DCS Migration

[AVAILABLE OnDemand] Don Clark challenges the audience to stretch their imagination to see what a modern DCS can really do for their plant – beyond just controlling their process.

He explains that until recently, the purpose of control systems has been to improve process efficiencies while in the future it will focus on improving business performance. And the Future is now!   

Some process manufacturers, attending one of our cyber security seminars, were convinced that their old systems were too old and too isolated from the Internet to get hacked.

What happens to critical data, control logic, and graphics after a DCS migration? Once users are confident that they can migrate to a new control system while preserving their legacy hardware infrastructure, their concerns switch quickly to their code, their control logic and the graphics. These are the crown jewels for most companies and they want to be sure all are still floating when the old DCS goes down.

If your DCS ain’t broke, don’t fix it … , or so the conventional wisdom might go. But that attitude could end up costing your company a lot of money or cause you to miss out on opportunities you never even knew you had.

It's all about your DCS platform!

If your current DCS is not meeting all your business needs and you're thinking about upgrading your platform, check out this taylored webinar series of presentations on DCS modernization for compnaies using: ABB Bailey Infi 90/net 90, Honeywell TDC 3000 & 2000, Siemens Moore APACS, Westinghouse WDPF, Fisher Provox, ABB Taylor MOD 300, and the Foxboro 100 Series. 

If a company's knowledge is a valuable asset, how do you keep it from eroding? Can it be protected during critical times such as control system upgrades and migrations?

Get your questions answered by someone who has helped 100's of companies migrate their DCS.

Recently, Juggler Michael Davis performing on late night television held up one of the axes he was about to juggle and joked: “This is the ax that George Washington used to chop the cherry tree.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could just upgrade your control system like that – component by component, to keep it continuously up to date? Would that avoid the cost and pain of going through a full system migration? Trust me, we know it would. We’ve been doing it like that for nearly 20 years.

Leading UK energy supplier, SSE needed to address the obsolescence of its existing DCS and to provide an expandable solution to extend the working life of its Keadby power station. 

If I upgrade to a different vendor’s DCS without replacing everything (i.e. keeping field wiring, cabinets, terminations, etc., ) who supports the original infrastructure?

During the recent “MY DCS Upgrade webinar series, we asked the attendees what was keeping them from migrating their DCSs: the two main obstacles mentioned were: 1. Risk of downtime, and 2. Budget justification to management.

Press Release: Fisher Provox users can now use plug-in migration solution to migrate to latest Foxboro I/A Series system, taking advantage of HART field communications functionality.

the information contained inside the white paper will help you select the best option for replacing your legacy process automation system. [NOTE: registration required]