ABB IndustrialIT System 800xA Harmony/INFI90 System

ABB IndustrialIT System 800xA Harmony/INFI90 System

Achieving an Extended Automation

scope with System 800xA:

- Personalized User Workplaces:

Reduced time to decision and action

is achieved with 800xA Process Portal

personalized workplaces. Information

and workplace layouts are optimized to

maintenance, engineering, management,

and operating personnel preferences and

needs.

- Wide-ranging control functionality:

Applicable for control and safety

applications, AC 800M Control and

I/O meet all plant automation needs.

AC 800M integration with Harmony

systems is made easy through the INFI90

Function Code (FC) Library and peerto-peer communications with Harmony

controllers.

- Device Management: Device Management features lower lifecycle costs through

significant savings in the design, implementation, and operation of field equipment.

- Asset Optimization: Significantly

increase process uptime and reduce

maintenance costs through optimized

remediation work processes and early detection of asset performance problems.

- Information Management: Improve visibility of integrated information results in

effective decision-making.

■ Lowering System Lifecycle Costs

and Risk through System Evolution:

Evolution programs ensure that automation systems are continually optimized to

support customer business goals.

To be successful in today’s highly competitive business markets,

companies drive their production facilities toward Operational

Excellence (OpX) with defined goals of maximizing Return on Net

Assets (RONA), lowering Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), sharing

best practices throughout the enterprise, and driving profitable,

sustainable growth. Achieving these goals require more than what a

traditional Distributed Control System (DCS) can offer. It requires a

plant automation system that can improve:

■ Plant effectiveness – the ability to combine the right decisions

with optimized work processes

■ Plant agility – the ability to make ‘on-the-fly’ adjustments as business opportunities present themselves with the same

proficiency as when performing the routine

■ Performance visualization – the ability to provide users with realtime performance and feedback

In general, OpX can only be achieved by extending the reach of

plant automation systems to synchronize all process operations

within one common environment for operations, engineering, and

information.

ABB delivers this extended automation scope by combining the

SYMPHONY Harmony system with Industrial IT Extended

Automation™ System 800xA’s best-in-class productivity enhancement

software. System 800xA Asset Optimization, Information

Management, and Process Portal personalized workplaces optimize

productivity at substantial cost savings. Where others promote

“rip-and-replace” migration strategies, ABB delivers true system

evolution allowing Harmony owners to build on their strong DCS

foundation by providing the flexibility to implement these functions

in an incremental stepwise fashion

ABB’s answer to these issues is founded in its evolution strategy. Evolution is ABB’s

way to deliver continuous improvement to its installed systems; allowing system

owners to meet automation system business objectives in an incremental way affording

the lowest risk and best ROI. It is not migration, it is not “rip-and-replace”; it is a well

thought out plan, allowing system owners to adapt new capabilities at their pace,

according to their need.

From a product point of view, this strategy is business as usual at ABB. Its pledge

of Evolution through Enhancement (Figure 1) has extended the life and the

Return-on-Investment of installed Harmony systems. Other vendors may talk about

investment protection, but ABB’s proven programs are truly unique in the industry. All

told, from the introduction of Network 90® in 1980. through each of the evolutionary

steps of INFI 90®, INFI 90 OPEN, and SYMPHONY™ Harmony, this family of systems

represents the largest contiguous installed base of any process automation system

in the world. System 800xA represents the most recent step in the on-going system

evolution process.

The purpose of this document is to summarize the many opportunities available

to the Harmony system owner for enhancing the value of and extending the useful

functionality of their system. On the following pages are details of the enhancements

available to the Harmony DCS foundation (see section “Extending the Return-onInvestment of Harmony Systems”); as well as the opportunities available to build to an

extended automation scope from a Harmony DCS foundation (see section “Achieving

an Extended Automation Scope with System 800xA”).