Module 3 – Software Overview

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Foxboro Evo Hardware Architecture
WSTA70 Galaxy
Repository Foxboro Evo
Software Configurator Plant Network

WSTA70
Host/CSA
FBM 200 FCP 270

WSTA70 HMI Business Network

FBM 100 ZCP 270

WSTA70
Historian
TheMESH
MESH
Control
Control
Network
Nodebus Network WSTA70 MTK Historian (or Other Optional Hardware)

Firewall

ATS WSTA70 BTK

FoxView

Visualization - FoxView

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Foxboro Evo Control Editors Process Strategy

The following steps describe the process strategy:

> Use Control Editors to create control blocks or strategies.
> Assign strategies to a compound. Control Processor
> Deploy the compound.
Compound

Block
Block
Block
Block Block

Block Block Block Compound

Strategy Block
Block
Block
Block Block Block
Strategy

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Foxboro Evo Control Editors Process Strategy,
continued Compound

AIN PID AOUT

Engineer Assign to Send
Strategy Compound to CP
ECB ECB

Galaxy FBM FBM

Foxboro Evo
Compound
Control Editors
Strategy

AIN PID AOUT

CP Host
Check
Point
TANK1

CP
LT

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Visualization

The visualization feature in the Control Software is

the Control HMI.

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Foxboro Evo Control HMI Window

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InTouch WindowMaker

Provides the mechanism for developing, building, and configuring process graphic windows

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Faceplates and Trends

> Faceplate overlays:

- Respond to your actions and block
configuration changes
> Provide:
> Smart Symbols
> Visual representation of:
- Real-time data directly from the process
- Historized data from the Wonderware
Historian

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Block Select

Provides direct access to the control database

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Foxboro Evo Control HMI Versus FoxView

Foxboro Evo Control HMI FoxView

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Foxboro Evo Control HMI Versus FoxView
Similarities

The Control HMI and FoxView share common functions and features, such as:
> CPs on the control network
> A combination of prebuilt faceplate graphics and user-defined custom graphics
> Preconfigured trend and alarm displays
> Look and feel of Microsoft Windows
Differences

Foxboro Control HMI FoxView

> Requires 1280x1024 resolution > Supports any resolution

> Uses galaxy security > Uses FoxView Environments
> Uses Block Select to browse CPs > Uses FoxSelect to browse CPs

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Foxboro Evo Control HMI Versus FoxView,
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Which one to choose?

Foxboro Control HMI FoxView

> New customers with no FoxView > Existing customers with many
displays FoxView displays

> Customers who prefer galaxy > Customers who prefer familiarity
security capabilities of environments

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Wonderware Historian
Wonderware
The Wonderware Historian: Historian Client

> Receive data Data

> Compress and store data
Wonderware Historian Server
> Respond to queries
Data

Store

Compress

Plant Data

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 Trending with Wonderware Historian Client

Tag
Picker

Tags being
trended

Tags

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System Manager
Smon Switch

CP Station

FBM Station

FBM

Station

Peripheral

Switch

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System Manager

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 Security Groups

The security model is based on several configurations, including:

> Roles with assigned permissions.
> Users with assigned roles.

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