Migration of Foxboro I/A Series to SIMATIC PCS 7    Upgrading Foxboro I/A Series systems by migrating to PCS 7

Many installed process control systems have reached the end of their useful life. Siemens offers migration strategies that upgrade your process control systems with state-of-the art technology in short timeframes.

Upgrading to SIMATIC PCS 7 The challenge The application software running on your process control system contains vital information about your system. To retain this information and to integrate new functionalities provided by a state-of-the-art control technology solution: these are the challenges to be surmounted when changing over to SIMATIC PCS 7. Siemens has developed a straightforward and reasonably-priced migration package that will overcome these challenges and allow you to upgrade to SIMATIC PCS 7 safely and easily.

Our solution

Most Invensys / Foxboro systems have been in service now for many years and failure rates for modules in these systems are on the rise. To make matters worse, spare parts for Invensys process control systems are hard to come by. Many firms are looking for upgrade solutions for Invensys systems, as they cannot connect new field devices to these systems. We can make the move from your Invensys / Foxboro system to the more sophisticated SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system much easier with a whole raft of first-rate services: Analysis of your system configuration Porting engineering data using a special migration tool Supply and installation of the necessary PCS 7 hardware and software components. Your legacy I/O cabling can be used in the new system Quick system startup with the focus on short conversion times; work carried out by experienced engineers and as much as possible during normal operations Complete documentation of all activities High degree of compatibility – which means that only some elements of the process control system need be replaced (e.g. AS only, OS only) With the upgrade to PCS7 you get numerous new functions, which allow you to make significant improvements to your process at very little expense. We would be delighted to advise you in this regard.

Good reasons for Migration of Foxboro I/A Series to SIMATIC PCS 7

Improved productivity by cutting system downtimes with better availability of the new process control system and fewer system failures

Improved production output by leveraging SIMATIC PCS 7 leading-edge technology

Money savings with lower spare parts inventories and less maintenance

Better use of resources and enhanced quality by optimizing information volumes and interfacing to a manufacturing execution system (MES)

Smaller footprints in the control room and in the control station