FOXBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, USA – March 7, 2006 – Invensys Systems Austria has won its first ever contract from Borealis ( www.borealisgroup.com ), headquartered in Denmark Borealis is one of the world's leading manufacturers of polyethylene and polypropylene. Under the terms of the contract, Invensys is to supply its Triconex-brand TMR (triple modular redundant) TRICON controllers for safety instrumented system (SIS) applications on the new PE4, a Euro 200 million, 350,000 t/y linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) plant being built at Schwechat in Austria. LLDPE is used to manufacture plastic film products, such as packaging materials.
The TRICON TMR architecture that uses three isolated, parallel control systems and extensive diagnostics integrated into one system. This uses two-out-of-three voting to provide high integrity, error free, uninterrupted operation with no single point of failure. This is particularly important at Schwechat, where high system availability is an important issue. TRICON also has to communicate with the new plant's distributed control system (DCS) via Modbus, with the capability to transfer event date time stamps. Setting up applications at Schwechat is vastly simplified with TRICON because the triplicate TMR system operates as a single control system from the user's point of view.
The extensive diagnostics are inherent and transparent to the programmer. As a result, the LLDPE process can operate safely and in a stable fashion without interruption. This maximises feedstock use, while protecting people and capital investment. "Borealis was quite satisfied with the technical advantages that TRICON had to offer. We were also able to meet and even exceed the company's demanding total cost of ownership expectations," explained Claudius Ambrosch, Managing Director, Invensys Process Systems - Austria and Eastern Europe .
"Our success was also based on an excellent cooperation of a multi national team within Borealis, their engineering contractors, and Invensys”, he added.
About Invensys Process Systems
Invensys Process Systems ( ips.invensys.com ), a business unit of Invensys plc, provides products, services and solutions that enable today’s industrial process plants to monitor, manage, and improve the performance of their manufacturing assets. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions group, Invensys Process Systems includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world’s largest upstream projects, refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills.
The Invensys Group ( www.invensys.com ) is made up of five businesses: Process Systems, APV, Eurotherm, Rail Systems and Controls. The Group is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.