Intergraph Integration
Most of you will have heard of our software product for managing the automation infrastructure in the process plant – Integrity.
And maybe you’ve even read about how Captain Integrity has been around to help control engineers make sense of the intellectual property embedded about in systems and software across the plant.
Well now, we’ve hooked up with Intergraph to broaden the reach of the Integrity software all the way down to the wiring rack.
The integration of the SmartPlant Instrumentation software (powered by INtools) from Intergraph with the Integrity software from PAS allows customers to easily track signal flow from any instrument through all automation assets and up to advanced applications used in process plants today.
This is a big deal since most plants don’t even have up-to-date loop sheet drawings to show them how the signal from a wire connects into a terminal block, over to a PLC, up to a DCS, into a real-time historian, over to a plant modeling system and up into an ERP system…
Yikes!
But it might be important to know where these signals go, see?
Especially when the maintenance tech asks the board operator if it’s OK to disconnect this little brown wire from terminal 2 slot 3 in the back room for just a minute – something to do with a temperature sensor, he says…
Sure it all looks fine, but as soon as the disconnect is made – POOF! Lights out for the main fractionator and down comes the unit…
All because of a little brown wire – that just happened to be connected to a safety shutdown system looking for a positive signal…
But who would know that?
The original wiring drawings don’t show that.
The instrument diagrams don’t even show that.
Nor does the operator display.
Not even the loop maintenance document.
Just the safety manual shows that in addendum 1, page 23, paragraph B.
And both our operator and instrument tech weren’t aware of that. But how could they be? They’re both busy doing “bigger” things…
So, how could they know?
Integrity – don’t operate your plant without it.
Integrity – now with Intergraph INtools support.
Want to know more? Join us for a free web seminar on December 21st at 10am or 3pm (CST) as we offer a more in-depth look at the INtools® Integrity data model.
As Shelly Leedy, President of ENGlobal Automation Group says:
“There is no other tool available today that can integrate information across control systems and their subsystems…"
< By the way, the story related above is based on an actual incident… and the client moved to buy our configuration management software not long afterward…>
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