ECS-700

System Overview
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Table of Contents
SECTION 1 OVERVIEW ......................................................................................................................1

1.1 System performance .........................................................................................................2

1.2 System architecture...........................................................................................................3
1.3 Multi-domain management ................................................................................................5
1.4 Network connections .........................................................................................................6
1.5 System scale .....................................................................................................................8
1.6 System Performance Specifications ..................................................................................9

Section 2 Control Station ........................................................................................................... 11

2.1 The Structure of the ECS-700 Control Station ................................................................. 11

2.2 Controller.........................................................................................................................13
2.2.1 Introduction ...........................................................................................................13
2.2.2 The Hardware of the ECS-700 Control Station......................................................15
2.3 Remote Cabinet I/O Link Module ....................................................................................18

Section 3 System Interconnection ............................................................................................19

3.1 Software Open Interfaces................................................................................................19

3.2 Hardware Interconnected Interfaces................................................................................19

Section 4 Operation Node..........................................................................................................20

Section 5 System Configuration ...............................................................................................23

5.1 System configuration software.........................................................................................23

5.2 Control Scheme...............................................................................................................23
5.3 Function Block Library .....................................................................................................24
5.4 Compile and Download ...................................................................................................24
5.4.1 Block Compile and Block Download......................................................................24
5.4.2 On-line Download..................................................................................................24
5.4.3 On-line Configuration ............................................................................................25

Section 6 System Supervision Software ..................................................................................26

6.1 Real-time Database.........................................................................................................26

6.2 Response Speed .............................................................................................................26
6.3 Safety Management ........................................................................................................26
6.4 Alarm Processing ............................................................................................................26
6.4.1 Monitoring Object ..................................................................................................27

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6.4.2 Alarm Filtering .......................................................................................................27

6.4.3 Alarm Indications ...................................................................................................27
6.4.4 Alarm Recording and Confirmation........................................................................27
6.5 History Record.................................................................................................................27
6.6 Operation and Display .....................................................................................................27
6.7 Logging............................................................................................................................28
6.7.1 Operation Log........................................................................................................28
6.7.2 Log On State Variation of I/O Variables .................................................................28
6.7.3 System Event Log .................................................................................................28
6.8 Task Schedule .................................................................................................................29
6.9 Equipment Management System ....................................................................................29
6.10 Clock Synchronization ...................................................................................................29
6.11 Report............................................................................................................................30
6.12 System State Diagnosis.................................................................................................30

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Section 1 OVERVIEW
ECS-700, one of SUPCON’s WebField series control systems, is a largest and highest-end control
system that commits itself to realize automation of enterprises. It supports 16 control domains and
128 operation domains. Each control domain supports 60 control stations and each operation
domain supports 60 operation stations. Furthermore, a single domain can support 65,000 points of
tags.

ECS-700 designed in accordance with the reliability principle makes it best to ensure the security
and reliability of the system. Furthermore, all components of the system support of redundancy, so
they can still work normally when any part is in failure.

ECS-700 has the fault safety function; output modules enter into preset safety state to ensure the
safety of personnel, process system or devices under the condition of network fault.

In addition, as a large-scale combination control system, ECS-700 has the perfect engineering
management functions, such as multi-engineers cooperation, the integrality management of
configurations, on-line downloading configurations of a single-node, configuration and operation
authority management, etc; in addition, it also provides the history information on its related
operation records.

ECS-700 integrates the up-to-date Fieldbus Technology and Network Technology, which supports
of plug-in international standard Fieldbus such as PROFIBUS, MODBUS, FF, HART, etc and
various 3rd party-system-integrated.

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Figure 1-1 The overall structural map of the ECS-700 system

1.1 System performance

The ECS–700 system is designed and developed on international standards and industrial
standards, ensuring its availability, reliability and openness. It has the following distinctive
features:

 Openness

It integrates various standard interfaces for both software and hardware. The digital signals in
accordance with Fieldbus and traditional analog signals coexist in the system. Supply interface
modules according with MODBUS, HART, FF and PROFIBUS protocol.

 Safety

Safety and anti-interference of the ECS-700 system conform to the international standards under
the industrial operating environment. The whole system consists of power modules, controllers,
I/O modules and communication buses all that perform redundancy. I/O modules have the
channel-level of fault diagnosis function and perfect fault safety function. In addition, it also has the
function of on-line downloading and modifying single-point configuration, ensuring field operating
continuously and safely.

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 Easy to use

ECS-700 control stations apply the 19-inch international standard mechanical structure and the
components adopt the standard assembled fashion to meet different installation demands under
various kinds of application environments. Control cabinets use the double-sided vertical structure
with the unique cabinet layout, which makes them having the available performances such as the
flexibility of mixture configurations, I/O plot ratio and the convenience of maintenances. The
functions of I/O modules implement by software configuration dispensing with the design of
jumping wires. Both I/O modules and I/O module bases with exquisite encapsulation adopt the
rapid loading-unloading structure with free screws. ECS-700 software adopts the up-to-date
human-machine engineering design technology, which accords with the operation custom of
industrial control.

 Real-time

The ECS-700 system has the rapid logic control function, which supports the high-speed scan
cycle of 20ms. Furthermore, it possesses the SOE (Sequence of Events) function and its
maximum precision reaches 1ms.

