Advant® OCS

Open Control System

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The Advantage of Experience
Higher quality of your products
One hundred years of industry experience,
process know-how and commitment to engi-
neering excellence are embodied in the
people and technology of ABB. The group’s
dedicated people and state-of-the-art tech-
nology are helping industries around the
world produce more of a better product at a
lower cost, all while protecting vital natural
resources.
ABB offers the latest in Open Control Sys-
tems and application-specific solutions to
industries such as pulp and paper, mining,
minerals processing, metals, building materi-
als, water treatment, oil and gas, chemicals,
power generation and marine. Over the
Advant OCS increases years, these industries have benefited from
competitiveness in the the company’s development of ever better
chemical industry
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ways to monitor and control their produc-
tion processes—and the trend continues.
Increase your competitiveness
ABB has always been organized along in-
dustry lines to build up production and
process engineering know-how. The objec-
tive has always been and always will be to
make every representative a top-of-the-class
production engineering consultant, a profes-
sional whose first priority is to help custom-
ers solve production-related problems and
achieve a better production economy. Sim-
ply because the belief is unshakable that the
only way in which ABB can be successful is
to help its customers become successful—
that the true measure of the company’s suc-
cess is the success of its clients.
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Advant OCS: designed to get the Advant OCS helps the
metals industry reach new
best out of every production plant productivity goals.
Advant OCS, Open Control System puts our
customers firmly on the train of technical
evolution. As your needs change you can
adapt your Advant OCS to the new situa-
tions. That means competitive advantages for
ABB's customers.
Effectively managing a complex production
plant requires tools for supervision and con-
trol that address the whole spectrum of
needs while being attractively easy to use.
Advant OCS covers a complete line of prod-
ucts and functionality that improves the
user’s visibility into the production process
and his ability to control it. With this added
visibility, managers can easily access process
and production information to make better ABB has developed many
decisions, operators can take greater respon- cost-effective automation
sibility over a larger part of the operation, solutions for the pulp and
and engineers can more efficiently develop SE 910911 paper industry

and maintain the plant.

Safety - in meeting standards
ABB is committed to evolutionary develop-
ment of its systems and solutions to protect
the customers’ existing investments in auto-
mation. By incorporating the power of UNIX,
OSF/Motif, X Window System, Windows NT,
COM, OLE, and SQL, ABB makes it easy for
users to upgrade their existing systems
with this new and improved technology as
and when the needs arise, without having
to retire any of their existing automation
equipment.
Investment security
To Advant OCS, new functions can be added
in a step-by-step manner at any time. With
Advant OCS there will always be an attrac-
tive path into the future.

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The Advantage of
Field-Proven Functionality

ABB has taken years of process know-how Operator Empowerment

and application expertise and packaged it
into its automation solutions. For operators,
engineers and managers, ABB’s field-proven
products and systems are designed to meet
exacting needs and provide a solid founda-
tion for future growth.
Process control
Advant OCS is the only control system that
truly integrates logic, sequence, positioning,
batch, regulatory and motor-drive control
with manual supervision and intervention,
self tuning and adaptive PID control all on
the same terms. Since the same system com-
ponents are used for all these forms of con-
trol, the duties of everyone involved become
so much simpler.
AMPL is a function-block oriented language
for all forms of process control, all in the
same consistent way. There are function
blocks as simple as logic AND gates and as
complex as self-tuning, adaptive regulatory
controllers—and everything in between. The
result is perfectly clear graphic programs that
are easily understood by all plant personnel.
ABB combines state-of-the-art hardware and
open system standards with time-tested
process experience to give the operator full
control of the process.
Advant Operator Workplace including
AdvaCommand® software provides functions
such as process supervision and interven-
tion, event and alarm handling, process
sectioning and operator authority definition,
information-search capabilities, curve pres-
entation of historical data and system status
monitoring and display.
The utilization of standards such as X Win-
dow System, OSF/Motif and Microsoft
Windows improve handling and provide the
capability to access supplementary informa-
tion, e.g. accounting or customer order
information.

Advant OCS lets engineers

develop control strategies
the way they prefer to, i.e.
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Information management
Having up-to-date information at the right
time and place is critical to the success of
any industrial operation. That’s why Advant
OCS includes information management func-
tions, offering real-time insight into all as-
pects of production.
Advant Information Management including
AdvaInform® software family for information
management offers an SQL-based relational
database accessible not only to resident soft-
ware but also to all surrounding computers.
In addition, SQL access of the real-time
process database is offered. Plus historical
data acquisition, reports, a versatile, yet
easy-to-use calculation package and a stand-
ard programming interface (API) for propri-
etary and third-party applications.
AdvaInform also offers easy access to proc-
ess, production and quality data from any
PC in a plant or in an Intranet solution.
Effective engineering
By integrating computer-aided design capa-
bilities, automation system engineering and
a common engineering database, in the
AdvaBuild® engineering software, users
achieve higher-quality engineering faster and
at a lower cost—throughout all project
phases.
Since the cost of engineering invested in an
Batch control
Advant OCS features industry standard func-
tions for control of batch processes. These
functions effectively control and supervise
recipes, materials and provide production
planning functions.
Communications
ABB offers a variety of communication solu-
tions that can be applied to meet individual
requirements—from single nodes to enter-
prise-wide communication networks.
At the lowest level, noise-resistant fieldbuses
interconnect field devices.
At the intermediate level control networks
provide real-time communications among
operator, information management and
engineering workplaces as well as with
controllers.
At the highest level, an open plant network
interconnects control networks and ties in
plant-wide operator, engineering and infor-
mation management workplaces as well as
PC's and Intranet solutions.
With Advant OCS, process
operators do not have to
choose between overview or
detail they get both—
simultaneously
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The Advantage of
Integrated Solutions

