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June 12, 2008
Hot Cutover Boosts Control System Migration
“The bonuses of everyone in the processing plant where I work depend on our maintaining a 98% uptime. We’re sold out. That is just great given the fact that I’m in charge of replacing key, but outdated automation equipment with a new digital automation system. If I cause just one trip everyone I work with will blame me for losing their bonus. How do I get myself out of this pickle?”
Thoughts like that may have run through Eric Schnipke’s mind when he was charged with updating the automation system at the acrylonitrile facility at the Ineos Nitrile’s Lima, Ohio complex. Eric wrote about his experiences, and we’re happy to say successes, in moving from his Bailey Network 90/Infi 90 system to a DeltaV system in the May Chemical Processing magazine in the article, “Hot cutover boosts control system migration (861KB PDF).” Basically he cut over a few loops a day, tested and tuned them on the fly until he had all of his 1,023 loops migrated. This took him a few months, but he had no costly shutdowns.
More information about migrations to DeltaV can be found at http://EasyDeltaV.com/solutions/dcs/index.asp.
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