Library Overview
The System 800xA contains both comprehensive and proven Control Libraries intended to be used to easily design simple to complex control strategies to fit any Process Automation and Safety application, including continuous, sequential, Batch, and advanced control.
The libraries are probably the industry’s largest, containing everything from simple AND and OR gates to ready-for-use self-tuning – adaptive – PID controllers, which lowers the lifecycle costs through significant savings in the design, implementation, operation, and maintenance of control applications and field equipments.
Not to forget unique elements for direct interfacing with variable- speed drives and for easy handling of all the software-related redundancy features the AC 800M controller offers.
All functions/types in standard libraries usable in SIL 2 classified applications are marked SIL2.
Communication modules and protocols that are not certified for safety critical use as well as non certified I/O modules, are possible to use in SIL classified applications for non safety critical functions, e.g. process feedback, status indications, etc.
Control Libraries
The following control libraries are part of the AC 800M control family and installed with the 800xA system;
- Basic Library
- Icon Library
- Alarm and Event Library
- Signal Library
- Process Object Libraries
- Control Libraries
- Group Start Library
- Sequence Start Library
- Supervision Library
- Fire&Gas Library
- Communication Libraries
- Batch Library
In some cases, specifically developed libraries for different industries and customers extend the 800xA standard library functionality. For example there are specifically developed libraries for industries like:
- Pulp
- Metals
- Building Materials
- Chemicals
- Etc.
Control Libraries Overview
Basic Library
The Basic library contains basic objects such as converters, counters, timers, pulse generators and edge detectors.
Icon Library
The Icon Library contains icons that are used in Control Builder graphics in most other libraries.
Alarm and Event Library
The Alarm and Event library contains function block and control module types for setting up alarm and event handling for objects that do not have built-in handling of alarms and events.
Signal Library
The Signal library contains types for adding supervision, alarm handling and error handling to I/O signals. SignalLib also contains types to define different rules that make it possible to control the process to predetermined states (vote objects). Types from this library can be used together with both binary and analog control applications.
Process Object Libraries
The Process Object libraries contain function block types and control module types for controlling motors, valves, ABB Drives and INSUM Devices. Most types in these libraries are templates, that is, you can copy them to your own libraries and applications and modify them to fit your particular process.
There are a number of Process Object libraries:
- Process Object Basic Library
The Process Object Basic library contains the basic Core types that form a basis for valve and motor control objects in other Process Object libraries. It also contains two simple types with reduced functionality and lower memory consumption.
- Process Object Extended Library
The Process Object Extended library contains a number of function block and control module types for general-purpose uni- and bi-directional control, and a number of types for valve and motor control.
- Process Object Drive Library
The Process Object Drive library contains types for building ABB Drives control and supervision.
- Process Object INSUM Library
The Process Object INSUM library contains types for building INSUM control and supervision.
Group Start Library
The Group Start Library contains control module types used to control and supervise the start and stop of process objects.
Sequence Start Library
The Sequence Start library contains function block types and control module types used to control and supervise the execution of process objects.
Control Libraries
The Control libraries contain types and ready-made solutions for analog control.
There are a number of Control libraries:
- Control Simple Library
The Control Simple library contains a number of types that are intended to be used for building simple control loops.
- Control Basic Library
The Control Basic library contains function block types that are ready-made PID loops. The only thing you have to do with those function blocks is to connect them to your I/O variables.
- Control Standard Library
The Control Standard library contains control module types for building control loops, both stand-alone loops and cascade loops using master and slave configurations. They can be used together with types from other Control libraries, as well as together with objects from other libraries.
- Control Extended Library
The Control Extended library contains a number of control modules for arithmetics and signal handling. These types are intended to be used for building advanced control loops, together with objects from other Control libraries.
- Control Advanced Library
The Control Advanced library contains control module types intended to be used to build continuous control loops with advanced PID functions and decouple filter functions. The types from this library supports adaptive control and can be used to build dead-time control loops.
- Control Object Library
The ControlObjectLib provides function blocks and control modules to define templates for using the control connection data type.
- Control Solution Library
The Control Solution library contains a number of ready-to-use control templates, for example handling cascade, feed-forward, mid-range etc. These templates are intended to be used directly in an application, as they are, but may also be copied to a self-defined library and modified, to comply an intended usage.
- Control Fuzzy Library
The Control Fuzzy library contains types intended to be used for building fuzzy control solutions. It also contains a number of fuzzy control templates that you can copy to your own libraries, modify and use.
- Control Support Library
The Control Support library is an internal library that stores types used by other Control libraries.
Supervision Library
The Supervision library contains control module types for detector input, system control and monitoring, overview presentation, and output handling.
The modules are applicable for general detection systems as well as SIL applications. All control module types can be used in SIL classified applications.
Fire&Gas Library
The Fire&Gas library contains control module types for monitoring and control of protection systems that are typically used in a Fire & Gas system. All modules can be used in SIL classified applications. The Fire&Gas library use types from the Supervision library. This means that when you use the Fire&Gas library, the Supervision library has to be connected as well.
Communication Libraries
The communication libraries contain function block types for reading and writing variables from one system to another. Typical communication function block types are named using the protocol name and function, for example, COMLIRead or INSUMConnect.
There are a number of Communication libraries:
- COMLI Communication Library
- Foundation FIELDBUS H1 Communication Library
- Foundation FIELDBUS HSE Communication Library
- INSUM Communication Library
- MB300 Communication Library
- MMS Communication Library
- ModBus Communication Library
- Modem Communication Library
- Siemens S3964 Communication Library
- SattBus Communication Library
- Serial Communication Library
Batch Library
The Batch library contains control module types for batch control and for control of other discontinuous processes. It can be used together with any batch system which communicates via OPC Data Access and which supports the S88 state model for procedural elements.
The control module types in the Batch library are used for the interaction between the control application for an Equipment Procedure Element (for example, a phase or an operation) and the Batch Manager.
The BatchAdvTemplatesLib contains functionality for Batch Handling using batch advanced control modules. Templates for these control module types are provided in this library.