• Any Size System. DeltaV I/O capacity doubles to 30,000 I/O. The DeltaV system can directly connect 120 nodes. Dozens of additional remote workstations can be connected.
  
• Remote Workstations. Engineer and operate your DeltaV system via remote networks including local area networks, wide area networks, microwave, and satellite communications. Remote workstations can be connected via your ProfessionalPLUS Station or Application Station, providing you dozens of additional windows into your process.
  
• Simplified, System-Wide Controller Licenses. Delivers simplified licensing of controller software. Now only one control license exists for the entire system. No longer will you purchase and manage multiple licenses for each controller in your system. Instead, you purchase a single, system-wide license for control no matter how many controllers you have in your system. And you have the freedom of landing your I/O where it makes the most sense, with no penalty. Also, your older sequence, monitor and logic licenses get upgraded to be included in the system control license! Need batch control? No problem: purchase one more system-wide license to add batch control-easy!

DeltaV Hardware

• MD Controller. Delivers 5 times the performance of your M3 and M5 controllers-and a 10x communication speed increase to 100MB/sec.
  
• Profibus DP Interface. Communicates easily with Profibus DP devices. Signals from these devices are treated just like classic I/O, so control is completely transparent. No mapping! Add devices online, without interrupting control-easy!
  
• AS-i Interface. Add inexpensive, discrete AS-i devices easily into the DeltaV system. All signals from the devices are treated as I/O signals so they, too, are transparent. No gateways, no mapping! Auto-sense your field devices, auto-address them with your own signal name and you're done!
  
• Multifunction Card. Provides capability for pulse inputs up to 50 kHz and provides accumulation functionality. It's a great convenience for specialty applications.
  
• Redundant Fieldbus Power. Delivers secure, redundant power to the fieldbus segment with this new power conditioner. Energy limitations ensure non-incendive installation.
  
• Integrated Sequence of Events. Delivers an accurate picture of events as they unfold down to ¼ msec resolution in the SOE card, 1 msec within a controller, and 3 msec system-wide. This high-speed data capture is ideal for process upset analysis.
  
• I/O G3 Certification. Complies with ISA G3 corrosion specifications with superior electronic components and the use of conformal coating.

DeltaV Software

• Tip of the Day. Adds helpful hints to the DeltaV Explorer, Control Studio, and Recipe Studio, giving you suggestions on easier ways to more efficiently work with your DeltaV system.
  
• OPC Mirror. Increases support for connection of up to 50 OPC servers.
  
• OPC Event Server. Provides DeltaV alarms and events to your OPC-enabled clients
  
• OPC Access of FOUNDATION Fieldbus information. Expands the breadth of information your OPC clients can access into the wealth of information in FOUNDATION fieldbus devices.
  
• DeltaV Operate. Provides state-of-the-art operator graphics with a whole new way to configure! The display configuration includes familiar technologies such as: Visual Basic for Applications for display scripting, and the Explorer look and feel for navigation to easily find and modify displays. If you're operating remotely or ready for the next generation of operator interfaces, DeltaV Operate is for you.
  
• Expanded History. Increases historical collection to 20,000 different items.
  
• FOUNDATION Fieldbus Device Audit Trail. Easily track calibration and configuration changes in your FOUNDATION fieldbus devices.
  
• System Alarm Management. Provides an application with a single view to compare, analyze and modify alarms. All of the modules within a unit or area are displayed, with only the alarms shown. Take advantage of multi-item select to change the alarm configuration of several alarms across multiple modules at the same time.
  
• Easy, Advanced Alarming. Eliminates nuisance alarms easily. Operators can suppress alarms caused from faulty equipment and view all of the suppressed alarms in a single summary. Engineers can easily configure alarm enable and delay times with DeltaV conditional alarming. Simply select conditional alarming for any standard DeltaV alarm, and enter your values-no calculations to write or complex logic to maintain!
  
• Unit Alarm Display. Adds units under areas in the DeltaV Explorer for alarm management. These units summarize the alarms in modules under them. Pre-built unit alarm faceplate and detail displays show the highest priority alarms for the modules within the unit-in one easy key click.
  
• Easier Engineering. Makes engineering the DeltaV system even easier. Version 5 adds an Undo function and the ability to add URLs into the engineering applications like Control Studio, DeltaV Explorer, and Recipe Studio. Now you can easily browse to custom help, operating procedures, loop diagrams, and more.
  
• Integrated Equipment Hierarchy. Completely implementing S88.01 equipment and procedure models, the DeltaV system's class-based development tools dramatically reduce your costs for software design, implementation, test, validation, and maintenance.
  
• Engineering Tools Performance. Improves performance for verifying class-based unit modules and loading recipes and provides an overall improvement in engineering tools. A more efficient mechanism for database access speeds up the database access function for more rapid engineering.
  
