ALSTOM ALSPA P1200NT Tripping and Control Relays

ALSTOM ALSPA P1200NT Tripping and Control Relays

Overall positioning and core values of the product

Product attribute: ALSPA P1200NT is an industrial process monitoring system launched by Alstom, focusing on monitoring and management of small and medium-sized processes. The architecture has high flexibility and can achieve flexible deployment from independent control of a single local workstation to large-scale systems.

Core advantages: It has a high cost performance ratio, adopts standard communication protocols, supports user programming to develop customized solutions, and can easily integrate industry-specific needs.

Scope of adaptation: Suitable for continuous and intermittent industrial process monitoring, covering all industrial fields and service industries such as aviation engineering, food, chemical, energy, metallurgy, water treatment, transportation, glass manufacturing, etc; At the same time, it supports remote long-distance monitoring, and realizes browser access on the intranet/Internet side through ALSPA P1200 Web.

Operating environment: Based on * * Windows 95 ®  And Windows NT ®**  Developed with a 32-bit multi-threaded architecture, it can run on multiprocessor hardware and provide users with a familiar operating interface and display specifications.

Core Operations and Display Features

User friendliness

No professional training is required to operate, standard functions only require parameter settings, and the entire process is guided by a drop-down menu to quickly complete simulation screen creation, configuration, and application operation.

Support visual attribute management, only displaying relevant operations in the current control stage, improving operational convenience and ensuring the security of monitoring and control.

Graphics and display functions

Using simple and efficient graphical tools, supporting trend windows, predefined alarm message formats, and the ability to create bitmap/vector format application graphics.

Capable of displaying multiple windows, including monitoring screens, data recording windows, and trend windows simultaneously; There is no limit to the number of simulated screens and animations (limited by memory), supporting bitmap components and object libraries, and caching memory for fast loading.

Provide a 16 level tracking function, with tracking content displayed in a graded manner based on operator access permissions, ensuring precise management of operational permissions.

Core monitoring and data management functions

status record

Support GPS clock synchronization and time distribution, achieve event source calibration with 10ms accuracy, and ensure data time accuracy.

Logs can be recorded on hard drives and printers, with unlimited file size and quantity. They support user configuration and archiving, and can be sorted by time and filtered by field/type.

Alarm Management

Supports up to 32000 alarms, with no limit on the number of recorded alarms; Provide 30 alarm levels, 8 alarm states, and support 8 user-defined colors.

Equipped with multiple alarm windows, alarm logs can be recorded and printed on disk, support filtering by domain/type, and can directly access associated simulation screens to improve fault handling efficiency.

trend chart

Support real-time and historical trend display, data can be in ASCII format (for easy export) or binary format (to improve speed), support triggering of state changes or periodic recording.

Provide multi trend windows, with a maximum of 8 curves supported in a single window. It has zoom and panoramic view functions, and can read selected values through the cursor.

Log and screen recording function

The log is composed of the same components as the simulation screen and can be printed or archived in three ways: loop/event triggered/operator requested.

The screen recording function can display the recorded logs, which are in the same format as the simulated screen. The factory's historical operating status can be replayed through the forward/backward/stop buttons, which is consistent with the real-time monitoring interface.

Formula management: Supports up to 2000 formulas, with a maximum of 5000 variables per formula, to meet the formulation management needs of industrial production.

System Architecture and Redundancy Management

Three deployment architectures

Architecture Type Core Features Adaptation Scenarios

Single workstation independent local control, standard protocol/serial link/Applicom card single independent industrial process monitoring

Multi workstation distributed database system, real-time exchange of variable values, supporting scenarios where multiple semi independent processes are interconnected through alarm confirmation/operator action broadcasting

The client server serves as a data producer, interfaces with the PLC, and broadcasts data to the client as a front-end communication interface; The client can be remotely deployed to access scenarios where multiple operators need to access the integration process through STN/other telecommunications methods

Redundancy management capability

PLC redundancy: Built in ALSPA PLC redundancy management function simplifies workstation configuration and PLC programming, enhancing system hardware reliability.

Server redundancy: dual servers running in parallel, all connected to PLC; Each client is associated with a primary/backup server, which automatically switches to the backup server in case of a primary server failure, ensuring the continuous operation of the system.

Communication and Open Characteristics

Native industrial network support: compatible with Alstom ALSPA series industrial networks, covering different industrial application scenarios:

ALSPA N80: Token Network, balancing cost and performance for manufacturing applications;

ALSPA E80: Ethernet TCP/IP, communication standard for production units;

ALSPA F8000: On site network benchmark for time critical control in high-speed industrial applications;

ALSPA S8000: A client server architecture for Ethernet TCP/IP that combines performance and openness.

Third party device connection: Supports multiple protocol interface cards, can be integrated with any type of controller, and achieve cross brand device integration.

Standard industrial interface

ODBC interface: supports recording trend, log, and archive data to relational databases, and can also read recipes from external databases;

DDE/DLL dynamic linking: calling external functions through DLL, exchanging data through DDE, and achieving linkage with external applications;

OLE 2 interface: can integrate real-time animation windows of Windows applications such as Excel into the running screen;

Active X: As an Active X container, any Active X component can be integrated into the simulation screen and achieve real-time animation.

Remote Web Access: Equipped with ALSPA P1200 Web (built-in web server), it can access simulation screens, alarm views, and trends through browsers such as IE/Netscape; It supports intranet/Internet operation. Security permission management can distinguish display/control permissions. Intranet can control any Ethernet node, and the Internet can realize global remote maintenance.

Custom programming ability

Support SCADA BASIC structured language, capable of logic processing, animation, external DLL program calling, and custom operation station components;

Support Visual BASIC ®， Access all graphical components and optimize the operator interface.

Technical specifications and product models

Core technical specifications (maximum value)

Functional module specification parameters Functional module specification parameters

Total number of alarms 32000 Real time trend buffer 32000

Record unlimited number of alarms, trend recording period 0-32000s

Unlimited number of events/operator actions, formula quantity 2000

Archive Unit 512: 5000 variables per recipe

Archive unit size 2000Mb, number of event triggered actions 32000

99 cache windows, 32000 function keys

Number of sequences 512, number of formulas 32000

Single window animation/unlimited disk window * --

Note: Due to memory/hard disk size limitations

Product model classification: Divided into 5 levels based on the maximum number of supported variables, with no limit on the number of internal variables. The number of external/device/DDE variables is as follows:

Model Micro (MR) Junior (JR) Mini (MN) Senior (SR) Maxi (MX)

Maximum number of variables 75 250 1000 5000 Unlimited

Software and deployment versions

Software version: Full version (C), Development version (DV), Run only version (RT), all models support these three types of versions;

Deployment version: Independent version, client version, server version, both client/server versions support Maxi/Senior/Mini models;

Protocol options: E80/S8000/DRV (third-party)/MES (inter station messaging), only supported in the standalone/server version, not in the client version.