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PlantScape Vista
Specification and
Technical Data
51-52-03-38
Release 400
April, 2004
Version 1.1
PlantScape Vista
Specification and Technical Data
Table of Contents Page
REVISION STATUS ................................................................................................. 3
INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................... 4
SYSTEM OVERVIEW............................................................................................... 5
Operator Interface ............................................................................................................................. 7
Alarm/Event Management................................................................................................................. 8
Historization and Trending ................................................................................................................ 9
Reporting......................................................................................................................................... 10
Security ........................................................................................................................................... 11
Scripting .......................................................................................................................................... 12
Interfaces......................................................................................................................................... 13
Application Enablers ....................................................................................................................... 13
Engineering Tools ........................................................................................................................... 15
USER DOCUMENTATION ......................................................................................................................... 17
UPGRADES AND EXPANSIONS ................................................................................................................ 18
DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS ...................................................................................................................... 18
Revision Status
Revision Description
Introduction
PlantScape Vista provides a powerful, versatile software platform for supervisory control and data
acquisition (SCADA) supporting small to medium process applications.
PlantScape Vista makes use of proven technologies that include:
• a flexible Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Client/Server architecture for process visualization,
alarming, history collection, and reporting functions;
• standard displays including process groups, loop detail, trending, alarm, event and setpoint programmer
screens to get your application running quickly
• graphic display builders for developing custom HMI displays
• an extensive set of communication interfaces to Honeywell products such as HC900 plus third party
interfaces
• open architecture supporting OPC Server and Client, ODBC, and Excel Data Exchange
With PlantScape Vista, the user simply configures the system instead of building it from the ground
up. The PlantScape Vista system allows operation to begin as soon as point and hardware
configuration is complete, with a minimum of system building required. Your system is up and
running in minimum time!
Architecture
• Standard Displays
Server / Station Rotary
• Trends, Reports, History Station Remote
• Display Builder Stations
PlantScape Vista Station
- Custom Graphic Displays
• Quick Builder (Database)
• Knowledge Builder (Docs) Total # of Concurrent Stations = 5
Ethernet
Honeywell -- -- -- -- Serial Port Expander Terminal Server
• Universal Modbus
HC900, UMC800, DPR, DR
UDC, Trendview S9000 /
HC900 Trendview
• S9000 / LCS620 LCS620
• Micromax
3rd Party
• Modbus RTU, Modbus+,
Modbus/TCP
• Allen-Bradley (PLC, SLC,
Logix5550 - serial, DH+, Ethernet)
OPC
• OPC Client
• OPC Server
One of the most important features of the PlantScape Vista solution is the reliable and efficient
communications strategy. Communications between the server and clients has been optimized for
use over poor quality, low bandwidth links. In addition, communication between the server and
controllers is also optimized to reduce the required bandwidth.
System Overview
PlantScape Vista is modular, flexible, supervisory control software that incorporates proven, open-
system technologies. Running on standard Intel-based computers, PlantScape Vista provides
comprehensive facilities in an economical and easy to use package. PlantScape Vista integrates
with a wide range of Honeywell and third-party devices, thereby leveraging existing control
investments and enabling complete integration of process information. Process information is
accessible by operators, process engineers and plant level computer systems, allowing control
and monitoring for higher productivity, reductions in costs, higher product consistency, and less
waste.
PlantScape Vista is a complete system ‘out of the box’ with features including:
• Honeywell Display Build Technology – Honeywell’s HMIWeb Technology™ allows human-
machine interfaces (HMIs), application data, and business data to be integrated. HMIWeb is
Honeywell’s next-generation operator interface technology, which uses HTML as the native
display format. To preserve older configurations or to continue that development, the
established Display Builder graphics build environment is also available and displays may be
intermixed within PlantScape Vista’s Station HMI.
