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News Release from: Invensys Foxboro | Subject: Move to the Mesh
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 09 June 2006
Upgrade programme offers mesh incentives
The Foxboro unit of Invensys Process Systems has announced an upgrade incentive programme for users of the thousands of existing Nodebus-based I/A Series automation systems installed around the world.
The Foxboro unit of Invensys Process Systems has announced an upgrade incentive programme for users of the thousands of existing Nodebus-based I/A Series automation systems installed around the world The "Move to the Mesh" upgrade programme further reduces the cost and effort required to expand the size and capability of these Nodebus-based Foxboro systems with the latest I/A Series Mesh Control Network technology
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 3 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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(Foxboro's redundant/fault-tolerant/A Series Nodebus was the first Ethernet-based process control system network to be offered by a major automation vendor).
The incentive, which ends on 30th September 2006, bundles the latest generation of field-mounted I/A Series control processors, Windows XP-based flat-panel LCD workstations, and appropriate software licences and equipment (including managed, High-Speed Ethernet switches), with a redundant pair of I/A Series ATS (Address Translation Station) modules.
The ATS modules provide the critical link between I/A Series stations residing on the existing Nodebus-based control network and stations residing on the new mesh control network backbone.
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I/A Series system users can employ the new high-speed (up to 1Gbyte between switches), high-capacity mesh control network backbone to reduce network loading, physically extend, and add important new control, I/O, and field device integration capabilities to their existing systems.
Consistent with Invensys' "continuously current" approach to technology and the company's commitment to protect customers' investments in intellectual property, virtually all existing I/A Series control databases, graphic displays, and applications are preserved.
The "Move to the Mesh" also positions I/A Series system users to take full advantage of the powerful capabilities offered by Invensys' recently introduced InFusion enterprise control system (ECS), for which the I/A Series system serves as the preferred process control platform.
The new InFusion enterprise control system combines industry-leading capabilities from across Invensys with advanced enterprise information and integration technologies from both Microsoft and SAP to dramatically reduce cross-plant and plant-to-enterprise integration costs.
With InFusion technology, most existing plant floor and enterprise systems can now be cost-effectively integrated into a common system.
In conjunction with a suite of new performance services, Invensys' InFusion system will help industrial enterprises more effectively align plant operations and maintenance departments with the business to optimise overall asset performance management.
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