The reason why IZAYDAS wanted an upgrade from Siemens S5 to 800xA integrated platform is expressed eloquently by Gulay Serit, the process maintenance manager at IZAYDAS:
“System 800xA fulfilled the requirements that are needed to modernize and optimize economically. It is easy to maintain, expand, implement, engineer and commission. We don’t require two separate system(s) for ESD & DSC. It will reduce our maintenance costs in the long term.
System 800xA provided us with a much needed integrated platform for DCS and ESD systems. There isn’t another control system in the market that is as cost effective as the 800xA. The revolutionary ABB system also ensures that operators are able to perform their tasks at the highest efficiency rate. ABB also offers local support for System 800xA.”
Their most significant issue was that they didn’t have any redundant ESD system in Siemens S5; now they have it with ABB’s 800xA HI. They also lacked an alarm management and reporting system in Siemens Coros, which is an integral part of 800xA operations. IZAYDAS didn’t have any integrated documentation, ABB provided that to the with the Aspect Objects technology. ABB’s MODBUS allows them to communicate with MV relays, which wasn’t possible before.
By utilizing the ABB System 800xA and 800xA HI, IZAYDAS can save a lot of operational costs. Better monitoring and more comprehensive control also allows them to save a significant amount of time in the processes. The plant will be operating at maximum efficiency, thanks to the sophisticated systems provided by ABB. The easy to use systems will bring up the operator efficiency as well, making the systems automatically more effective than anything that was implemented in the plant in the past. Also, there is the added advantage of producing reports for KPI tracking.
Before partnering up with ABB, IZAYDAS, understandably so, had some reservations: their existing system was Siemens, so naturally they had concerns about any other vendor not capable of modernizing the plant. And another thing that held them back was the fact that their decision makers had a petro-chemical background, which meant that they had a lack of awareness about 800xA system as DCS.
These perceptions only strengthened the resolve of the ABB team and they set out to clear all the concerns that the client had. ABB took care of these concerns by selecting the right partner for design and engineering and they let the client’s engineers get involved in the re-engineering of the code in Siemens S5 system, which put their mind at ease.