Industrial IT features to maximize Availability

ABB’s Industrial^IT Automation system offers a complete strategy to maximize availabilty. The diagram here shows a part of the system design and redundant sectors.

Operate^IT Features to provide the operator interface in case of failure

• Connectivity Server Redundancy
  Duplicate servers provide redundancy with individual Alarm/Event and History Log
• Aspect Server Redundancy
  A 2 out of 3 voting redundant strategy providing maximum availability for Object Aspects
• Plant Network redundancy
  Dual media

Control^IT Features to maintain Control and Supervisory functions in case of controller failure

• Controller CPU
  Dual interfaces – duel controller ports on CPU
• UPS redundancy

Field^IT Features to maintain process data in case of failure

• Redundant media to Remote I/O
• SIL2 pressure transmitters
• Field^IT redundancy take advantage of the individual protocol features

These redundancy strategies are an integral part of ABB’s Industrial^IT offering and have been proven over time. Click the links on the right to see how ABB takes advantage of fieldbus technology to further enhance system availability.