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Driving Higher Profitability in a Changing Global Economy

Connect, Manage, Archive

The Aspen Control Platform (ACP) provides a new level of ease in building, testing, deploying, and managing APC applications. Configured applications can be deployed to the runtime environment with a few simple clicks and without requiring files to be transferred to the target machines.

Once deployed, users can see the list of applications deployed on a machine—along with their status data—in a single display. The Differencing feature of the Aspen Control Platform makes it easy to see what changed between any two versions of an application.

Connectivity between control applications and DCS/Historians is supported with automation that reduces the time and effort to complete tag-mapping by leveraging XML-based templates called personality templates. These tag mapping templates use regular expression language to create many IO connections at once. For example, the controller needs anti-windup status, loop status, and set point for each MV. Applications can quickly be deployed to any server without file transfers.

The new tag wizard works with the existing drag-and-drop tag browsing to make it even easier to configure the IO tags for your application. You edit the tag template associated with each IO Source to capture the standard naming conventions used on your DCS. By providing a few key strings, it automatically constructs all of the necessary IO tags for the application.

The tag wizard allows control application engineers to easily make the right connections to tags such as anti-windup status, loop status, and operator service indicators.