 Powerful combination control

The matrix multi-domain control function and the real-time data cross-domain communication
management function of the ECS-700 system make it meet the requirements for subsection
control and centralized management towards the large-scale production process. To share data
among domains in the process control network rather than to access data among domains through
servers ensures the among-domain control and the inter-domain control having the same effect to
realize of controlling and managing the entire technical process as a whole.

 Efficient multi-people configuration

The ECS-700 system has the ability of multi-people cooperation. The distributed configuring
platform makes multi-engineers supervise a project simultaneously in their respective authority
areas, so as to enhance the work efficiency and reduce the project period to ensure the
consistency and security of the designs.

 Perfect system supervision

In addition to the powerful alarm function and the abundant fault diagnosis function, the ECS-700
system also can real-time supervise all system state information recorded in the history database,
such as super-range / prohibition / on-off variables whipping / fault, etc.

1.2 System architecture

ECS–700 is a combination control system which consists of control nodes, operation nodes,
system networks, etc. The control nodes include control stations and communication interfaces

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connecting with heterogeneous systems on Process Control Network. The operation nodes
include station sites of human machine interfaces (HMI) of engineer stations, operator stations,
configuration servers, data servers, etc connecting on the Process Information Network and
Process Control Network. The system networks include I/O buses, Process Control Network,
Process Information Network, Enterprise Management Network, etc.

The Enterprise Management Network connects with each management node, and obtains
information on the system from Process Information Network via management servers, realizing of
managing or remotely supervising production processes.

The Process Information Network connects with all engineer stations, operator stations,
configuration servers and data servers, and transfers history data, alarm information and operation
records among them. In addition, all of application stations on the Process Information Network
can access real-time and historical information and issue operation instructions via data servers.

The Process Control Network connects with control stations and operation nodes that include
engineer stations, operator stations, data servers, etc., which transfers real-time data and
operation instructions between them.

The I/O Expansion Network (E-BUS) and the Local I/O Bus (L-BUS) are the internal
communication networks of control stations. The E-BUS is used to connect to controllers and
various communication interface modules (such as I/O link modules, PROFIBUS communication
modules, serial communication modules, etc.); the L-BUS is used to connect to controllers and I/O
modules, or I/O link modules and I/O modules. Both E-BUS and L-BUS are configured
redundantly.

ECS-700’s flexible structure can easily realize of the formation of large-scale systems and
implement plant-wide multi-domain management.

Figure 1-2 is shown ECS-700 data flow. The real-time data on Process Control Network are sent
to operation stations and data servers at the same time. The history data make communication via
Process Information Network, which decreases the network loads of Process Control Network and
enhances the real-time quality and reliability.

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Figure 1-2 ECS-700 data flow

1.3 Multi-domain management

The ECS-700 system has the unique multi-domain management, which can be divided into one or
more control domains and operation domains by the scale and configuration of the instrumental
control system. Each operation domain can supervise multiple control domains simultaneously.
The ECS-700 multi-domain management function makes sure the real-time quality of process
control network by reducing network loads effectively.

According to different configurations, the ECS-700 system can implement of systemwide

centralized memory history data or multi-domain distributed memory history data.

In addition, the ECS-700 system has another function “data grouping management”, which refers
that operators monitor various data groupings based on their own authorities and engineers
perform data managements according to data groupings.

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Figure 1-3 The sketch map of ECS-700 multi-domain management

As shown in Figure 1-3, several control domains are connected on a same Process Control
Network and one operation domain can supervise multiple control domains simultaneously.
Operation domain #1 is configured to supervise the operation of control domain#1 and control
domain # 2; operation domain # 2 supervising the operation control domain #2 and control domain
#3; operation domain # 3 supervising the operation of control domain #4, which makes operation
domain # 1 and operation domain #2 supervise the operation of control domain #2 at the same
time to ensure the reliability of the system.

Each operation domain has a pair of mutually redundant data servers to supervise history data
and alarm information in designated control domains. Operation nodes transfer history data and
alarm information via Process Information Network, and transfer real-time data and issue
operation commands via Process Control Network.

1.4 Network connections

Process Information Network, Process Control Network and I/O Expansion Network (E-BUS) can
adopt the fiber-ring network structure when ECS-700 is applied in the large-scale control system,
so as to ensure the high reliability.

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Figure 1-4 The fiber-ring network structure of the large-scale control system

The Process Information Network adopts bus structure or star structure to connect with all
operation nodes. Its work mode can be redundant or single.

Figure 1-5 Redundant process information network connections

Process Control Network adopts high-speed redundant industrial Ethernet, whose Topology
structure is bus structure or star structure.

Figure 1-6 Redundant process control network connections

The I/O Expansion Network adopts redundant networks, whose Topology structure is bus structure
or star structure. It is used to connect with all I/O link modules, communication modules and
controllers in a same control station.

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Figure 1-7 I/O expansion network connections

Local I/O Bus adopts redundant network, whose Topology structure is bus structure. Local I/O Bus
is used to connect to I/O modules and controllers (or I/O link modules).

