Title :
Legacy process control system migrations
Author :
McFeaters, Kevin A. ; Ciammaichella, Dick ; Waters, Joe
Author_Institution :
Paper & Wood, Products Div., RoviSys Co., Apex, NC, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Pulp and Paper Industry Conference (PPIC), 2015 61st IEEE
Conference_Location :
Milwaukee, WI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7113-8
DOI :
10.1109/PPIC.2015.7165869