the next step in Automation
AADvance is the next step in automation
advancement, offering customers an even
greater level of choice, flexibility and
scaleability from their safety and critical
control system.
The AADvance solution is a truly
distributed, scaleable architecture
which comprises of both a
hardware controller and a software
environment that allows the user
to specify the level of reliability and
availability they need throughout
their plant. AADvance offers a
high level of flexibility from small
quantity I/O to large systems;
non-safety to SIL 3, and fail-safe
to multiple fault tolerant.
Safety First, Safety Last
Hazards and risks are an inevitable
feature of any industrial plant.
The protection of personnel, the
process itself and the environment
surrounding it, remains a significant
part of the automation strategy.
Safety systems to date have
suffered in varying degrees from
compromise, usually either
performance, or their inability to be
applied on a variety of control needs
in a variety of architectures.
The single greatest threat to safety
remains human error and the
AADvance environment reduces that
risk. Users can control and update
their plant-wide safety management
system from a single AADvance
workstation, running several projects
from that station while the
controllers distributed throughout
the plant communicate intuitively,
vastly reducing time spent updating
individual terminals and the margin
for human error.
The AADvance Environment
The AADvance environment has
been developed to compliment and
integrate seamlessly with Trusted,
the market-leading TMR controller,
and other existing ICS Triplex
proprietary systems which are
AADvance enabled. AADvance can
also integrate with third party
AADvance enabled equipment
which includes DCS, HMI, condition
monitoring, metering, etc.
The AADvance products can be
distributed to fit a wide variety of
safety solution designs. Scaleability
in every sense is the unique quality
of AADvance technology. Choosing
AADvance with any control system
will increase diversity of all safety
system components and limit the
compromises associated with trying
to make control system designs fit
safety system applications.
AADvance benefits from the vast Simple but complete integration
experience ICS Triplex has gained between all AADvance enabled
from over 40 years in providing high controllers including existing ICS
performance safety and critical Triplex proprietary systems as
control technology in the widest well as third party AADvance
range of applications and the enabled equipment.
continued desire to offer the best-
in-class solutions on the market.
The AADvance concept is built on
a set of fundamental requirements:
Cost effective for SIL1-3 in the
same system
Appropriate for small to large
I/O systems
Scaleable redundancy for fault
tolerance
Distributed processing power
High performance regardless
of size
Simple single point configuration
and system management
The AADvance Network
The AADvance environment
integrates all AADvance enabled
controllers to work as a single
solution. The redundant network is
an intrinsic part of any solution
where all of the resources can
perform their desired functions
seamlessly. Only AADvance certified
controllers can freely interact on this
network; however uncertified devices
are allowed to share the network
infrastructure if desired.
The AADvance Workstation
The AADvance workstation uses
software that enables the user to
design the complete control strategy
as one, then to target parts of the
strategy at each controller.
Interaction between the resources
is automatic, significantly reducing
the complexity of configuration in
a multi-resource solution.
The AADvance workstation software
is the world's first automation
software to be compliant with both
IEC 61131 and IEC 61499 industrial
standards. This leading-edge
programming environment is
comprised of a powerful set of new
features including:
the regulation of the flow of control
decisions for an interacting
distributed control system
providing for the consistency of data
providing a means for
synchronous operation between
devices
eliminating the need to have
separate synchronisation schemes
easing the development and
maintenance of robust control
systems.
The AADvance Control Station
Any AADvance controller is modular
and easy to assemble, providing a
completely flexible and scaleable
solution.
Performance and flexibility
differentiates the AADvance
environment from other solutions.
Rather than one size fits all,
customers can now choose the
redundancy appropriate for them in
all parts of the system, from fail safe
through to fault tolerant. Controllers
are specifically selected to meet
the distribution needs and to
accommodate the I/O required in
any individual part of the network.
The unique ability for many controllers
to appear as a single system, without
complicating the management of the
configuration, also increases
simplicity and ease of use.
 AADvance Workstation

Single configuration - multiple control resources

I/P CPU O/P I/P CPU O/P I/P CPU O/P I/P CPU O/P

V V V V V V V V
O O O O O O O O
T T T T T T T T
E E E E E E E E

V V V V V V V V
O O O O O O O O
T T T T T T T T
E E E E E E E E

V V V V V V V V
O O O O O O O O
T T T T T T T T
Fault Tolerant Bus
E E E E E E E E

Fault Containment Regions Fault Containment Regions Fault Containment Regions Fault Containment Regions

SIL1-2 SIL1-3 SIL1-3 AADvance Enabled TrustedTM AADvance Enabled TMC 6210
Fail Safe Fault Tolerant Fault Tolerant SIL1-3 Incipient Surge Detection
Distributed Architecture Distributed Architecture Distributed Architecture Fault Tolerant TMR Scaleable TMC Solutions
2-1-0 Degradation 3-2-1-0 Degradation Centralised Architecture Simplex to TMR
High Density Advanced Surge Control
3-3-2-0 Degradation Capacity Control & Load-sharing

AADvance Controller Scaleability: SIL1-3, Small to large I/O Systems SIL 3 TMR TMC

Unique Features and Benefits Scaleable from small quantity I/O AADvance Certification
of AADvance to large systems
IEC 61508 TUV SIL 1 to 3 rated
1, 2, or 3 CPU modules with Single Programming Environment
IEC 298
auto voting Hazardous Area Mounting
IEC 50156
Up to 48 I/O modules per (Class 1 Div II or Zone 2)
NFPA 72, NFPA 85 & NFPA 86
controller Channel isolation
EN61131-2
Any mix of 1, 2 or 3 input Built in version control
module configurations EN61000-6-2, EN61000-6-4
Online replacement
Any mix of 1 or 2 output module EN54-2
Online changes
configurations AADvance enabled 3rd Party
Web based diagnostics
HART integration and intelligent products
(user controlled)
field monitoring
IEC 61131/61499 programming
Flexible modular construction environment
Scaleable fault tolerance Fuseless outputs
Flexible safety integrity: Remote and Local I/O without
IEC 61508 SIL 1 to 3 special modules
TUV certified operating system Black channel communications
Truly distributed architecture Scaleable performance
Fail-safe to fault tolerant
configurations
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