800xA for Safeguard – Fully integration into the System 800xA
ABB has now combined the two worlds: Safeguard 400 as safety supervision system with System 800xA featuring productivity enhancement software such as 800xA Prosess Prortal, Asset Optimization and Information Management. With Industrial IT System 800xA for Safeguard, plant operations are provided with the technology and solutions needed to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage by enabling the plant to perform with optimal productivity, safety and at substantial cost savings. In short, the integrated functions of System 800xA can be added to Safeguard 400 to extend the plant system’s capabilities.
Based on ABB’s Industrial IT Aspect Object technology platform, 800xA for Safeguard seamlessly integrates 800xA process controllers and Safeguard to the same MB300 Ethernet network. All connected controllers are supervises and controlled from 800xA Proess Portal.
Safety Builder
Safety Builder is an efficient, Window-based cause & effect engineering tool, designed for building high integrity shutdown and protection related applications for the Safeguard controller. Safety Builder is used to design, verify and document cause & effect matrices. A cause & effect matrix is a presentation of the relatrion between a set of process inputs and the actions they trigger. The application logic and its connections to the signal database are automatically generated from the tool, ready for installation in the contoller. Safety Builder supports design of hierarchical safety shutdown levels and may preferably be used to organize the overall plant shutdown strategy. Control Builder A is used to translate the application into the controller.
Control Builder A
Control Builder A is the software environment used to design applications for Safeguard controllers as well as other ABB controllers. Control Builder A is the enhancement of the former product AMPL Control Configuration. It supports off- and on-line configuration. Control Builder A consists of Application Builder (APB), Function Chart Builder (FCB), Bus Configuration Builder (BCB), the option On-line Builder (ONB) and the library AMPL PC and DB Element Libraries.