Vijeo Citect Technical Overview.pdf

Vijeo Citect

Technical Overview

An in-depth guide to our high performance

operations management solution

Reliability

Flexibility

Scalability

The Schneider Electric Offer

At Schneider Electric, we understand that companies need

to implement strategies to optimize processes and

reduce operating costs. For example, Vijeo Citect allows

you to integrate automation & control with energy

monitoring to optimize process energy consumption.

Thomas Hinninger, Schneider-Electric, VP Operation & Optimization Software Activity

Solutions are not only based on technology, but also the expertise behind

the technology. At Schneider Electric we have been delivering solutions for

manufacturing and process industries for over 40 years. We understand what

is needed to help you achieve your goals in automation and control, and

energy management.

3 The Schneider Electric Offer

4 The Vijeo Citect Offer

5 System Architecture

42 Energy

Process ..................................................................................42

Optimize .................................................................................44

46 Coniguration

Design ....................................................................................46

Pages .....................................................................................48

Graphics Templates ................................................................50

Graphics Symbols ..................................................................51

Graphics Objects ....................................................................52

Flexible ...................................................................................54

Topologies : Scalable ................................................................5

Topologies : Flexible..................................................................7

Topologies : Reliable .................................................................9

Clients ....................................................................................11

Object Based Design ..............................................................13

Online Changes....................................... ...............................14

A history based on innovation

More than 40 years ago, we invented the irst programmable

logic controllers (PLC) and paved the way for companies to drive

eficiency, by replacing physical logic relays.

Leaders in process automation

We have come a long way since we installed our irst PLC and

today we are amongst a select few leaders in process automation,

delivering solutions for a wide range of applications. We understand

that each application is unique and that is why we offer a system

that can be tailored to meet the needs of many types of processes,

including discrete, batch, continuous, safety or a combination of

these.

15 Communication

OFS ........................................................................................15

RTUs ......................................................................................16

Open Access ..........................................................................18

Drivers ....................................................................................20

Simple ....................................................................................22

56 Product

Help .......................................................................................56

Example Project .....................................................................57

Licensing ................................................................................58

Migration ................................................................................59

In 1979 we introduced Modbus ™ to the market, a de facto

communications standard, truly open and one of the most

widely used industrial protocols in the world.

Enterprise wide solutions

Our automation offer is unrivalled, from the sensor that measures

your process and the system that controls your production, to

the historian and manufacturing execution system that helps you

improve production eficiency and achieve operational excellence.

All this coupled with the ability to provide integrated enterprise

wide energy eficiency solutions, backed by a team of dedicated

professionals focused on delivering the exact solution you need.

In 1985 we launched our irst Supervisory Control And Data

Acquisition (SCADA) system, tailored to the Mining and Food &

Beverage sectors.

60 Complementary Products

Historian .................................................................................60

Batch .....................................................................................61

Operations Management ........................................................62

23 Security

Coniguration ..........................................................................23

Operations ..............................................................................24

In 1991 we released Citect ™ for Windows ® . A system that has

been used to implement one of the world’s largest Windows-based

control systems.

26 Operations

Graphics ................................................................................26

Operator Actions ....................................................................28

Data Quality ............................................................................29

Alarms & Events .....................................................................30

Trends ....................................................................................32

Statistical Process Control (SPC) ............................................36

Integrated Video .....................................................................37

Mobility ...................................................................................38

Plant Floor ..............................................................................39

Reports ..................................................................................40

Database Control ...................................................................41

In 1996 we introduced our irst programmable automation

controller (PAC) with embedded web server capabilities and

onboard data logging.

63 Complementary Offers

Customer Service Resolution ..................................................63

SCADA Support .....................................................................64

Educational Services ..............................................................65

Leader in energy efficiency

Not only are we leaders in process automation, but we lead the

way in energy eficiency. Every day we help companies identify and

implement ways to reduce their energy consumption and decrease

their environmental footprint.

In 2003 we launched Process Analyst, combining Alarm, Trend

and Tag information within a uniied and intuitive display.

