ABB Advant Controller 400 series DCS

ABB Advant Controller 400 series DCS

StepUp is program of ABB's for upgrading

older process control equipment to the

latest Advant OCS solutions at particularly

favorable terms. The theme of the program

varies from time to time; this time the turn

has come to users of MasterPiece 200⁄1

controllers to upgrade to the latest Advant

Controller 400 series process controllers, at

substantially reduced prices.

You gain performance; Count on three to

five times the speed of your current

machine(s) (vs. Advant Controller 450) and

multiple amounts of more memory.

Higher processing speed and more

memory means more work done faster, as

well as more space for trend data storage.

You gain functionality; Advant Controller

400 series offers a number of important

functional improvements, e.g.:

• Support for a number of new, popular

communication protocols, e.g. Advant

Fieldbus 100, Profibus DP, LONWorks

and Allen-Bradley's DF1.

These make your new controllers able

to use ABB's new S800 I⁄O system and

easily able to communicate, with other

external controllers, with ABB's variable

speed motor drives and with smart

motor-control centers.

• More backup redundancy available,

e.g.:

- Smarter solution to CPU redundancy,

eliminating critical, common, components,

- Full dual redundancy, covering,

media and communication in interfaces,

for S100 I/O and Advant

Fieldbus 100.

• A self-tuning, adaptive process controller

(AC 450) that makes short work out

of setting up control loops accurately

and responsively, even in difficult

applications.

• Fuzzy logic control, a control method

based on degrees of truths as opposed

to conventional binary logic that only

recognizes two states: true or false.

A control strategy that is often able to

untangle elegantly control problems

that are difficult to solve in other ways.

• Windows NT-based engineering tool,

You save money; StepUp includes:

• attractive prices on controller cabinets

with all the hardware and software

required.

• further savings on future software

upgrades by subscription to the ABB

Software Advancement Program (described

further on).