• Real-time Database – PlantScape Vista features a true Client/Server architecture where a real-
time database on the server provides data to a number of client applications including:
• Operator stations (up to 5)
• Third party applications (such as Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access)
• OPC clients
• Open Systems – PlantScape Vista incorporates the latest open technologies and standards
including ODBC, Visual Basic and OLE for Process Control (OPC) to make integration to
business and information systems easier.
• Built-in System Displays – Standard Detail displays for points are an example of the 300 plus
standard displays that are included with the system. Other examples include, trend displays,
group displays, setpoint programmer displays, recipe displays, alarm and event displays and
system diagnostic displays. Users can operate from these displays and, if they choose, create
custom displays. PlantScape Vista provides maximum usability and flexibility at the same time!
• Integrated On-line Documentation – PlantScape Vista gives users quick access to system
information and supports the latest Internet technologies. It features HTML (hypertext markup
language) documentation, on-line help and on-line technical support via Knowledge Builder.
System users won’t need to search through multiple sets of documentation.
• Interfaces – Data acquisition and supervisory control is available from a wide variety of
Honeywell products including the HC900 Hybrid Controller, UMC800 controller, UDC
controllers, DPR and DR recorders, Trendview recorders, S9000/620 Controllers, Micromax
LPU’s as well as popular PLC’s such as those from Allen-Bradley. The Modbus interface
supports many controller products, serially or over Ethernet. OPC client capability provides an
interface to third party products and systems with OPC Data Access servers.
• Scalability – As system requirements change over the lifecycle of the system, and as your plant
expands, so to can PlantScape Vista. Starting from the smallest 50 point database, PlantScape
Vista can expand up to 2000 Points using up to 5 Stations.
Operator Interface
PlantScape’s Human Machine Interface utilizes two versions of Display Builder. Honeywell’s newest
display technology, HMIWeb, creates displays based on Web standards using HTML as the native
display format, allowing access to process graphic displays from either the secure PlantScape Vista
Station environment or directly from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer using a rotary Station license. The
use of an open, industry standard file format reduces engineering time while allowing users to take
advantage of existing knowledge and reuse displays between systems. Full support for displays
from earlier PlantScape release file formats (.dsp) ensures direct migration path for existing
PlantScape release systems. These benefits are all achieved while maintaining PlantScape Vista’s
secure access, robust design, and high performance.
PlantScape Vista’s Station HMI allows for state of the art, object based graphics to provide a
powerful interface for the user. The use of industry standards, such as Microsoft Windows 2000,
Ethernet, HTML and the Internet, minimize operator training by providing a familiar operating
environment at all times.
The Station environment makes extensive use of user configurable pull-down menus and toolbars to
allow easy, intuitive navigation and fast access to key process data. The usability of the operator
interface is further enhanced with features such as last command recall, copy and paste, live video
integration, ActiveX documents, scripting, and support for standard peripherals such as:
• sound cards,
• touch screens,
• dual screen video cards, and
• trackballs.
Critical information is conveyed using dedicated annunciators for alarms, controller communication
failures and operator/controller messages. A dedicated alarm line at the bottom of each graphic
shows the most recent (or oldest) highest priority, unacknowledged alarm at all times.
Live video integration is an important feature where remote sites may be unmanned. PlantScape
Vista not only allows the operator to view live video from remote locations but also provides the
ability to switch cameras, and pan, tilt or zoom the camera to focus in on a particular area. The
integrated video can be displayed coming from either a simple video card, or an existing CCTV
switcher.
SafeBrowse allows the user to securely browse either the Intranet or Internet. This allows the
system to view corporate documents, such as Standard Operating Procedures from across the
world, or to keep operators informed of relevant product information. SafeBrowse has three levels
of security:
• Unrestricted
• Restricted (limited to certain URLs)
• No Access
Rotary Connected Stations permit any number of operator stations on a network to share a pre-
configured number of connections to a PlantScape Vista system. This allows a large number of
users on a network to access production data on a part-time basis.
