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The traditional approach to executing process automation system projects typically involves a high degree of customization, including custom engineering. It’s also rife with interdependencies between different engineering disciplines. But with the wide range of advanced technologies available today, many of the customization steps required to engineer a DCS project can now be automated, if not eliminated, and interdependencies between disciplines greatly reduced or simplified.
This was the approach ExxonMobil lobbied for with its “It Just Happens” initiative presented several years ago at the ARC Industry Forum in Orlando. This initiative has led to new forms of single-channel intelligent I/O, standard cabinets, and a virtualized environment for DCS engineering. Many suppliers have stepped up over the past few years to offer these new approaches to automation, which have been rapidly adopted in the marketplace.
But where else can we simplify to drive out unnecessary cost? Here’s an idea; end users invest quite a lot of money generating HMI graphics for both new projects and their ongoing modernization/migration efforts. ARC believes that auto generation of DCS HMI graphics based on standard objects using information from engineering and design software (including intelligent piping & instrumentation diagrams), could yield significant cost savings. End users spend thousands of hours creating HMI graphics for every project. A good-sized project can create thousands of graphics.
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