HR Series Turbine control systems SD Series remote I/O ABB

Seamless upgrade path protects investments

True to ABB’s ‘Evolution without obsolescence’ commitment, HR Series products provide backward compatibility to previous generation Network 90, INFI 90, INFI 90 Open and Harmony hardware and software, including support for existing function code executions, custom user programs, and all foreign device interfaces. ABB's 'Evolution without obsolescence' ensures the protection of installed investments while providing the most predictable, cost-effective, risk-averse, and seamless way of introducing new functions and technology into a running plant.

Specifically, HR Series products: 

 • Replace previous generation rack products   on a form/fit/function basis 

 • Preserve installed I/O through simultaneous   connection to HR Series I/O, previous   generation rack and block I/O, SD Series I/O   and S800 I/O 

 • Use the same field-proven INFI 90 function   code algorithms as previous generation   controllers (ie, MFCxx and MFPxx controllers) 

 • Enhance existing Composer engineering tools   with device management capabilities

Further, HR Series and SD Series control networks, INFI-Net and PN800 (INFI-Net over Ethernet) respectively can be connected via a self-configuring INFI-Net to Ethernet bridge (IEB800 module). This allows for the easy expansion of existing INFI-Net communication networks with INFI-Net on Ethernet technology and SD Series DIN rail mounted products. Additionally, resident data from either network is available for use in control applications or for display in applications connected to the other.

HR-Series Efficient engineering tools for design   and maintenance

Robust – efficient – comprehensive

S+ Engineering is the comprehensive engineering tool set for HR Series based systems.  The unified workbench offers all the necessary functionality needed to engineer, configure, administrate, secure, commission and maintain every component in your Symphony Plus Control System - from control and I/O, field instrumentation and electrical devices to network architecture, and operations, engineering, and advanced system applications.

S+ Engineering’s seamless tool integration, powerful workflow automation, multi-user and remote access capabilities and comprehensive bulk import/export functions improve overall engineering efficiency. Integrated version control, version comparison and rollback framework offer progress tracking and significantly reduce commissioning time. Using intelligent bulk interfaces, S+ Engineering allows for full control of engineering data consistency in each phase of the project life cycle.

Secure user management

The simple and intuitive workbench interface allows engineers to configure user information for the Windows and Engineering databases. It allows and secures the creation of user profiles along with their roles and project access permissions through Role Based Access Control (RBAC). Audit trail functionality tracks and archives user actions including system changes made at any engineering workstation onto a central database. These events can then be archived in the system’s historian for long term security audit purposes.

Integrated control engineering

S+ Engineering allows for easy reuse and upgrade of previous generation Symphony, INFI 90 OPEN, INFI 90, and Network 90 control applications. In addition, the extensive reuse concept of S+ Engineering allows users to optimize plant design with field-proven solutions based on ABB’s in-depth experience in the power and water industries.

S+ Engineering’s Automation Architect provides for visual creation, editing, monitoring and tuning of control logic. Rather than textually programming strategies, the Automation Architect represents pre-defined control strategies as function blocks.  By connecting function blocks, users are able to easily specify the signal flow of a control strategy and visually define the control strategy.  Monitoring and tuning capabilities provide the ability to troubleshoot and maintain an operational system using the same information used to create the system.  

In addition to function blocks, S+ Engineering supports batch or sequential programming via the Batch Data Manager (BDM).  BDM is a family of engineering tools used for creating, editing, managing, downloading, and debugging Batch 90, sequential, and user-defined function code configurations.

Reusable standard solutions

S+ Engineering improves the quality of control strategy software by minimizing the risk of errors of starting from scratch. S+ Engineering allows users to define and maintain their field proven control logic through the use of it Control Logic Templates (CLT) and Configurable Function Codes (CFC).  

CLTs are thought of as control strategy blueprints. Its linking functionality allows users to define logic that is controlled by the template or can be modified on each configured instance.   Any subsequent changes made to a template can be propagated to all linked instances.