Distributed Control System Dr.

Subhi Aswad College of Information Engineering / Al-Nahrain University

DCS lecture 7
DCS Software
Standard Application Packages

Dr. Subhi Aswad Mohammed

Department of Systems Engineering
College of Information Engineering
Al Nahrain University
2019

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Course Aim
The aim of this course is to build up the theoretical and procedural
knowledge required for DCS to be recognized by system engineer.

Knowledge and Elements

Illustrate DCS & PLC Benefits, Usage and History.
Overview of control system history.
Control system benefits and usage.
Types of control
Develop Knowledge of DCS Components (Hardware &
Software).
Infrastructure [Communication Bus, Interfaces,
Controllers, Gateways, RTU, Others].
Hardware and technologies.
Software [Configuration, Graphics, Alarming, Trending,
System Management, Others].
Extend Knowledge of DCS installation and Maintenance. ???
Site Installation, Commissioning and Startup.
Diagnostics, Spares, Tools and Power Distribution.
Maintenance [Backup, Replacements and System
Installation].
Develop Knowledge of PLC Components.
PLC fundamentals.
PLC Logic.

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4. DCS Software
4.1 Standard Application Packages

4.1.1 System Management

Features include:
Display of equipment information for the station and its
associated input/output devices, buses.
Capability for change actions directed to the associated
equipment.
Processing of station alarm conditions and messages.

4.1.2 Database Management

Features include:
Storage, retrieval, and manipulation of system data files.
Use of the Relational Database Management System.
A spreadsheet package.

4.1.3 Historian
Features include:
Maintenance of a history of values for process-related
measurements
Maintenance of a history of application messages that have been
sent to the Historian.
Maintenance of a history of alarms and error conditions which
generate messages for the Historian.
Access to Historian data by display and report application

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4. DCS Software
4.1 Standard Application Packages

4.1.4 View Display Manager

Features include:
Presentation of the operating environment.
Setting of the overall operating environment according to the
type of user. Process engineers, process operators, and software
engineers
Dynamic and interactive process graphics.
Display and processing of current process alarms.

4.1.5 Draw Display Builder

Features include:
Graphical display configuration for viewing and control of process
operation.
Access to graphical object palettes allowing easy inclusion of
pumps, tanks, valves, and similar complex objects.
Ready modification of existing displays using a mouse pointer,
menu items, and quick-access toolbars.
Association of process variables with objects in the displays
Dynamic variation of object attributes such as fill level, color,
position, size and visibility with changes in the associated process
variable.

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4. DCS Software
4.2 Alarm System
Alarm Manager provides an easy-to-use graphical interface of
alarm displays for viewing and quickly responding to process
alarm conditions.
The alarm display windows present alarm messages .
Quick and easy access to the most recent alarm messages via the
most recent alarm display or current alarm display
Alarm status and value information dynamically updated from
the control station
Color-coded priority and status indicators that allow you to
quickly focus in on critical alarms
An historical list of alarms
The capability to view subsets of alarms based on specific user-
defined criteria
A list of histories alarms related to the selected historian
database
These displays allow you to respond to alarm conditions, filter
and analyze specific alarm data, and maintain alarm message
files for reporting purposes.
Most Recent Alarm display (MRA)
New Alarm display (NEWALM)
Alarm History display (AHD)
Preconfigured set of alarm displays is provided

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4. DCS Software
4.3 Historian
The Historian collects, stores, processes, and archives process data
from the control system to provide data for trends, Statistical
Process Control (SPC) charts, logs, reports, spreadsheets, and
application programs.
The Historian software is a data collection tool that allows the
user to organize a plant data collection.
The Historian provides data collection and management
functions, and data display functions for use by process engineers
or operators.
Historical data are process analog /digital variables (points)
Use the Historian to collect data in support of the following
control functions:
Cost accounting
Equipment performance analysis
Historical trending
Information retrieval
Inventory management
Legal record maintenance
Maintenance reporting
Material accounting
Process analysis
Production reporting
Quality control

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4. DCS Software
4.4 Draw
Draw is a display builder and configurator that allow to create
and maintain dynamically updating process displays.
Displays can represent the plant, a process area or a detailed
portion of the process.
Can draw basic objects using Draw's toolbars, menu items and
shortcut keys.
Can assign graphic attributes such as color and line style to the
objects, and then configure them to reflect process variable
changes or operator actions.
Draw includes numerous palettes of objects such as operator
buttons, pumps, tanks, pipes, motors, valves .
Can edit displays to reflect changes in the process control scheme
or to maximize operating efficiency and security

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4. DCS Software
4.5 View
View is a window into the system software, providing a user-friendly
interface to the total process.
Can interact with any or all of the real-time plant, field, and process
data available in the system.
View provides:
Direct access to dynamic process displays.
Entry into user-configurable operating environments specific to each
user - the process engineer, process operator, and software engineer.
Execution of embedded real-time and historical trending.
Service and display of process alarms via the Alarm Manager.
The multi-window capability systems allows you to monitor the
information on a process control display as well as access other
applications without closing any window.

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Reference
* Dr. Mohamed A. A. Hakim, Distributed control
system and programmable logic control

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