FOUNDATION for ROM End User Perspective

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Petrobras FOUNDATION for ROM Demo Event
April 2013
© 2013 Fieldbus Foundation

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April 2013
Outline
• Why have an End-User Advisory Council?
• How Fieldbus Technology benefits end-
users
• Encouraging our supplier community to
support open, interoperable standards

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April 2013
How Does a Supplier Know What We Like?
• The Market Will Tell them?

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April 2013
The Supplier Will Tell Us?

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April 2013
The “Apple” Model – a Walled Garden?
• How did Apple create products that are
so coveted, they can charge a premium
and still sell millions?
• “We Control Everything” means
excellent “interoperability”, but costly to
user
• Does this work for Process Control?

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April 2013
Our Suppliers Need Us
• Apple designers use their own products
• Their spouses, mothers, children are also
their end users
• Our suppliers are not end users of their
products
• Even we are not the “real” end user – they are
our operators and our enterprise
• Technology change is slow because all
products must be tested against the torments
of our industry

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April 2013
The Real End Users . . .

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April 2013
The Mission of our Enterprise . . .
Is to DELIVER PRODUCT (Oil, Chemicals,
Petrol, Beer, Paper, etc.)
 Safely
 Reliably
 Meeting Quality Requirements
 Low Environmental Impact
 Efficiently
 On-time
 Minimal Interruptions / Unplanned Outages

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April 2013
Measurement & Control are Essential
for the Mission
• And the process control technologies
we choose have to stand up to our
requirements, our business needs,
and our end users . . . .

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April 2013
How Has FOUNDATION™ Fieldbus Served
these ends?
 Unequalled confidence in all-digital data and
network
 Strict 1 ms determinism
 Speeds up to 6x a second or better
 Measurement Status (health) updates every
cycle
 More reliable than 4-20 mA
 Standard function blocks across multiple vendors
 Extensive diagnostics including sensors, device,
“process”, and “physical layer”

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April 2013
Where Did FF Get So Smart?
 FOUNDATION™ Fieldbus grew out of the ISA
SP50 committee – their mission was to specify the
new, open, digital 4-20 mA
 75% of the committee was comprised of end
users, with a lot of participation from the large
process industries
 Their vision was for more than an open,
interoperable communication bus
 The “User Layer” makes FF a complete
automation infrastructure
 Great effort and innovation by our suppliers!

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April 2013
Why isn’t FF as easy as 4-20 mA?
 The EUAC has had a persistent focus on ease-
of-use
 The “Host Registration” test is a result of
persistent nagging by the EUAC
 “Compatibility Rev” will accommodate “legacy”
device maintenance practices
 “Herding the cats” is more difficult when FF isn’t
a clear sales differentiator
 Dictatorship versus Democracy – sometimes it
takes a little longer
 Apple (closed, proprietary) vs. PC (open)

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April 2013
Why Do We Like FF for ROM?
 Fieldbus gives us great confidence in data by its
relentless determinism and integration of signal
status
 There is a path to get some of this with HART,
WiHART, Profibus, and even conventional IO
 There are “walled garden” solutions that tout
themselves as “as good as FF”
 FF for ROM puts a standard FF “skin” on all these
disparate protocols
 It specifies a STANDARD and secure method for
wired or wireless backhaul

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April 2013
Additional Use Cases . . .
 Analyzer Shelters
 Local Panels
 Vendor Skids (water treatment, thermal oxidizer,
truck / rail loading)

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April 2013
FOUNDATION for ROM Device Consolidates Diagnostic
Data from Different Networks….
Conventional
I/O
WirelessHART
H1 HART
I/O
ISA100.11a
Diagnostic
&
Instrument
Data
Diagnostic
&
Instrument
Data
Diagnostic
&
Instrument
Data
Diagnostic
&
Instrument
Data
Diagnostic
&
I/O Data
FOUNDATION Infrastructure for Data Management and Diagnostic Information
FOUNDATION for ROM Device
Transducer
Blocks
Transducer
Blocks
Transducer
Blocks
Transducer
Blocks

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April 2013
Walled Garden Won’t Work
 A Sole Source / MIV solution will get you 80-90%
of integration issues addressed, but still significant
effort on integration of the “remainder”
 We still have to choose low bidder in many
applications
 We need our best resources – smart and creative
people – solving measurement and control issues,
not security, integration and data mapping
 Our Profession is to be “Artists of Intelligence”, not
“Janitor of Data”

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April 2013
The Opportunity
• FOUNDATION for ROM can address these key
business issues
• Standards based environment that is
sustainable
• Significantly reduced lifecycle costs
• Reduced customization
• Increased safety

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April 2013

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