Alarm/Event Management
The PlantScape Vista system provides comprehensive alarm and event detection, management,
and reporting facilities. One of the keys to operator effectiveness is presentation of alarm
information.
PlantScape Vista supports the configuration of alarm priority colors, and these alarm priorities
are also displayed on all process graphic displays. This enables operators to immediately
determine which alarm conditions on their displays are most important. In addition to this feature,
the alarm annunciator in the Station status zone blinks with the color of the highest priority
unacknowledged alarm – another time saving feature for plant personnel.
History collection is available over a wide range of frequencies in both average and
snapshot/production formats. A large amount of history can be retained on line, with automatic
archiving allowing retention of and access to unlimited quantities of historical data.
Once collected historical data is available for use by trend facilities, custom displays, reports,
application programs, spreadsheets and ODBC compliant databases.
Flexible Trend
Configuration allows
trends to be configured on
line as necessary using
standard displays by
simply entering the point
and selecting the
parameter from the
database. Any of the
history collection intervals
may be used as the basis.
Reporting
The supervisory system provides many built-in reporting functions. Standard report descriptions
include:
• Alarm / Event Log reports all alarms and events in a specified time period. By using filters, this report
provides an operator and/or point trace facility.
• Alarm Duration Log reports the time of occurrence and elapsed time before return-to-normal for
specific alarms in a specified time period.
• Integrated Excel Report provides the ability to launch a report built using Microsoft Excel in a similar
way to all other standard reports. Microsoft Excel can access the PlantScape Vista database using the
Open Data Access feature.
• Free Format Report Writer generates reports in flexible formats, which may include math and statistical
functions such as Max/Min and standard deviation.
• Batch Reports are used to collect history for a set of points (up to 50) and events that occurred relative
to a process production run. Static batch data may also be added to the report such as batch number,
customer name, lot size, etc. Reports can be exported as .txt (text format), .csv, or .xls (spreadsheet)
with worksheets for operator entries, history data, event data, and a graphical batch plot. Multiple
reports may be active, each event-activated.
• Point Attribute Log reports on points displaying specific attributes, such as off-scan, bad data, and
alarm inhibit.
• Point Cross-Reference determines database references for specified points to enable easier system
maintenance when points are decommissioned or renamed.
Figure 8. Batch Report Setup Page Figure 9. Sample Batch Report Text File
Security
To maintain system security, PlantScape provides configurable security levels, control levels and
area assignments. These may be configured for each individual operator or alternatively for each
operator station. Up to six security levels limit operator access to PlantScape functions:
Operator sign-on/sign-off security provides up to 255 control levels to limit operator control of
individual items of plant and equipment. Any actions initiated by an operator are logged in the Event
database by an operator identifier. In addition any control actions to a given point is only allowed if
the control level configured in the operator profile exceeds the level assigned to the point.
An operator password consists of 5-6 alphanumeric characters and is encrypted. Operators may
change their own passwords, however a new password can’t be the same as the last 10 passwords
used in the previous 3 months. When signing on, three unsuccessful attempts will lock the operator
out for a lock-out period. Once signed on (logged on), an operator can sign off (log off) at any time
or will be automatically signed off after a defined period of inactivity.
Area assignments limit operator access to graphics, alarms and point data to assigned areas,
providing effective plant partitioning. Individual operator profiles, including security levels, control
levels and area assignments, are activated when operators sign on to the system. In addition, area
profiles can be created enabling plant areas to be enabled or disabled for control, between certain
time and date criteria.
Scripting
PlantScape Vista makes extensive use of the VBScript scripting language throughout the
supervisory system. User’s can create a script that will run when a display is active or scripts can
also be attached to server objects like point parameters, alarm events, report completion and other
events.
Display Scripting
Users can extend the functionality of graphic displays by writing event-based scripts for display
objects. Scripts are typically used to create animation that is not possible with standard
functionality.