66 Features

We have a solid history based on innovation and openness, and

today we continue in the same spirit with the introduction of our

energy management solution, PlantStruxure TM .

PlantStruxure is a collaborative system that

allows industrial and infrastructure companies

meet their automation needs and at the same

time deliver on growing energy management

requirements. In a single environment, measured

energy and process data can be analyzed and

used to yield a holistically optimized plant.

Enterprise

ERP

Microsoft is pleased to be working with

Schneider Electric to deliver powerful and

reliable control and monitoring solutions

for industrial customers worldwide.

MES

Batch

Historian

Plant

CitectSCADA

Operation & Monitoring

Process Automation

Process

Chris Colyer Worldwide Director of

Plant Operations Strategy for Microsoft

Energy Monitoring

Intelligent Motor Control

Device Management

Field

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replacement of this manual with another. Schneider Electric assumes no responsibility for any errors that may be in this document and reserves the right to revise this document at any time without incurring an obligation to notify any

person of the revision.

Modbus, Vijeo Citect, PlantStruxure, Schneider Electric, Vijeo Citect Lite, Modicon Quantum, TSX Micro, Twido, Vijeo Historian, Ampla are trademarks owned by Schneider Electric Industries SAS or its afiliated companies. All other

trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

PlantStruxure Product Pyramid

Architecture

The Vijeo Citect Offer

System Architecture

Topologies: Scalable

Schneider Electric's Vijeo Citect ™ is the operating and monitoring

component of PlantStruxure. With its powerful visualization capabilities and

operational features, it delivers actionable insight faster, helping to increase

effectiveness by enabling more timely responses to process disturbances.

Vijeo Citect software protects your investment by providing

system architecture that is scalable to any size application.

A wide range

of industry

solutions

Schneider Electric ™ is

dedicated to

understanding

our customers’ needs

and providing them

with the best

technology available.

OEM Solution

(Vijeo Citect Lite)

Vijeo Citect Lite ™

has been designed

for stand-alone HMI

type applications

and includes a wide

variety of drivers and

connectivity options.

Scalable Architecture

Scalability is the power to resize your system — up

or down — without having to modify the existing

system hardware or software. Vijeo Citect’s

innovative scalable architecture allows your system’s

architecture to grow with your requirements, while

preserving your initial investment. Easily add an

operator interface by using the computer set-up

wizard to add an additional network and establish a

control client on a new computer. The new computer

can share the same coniguration, and will receive I/O

from the irst Vijeo Citect computer.

Control client,

Report Tr end,

Alarm, I/O Servers

Vijeo Citect Lite is a

scalable solution which

can be upgraded to

Vijeo Citect. This is as

simple as upgrading

the license.

Our solutions are

implemented in

numerous industries,

including:

> Aerospace & Defence

> Automotive

> Building Automation

> Cement & Glass

> Chemical

> Electronics

> Food & Beverage

> Machinery &

Machine or Local Control

Running on Windows embedded, Vijeo Citect

software provides users with a control system

that has the power to match the requirements of

advanced machines. Our embedded systems provide

the same level of functionality of our full SCADA

package and can be run as a stand-alone system, or

integrated as a local control panel within an integrated

control system.

Features include:

> Historical and

real-time trending,

advanced alarming

and reporting

PAC

> Customizable

installation

Standard control

Manufacturing

> Metals, Mining &

Minerals

> Oil & Gas

> Pharmaceutical

> Power / Utilities &

Generation

> Pulp & Paper

> Telecommunications

> Telemetry

> Transportation

> Water & Wastewater

> Ontime runtime

language switching

to support global

customers

Standard Control

Vijeo Citect systems have the capacity to grow

from a single computer, to large scale control

systems. This ability for a single system to expand

without coniguration changes, enables Vijeo Citect

customers to be conident in the long-term future of

their investment.