Figure 1-8 Local I/O bus connections

1.5 System scale

An ECS-700 system can have maximum 16 control domains and 16 operation domains. Each
control domain can be equipped with a maximum of 60 control nodes and each operation domain
a maximum of 60 operation nodes.

The maximum number of tags is 65,000 in a single control domain; as the same is in a single
operation domain. The ECS-700 system can cross domains to communicate among control
stations. A control station can receive communication date of other 15 control stations.

A single history data server can record maximum 10,000 points. A operation domain can have
more history data servers. Operation stations can access history data of multiple history data
servers.

Table 1-1 Volume of single station I/O points for Controller

Type Index

Single limitation of AI FCU711-S:  1000

points FCU712-S:  2000
Single limitation of AO FCU711-S:  500
points FCU712-S:  1000
Single limitation of DI FCU711-S:  2000
points FCU712-S:  4000

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Type Index

Single limitation of DO FCU711-S:  1000

points FCU712-S:  2000
Total limitation of I/O FCU711-S:  2000
points FCU712-S:  4000

1.6 System Performance Specifications

Table 1-2 System performance specifications

Item Subitem Specification Reference

Operating temperature (-20~70)°C

Storage temperature (-40~70)°C

10%RH~90%RH,
Working Working humidity
no condensation
Environment
5%RH~95%RH,
Storage humidity
no condensation

Atmospheric pressure (62~108) kPa

220VAC10%,
Power supply of control stations Redundant power supply
Performance of 50 Hz5%
Power Supply 220 VAC10%,
Power supply of operation nodes Redundant power supply
50 Hz5%
Ordinary occasion  4

Grounding Substation, electric power

resistance plant and place where
Special occasion  1
large electrical power
equipments are used.

Anti-disturbance
Electromagnetism compatibility Industry III level See notes 1
performance

Notes 1: System meets the following requirements of the electromagnetism compatibility

standard:

 IEC61000-3-2(GB/17625-1-198) Limit of Harmonic Current.

 IEC61000-3-3 Limit of Voltage Fluctuation and Flick.

 IEC61000-4-2(GB.T17626.2-1998) Electrostatic Discharge Immunity.

 IEC61000-4-3(GB/T17626.3-1998) RF Electromagnetic Field Immunity.

 IEC61000-4-4(GB/T17626.4-1998) Electrical Fast Transient/Bust Immunity.

 IEC61000-4-5(GB/T17626.5) surge (impulsion) Surge Immunity.

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 IEC61000-4-8(GB/T17626.8-1998) Power Frequency Magnetic Field Immunity.

 IEC61000-4-9(GB/T17626.9-1998) Pulse Magnetic Field Immunity.

 IEC61000-4-11(GB/T17626.11) Voltage Dips, Short, Interruptions and Voltage Variations

Immunity.

 EN50082-2(1995) Generic Standard-Immunity for industry environment.

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Section 2 Control Station

ECS-700 control station is the core unit of the ECS-700 system, which is directly connected to field
equipments to implement I/O data sampling, calculation, etc, realizing real-time control of
industrial process as a whole.

2.1 The Structure of the ECS-700 Control Station

The hardware of a control station mainly consists of cabinets, racks, I/O buses, power supply units,
bases and various kinds of modules including controller modules, I/O link modules, I/O modules
for various signals, etc.

The external dimension of a cabinet is: height*width*depth (without side panels)

2100mm*800mm*800mm, supporting the consolidation of cabinets. At the face of a cabinet,
controller units (or I/O link module units) and racks may be assembled; various kinds of I/O module
bases may be assembled on each rack and I/O modules may be assembled on each base. At the
back of a cabinet, power supply units, alarm units, network switches and racks may be assembled.
Furthermore, all kinds of modules may be configured redundantly so as to ensure the reliability of
real-time process control.

Equipped Modules in a Control Station

Table 2-1 the list of modules in a control station

Model Module Name Descriptions

Up to 60 pairs of controllers in a single control

FCU711-S Controller domain; Each pair of controllers can support
maximum 2,000 I/O tags.
Up to 60 pairs of controllers in a single control
FCU712-S Controller domain; Each pair of controllers can support
maximum 4,000 I/O tags.
Every pair of I/O link modules connects to maximum
COM711-S I/O link module
64 I/O modules; Support redundancy.
Connect the I/O signal of
System interconnection
COM712-S JX-300X/JX-300XP/ECS-100 systems to the
module
ECS-700 system.
PROFIBUS Connect the data conformed to PROFIBUS-DP
COM722-S
Communication Module communication protocol to DCS.
Connect the data of user intelligent system to DCS
Serial communication
COM741-S by the communication mode; Support of 4 COM
module
ports working concurrently; Support redundancy.
Realize of 8 voltage signals or current signals
AI711-S Analog input module Measurement Function; Provide power distribution
function; Support redundancy.
8 signals inputs; Channel-Channel isolated; Support
AI711-H Analog input module
redundancy; Support of cut-in Hart signal.

