ABB Ability™ SCADAvantage

Cost Management

• Reduce capital and maintenance costs
• Extended life-cycles

Operational effectiveness

• Eliminate and improve operational bottlenecks
• Fault-tolerant platform to maximize uptime

Seamless growth

• Single platform solution from field to boardroom
• Future proof solutions

Risk mitigation

• Safety operations
• Faster, lower-cost upgrades and expansions

Cost Management

• Product-based platform supports:

• Object oriented configuration supports:

• Database and graphical templating to reduce configuration effort
• Integrated admin tools reduce dependency on external experts

Seamless growth

• Product-based platform supports:

• Open, standards-based products allow software add-ons to support growth
• Distributed, modular software enables unlimited growth
• Databases can be upgraded to the latest version
• Multiple software versions can be supported within an Enterprise Solution

Operation effectiveness

• Understandable and Actionable data:

• Manage by exception - intelligent, actionable alarms
• Reduce travel expenses and accidents
• Perform system-driven tasks with less experienced staff
• Advanced alarms and clear roles with assigned zones and callout/in notifications and escalation
• Flexible control sequencing
  
  

• Efficient business application:

• Production data and interface to accounting
• Contracts management, nominations and recommend flow rates

Risk mitigation

• Regulatory compliance:

• AGA & API 21.1 – Electronic Gas Measurement
• API 1164 - Cyber Security
• API 1167 - Alarm Managementf
• API 1168, 49 CFR 195.446 and 49 CFR 192.631 - Control Room Management (CRM)
• API 1165 - Recommended Practice for Pipeline SCADA Displays
• AER Directive 17 – Oil and Gas Measurement
  
  

• Secure and recoverable:

• Flexible Architecture; Redundancy, Replication and Disaster Recovery for maximum uptime
• Patch updates without downtime
• Configurable database and system backups

Features

• High performance memory resident database with multiple fault-tolerant redundancy architectures supported
• Integrated Platform with Device Interface, Real-time, Historical and Application databases, alarming, trending, reporting, security, segment applications, and Graphical User Interface
• Library of industry Enterprise Applications for the Upstream and Midstream
• Standard ERP interfaces

Benefits

• Low Total Cost of Ownership enabled by the Product-based platform and templating and easy upgrades
• Flexible Licensing model
• Single Engineering tool for all databases configuration
• High availability through a distributed architecture, multiple levels of redundancy and a Disaster Recovery option
• Support of liquids measurement for storage and transmission
• Security - Multiple levels (users, zone, and location)
• Affordable through unique client licensing and rich set of core functionality
• Lower dependency on specialists through oil and gas applications
• Reduced maintenance costs with fewer servers, built-in admin tools, easy upgrades
• Improving performance and ROI through intelligent alarms, escalation and callout
• Compliance with industry standards 

• RTUs and Electronic Flow Computers 
• PLCs / Safety PLCs
• Telecommunication 
• Alarm Management
• Cyber Security

• RTUs and Electronic Flow Computers
• PLCs / Safety PLCs
• Telecommunication 
• Terminal Management Systems
• Price and Demand Forecasting 
• Electronic Shift Documentation 
• Alarm Management
• Cyber Security