800xA Simulator offers a safe and realistic lifecycle simulator for Industrial IT System 800xA, and enables ABB and our Partners to create complementary offerings that enhance the capabilities of 800xA.
You can achieve great benefits with a simulator for your automation system by using it for training, testing and optimization studies. Trained operators increase safety and reduce start-up time and the number of unplanned shutdowns. With a simulator, process operators and instrument technicians can learn to master the process in a safe and realistic environment. A simulator is also a powerful tool for engineering testing and optimization studies to improve productivity and energy savings. Trained operators and tested process control result in higher returns as both product quality and productivity are improved..
800xA Simulator extends System 800xA and controller software with simulation functionalities that enables you to create a mirror of the control system, within minimized hardware, and connect it to a dynamic process model. This functionality also includes a wide range of selectable runtime simulator functions that make training and test sessions efficient. By being completely based on the same control system, it offers all the advantages of the System 800xA architecture that follows the plant lifecycle changes, as the system can easily be upgraded or augmented with new hardware, software, control logic, views and other operator aspects, number and types of controllers.
A great number of large, medium and small 800xA Simulator systems have been installed in the Oil & Gas, Nuclear, Power Generation, Petrochemical, Chemical, Pulp & Paper and Mining industries, and a large number of process model vendors within these areas have interfaced 800xA Simulator.
ABB can offer complete project execution of 800xA Simulator deliveries, including sub-contracted process models. ABB also provides support, service and software update (Automation Sentinel) agreements.
The product name 800xA Simulator replaces the previously name Industrial IT Training Simulator (ITS) to indicate both the close integration with System 800xA and that the simulator product offering is highly useful within the whole plant lifecycle.