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Model Module Name Descriptions

Realize of 8 current signals Measurement Function;

AI712-S Analog input module Provide power distribution function; Single A/D;
Support redundancy.
16-channel input, the input of III current signal can
AI713-S Current input module
be achieved, redundancy available.
16-channel input, the input of III current signal can
AI713-H Current input module be achieved, with HART communication function,
redundancy available.
Realize of 8 thermocouple (mv) signals
Thermocouple input
AI722-S measurement function; provide cold junction
module
compensation function; support redundancy
Realize of 8 resistance signals Measurement
AI731-S RTD input module Function; Provide two-wire, three-wire and four-wire
interfaces; Support redundancy.
Realize of 8 current signals output function; Support
AO711-S Current output module
redundancy.
8 signals outputs; Channel-Channel isolated;
AO711-H Current output module
Support redundancy; Output Hart signal.
16-channel input, the input of III current signal can
AO713-S Current output module
be achieved, redundancy available.
16-channel input, the input of III current signal can
AO713-H Current output module be achieved, with HART communication function,
redundancy available.
24V query voltage; Support of 16 passive contacts
DI711-S Digital input module
or active contacts input; Support redundancy.
48V query voltage; Support of 16 passive contacts
DI712-S Digital input module
or active contacts input; Support redundancy
24V digital input module; 16 signals input;
Channel-Channel isolated; Input SOE signals; The
DI713-S Digital input module
forward 8 signals have the low frequency
accumulative function.
48V digital input module; 16 signals input;
Channel-Channel isolated; Input SOE signals; The
DI714-S Digital input module
forward 8 signals have the low frequency
accumulative function.
32-channel active (24V) contact input, redundancy
DI715-S Digital input module
available.
16-channel active (48V) contact input, redundancy
DI716-S Digital input module
available.
16-channel active (48V) contact input, Input SOE
DI718-S Digital input module
signals, redundancy available.
Support 16-channel transistor output and one-shot
DO711-S Digital output module
pulse-width output; Support redundancy
Support 16-channel transistor output and one-shot
DO712-S Digital output module
pulse-width output; Support redundancy
Support 32-channel transistor output and digital
DO715-S Digital output module
signal output; Support redundancy
Support 32-channel transistor output and digital
DO716-S Digital output module
signal output; Support redundancy
Support of the acquisition function of 6-channel
PI711-S Pulse input module 0V~5V, 0V~12V, 0V~24V pulse signals. Unified
isolation.

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Model Module Name Descriptions

Support of 4-channel signal acquisition.

AM711-S PAT module
(PAT: Position Adjusting Type)
Cut-in information on intelligent instruments
AM712-S FF interface module
according with FF protocol to controllers.
Single-channel pulse per second input (TTL, dry
LNK711 Clock signal distributor
contact, RS485); 16-channel difference outputs.

2.2 Controller
2.2.1 Introduction

The controller is the core of both software and hardware of a control station, which is used to
coordinate their relations and implement all control tasks. Controllers can automatically implement
data acquisition, information management, control calculation, etc. Via Process Control Network,
controllers connect to Data Server, Operator Station and Engineer Station to receive management
information from higher level and transmit property data of equipments and real-time data to
higher level. Via I/O Expansion Network (E-BUS) and I/O link module or via Local I/O Bus (L-BUS)
and I/O modules, controllers implement of exchanging information with I/O modules to fulfill input
sampling and output control of field signals.

A controller may expand up to 7 pairs of communication modules which contains I/O link module,
PROFIBUS module, serial communication module, etc. Every pair of I/O link modules can bring a
maximum of 4 racks, and each rack may bring up to 16 I/O modules.

Table 2-2 The specification of Controller FCU711

Type Item Index Reference

CPU Chip type 32bits 3 CPUs manage coordinately

Volume Maximum amount of AI FCU711-S: 1000

points FCU712-S: 2000
Maximum amount of AO FCU711-S: 500
points FCU712-S: 1000 FCU711-S: IO amount 2000
Maximum amount of DI FCU711-S: 2000 FCU712-S: IO amount 4000
points FCU712-S: 4000
Maximum amount of DO FCU711-S: 1000
points FCU712-S: 2000
Maximum customized FCU711-S: 250
integer variables FCU712-S: 500
Maximum customized FCU711-S: 1000
digital variables FCU712-S: 2000
Maximum customized FCU711-S: 1000
analog variables FCU712-S: 2000
Maximum number of
200
program page
Memory space 16MBytes

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Type Item Index Reference

User program space 4MBytes

User data space 2MBytes
1:1 redundancy with
Redundant type
stand-by heat
Redundancy Redundant speed rate 10Mbps
Two-machine switching
< 1 scan cycle
time

The operation period of user

programs can be one, double,
Basic scan cycle 100ms
Cycle quintuple or decade of the
scan cycle.

Fast logic scan cycle 20ms/50ms

Response Minimum response time

< 50ms
time of digital variables

Speed rate of Process

100Mbps
Control Network
Network
Speed rate of IO
100Mbps
Expansion Network
User
Programming language LD, FBD, SFC, ST
programs

On-line downloading and on-line debugging.

Record key events such as initialization, configuration downloading, system
Other
upgrading, redundant switch, etc.
functions
Have the function of power-off protection: in the case of system power-off,
configuration and processing data will not be drop-out in one month.