> Graphics API for

automated building

of graphics pages

> Two programming

languages – Cicode

and CitectVBA

> Statistical Process

Control

> Graphical elements

including Genies,

Super Genies and

ActiveX ® objects

PAC

Large control

Architecture

System Architecture

Topologies: Scalable

Topologies: Flexible

Large Control

Vijeo Citect software has long had an impressive

reputation with large control systems. One of the large

Vijeo Citect based control systems implemented in

1992, contained in excess of 50,000 tags. In order

to complete projects on this scale, Vijeo Citect

developed advanced communications topologies

and project structures that enable the design,

implementation and maintenance of larger control

systems.

Large Systems

Your SCADA system, like your business, must react to changing conditions.

Production expansion and cost pressures can prove challenging to any

system. The flexibility of Vijeo Citect software alleviates this pressure with its

client-server architecture and in-built capacity for you to redesign your

system as required.

Vijeo Citect can easily scale to a variety of company

application sizes. Coverage ranges from applications

with only a few points, through to large scale

applications monitoring and controlling in excess

of half a million points. The option of centralized or

distributed processing allows for scalability to various

system sizes. Centralized processing has the beneit

and more economical option of keeping the data

and processing to one PC. However for large scale

applications, distributed processing allows for the

sharing of processing over multiple computers.

Customer Profile:

Argyle

Diamonds

In 1992, the Argyle

Diamond Mine

in Australia

commissioned the irst

Schneider Electric,

Windows-based

SCADA system.

Since commissioning,

this fully automated

24 hour/365 day

operation has not

encountered

production downtime

thanks to the

Schneider Electric

SCADA system.

The system:

> 33 PACs

> 33,000 digital I/O

points

> 16,000 analog I/O

points

> 11,500 alarms

> 4,000 historical

Flexible Architecture

Designed from the outset with true client-server

architecture in mind, Vijeo Citect provides valuable

high performance responses and data integrity, in

real-time.

Between the I/O servers and other tasks within

Vijeo Citect, a publish / subscribe interface

exists. This interface enables the bandwidth

requirements between the clients and servers, to

be driven by the activity or number of changes to

a speciic variable, rather than by the size of the

system. Vijeo Citect servers can be separated

from the I/O servers via shared bandwidth

communications, increasing the options for server

locations and the lexibility of the control system.

Clustered Control

In an economic climate of cost rationalizing and

control, Vijeo Citect’s ability to unify any number of

control systems into a single “clustered” system,

provides users with optimal topology. In addition to

the capacity for individual local site view, global clients

can be implemented with visibility across the entire

control system, complete with uniied alarm lists as

well as comparisons of trended data across multiple

systems.

Taking full advantage of the client-server architecture

begins at the task level. Each task works as a distinct

client and/or server module, performing its own

role, and interfacing with the other tasks through

the client-server relationship. Vijeo Citect has ive

fundamental tasks which handle: communications

with I/O devices; monitoring of alarm and equipment

conditions; report type output; trending and user

display.

With the tags available, Vijeo Citect tasks can now be

located to meet the requirements of the system.

Vijeo Citect systems are often built around a central

pair of servers, each acting as the primary or standby

server. Depending on the tags available, Vijeo Citect

tasks can now be relocated around particular system

requirements. This design lexibility helps optimize

performance by executing each Vijeo Citect task

individually.

Each of these tasks is independent with its own

processing, allowing control and lexibility over which

computers in your network perform particular tasks.

For example, you can nominate one computer to

perform the display and report tasks, while your

second computer performs display, I/O, alarm and

trends.

In doing so, the Vijeo Citect system can create

separate server and client components across the

available CPUs, resulting in improved performance

and stability. A system with individual task processes

can either remain on the central server, or have each

task distributed as required to meet particular system

needs.

The initial design step for your control system places

I/O servers, as required, to access the data. The

ability to support up to 255 I/O servers, each with

licenses for the large number of protocols included

with Vijeo Citect, enables the control system to

access your data wherever it is located. Once data is

available from the I/O servers, the source of the data

becomes transparent to the control system designer.

