The Experion® Process Knowledge System (PKS) platform high-performance plant-wide infrastructure includes:
Communication Infrastructure
Experion supports three different communication networks to connect the system’s supervisory layer (or Human-Machine Interface layer) with the control layer. The network types are:
Plant-Wide Open Alarm and Event System
Experion is the first system to incorporate a “from the ground up” open Alarm and Event system. This alarm system supports not only Experion, TotalPlant® Solution (TPS), and application alarms, events and messages, but also provides full integration with third-party alarms and events via OPC. Comprehensive commenting and annotation capabilities are provided to capture “knowledge” as it happens in relation to alarms and events.
Comprehensive SCADA
Experion incorporates comprehensive SCADA functionality in the same platform with DCS. It is as comfortable on an off-shore platform as it is in the plant.
The Experion Platform
Includes thin-client HMI, redundant remote serial communications, low-bandwidth support, communications barometers, alarming and status displays, remote control monitoring, Distributed System Architecture plus many more subtle functions essential in genuine SCADA applications. Upstream and downstream, wet-end and dry-end, discrete and continuous can all be accommodated in a single system.
Server Redundancy
The Experion Server is optionally redundant, providing a high availability platform by enabling a pair of similarly configured servers to support each other in a primary/backup fashion. Should the Primary Server fail, a fully-functioning Backup assumes the Primary role. When redundant, Experion provides the ability to migrate from a current release to a next available software release without taking the system off-line.
Electronic Signature Support
Experion provides enhanced capabilities to support the pharmaceutical industry and other American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulated industries and their unique requirements related to regulations such as 21 CFR Part 11. These features are specifically designed to meet the guidelines of 21 CFR Part 11, however, they are also useful to any user requiring the ability to absolutely trace all operator actions.
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