Process control applications come in many different sizes and levels of complexity. It's critical to have an architecture built to support this required scalability, or you end up with multiple, isolated, difficult-to-integrate solutions.
Scalability starts at the field device level. Technologies like Wireless HART and its self–organizing wireless mesh network help you scale your instrumentation device by device, and area by area within your plant. Predictive diagnostics across all of these devices along with your HART, FOUNDATION fieldbus and Profibus DP devices-even across multiple DeltaV systems, enable you to proactively manage your resources.
The DeltaV architecture scales in size from 25 I/O to over 1 million I/O. DeltaV Zones segment the systems to ensure flexible operation and expansions with enhanced system performance. Maintenance or commissioning activities can be performed in each zone without impacting other zones. Also, to more easily manage software upgrades based on process criticality, each system can operate using different DeltaV software revisions, and still share data across zones. The DeltaV system expands online, without redesign, and with the existing software-no upgrade required.
The DeltaV system scales in functionality to provide you with the tools you need for your process control application. With a common set of engineering tools and a common database, it provides a single platform and eliminates the typical headaches associated with integration. You have the flexibility to add advanced control, or batch, or safety instrumented functions as needed.
No matter your application's size all hardware components are the same, the engineering tools are the same, operations and maintenance applications are the same. The result? Less training, fewer spares, and easier operations.
