DCS

Distributed System Architecture is a unique feature of Plant Cruise. It enables multiple Plant Cruise server systems to share data, alarms, alerts, messages and history without the need for duplicate configuration on any server.

DSA is appropriate for :

Large-scale plant wide systems in which the servers are connected through a high speed LAN

Geographically distributed systems in which the servers are connected through a WAN.DSA can be implemented with speeds as low as 64KBPS

Each engineering Station Cluster is enabled to publish data in a DSA design. Order one of CV-XRESR1-DSA, Remote Server Enabler, software for an Engineering Station or redundant pair that needs to subscribe to data. This option allows systems up to five (5) clusters to be configured

The Plant Cruise system generates notifications when it detects certain changes in the process or the control system

The Plant Cruise system comprises of many different integrated hardware and software solutions depending upon the needs of the application. The pictured architecture is a representation of many of the possible nodes that can be used in the Plant Cruise architecture

Plant Cruise by Experion software is optimized and simplified for the target market needs

Plant Cruise by experion has a rich library of function blocks that makes application engineering simpler (pl. refer section 3.0 question number 4 of this document for details)