ABB PM856K01 central processing unit
Features and BenefitsI Extending the Return-on-Investment
of Harmony Systems: New system
hardware and software releases increase
operating efficiency and extend the life of
installed systems. New products and pro-
grams make the decision to evolve existing
systems straightforward and easy.
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 andneeds.
-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 peer-
to-peer comm unications with Harmony
controllers.
- Device Management: Device Manage-
ment features lower lifecycle costs through
significant savings in the design, implemen-
tation, and operation offield equipment.
- Asset Optimization:Significantly
increase process uptime and reduce
maintenance costs through optimized
remediation work processes and early de.
tection of asset performance problems.
- Information Management: Improve vis-
ibility of integrated information results in
effective decision-making.
Lowering System Lifecycle Costs
and Risk through System Evolution:
Evolution programs ensure that automa-
tion 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 busi.
ness opportunities present themselves with the same
proficiency as when performing the routine
Performance visualization - the ability to provide users with real.
time 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 ITExtended
Automation"" System 800xAs best-in-dass productivity enhancement
software. System 800xA Asset Optimization,Information
Management, and Process Portal personalized workplaces optimize
productivity at substantial cost savings. Where others promote
“ripand-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.