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first of all I want to thank this wonderfull site for it's usefull and interactive forum and all the participants for they intresting helps.
I am new in the field of automation and I am achieving my graduation project in a chemical plant. They asked me to make a new supervisory control system using rockwell automation products.
They are using two SLC500 that had each an individual processor. The new solution is to use the RIO link by rockwell automation so the controllogix 5000 will communicate wil the two adaters (SCL500). We will remplace their processors with twos 1746-ASB cards as the RIO link needs. The controllogix 5000 will communicate via Ethernet (1756-ENBT) with a console that is executing the supervisor (factory talk view).
The programming software that we are using is RSlogix5000.
Could we call this a DCS system or SCADA?
If it is a DCS is this architecture correspond to the Plant Pax solution by Rockwell Automation (As I know Plant Pax does not use SLC500 controllors).
If it is a DCS system but not a Plant Pax could we call it a hybrid DCS?
first of all I want to thank this wonderfull site for it's usefull and interactive forum and all the participants for they intresting helps.
I am new in the field of automation and I am achieving my graduation project in a chemical plant. They asked me to make a new supervisory control system using rockwell automation products.
They are using two SLC500 that had each an individual processor. The new solution is to use the RIO link by rockwell automation so the controllogix 5000 will communicate wil the two adaters (SCL500). We will remplace their processors with twos 1746-ASB cards as the RIO link needs. The controllogix 5000 will communicate via Ethernet (1756-ENBT) with a console that is executing the supervisor (factory talk view).
The programming software that we are using is RSlogix5000.
Could we call this a DCS system or SCADA?
If it is a DCS is this architecture correspond to the Plant Pax solution by Rockwell Automation (As I know Plant Pax does not use SLC500 controllors).
If it is a DCS system but not a Plant Pax could we call it a hybrid DCS?