ECS/ControlCenter
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Over 40 years of development The cost of production losses in the process industry makes plant availability the most critical factor when selecting a control system supplier. ECS/ControlCenter is therefore designed to be: ECS/ControlCenter™ is FLSmidth’s well-known software platform for process control solutions. The platform is continuously being improved since its initial versions were launched in the 1970’s. • n effective round-the-clock control A system. This is proved by the product performance at 600+ cement and mineral plants worldwide. Many years of development across multiple...

Two ECS/ControlCenter servers interconnected in a redundant configuration are necessary for complete control and supervision of all departments in large production plants. The two servers handle the I/O communication with the process, the entire supervision task for all operator stations of the two lines, the internal data processing, logging and event handling, and any possible engineering and configuration task for the control systems. The two servers are simultaneously active in all the control tasks, and update each other with any configuration changes that might occur in each of them....

Operator Center operators play a key role supervision, easy-to-use process conditions are major The OpStation module is the main Human Machine Interface, HMI, of the ECS system, allowing process control and supervision through a number of mimics. A number of • The toolbar of OpStation turns the HMI application into a true all-in-one operator station enabling highly efficient plant supervision • The very fast mimic update time gives the operator a true sense of • OpStation is flexible and it is easy to engineer and customise the mimics to match the process conditions. The OpStation tool bar...

Alarm system Efficient alarm handling is vital to maintain a high run factor. been put into the design of the Alarm System The Alarm System is a fundamental building block for plant monitoring main objective of the system is to provide efficient and clear information on an alarm condition and thereby assist the operator in finding the cause of the alarm. The main advantages of the Alarm System are: • The operator's attention is used efficiently by enabling automatic rrelevant alarms • The operator's workload is reduced alarm according to the required alarm handling procedure. • The operator...

Hierarchical Alarm Hierarchical Alarm Many of the advantages of the Alarm System to a great extent reflect the object structuring in the database Relating the plant's physical layout to devices involved in the plant, a hierarchical structure can be obtained In practical terms, a "plant" consists of "departments" (e.g. mill) that each may contain "groups" (e.g. mill oil pump) that contribute to the main objective in the department. Groups can also contain "routes" represent- ng paths of material transport (e.g. Each group, route or collection of objects may contain a "parent object" (e.g....

Reporting System Point info Preheater Exit Oxygen Preheater Exit Temperature Calciner Fue l Relation Id Fan Level Calciner Tem perature Preheater Exit Oxygen [%] Kiln Fuzzy Performance 862,9 3 861,9 Calciner & Kiln Fuel [t/d] 864,0 325 Economy ation Kiln Feed Calciner Fuel Kiln Fuel Total Fuel consumption Calorifics per ton of klinker Titan Saloniki • eeting the plant floor requirement M for routine process performance reporting. • racking shift performance using T the dedicated shift reports • fficient statistical reporting for E production, maintenance, electrical and control staff. Titan...

at the same time. This means, for example, that a plant with a step-by-step upgrade project will benefit from one unified operator interface regardless of controller type. As a hardware independent solution supplier FLSmidth has historically focused on enabling the ECS platform to communicate with various types of process controllers through its built-in Center, users are guaranteed a • High degree of scalability assures the ability to extend the automation solution using the same ECS server • Flexible supplier selection if the user has according to local conditions, • Step-by-step control...

Security Center A professional control system must be equipped with functions and facilities that ensure high security and protection of the control system against unforeseen events. The Security Center is a suite of functions to accomplish the high priority requirements for control system security. Redundant Control The availability of the control system is clearly of high importance to ensure continuous production. For this purpose, the ECS/ControlCenter servers can be configured to operate as a redundant system. In a redundant configuration, 2 servers will be on-line simultaneously, each...

Engineering Center ECS/ControlCenter offers engineering, configuration and diagnostic facilities at various levels. A number of these tasks, such as changes to the server database, mimic updates, alarm handling algorithms, data conversion algorithms, and communication performance tuning are performed directly on the server stations. ECS/SmartStation is a powerful extension of these facilities. Optionally, in addition to the described standard services, FLSmidth offers a highly project-oriented engineering station that integrates plant/project information into project engineering tools on...

System Customisation System Customisation Example: Mimic Editor As described in previous sections, the building blocks, Operator Center, I/O Center, Engineering Center, and Security Center all have their own individual customisation capabilities. Examples of areas where the behaviour of ECS/ControlCenter can be defined by the users are: In order to meet the functional requirements of the individual end-users as well as technical centers for group customisation, ECS/ControlCenter includes powerful features for a wide range of system customisation. Using these features, global customers have...