The need for easy access to information at
all levels of an operation is critical to its suc-
cess. This is especially true today since many
organizations have been flattened, making
fewer people responsible for more.
Thanks to the full functionality and open
nature of Advant OCS, system operators can
reach all parts of the plant from the screens
in front of them. And leave all routine work
to the system itself.
In addition, the open system standards em-
ployed provides a basis for integration with
all other computer systems in the plant, now
and in the future, expanding the horizon still
further.
Complete vertical and horizontal
integration
Advant OCS manages logic control just as
easily as it manages sequence, positioning,
batch, regulatory and motor-drive control, all
in the same hardware and software. This
“horizontal” integration of functions means
that:
• electricians can wire up all plant de-
vices to identical I/O terminals in the
same consistent way.
• control engineers can solve control
problems in a natural way and freely mix
the different control disciplines in
application programs without limitations
imposed by the system itself.
• process operators can supervise and
control the entire plant from a single
workplace, all to the same principles of
interaction.

Advant OCS allows horizontal

and vertical integration of
functions for maximum
handling ease Business
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But thanks to the incorporation of open
system standards, Advant OCS also offers
“vertical” integration of process, operations
and business management, allowing:
• top managers and production managers
to examine key aspects of production at
any time—in real time.
• process operators to look up the order
book or production schedule in prepara-
tion for future production runs. Or
examine the cost accounts of the run just
completed.
All from the screens in front of them.
That is, a single consistent and user-friendly
environment for all engineering and man-
agement tasks, better communication be-
tween people and better organizational
flexibility.
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Complete functional distribution
Functional distribution close to the process
to be controlled can lead to substantial im-
provements in system availability and signifi-
cant savings in installation costs. That is why
Advant OCS is a truly distributed control
system with field, sectional and plant levels.
Generally, each station is functionally com-
plete, which means that if the data to be
processed is available locally and the result
is needed locally, the required processing is
also done locally. This uncouples the sta-
tions from one another functionally, which is
critically important in order to keep system
availability up. For the same reason, no sta-
tion failure anywhere can bring any other
station down.
ABB systems helps reduce
the environmental impact.
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The Advantage of
Scalability, Openness and Cost-effectiveness

Scalability
Advant OCS can be configured in a multi-
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 Advant OCS Product Overview

Process controllers Advant Controller 70 is a programmable

The Advant Controller 400 Series contains
ABB's most versatile and powerful process
controllers with 'everything' in industrial
process control, such
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logical controller (PLC). It handles all types
of control tasks from logic to regulatory con-
trol for control and supervision that can
work alone or with other Advant Controllers.

as logic, sequencing, Advant Controller 55 is a small process

Subrack of Advant Controller
450 containing CPU, memory
and communication boards
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regulatory control controller for control and supervision of
(including self-tuning remote process sections, utilizing the RCOM
adaptive control), protocol.
positioning, weighing
and motor control. Workstations and personal
The largest unit of computers
the series, can be ex- With a complete line of workstations and
panded to as many personal computers, Advant OCS covers the
as 5400 I/O, using needs for man-machine interaction with the
local and distributed ease of operation and openness that comes
interfaces. Similarly, from the latest standards in computing.
the controllers' com-
munication capabilities are a peg above the The Advant Station 500 Series features
high-powered, RISC-based workstations,
norm; there are interfaces to all surrounding
devices, from field mounted I/O and PLCs to supplemented with a special ABB realtime
printers and external computers to operator interface board and running UNIX, OSF/
and information stations. Motif, X Window System and SQL-compliant
relational databases.
The Advant Controller 110 covers costeffec- Used as Advant Operator Workplace and for
tive, medium-sized Advant Information Management suitably
process controllers configured with one or two high-resolution

for single machines monitors, an alphanumeric or function key-

or process sections. board, a mouse or trackball, and printers for
It handles all types hard copies, lists, reports and engineering
of control tasks from documents. The workplaces run appropriate
logic to regulatory combinations of AdvaCommand, AdvaInform
control and has exten- and AdvaBuild software to bring maximum
sive communication efficiency and handling ease to each job.
capabilities.