• Drawing Tools. Improves the presentation of your documentation in Control Studio, with a palette of drawing tools similar to that in Microsoft PowerPoint. Now loop sheets may be done in the system.
  
• Signal References. Speeds up faultfinding and improves documentation. You can now turn on a preference in Control Studio to see the source and destination of a signal, improving your readability of the control strategy.
  
• SFC Transition Viewer. Reduce downtime, speed up faultfinding, and maximize your debug capabilities by viewing SFC transitions in online mode. Now commissioning is even faster.
  
• Tailor-made Configuration. Not using buses? Not using batch? With System Preferences, you can now tailor the DeltaV system to suit your needs. By selecting to hide functionality, DeltaV configuration shows you only the options that are valid for your application.
  
• Quicker Navigation. Adds a shortcut bar in the DeltaV Explorer, which behaves just like the shortcut bar in Microsoft Outlook. Now you have fast, easier navigation, especially for larger configurations.
  
• HTML Help. Books Online, now in HTML format, is better organized, making searches easier and allowing you to link in user-defined HTML help files.
  
• Web Server. Adds real-time trending with adjustable time scales and navigation links for easier browsing.

DeltaV Advanced Control

• Now standard! DeltaV Fuzzy is now a standard part of every DeltaV system that includes a system-wide Control software license. You no longer need an additional license to use the Fuzzy Logic function block. In addition, DeltaV Tune for tuning both PID and fuzzy logic loops is now a standard part of the ProfessionalPLUS Station software suite.
  
• DeltaV Tune Stability Analysis. This new feature adds stability analysis and loop simulation features that allow you to adjust tuning parameters-so you can set the loop for optimal response to setpoint or disturbance changes or to a stable control setting unique to your application.
  
• DeltaV Predict. Embeds model predictive control is available to help solve those tough control challenges including: feed-forward, override, and decoupling networks.
  
• Multivariable, Model-based Controller. Integrates the SMOC multivariable, model-based optimizing controller when you purchase MDC Technology's SMOC process optimization product. The SMOC controller running in a DeltaV Application Station communicates seamlessly to SMOC composite blocks configured in Control Studio. Graphic dynamos and a built-in MPC operator application eliminate operator interface development.
  
• Easy Simulation. DeltaV Simulate provides a suite of products to handle your needs from simple engineering configuration checkout and operator training to easy integration with your high fidelity simulation packages, all on a single PC or multi-node environment.

DeltaV Batch

• Improved Performance. The Batch Executive has doubled CPU and memory usage efficiency.
  
• Campaign Manager. Provides an optional, easy-to-use interface for creating, modifying and executing campaigns. Campaign Manager also provides a comprehensive campaign execution history that is automatically stored in the Batch Historian database, along with all of the associated batch historical data. Campaign reports may be generated using the standard DeltaV Batch Historian reporting tools.
  View the recipe, formula, batch IDs, and equipment defined for any campaign. See the current status of any batch, as well as any modifications made to a particular batch.
  
  Campaign Manager includes a comprehensive API that lets you develop MES/ERP applications to interact with the Campaign Manager and programmatically create campaigns.
  
• Electronic Signature Support. Secures your batch operations by automatically requiring a user name and password. Operator confirmation and verification options support the use of electronic batch records. Now you can request an electronic signature (confirmation), as well as a secondary signature (verification) for Batch Operator Interface actions, Campaign Manager actions, and responses to operator prompts. These signatures are stored, along with the action that was performed, as part of the batch's history.
  
  This option is configurable and tightly integrated with DeltaV security and meets electronic signature requirements as outlined in the United States Food and Drug Administration 21 CFR Part 11.
  
• Configuration Audit Trail. Controls, manages, and tracks changes in the DeltaV configuration database. Also supports electronic recordkeeping per 21 CFR Part 11.
  
  
  Ordering Batch Made Easy. Three levels of batch licensing most typically used eliminate the need to order components separately:
• Basic Batch -- includes Batch Executive
• Advanced Batch -- includes Batch Executive, Batch Historian and Soft Phase Server
• Professional Batch -- includes Batch Executive, Batch Historian, Soft Phase Server and Campaign Manager.


• Batch Historian. Now runs as an NT service for added security, so it can start automatically when NT is started and remains running even when a user logs off the system.
  
• Batch Operator Interface. Provides operators with even more information about what the batch is doing by displaying comments, transition descriptions and step descriptions in the graphical view of a recipe. Formula information has also been added to the displays in Batch Operator Interface.
  
• Electronic Operator Log. During batch execution, operators can enter comments that are automatically captured and stored as part of the batch's history.
  
• Increased Active Phase Count. The number of phases that can be active simultaneously on a single unit module has been increased from 5 to 10. This increase facilitates the implementation of projects that follow the Namur NE33 guideline.