AUSTIN, TX
(11/13/2000) -- AUSTIN, TEXAS (November 13, 2000) - Fibras Quimicas
S. A., in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico has selected
Fisher-Rosemount’s PlantWeb® field-based architecture to control the
polymerization columns in their facility and reduce automation
maintenance costs. This initial installation of a PlantWeb process
automation solution is the first phase of a broader project to
optimize all polymerization areas of the plant.
“I expect
PlantWeb architecture to provide better operating data to management
at a more economical cost,” says Guillermo Belloc Garza,
Instrumentation Chief of Fibras Quimicas. “It will also give plant
personnel better tools to help optimize the performance of our
polymerization columns and reduce time spent troubleshooting process
control problems.”
The PlantWeb solution includes a DeltaVä
automation system, Asset Management Solutions (AMS) software, and
intelligent field devices such as Rosemount pressure and temperature
transmitters and flowmeters, Rosemount Analytical pH and oxygen
analyzers, Fisher Controls FIELDVUE ® Digital Valve Controllers, and
Micro Motion Coriolis mass flowmeters.
The field devices use
HART and FOUNDATIONä fieldbus to communicate process and equipment
information, including diagnostics, to each other and to the DeltaV
system with its integrated Asset Management Solutions (AMS)
software. As a result, equipment configuration and troubleshooting
is fast and easy. At Fibras Quimicas, some PID functions are also
performed in fieldbus-enabled devices.
Fibras Quimicas
personnel installed the PlantWeb equipment themselves, with
configuration assistance and other technical support from
Fisher-Rosemount Mexico’s office in Monterrey. “An important factor
in the decision to install this process automation solution was how
easy it is,” says Sergio Montes, F-R Mexico General Manager.
“PlantWeb is a revolutionary, proven architecture, and its DeltaV
automation system makes it easy--easy to implement, easy to upgrade,
and easy to operate - and its open design makes it easy to interface
with other plant and business systems.
Fisher-Rosemount
(www.fisher-rosemount.com), a part of Emerson Electric Co., is a
leading supplier of process management products and solutions,
including control valves, regulators, transmitters, analyzers, and
process management systems. Its innovative, proven PlantWeb
field-based architecture (www.plantwebhome.com) combines intelligent
field devices, open standards and automation systems, and modular
software to easily and significantly enhance process and business
performance.
St. Louis-based Emerson Electric Co. (NYSE:EMR)
is a global leader in providing customers with innovative
technologies and solutions in five business segments: industrial
automation; process control; heating, ventilating and air
conditioning; electronics and telecommunications; and appliance and
tools. Sales in fiscal 1999 were $14.3
billion.
PlantWeb, FIELDVUE, and DeltaV are marks of
one of the Fisher-Rosemount family of companies. FOUNDATION is a
mark of the Fieldbus Foundation. All other marks are the property of
their respective owners. |