The medium sized Advant

Controller 110

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AdvaSoft for Windows as operator station
incorporates process supervision and inter-
action through standard personal computers.
The software fully utilizes Windows user-
friendly, point-and-click style interface
MasterFieldbus is a noise-resistant, high-
performing (2 Mbits/s) field bus, connecting
process controllers to remote I/O-units and
variable speed drives.
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plant and control
AdvaBuild for Windows software, enables networks to connect
engineers to configure, document, commis- Advant OCS with
sion and test Advant Controllers. external computers.
AdvaBatch is a scalble batch processing RCOM is a protocol
product that provides recipe management, for long-distance
task and resource management, and IEC communication.
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control. EXCOM is a cost-
effective, question-
Communications and-answer protocol.
Advant Controller 70 with
TCP/IP is a widely accepted communication Multivendor Interface allowing communi- S800I/O modules
protocol, used at the plant network level for cation with other control systems.
file transfers and client-server database trans-
actions between both internal and external MasterGate 230/1 is a communication
stations station, making communication possible
among multiple control networks in a
MasterBus 300 is an IEEE 802.3 communica- plant network.
tion bus used in plant and control networks
to handle high data transmission rates at 10
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radio or satellite transmission for geographi-
cally distributed processes.
Advant Fieldbus 100 interconnects Advant
Controller 70, Advant Controller 110, Advant
Controller 400, various drive systems and
AdvaSoft for Windows into stand-alone,
peer-to-peer-type or subordinated process
control networks at 1.5 Mbits/s.

Advant Operator Workplace

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Advant OCS Meets Your New
Productivity Goals
More of a better product at a lower
cost
ABB strives to develop long-term partner-
ships with its industrial clients. These part-
nerships are established to ensure that both
parties achieve specific, measurable results.
From Advant OCS, customers can expect
significant improvements in the areas of
productivity, product quality and cost con-
tainment.
High system reliability
ABB is committed to providing the highest
quality products designed to work under the
harshest of environments. Having achieved
ISO 9001 certification means that ABB
development, manufacturing, sales and
With Advant OCS, all plant
personnel can get an
immediate update of the
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engineering practices have withstood the
toughest scrutiny.
ABB uses state-of-the-art production meth-
ods to produce highly reliable Open Control
Systems. Every component that goes into
Advant OCS is tested and tested again at
every new level of assembly, while specially
trained quality auditors ensure compliance
with exacting reliability specifications. And
in the field, self-diagnostic routines continue
safeguarding hardware and software integ-
rity.
For more demanding operations, additional
reliability can be achieved through redun-
dancy at all levels.
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Easy to understand and use
Training plant personnel to use a new auto-
mation system requires time and money. No
plant can afford extended run-in times or
losses in productivity. That’s why Advant
OCS has been designed for ease of use.
For the engineer, the graphic mode of pro-
gramming and the ability to edit running
programs on line mean speedy and sure
application software development and com-
missioning.
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For the operator the sharp, color-graphic,
point-and-click-style user interface and on-
line help mean operation by intuition and
not by trained response.
And for the manager, access to production
and administrative data in real time makes
obtaining the required information a snap.
These features shorten training requirements,
reduce costs and keep production up.
Advant OCS provides peace
of mind
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The ABB Advantage
Application knowledge
High technology without time-tested applica-
tions is of little value to industry. Process
know-how and application experience must
be added to tap its power and turn it into
results-oriented solutions.
ABB understands the importance of value-
added solutions and is constantly confirming
its commitment to industrial progress
through continuous evolutionary develop-
ments.
Flexible solution
Combining ABB’s leading-edge solutions for
industrial automation with modern
The power of Advant OCS
increases the productivity
goals
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workstation technology enables users to
supervise and control production more
effectively, while providing managers with
the information they need for timely deci-
sion-making. All in real time, and with the
operating convenience that comes with the
latest technology. And the system's open
nature ensures compatibility with proprietary
and third-party solutions in both hardware
and software. Today and tomorrow.
These features help ABB's clients achieve
measurable improvements in product quality
and operational efficiency and stakes out a
clear path into the future.
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We provide peace of mind
Industries worldwide face increased compe-
tition, fewer resources and escalating quality
demands. To remain competitive, they need
tools to produce higher quality products at a
lower cost. ABB offers advanced automation
solutions, proven application expertise and
long-term support to help producers meet
these challenges.
Thanks to its full functionality, its distributed
nature, openness and friendly user interface,
Advant OCS helps industrial operators
around the world gain better visibility into,
and tighter control of, all processes related
to production.
The ability to produce more of a better
product at a lower cost, that’s the ABB
advantage.

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ABB is a global electrical engineering group which is active in many areas associated with the generation,
transmission, distribution and use of electrical power. The ABB Group comprises 1,000 companies in 140 countries.

ABB Automation and Drives is one of the world's largest suppliers of industrial automation and drive systems, products
and services. The company uses its unique global resources to provide the highest level of customer value through
industry-leading technology and cost-effective, industry-specific application knowledge with an uncompromising
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