State Diagnosis

Controllers real-time examine hardware errors and software faults and obtain information on
internal temperatures of control cabinets, operating states of fans, failure states of power supplies,
etc. When errors or faults occur, in the system supervision software, system alarms will be
triggered and prompt operators by sounds and glinting diagrams, which are all recorded in log files
and can be queried.

Fault Safety

According to different technical requirements, AO/DO modules enter into fault safe state after
breaking communications with controllers, and then the system can choose “Output holding” or
“Output preset safe value” according to predictive configurations.

After I/O modules enter into fault safe state, the system will prompt user to perform corresponding
maintenances via “Fault safe state” in the System Supervision Software; and after the recovery of
faults, the system will prompt user to confirm the tags that had failure via “Fault recovery list”,

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ensuring the safety of the system during the period of failure and at the time of failure recovery.

Event Record

The controller records key events such as initialization, configuration downloading, system
upgrading, redundancy switching, etc.

Redundancy

A pair of redundant controllers executes a same application program. The work one is responsible
for data acquisition, process control, exchanging information on Process Control Network, etc. The
standby one is used to diagnose and monitor the state of the work one, and real-time backup the
information needed by control.

The work controller can switch to the standby one with no disturbance when it gets out of order.
The failure one can be overhauled after the completion of switching successfully, which will have
no bad influence on the control function. The key features of redundancy include:

 Automatic synchronization – The redundancy function make you do nothing about

configuration. The controller can check redundant configuration and implement
redundant processing automatically.

 Real-time synchronization – Between redundant controllers, one complete data

synchronization is fulfilled during a scanning cycle.

 Bumpless transfer – The operation of controllers will not be interrupted and the
output channels will not be disturbed during the transferring process.

 Real-time mutual diagnosis – Two redundant controllers real-time diagnose

mutually. When the work one gets out of order, the standby one will switch to the
work one in a control cycle.

 On-line replacement –The failure controller can be replaced on-line and do not
affect the control function of the work one.

2.2.2 The Hardware of the ECS-700 Control Station

Basic functions of I/O modules

 Be redundancy. A single module supports power supply redundancy and

communication redundancy.

 Electric isolation between channels, as well as between channels and the system.

 Channel-level of fault diagnosis and modules Hot Plug function.

 Equipment management function.

 EMC third-level anti-interference ability.

 Fine encapsulation.

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 Fast loading and unloading structure without bolts.

 Module bases with anti-mixture inserting units.

 Integration of weak signal terminals and modules; Strong signals are pretreated by
separable terminals.

 I/O modules with the design of exempting jumping wires are convenient to input
different signal types by selecting various terminal connecting modes.

Conventional function specifications of I/O modules

 Dust-poof and water-poof specification IP30

 Analog variable input accuracy  0.1%

 Analog variable output accuracy  0.2%

 Operating temperature -20°C ~70°C

 Storage temperature -40°C ~70°C

 Operating humidity 10%RH~90%RH, no condensation

 Work Atmospheric pressure 62kPa~108kPa

Analog input module specifications

 8 /16 channels signal inputs

 Support voltage/current signal input

 Support HART signal input

 Ultra-range display

 Free range settings

 Short circuit /open circuit detection

 The fastest scan cycle: 50ms per 8 channels, 100ms per 16 channels.

 0.1% accuracy

 Support single AD function and 0.02% high-precision acquisition

Thermocouple input module specifications

 8 channels signal inputs

 Support local and remote cold junction compensation

 Ultra-range display

 Free range settings

 Fault-line detection

 0.1% accuracy

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RTD input module specifications

 8 channels signal inputs

 Support 2-wire, 3-wire and 4-wire system

 Ultra-range display

 Free range settings

 Fault-line detection

 0.1% accuracy

Analog output module specifications

 8 /16 channels signal inputs

 Support HART signal output

 Free-range settings

 Ultra-range output

 External power supply detection

 Open circuit self-detection of channels

 Output channels self-detection

 Fault safety function

Digital input module specifications

 16 channels signal inputs

 Connection of Active/Passive contact signals

 Connection of NPN / PNP signals

 Anti-vibrating and filtering of signals

 Inquiry voltages self-detection

 Lock and memory input signals

 Channel-to-channel, channel-to-ground insulation voltage 500V

 Support SOE function

Digital output modules specifications

 16 channels signal inputs

 Support transistor output or one-shot pulse-width signal output

 Output channels self-detection

 External power supply self-detection

 Fault safety function

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Pulse input module specifications

 6 channels signal inputs

 Support of pulse accumulative and frequency measurement

 Free-range settings of frequencies

 External power supply self-detection

 Minimum pulse width:10 µs

 Minimum resolution: 0.2Hz

2.3 Remote Cabinet I/O Link Module

I/O link modules are the core unit of remote I/O cabinets and the ligament between controllers and
I/O modules. On one hand, I/O link modules communicate with controllers via E-Bus that adopts
redundant industrial Ethernet and whose speed rate is 100Mbps; On the other hand, I/O link
module supervises I/O modules via L-Bus.

I/O link modules can be configured redundantly. Under the state of redundant configuration,
whenever the work module makes communication with real-time data, the standby one is used to
ensure the synchronization of real-time data by monitoring.

