The tighter integration of field devices into the control system, offered by Foundation Fieldbus technology, requires a sophisticated but flexible engineering tool for total life cycle support.
ABB's Engineering tools encompasses the
800xA System and
the Control Builder F which provides the route to integrate Foundation fieldbus devices within Industrial
IT control solutions. Foundation fieldbus devices are integrated with the use of the standard DD and CF files as made available for each device which has the tick mark for ITK4, no other intermediate files are required.
ABB's DSV401(SMART VISION) offers a stand-alone tool for intelligent device management including Foundation fieldbus-H1 devices.
Summary of the Foundation fieldbus functions of the system integrated Control Builder F tool:
- On-line and off-line engineering
- Integrate H1 devices via standard CF and DD files
- Device addition and replacement
- Integrate HSE Linking Device via CFH files
- Function block Instanciation
- Function block parametarisation
- Inter device and Host communications
- LAS optimisation
