Industrial Automation Magazine India

CENTUM CS

Published on : Tuesday 30-11--0001

The excellent operability and engineering technique, and the high reliability proved by the abundant actual application results, guaranteed that the CENTUM CS will continue to play an important role in the 21st century.

Features

Information Command Station (ICS)

A station for operating and monitoring the plant process control.

Console Type ICS

A standard type of ICS with extensive capability and high reliability.

Desktop ICS

The ICS on the desktop, the main body, CRT and keyboard are separated.

PICS

A general-purpose PC used as ICS.

Field Control Station (FCS)

The control unit for plant process control

Node

A remote input and output unit that passes the field signals to FCS control unit via remote buses.

Engineering Work Station (EWS)

A workstation with engineering capabilities used for system configuration and system maintenance.

Bus Converter (ABC)

Bus converters are required if a system contains multiple domains or contains the legacy CENTUM project.

Communication Gateway (ACG)

A communication gateway unit is for linking a supervisory computer to control bus.

V Net 

Real time control bus for linking FCS, ICS and ABC.

E Net  

The information LAN of the system for linking ICSs and EWS.

Field Control Station (FCS)

High reliable hardware that guarantee the plant control in stabilized status, the most important goal for plant control.

The FCS inherits the renowned reliability of the entire CENTUM series. Truly the most reliable FCS in the industry.

Since the processor cards perform control calculations, duplexes dual-redundant configuration of these cards is essential to prevent loss of control upon a hardware failure.In addition, two CPUs are paired in each processor card, thus the transient calculation errors can be detected. (This type of duplexes dual-redundant configuration is referred to as "Pair & Spare" configuration.)

In order to meet various requirements, in the FCS lineup, standard type, compact type and migration type FCSs are available for space saving installation, and high-distributed type FCS is also available for decentralized control structure.

Information Command Station (ICS)

Console Type ICS

The Console type ICS is an operator console designed based on the human engineering with extensive capability and high reliability. It has one CRT or two stacked CRTs which support touch-panel function and eight-loop simultaneous manipulation.

Desktop ICS

A space-saving type of ICS with extensive capability and high reliability.

PICS

The ICS is a general-purpose personal computer with UNIX operating system. It also has space-saving advantage.

 Dedicated Operator keyboard

The dedicated operator keyboard for PHIS is assembled with the dustproof and drip-proof flat keys, and the keyboard maintains the same functionality as the operator keypad fixed atop the console type ICS

It is used in oil refinery, petrochemical, chemistry, iron and steel, non-ferrous metal, metal, cement, paper pulp, food and pharmaceutical industries, and power, gas and water supply.

Yokogawa India Ltd.

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