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Section 3 System Interconnection

3.1 Software Open Interfaces

The ECS-700 system exchanges data with other application programs by OPC, DDE, ODBC, etc.
It is very convenient for real-time and historical databases to transfer data to universal office
software such as EXCEL, ACCESS, etc. Data of other systems can be written into DCS via
standard interfaces.

3.2 Hardware Interconnected Interfaces

The ECS-700 system provides interface modules according with MODBUS, HART, FF and
PROFIBUS protocol, plug-in the third party devices to it seamlessly and provides the Equipment
Management Function.

Serial communication module

 4 isolated RS232 or RS485 signal inputs

 Support MODBUS RTU protocol

 Link maximum 64 slave stations

 Support of redundancy function

 Baud rate :200bps to 57.6kbps

 The maximum communication distance is 1,000m.

PROFIBUS protocol interface module

 Support PROFIBUS-DP Communication

 Support DP repeater

 Support MPI Communication

 Support of plug-in PROFIBUS-PA equipments

 Communication baud rate :9.6Kbps to 1.5 Mbps

 Link up maximum 64 DP and MPI slave stations

 Support maximum 32 MPI tasks; each MPI station support maximum 16 MPI tasks.

 The maximum linking distance is 1,200m, which can expand to 40km via fiber.

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Section 4 Operation Node

ECS-700 operation node, a general name of engineer station, operator station, data server,
configuration sever, etc., is a human-machine interface of the ECS-700 system. The operation
node makes thorough considerations in the design requirements of the large-scale main control
room. Under the condition of small scale, we can economize your investment by having one
computer with functions of several stations sites.

Hardware requirements:

 More than 1.8G of dual-core CPU

 1G of memory or greater recommended

 80G of host hard disk or greater recommended

 32MB of display memory or greater recommended (Recommended by more than

64M of memory if having double screens)

 Graph Pattern: 1280*1024 High resolution color (75Hz)

Software requirements:

System platform:

Operation System Language Patch Type

Chinese
SP1 -
Windows Server 2003 Simplified
English SP1 -
Chinese
- 64 Bit
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Simplified
English - 64 Bit
Chinese
SP2 32 Bit
Windows XP Professional Simplified
English SP2 32 Bit
Chinese
- 32 Bit
Windows 7 Professional Simplified
English SP1 32 Bit

Operator station

At operator stations, there is installed real-time supervision software. The operator stations of the
ECS-700 system have high-resolution windows which support a machine several screens and
provide supervision interfaces of control groupings, guidance panels, diagnostic information, trend
panels, alarm information, system state information, etc. In addition, via operator stations, user
can obtain technological process information and event alarms, real-time controlling field
equipments.

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Operator stations access real-time data from control stations directly and send operating
commands to control stations.

Engineer station

At engineer stations, there are installed corresponding configuration platforms and system
maintenance tools. Via system configuration platforms, application systems satisfying production
technological requirements can be built. System maintenance tools can implement process control
network debugging, fault diagnosis, signal timing, etc. All kinds of configuration information on
hardware and software can be created, edited and downloaded from engineer stations. Besides,
engineer stations have the same supervising functions with operator stations by installing real-time
supervision software.

Configuration server

Configuration servers of the ECS-700 system are used to store the configurations of the whole
system, by which you can perform multi-people configuration, issuing configuration,
synchronization between configurations and networks, configuration backup and configuration
restoration. Furthermore, configuration severs are usually configured disk mirror to enhance the
security of configuration data.

Data server

The data servers of the ECS-700 system provide alarm history records, operational history
records, operation domain variables real-time data server (including connection of isomeric
system data, extend configuration variables, etc), SOE server and offer real-time and history data
to application stations.

Data servers can be configured redundantly. When the work one gets out of order or need to be
inspected, all supervision clients can switch to the normal one automatically.

Historical data server

Historical data servers of the ECS-700 system receive, process and save historical trend data and
provide history data for application stations which are usually merged with data servers. However,
the historical data server station sites can be set singly when the capacity of historical trend data is
rather larger.

Operation Record Server

Operation record server is used to receive process and save operation records. Users can open
the operation log viewer in monitoring software and view the logs of configuration and running
recorded by the operation log server.

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Section 5 System Configuration

5.1 System configuration software

The system configuration of the ECS-700 system is implemented by the following control
configuration tools.

 System Structure Configuration Software—used to build up the whole structure

of the ECS-700 system, including partitioning control and operation domains and
distributing their functions, distributing the configuration authorities of engineers, etc.

 Configuration Management Software—relates and manages Hardware

Configuration Software, Tag Configuration Software, Control Scheme Configuration
Software and Supervision Configuration Software; maintains Configuration
Database; supports of user program scheduling settings, on-line debugging,
configuration upload, single-node configuration downloading, etc.

 Hardware Configuration Software—supports of hardware parameter settings,

hardware configuration scan and upload, hardware debugging, etc.

 Tag Configuration Software—supports of tag parameter settings, EXCEL

import/export, tag automatic generation, tag parameter detection, tag debugging,
etc.

 Control Scheme Configuration Software—used to implement of the control

scheme configuration, which provides programming languages such as FBD, LD, ST,
etc, and abundant function blocks. Besides, it also supports on-line debugging user
programs, inputting tags intelligently, regulating execution sequences, graphs
zooming, etc.