This allows the communications and the control

system design to be completely independent and

facilitates greater lexibility with changing I/O server

locations or system connections in the future.

As well as relocating system tasks to meet growing

needs, Vijeo Citect software can duplicate system

tasks by adding clusters to enable system expansion.

Additional clusters enable the SCADA system to

expand by either using more of the existing resources

or by adding new resources. For example, a system

may reach a point where the number of trends being

recorded needs to be enhanced. Without clusters,

a larger, more expensive computer needs to be

purchased. With clusters, the system can add an

additional trend task and progressively add trends

on the new server, without the need for additional

hardware investment.

trends

> 50 PCs on

Ethernet LAN

> Common (global)

database

> Coniguration at

any PC

> DCS style

Cluster Control

redundancy

Architecture

System Architecture

Topologies: Flexible

Topologies: Reliable

Reliable Architecture

In factory automation and other mission critical

applications, hardware failure leads to costly

production loss and can result in potentially

hazardous situations. Vijeo Citect's redundancy

can tolerate failure anywhere in your system, in

order to maintain functionality and performance.

The redundancy features of Vijeo Citect can be used

together, providing you with enhanced protection.

Because of Vijeo Citect’s task-based architecture,

you get an unrivalled level of SCADA redundancy.

Each of the tasks in Vijeo Citect, (I/O, trends, alarms,

reports, display), can be shared by other computers

in your system. This allows you to allocate a server

task to two computers at one time; one as the

primary and the other as the standby. If a primary

server fails, the standby will automatically assume

its role without loss of data. When the primary is

absent, the clients will automatically access the

standby server. When the primary server is brought

back online, it will be resynchronized automatically,

minimizing gaps in your history iles.

Control Client

Vijeo Citect software supports full, hot standby

conigurations, providing complete I/O device

redundancy. By nominating one device as

primary and the other as standby, Vijeo Citect will

automatically switch from one to the other in the event

of a failure. With Vijeo Citect’s ability to write set-point

changes to both primary and standby I/O devices,

even devices that were not designed for redundancy,

can be used in a redundant coniguration.

SCEnARiO

You have four

identical machines

with identical projects.

With a single Vijeo

Citect project, Vijeo

Citect allows you

to view the alarms,

trends, I/O and

reports; and to

duplicate display

information from

each of the systems.

This greatly reduces

the normal level of

testing required within

the project.

Since tasks are often different in nature, Vijeo Citect

software offers you a separate redundancy strategy

for each. If upgrades or system coniguration changes

are needed, new projects can be loaded on the

standby server. Once loaded, switch from the primary

server and run the new project on the standby server.

Should it not work as expected, you can switch back

to the primary server without disturbing production.

A broken communication cable and unpredictable

electrical noise are common communication

problems. In response, Vijeo Citect allows the use of

two separate communication cables, (run separately)

for each I/O device. By using data path redundancy,

you minimize the chance of communication loss

affecting your operation.

Scalable, lexible, reliable architecture

PAC

When communicating with an I/O device,

many systems demand redundant I/O server

conigurations. To avoid conlict of data, and to

maximize communication bandwidth, only the

primary I/O server communicates with the I/O device.

An example of this

could be a wind farm

project with multiple

turbines, where with

just one Vjieo Citect

project, you have

the ability to centrally

monitor the entire

windfarm.

Vijeo Citect systems use LANs to connect the

elements, but something as simple as a faulty

network card can disrupt communication. Vijeo

Citect’s built-in multiple network support provides

full LAN redundancy. All you have to do is install two

networks (or more if you like). If the primary LAN fails,

Vijeo Citect will automatically try to connect on the

other available LANs, without the need for additional

coniguration.

The fallibility of ile servers is often forgotten. Vijeo

Citect supports redundant ile locations, so that even

if your ile server fails, your SCADA system will

continue to operate normally. The redundancy

features of Vijeo Citect are integrated and easy to

conigure. In fact, LAN redundancy requires no setup,

and task redundancy setup is conigured in a few

seconds using a simple wizard.

Data path redundancy

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