Advant Controller 450

tegrated ystem for ser optimized otor control. An ABB proprietary, LONWORKS based
system for switchgear and motor control systems.
Intrinsically safe equipment and wiring is equipment and wiring which is incapable of releasing
sufficient electrical energy under normal or abnormal conditions to cause ignition of a specific
hazardous atmosphere mixture.
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local operator
Local control is a mode of operation where responsibility is assigned to an operator/equipment
located in the process environment close to the process object.
A fieldbus developed and owned by Echelon Corporation, and with a public protocol.
A module is a hardware unit, with or without accommodated software, or a software unit.
There are modules of various sizes and functionality. Examples of hardware modules:
, communication module, I/O module.
Examples of software modules:
Basic system program module in a controller, a PC element.
A multi-drop connection is a means of establishing a multi-drop network, that is a network with
two endpoint , any number of intermediate and only a single path between any two
.
A node in general - a point in a data network.
A node in an application:
• Any logically addressable unit directly connected to the plant or .
Examples are controller, process station, operator station.
• Any logically addressable unit connected via RCOM.
Object oriented connection means a way of organizing the connection of field intermediate
cables from process objects which utilize different categories of signals, for example, DI and
DO. The purpose is to eliminate the need of marshalling and cable split-up.
With off-line configuration, configuration data is created outside the application for later
installation, or the internal configuration data is directly affected, but the application is inactive.
With on-line configuration, the internal configuration data of a system application is directly
affected, while the application is active.
A process object is process concept/equipment, for example, valve, motor, conveyor, tank.
Process station is a descriptive name for MasterPiece products.
A process station is an entity in which control applications are running. It includes the process
I/O.
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