 Supervision Configuration Software—used to implement of the supervising

management configuration, including Operation Domain Configuration and
Operation Team Configuration. Operation Domain Configuration mainly contains
distributing operators’ authorities, domain variables configuration, alarming colors
configuration, history trend tags configuration, customized alarms grouping, etc.
Operation Team Configuration refers to configure the supervision interfaces of every
operation team, which mainly contains Overview display, Data summary display,
Control group display, Trend display, Graphics, Report, Scheduling, Keyboard
commands, alarm partition configuration, etc. An operator can relate to one or more
operation teams.

5.2 Control Scheme

Execution period

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The execution period of every control program can be set separately. The periodic range is
between 20ms and 1,000ms. The default period is 200ms.

Parameter management

Provide functions of uploading backup and downloading return back for important technical
parameters.

System debugging

Supervise the running state of all programs, and perform Start/Stop to control programs. The
control scheme debugging can display process real-time values and perform input cut-off and
output cut-off for function blocks in FBD to ensure field safety during debugging.

5.3 Function Block Library

The ECS-700 system provides for abundant function blocks, including various logical operation
function blocks, arithmetic operation function blocks, sequential control function blocks,
communication function blocks, control function blocks, etc. The control function blocks include
routine control function blocks such as PID control, PI control, proportional control, split range
control, etc and advanced control function blocks such as PFC, FLC, PID_TUN, SMITH, etc.

In addition, an ECS-700 system supports user function blocks too, which refers that customized
logic programs can be written to user function blocks to ensure the secrecy and realize of calling
these programs conveniently.

Function block faceplate

The ECS-700 system supplies function block faceplates for high level control function blocks,
which have the functions such as function blocks parameter tune, parameter trend, related
displays skip, tag forced, tag forbidden, etc.

5.4 Compile and Download

5.4.1 Block Compile and Block Download

The ECS-700 system provides block compiling and download. The minimum unit of blocking can
be a hardware module, a tag or a user program.

5.4.2 On-line Download

Check the correctness of configurations taken one control station as a unit, compare with
configurations in controllers, detect the configurations needed to download, and then on-line
download the updating configurations to controllers after engineers confirm.

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The information on all configurations downloading can be queried, which includes time, contents,
engineers, etc.

5.4.3 On-line Configuration

You can modify real-time values of a single configuration parameter directly under the state of
online with controllers. The configuration parameters include parameters of function blocks,
hardware configuration data and tag parameters.

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Section 6 System Supervision Software

6.1 Real-time Database

Every real-time database supports maximum 65,000 tags. A tag name can be most 24 characters
and a description can be most 64 characters.

The system supervision software supports of opening real-time databases based on OPC Data
Access 2.0 standard interface. The real-time database provides I/O drives such as OPC, DDE,
Modbus, etc.

In addition, real-time databases support extended configuration, the four arithmetic of analog
variables and on-off variables, root operation, trigonometric function operation, power function
operation, logarithmic function operation, etc.

6.2 Response Speed

The system has fast display ability. The time from signal conversion to display on graphics is less
than 2sec and the fastest time can reach in 1sec. The response time from operation on graphics to
signal output is less than 1sec. The refreshing time of displays is less than 1sec. The average
response time of turning pages is less than 1sec.

6.3 Safety Management

The system supervision software has the omnidirectional safety management and provides login
authority control, operating authority control, data group and section management, HOTKEY
shielding, etc.

Support ten hierarchies’ authorities. Each authority can be customized user authority.

6.4 Alarm Processing

Alarms contain system alarms and process alarms. System alarms provide failure information on
hardware and software; process alarms are caused by the system when process parameters of
industrial production go beyond the normal scope.

When an alarm occurs, its related alarm information will be recorded in the alarm server and
real-time displayed on the alarm window of supervision interfaces. At the same time, the alarm
sound will give operators attentions. In addition, the alarm information can be written into
documents or be printout. The ECS-700 system allows up to 1,000 alarms simultaneously.

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6.4.1 Monitoring Object

Monitoring objects contain I/O points, customized variables, function blocks, hardware failures,
software failures, etc. All analog variables with alarm thresholds can set up “Alarm Dead zone”.

6.4.2 Alarm Filtering

The ECS-700 system has the shielding functions such as alarm prohibition, alarm restrain and
alarm partition, supporting of alarm querying and alarm filtering according to time and tags.

6.4.3 Alarm Indications

Alarm indications contain alarm summary, light brand alarm, sound alarm, graphic indicator, etc.
An alarm, consisting of time, tag, description, type, real-time value, etc, can relate to
corresponding trend displays. Furthermore, every operation station can set up filtering conditions
and display modes of alarms separately. Alarm colors can be preset by grades of alarms or alarm
properties.

6.4.4 Alarm Recording and Confirmation

Alarm information can be divided into record and non-record by alarm grades. Alarms can be
real-time printed line by line, output to documents, access into the alarm history database, and be
analyzed.

The alarm confirmation is synchronization in operation domains, whose authority can be

configured.

6.5 History Record

The ECS-700 system supports of taking time or events as trigger conditions to record process
information; supports distributed history data memory and history data query. The minimum record
period is 1sec. More than 3 months history data can be stored.

