Innovative Controls Knows Control System Migration

from the Integrated Solutions / Innovative Controls group at Cross

Topic - Control System Migration.  At some point, every manufacturing facility will need to discuss migration.  According to statistics, $65 billion worth of installed legacy process-control systems have reached the end of their reasonable life cycle.  Many companies do not have the financial resources to perform a complete replacement of equipment or the technical resources to develop a strategy for migration and replacement to more current technologies.

Enter Innovative Controls.

With extensive experience in integrating many hardware and software platforms, Innovative Controls can assist customers in this process by

1. Perform an on-site risk analysis and site review
2. From the acquired information, specific recommendations are made regarding migration path best suited for customer requirements minimizing cost, risk and associated downtime.

Innovative Controls' deployment strategies include:

• Human Machine Interface replacement - provide a new HMI for communication to legacy system controllers
• Application Conversion - conversion of older systems to newer releases on current operating platforms
• Improved Network Gateways - replacing old serial interfaces with Ethernet, fiber or wireless devices
• I/O Replacement - installation of new I/O modules while preserving the wire terminations
• I/O Interfaces - maintaining the existing I/O subsystem to be controlled by a new controller
• Code Optimization - to aid in a future migration by properly documenting the control system
• Enhanced Batch Manager - for S88 Compliance and improved operation

From a simple HMI upgrade to development of a five to ten year migration plan, Innovative Controls can provide the complete planning, engineering and commissioning to achieve the migration and business goals.

IC has the knowledge and expertise to extract the required information from the existing legacy configurations, graphics, experienced operator knowledge or old documentation in your facility.  A complete turn-key solution is provided based on migration needs. 

Innovative Controls Turn-Key Services include:

• system analysis
• configuration programming
• project documentation
• panel build and design
• acceptance testing
• startup and checkout services

Migration experience includes:

• Moore APACS
• Fisher Provox S10 and S20
• Bailey Net 90 and INFI 90
• Foxboro SPECTRUM or SPEC 200
• Rosemount RS3
• Virtually and brand of PLC

Service Capabilites:

• design specification development
• functional specification development
• migration analysis and recommendations
• cost analysis for migrations

Innovative Controls' qualifications are extensive as well including ISO 9001 Registered Firm, 20 years in business, extensive conversion and multi platform experience, Rockwell - ControlLogix, CompactLogix, SLC500, PLC5, Emerson DeltaV, Siemens PCS7, APACS and Quadlog experience, migration experience from many legacy distributed control systems and PLCs, IEC 61131 programming methodology.

Reach out to the experts at Innovative Controls for your migration needs.
865.671.7700