ControlCare field-based control system (FCS) is a combination of software and hardware components based on open standards, the purpose of which is to connect Endress+Hauser devices to process control, operating and maintenance systems. It provides quick and easy system integration and ensures that the benefits of fieldbus technology are available at all levels of the control hierachy. ControlCare components can be used to supplement a third-party system, or be used as a control system within its own right.
All system configuration, set-up, commissioning and maintenance is done with the ControlCare Application Designer Suite. This uses the topology model in the ISA S88/IEC 61512-1 standard to describe the plant. ControlCare Application Designer Suite allows the control strategy and physical project to be configured off-line. The projects are then downloaded, to the actual fieldbus devices on the network. |
