

User management

S+ Engineering workbench’s intuitive interface allows engineers to configure user information

for windows domains or work groups, including subdomains or organizational units to maintain

the engineering projects. It allows for creation of user profiles along with their roles and project

access permissions.

In cases of multiple projects, entire or partiallist of users along with their roles can be copied

over from an existing project to steamline the workflow. This is accomplished by automatically

assigning individuals to one or more specificuser groups for administration, engineering,

monitoring, parameter configuration, simulation,loading, library creation and viewing only.

With S+ Engineering’s granular authorization management, one user may have edit rights but

not the ability to put anything in operation, while another user may be able to configure parameters

and simulate values, but not make changes to control logic documents. When a user is logged

into the engineering environment, the roles are automatically switched based on his/her activity

and role assignments. This user authentication feature makes S+ Engineering very secure.

Robust – efficient – comprehensive

S+ Engineering applications use client/server technology to support multiple users operating

in a networked environment. The configuration server hosts up to ten simultaneous client

connections and provide users with shared access to system configuration information and

real-time plant data (via separate or combined communication server). Providing a single

source of truth for all data within the system, S+ Engineering eliminates duplication of data entry,

simplifies database management and automates configuration tasks. Information can be imported

and exported in many of the commonly used file formats.

Changes in the runtime environment are deployed smoothly and securely. The strict separation of

engineering and runtime  provides a flexible off line engineering  workflow. During commissioning,

S+ Engineering’s multi-user and remote access capabilities are critical to on-time delivery.

Especially during hot commissioning and project finalization, the ability to commission and de

bug from loop level down to controller base functionality through a common tool ensures

timely and on-budget startup.

S+ Engineering’s seamless tool integration, powerful workflow automation and comprehensive

bulk import/export functions improve overall engineering efficiency. Integrated version control

and version comparison offer progress tracking and significantly reduce commissioning time.

Designed with such a futuristic user base in mind, S+ Engineering offers an ergonomic platform that

engineers expect.

Market competitiveness in the process industries has squeezed delivery schedules tighter and

tighter, changing the way projects are executed, and with it, the demands on the engineering

tools. With the decentralization of engineering and project tasks, productivity features like

streamlied work flows, multi-user access and flexibility to make changes during start-up and

commissioning are critical to the successful execution of today’s projects. S+ Engineering,

with its unified engineering workbench, provides the ultimate flexibility in efficient engineering,

empowering EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) contractors and end users alike

with the tools and methods to reduce project design cycles, shorten commissioining and start

up times, and minimize operational maintenance costs.

In summary, S+ Engineering offers all the necessary functionality needed to engineer,

configure, administer, secure, commission and maintain every component in your Symphony

Plus Control System – from control and I/O, field instrumentation and electrical devices to network

architecture, and operations, engineering, and advanced system applications.

Over the last decade, new technologies have influenced immense changes in the process industries.

These changes have led to significant advances in instrumentation, protection, controllers,

I/O modules and other plant automation components.

Integrated control systems make it essential that engineers have a unified platform to engineer and

manage all these subsystems. The Symphony® Plus Engineering tool brings together these various

automation aspects into one environment. It provides a single platform to manage data from

multiple sources. Changes made at one point in the system are reflected throughout the system.

This goes a long way in reducing the time spent in engineering and commissioning the control

systems of today and the future.

Simultaneously, the industry has seen a sizable shift in the demographics of plant operators and

engineers. Engineers in this age of everything mobile, need and expect intuitive navigation

features for interacting with the system.

Designed with such a futuristic user base in mind, S+ Engineering offers an ergonomic platform that

engineers expect.

Control room optimization

Since operators always have personalized, inter

active displays close at hand, the need for huge

‘full-wall, cinema-like’ screens can be eliminated,

saving space in all directions. Floor space require

ments can be cut by a third or more using modu

lar design and integrating information into one

operator environment. Additional features such

as directed ‘sound showers’ (where only the oper

ator at a specific console will hear a conversation)

mean that they can sit closer to one another yet

still enjoy a quiet workplace free from distraction.

ABB provides complete control room solutions

with a clear focus on operator performance,

health and job satisfaction. Our solutions often

exceed current ISO/EEMUA requirements. Get

ABB involved early in your next project, and we’ll

provide layout proposals that include the latest

and most advanced environments and solutions –

for the control room as well as adjacent areas.

Large-screen interactive overview boosts con

trol and collaboration

Operators have close-by, large-screen overview

displays and several personal screens. The EOW

workstation is customized with either two or

three large overview displays. Operators can

arrange graphics to give an optimal view of the

process under their control. The EOW’s

interactive nature means that it can immediately

show any information relevant to any situation to

anyone they choose – either in the control room

or else-where. This facilitates collaborative prob

lem solving by ensuring that key personnel

groups always have a clear view of what is hap

pening and can see what needs to be done.

Attention to human factors

S+ Operations with Extended Operator Workplace (EOW) offers unparalleled

ergonomics, visualization and communication solutions to support effective

interaction and collaboration.

The workplace as a cockpit solution

When collaboration and information interaction

is prioritized, operators stay alert and motivated.

Good workstation ergonomics and a well-de

signed control room layout reduce operator

stress and increase focus. S+ Operations with

Extended Operator Workplace (EOW) offers

unparalleled ergonomics, visualization and com

munication solutions for operators. Everything

is designed to support effective interaction

and collaboration:

• Plant visualization and information all in one view

• Process overviews on close-by large interactive panels

• One fast-acting functional keyboard for con

trolling the complete operator environment

• Control room space reduced by around 30% or more

• Improved plant-wide collaboration and optimization

• Increased applicant appeal and job satisfaction