6.6 Operation and Display

The ECS-700 system provides monitoring displays such as data summary, control loop, tuning
panel, trend grouping, graphics, etc. Real-time data are displayed as a preset unified format.
Besides, different colors can be set to display different alarms.

The ECS-700 system provides maximum 500 control grouping displays and each one can display
1~16 instruments. For control loops, you can operate set values, output values, Manual/Auto, etc.
For on-off variables, you can do Open/Close operation, display order states and actual states.

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parameters of complex control modules and partial control instruments with multiple parameters. A
single operation station can most open 2 tuning panels.

A trend display can display 8 tags. Operators can on-line configure new trend groups. Trend
displays contains real-time and history mode. In the history mode, the start time and end time can
be chosen randomly. Support trend print. The trend query has the zoom and scroll function. A
single operation station can support up to 500 trends.

Graphics has abundant graphics template library; supports dynamic actions such as shift, filling,
rotation, blinking, etc; real-time data display own alarm dynamics; supports of inserting ActiveX
controls, trends and alarm windows; skips to related displays. A single operation station supports
up to 2,500 graphics, and a graphics supports a maximum of 700 tags of which 200 tags are
dynamic.

The specified graphics can be transferred via functional keyboards, menu buttons and right menu
of mouse, on which related graphics can be popup automatically according with logics.

6.7 Logging

The system records all events which are stored as time sequences. Log files, including real-time
display or history display, can be displayed on the monitor and output on the printer according to
the requirements of engineers. In addition, the archived files can be queried and sequenced as
different factors.

6.7.1 Operation Log

Operation log records all operation items which include ON/OFF operation, tuning panel increase
or decrease operation, assignment operation, control nodes start or stop operation, user
login/logout, the precision time of each operation, etc. Up to 20000 latest records can be queried
by tags or time.

6.7.2 Log On State Variation of I/O Variables

The system records the state variations of process variables automatically, which include:

 Start/End information on analog variable ultra-range

 Forced Start/End information on analog variables/ on-off variables

 Forbidden Start/End information on analog variables/ on-off variables

 Information on output signal points entering into fault safe state

 Information on output signal points entering into fault safe recovery state

6.7.3 System Event Log

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software faults automatically.

6.8 Task Schedule

The ECS-700 system can perform appointed tasks via task schedule under special conditions,
which include running scripts, popup panels, tag parameters assignment, etc. Task trigger
conditions include time trigger condition and event trigger condition. The time trigger condition can
assign one specific time point or one time period. The event trigger condition can relate to specific
tags or variables, through whose real-time values trigger specified tasks.

Every operation team can configure maximum 10 schedule files, and every schedule file can
configure up to 50 time schedules and 50 event schedules.

6.9 Equipment Management System

SAMS (SUPCON Asset Manager System) software provides a platform for maintaining and
managing ECS-700 devices, which make advanced intelligent equipments to bring their most
benefits to decrease the spoilage of instruments and reduce costs of maintenances.

SAMS software supports HART intelligent and conventional equipment management. Field HART
equipments can be configured, calibrated and real-time managed by SAMS software.

SAMS software adopts the equivalent C/S structure, which makes you not only can operate the
client server software, the communication server software and the data server software
respectively on three different computers in a same LAN (local area network), but also can operate
the three software on a computer. When one client gets out of order, other clients will not be
impacted; when one communication server is in failure, there has no influence on the intelligent
equipments managed by other communication serves.

Via operating specified user account, clients can supervise intelligent equipments connected on
the fixed communication server, and multi-clients can supervise the same intelligent equipment.
Data servers record configuration information, alarm records and user operation records of all
equipments, which can be queried by client programs. Users can configure their accessing
authorities and control limits of the communication server via the SAMSSetting software.

6.10 Clock Synchronization

The ECS-700 system provides systemwide high-precision clock synchronization. By using GPS
clock server with the PPS (pulse per second) function combining the PPS synchronization and the
SNTP synchronization, the system can implement of 1ms of synchronous precision in control
stations and 2ms among control stations. In addition, via the SNTP protocol, it can implement of
30ms of synchronous precision in control stations and 50ms among control stations by using the
clock server software.

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6.11 Report

ECS-700 report software contains report configuration, report generation and report browsing.
Report configuration is explored on Microsoft Excel Software, whose operation interface is the
same with that of Excel. Report generation can be triggered by time, events or operators. Report
browsing provides the function of browsing real-time and historical reports.

ECS-700 report software can make daily report, weekly report, monthly report, annual report and
so on. ECS-700 reports support of mathematical operations such as getting the biggest value, the
smallest value, the average value and basic arithmetic operations. Furthermore, reports have the
statistical function and support of logging and modifying data by manual.

ECS-700 reports support of print condition settings, which can be printed automatically when print
conditions are satisfied.

6.12 System State Diagnosis

System state diagnosis contains real-time state supervision and historical record query. The
real-time state supervision mainly supervises the operation and communication situations of
operation domains, control domains, process control network, control stations, controllers,
communication nodes, I/O modules, etc; historical record query is used to view the faults occurring
in control stations in specified time, which also displays start time of failure, equipments,
addresses, diagnosis items, diagnosis results, recovery time, etc.

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