Foxboro DCS

The distributed control system (DCS) used to represent the whole world of the process industry application it monitored and managed.

However, in recent years, the larger worlds of enterprise and business levels, Ethernet networks,

and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and

cloud-computing services have been leaning into the DCS, linking to its components and accessing its data.

At the same time, more plant-floor devices are equipped with internal microprocessors, Ethernet ports,

wireless connections and software that can reach up to the Internet, cloud and other networks, and often do so automatically.

This has been a worrisome situation for end users, who know the benefits of more links also means added vulnerabilities to potential cybersecurity-related probes, intrusions and attacks.

To provide Industry 4.0 capabilities securely to new and existing users, Schneider Electric released its EcoStruxure Automation Expert software in 2020.

The software works closely with the company’s long-proven EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS.

EcoStruxure Automation Expert is a new cornerstone of the overall EcoStruxure ecosystem

that’s described as a software-centric industrial automation system

that can create step-change improvements throughout complete operational lifecycles.

“EcoStruxure Automation Expert is part of our decentralized approach to native

operations technology (OT) and information technology (IT) integration that we’re calling Universal Automation,”

said Michael Martinez, EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS leader, Schneider Electric.

“Our vision is for it to be an app store for automation that provides plug-and-produce automation software that’s decoupled from hardware.

It also complies with the IEC 61499 standard for using function blocks for process measurements and control systems,

and is designed to make operations more agile, reduce how much software is needed, and make process applications more cybersecure.”

EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS and EcoStruxure Automation Expert can coordinate their capabilities for users

because they’re integrated by several common threads. For example,

EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS is characterized by OPC UA communications protocol, EcoStruxure power and process functions,

edge I/O tools, and I/O card migration. Meanwhile,

EcoStruxure Automation Expert also uses OPC UA, but achieves added efficiency and operations effectiveness.

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