Legacy process control system migrations

Author

McFeaters, Kevin A. ; Ciammaichella, Dick ; Waters, Joe

Author_Institution

Paper & Wood, Products Div., RoviSys Co., Apex, NC, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

14-18 June 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Given today´s slow economic growth, reduced plant engineering and maintenance staffing and tight capital budget constraints, understanding how best to propose, plan, execute and allocate limited resources for successful process control system migrations is imperative for manufacturers seeking to maintain or increase productivity and efficiencies. Unfortunately, there is little published data on best practices for taking on technical projects of this magnitude let alone establishing a standards based approach for initiating and executing these types of projects.

Keywords

process control; productivity; capital budget constraints; economic growth; efficiency increase; legacy process control system migration; maintenance staffing; plant engineering; productivity increase; resource allocation; resource planning; standard-based approach; Aging; Automation; Companies; Control systems; Process control; Production; Cutover; Distributed Control System (DCS); Legacy Migration; Programmable Logic Controller (PLC); Rip and Replace;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pulp and Paper Industry Conference (PPIC), 2015 61st IEEE

Conference_Location

Milwaukee, WI

ISSN

0190-2172

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7113-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PPIC.2015.7165869

Filename

7165869