Software Datasheet

Summary
Optimize engineering
workflow
Design, configure
deploy your control
strategies faster and
easier
Promote collaboration,
synchronization,
execution across your
operations
Increase operator
efficiency and
productivity with
intuitive visualization
tools
Preserve engineering
efforts and cost
through re-use and
standardization
Improve decision-
making to maximize
profitability
Offer superior
flexibility, adaptability
and responsiveness
Business Value
Foxboro Visualization
and Configuration
tools enable improved
process efficiency and
business performance to
achieve lowest total cost
of ownership for your
operations .
Signicantly reduce and simplify your engineering and operational efforts. This
powerful toolset provides cutting-edge graphical advantages in a consistent
environment to enhance your overall experience. Start your journey to improved
business performance today with superior collaboration, execution & visibility
across your entire enterprise.
Foxboro Visualization and Conguration Tools include:
Conguration tools for highly intuitive design & integrated engineering
Cutting-edge HMI for visualization optimization & operational best practices
Seamless integration and standardization of all operations data signicantly
reducing cost and efforts
Powerfully productive capabilities of advanced software applications like SQL-
based Historian and Client for real-time historical data storage and time-based
retrieval for dramatically increased operational efciency
Foxboro Visualization and
Conguration Tools
High-performing, productivity-enhancing visualization
and engineering tools for the Foxboro Control system.
SIMPLIFIED, INTEGRATED ENGINEERING
Optimize Engineering Workow
Enhance engineering productivity
and reduce efforts with Foxboro
conguration tools. Simplied
toolsets, common human interfacing
and standardized template-based
objects for building and maintaining
Foxboro I/A Series control
strategies and congurations can
be easily deployed and reused
across multi-site operations. Based
upon a standardized function set,
conguration of the Foxboro Control
system now becomes a matter of
assembling application objects
in a fashion similar to constructing a process ow diagram. By shifting the emphasis away from
programming and toward assembling strategies, you can now spend more time devising better,
safer control strategies.
Design, implement, deploy faster and easier
Reduce mundane programming tasks and reduce risk associated with implementing application
changes ensuring global consistency and best practices. The cost of project implementation is
greatly reduced making your job easier and more productive.
Maximize cost-savings and plant uptime
Foxboro Field Device Manager (FDM) is a software
application within Conguration Tools that offers complete
support and management of intelligent devices from
any vendor utilizing any eldbus protocol. FDM provides
superior device management, greatly reducing the
probability that an unexpected device failure will cause plant
downtime. This predictive device maintenance approach
allows you to locate problems early, before they become
severe and grants the time to plan corrective actions
without downtime. FDM offers simplied conguration,
commissioning, and maintenance to optimize your eld
devices. With Foxboro Any bus interoperability, you
maintain your preferences because Foxboro adapts to you.
Graphical construction,
deployment of Foxboro control
strategies
User-dened renderings of
re-usable control strategies
Printed reports of control
strategy drawings and support
Live updates of real-time values
superimposed on control
strategy drawings
Control strategy bulk generation
and migration
Ability to import and export
Supports any intelligent devices
from any vendor utilizing any
eldbus protocol
Concurrent access to the
database
POWERFULLY INTUITIVE VISUALIZATION TOOLS
Foxboro InTouch HMI combines industry leading visualization software with cutting-edge graphical
advances enabling you to quickly and easily be more productive and effective.
Maximize productivity and optimize user
effectiveness
Foxboro HMI tools include easy-to-use, object-
oriented programmable graphics and tightly
integrated communication connectivity to the
Foxboro Mesh Control network. This open and
extensible HMI enables exibility
in custom application design with
connectivity to the broadest set of
control and automation devices
in the industry. Resulting in a well
designed standards-driven systems
that maximize productivity, optimize
user effectiveness, increase quality,
and lower costs.
Easy to-use wizards and templates
Realize considerable savings by
reducing application engineering,
testing and deployment time, with
the creation of reusable templates
from graphics. SmartSymbol graphics enable rapid propagation of changes throughout the
application and even across multiple networked PC workstations. This makes changing, upgrading
and modifying very fast and simple
Unequaled device integration and connectivity
Connect to virtually any device using hundreds of available I/O and OPC servers that are designed to
connect to control systems and devices.
Avoid costly downtime, enable faster responses
Leverage built-in real time and historical capabilities that
offer several alarm analysis tools to provide the information
needed to proactively correct situations. You can now
determine the nature of an alarm, its location and options
for supporting fast analysis of alarm conditions coupled with
immediate response capabilities.
Resolution independent
graphics and intelligent
symbols
Intuitive, easy to navigate
display hierarchy
Sophisticated scripting
to extend and customize
applications for your needs
Foxboro control block faceplate
overlays
Role-based security options
Real-time distributed Alarming
with historical views for analysis
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START YOUR JOURNEY TO BUSINESS OPTIMIZATION
Leverage plant-wide collaboration of products, processes and people
Foxboro visualization and conguration tools extend a common object-based technology from
your Foxboro control system throughout your enterprise. You can now take advantage of powerful
applications and an open environment to integrate plant wide processes, people and products .
You can standardize on best practices when designing, deploying and maintaining your control
applications to realize lowest total cost of ownership.
Unlock hidden potential to gain signicant competitive advantage
Accelerated decision-making for maximum protability
Elimination of automation islands through integration of all devices, systems, databases and
software applications within manufacturing and infrastructure environments
Synchronization of industrial operations with business objectives for sustained protability
Standardization of operating practices and techniques across the organization
Flexibility to easily change plant-wide applications, control programs, and workow to quickly
respond to any business issue
A LOW COST, LOW RISK APPROACH TO GET YOU HERE
Protect your investment with the Continuously Current Foxboro control system
The Foxboro control system adheres to a Continuously Current philosophy that promises the platform
is continually infused with the latest technology while maintaining interoperability with previous
generations of your system. This ensures your investment is protected with cost-effective upgrade
paths at your own pace. Backwards compatibility is fundamental in our design to assure that classic
and the latest products communicate and share critical messaging structures. Keeping your system
Continuously Current promotes savings with the preservation of intellectual property, such as designing
and engineering control strategies, historian conguration, graphic displays and databases.
Upgrade at minimum risk, cost, and impact to your process
Not a Foxboro user? Foxboro migration solutions minimize the cost, risk and process impact of
system replacements. Invensys offer incremental migrations that allow you to take advantage of
Foxboro visualization and conguration tools in phases while keeping much of your existing hardware
infrastructure in place. Once you are ready to migrate the remaining components, the Foxboro Plug-
in migration solution enables you to simply plug-in new Foxboro I/O modules & controllers into your
existing cabinetry. This approach offers you a 100% newcontrol system at minimum cost, risk and
impact to your operations.
For more information contact your local sales representative or visit our web page at
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