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Plantwide control
News Release from: Emerson Process Management - Systems and Industry
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 28 July 2000
Big IS instrumentation order for Irish
plant
Fisher-Rosemount and Bristol-Myers Squibb have announced a contract which is a major step forward in the use of PlantWeb field based architecture for process automation.
Fisher-Rosemount and Bristol-Myers Squibb have announced a contract which is a major step forward in the use of PlantWeb field based architecture for process automation With intrinsically safe equipment and digital communications via HART and FOUNDATION fieldbus, the system will provide a Process Automation Solution on a major new "Greenfield" pharmaceutical plant to be constructed near Dublin
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 12 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The project, known as the Cruiserath Bulk Manufacturing Facility, is for multi-purpose batch manufacture of health care products, and will involve over 1000 instrumentation and control points.
In particular Rosemount pressure, temperature and flow instrumentation will be supplied as part of the initial order, which exceeds £1.7 million.
All equipment will be intrinsically safe or flameproof, and the key networked intelligent field components will transmit information, especially plant equipment diagnostics, using HART and FOUNDATION fieldbus communications.
The PlantWeb architecture will include AMS (Asset Management Solutions) as a key modular software platform, enabling PlantWeb to use information from field devices to manage plant assets.
Ian Wright, MD of Fisher-Rosemount UK and Ireland operations, commented that "The adoption of this technologically advanced approach to the control of a major new plant shows the forward thinking of the engineers in Bristol-Myers Squibb and Kvaerner, and comes as a result of extensive field trials and cooperative evaluation work across the World.
In addition, the cost savings that can be achieved are attractive, both in the initial plant investment and in the plant versatility for competitive manufacturing.
We are delighted to be working with BMS in the UK and Ireland, but also in the USA, to bring PlantWeb techniques into such new plant" Bristol-Myers Squibb spent a lot of time evaluating the PlantWeb and FOUNDATION fieldbus systems before making this purchase decision.
The project is being engineered by Kvaerner of Portsmouth, and will be installed from early 2001.
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