Server Scripting
Server Scripting encompasses two features. The first provides scripting support to allow the
behavior of the Server and its run time objects to be extended. Examples of server objects are:
• Server
• Points and Parameters
• Reports
• Areas
• Tasks
The user can configure these scripts to be run by the server either periodically or when a specified
event occurs. In addition, standard displays are supplied to allow the user to monitor the status of
running scripts.
The second feature is the Server OLE Automation Object Model that allows Automation Controllers
to access and manipulate objects that exist within the Server’s run time environment. Automation
Controllers include products such as Microsoft Visual Basic, Word, Excel, Access and any
programming environment that can use Microsoft COM objects.
Interfaces
PlantScape Vista provides Data Acquisition and Control facilities to communicate with a range of
controllers and PLC’s as standard. The list of controller/PLC interfaces included as part of the
PlantScape Vista software is shown in Table 1.
*HC900 HC Designer configuration tool may operate concurrently on the server/station PC.
On-line Configuration – It is possible to view, manipulate and analyze all data in the system from
any Operator Station in the system, including those operating remotely via dial-up modem links.
Changes to the database are made while the system is running. System security features prevent
unauthorized access.
Diagnostics – Once a controller is configured and placed in service, PlantScape Vista automatically
performs diagnostic scanning of the device. Additionally, PlantScape Vista performs checks on data
integrity of all data acquired from the controller. Should an invalid or timed-out response be
received, the data is ignored and the transaction is recorded as an error. Statistics are kept and
displayed by the system on errors encountered in communication by means of a communications
barometer. The barometer value will increment for every failed call and decrements for each
successful call. In addition, the system alarms separate marginal and failure conditions based on
user-defined limits to advise the operator of the controller in error. Communications statistics are
displayed on a standard system display and are available through the reporting sub-system or
custom displays. If a controller fails, all point parameter values that are sourced from it are
indicated as bad to the operator.
Application Enablers
PlantScape Vista provides powerful application enablers with configurable (rather than
programmatic) facilities to support individual application requirements. Application implementation
time is greatly reduced, providing extremely cost effective automation.
PlantScape Vista Recipe Management provides facilities to create recipes and download them to
nominated process units. Each recipe may have up to thirty items, with recipes chained together to
form larger recipes if required. Recipe items may be used to set ingredient targets, set alarm limits,
set timers and place equipment into correct operating state. Items may be individually enabled for
scaling.
Recipe management and SP program support is provided specific to Honeywell’s HC900, UMC800,
S9000, and Micromax controllers. For each controller type, Set Point programs (profiles) may be
created and stored in PlantScape Vista, then directed to a controller. Recipes consisting of up to 50
items may be also stored in PlantScape Vista, selected and loaded to controllers. The HC900 and
UMC800 support “combined recipes” allowing SP Profiles and up to 50 items (variables) to be
downloaded in combination. For HC900 and UMC800, the complete setpoint profile selected is pre-
plotted over a single page and the PV is plotted against it after the process started (stopped when in
Hold mode), allowing for easy program supervision by operators (see Fig.11).
Open Data Access – Whenever another application requires data from the PlantScape database,
Open Data Access is required. Some examples of when Open Data Access is required are:
• reading data into a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
• running a query on the database from Microsoft Access
• an OPC Client requires point data
Each of the instances of any of the above is considered a ‘user’ of Open Data Access. There are
three main components to Open Data Access that are described below:
The ODBC Driver allows the Server database to be queried using SQL commands from ODBC
client applications, such as Microsoft Access. The Server database is exposed as a number of
read-only ODBC tables including Points, Event History and Process History. Driver features
include:
• Open read-only access to plant real-time and historical data
• Throttling to prevent performance impact
• Fully functional examples for productivity improvements
It is optimized for Microsoft Access and hence other ODBC ad hoc query/report applications.
OPC Server – The PlantScape OPC Server capability allows a third-party OPC client
application to read/write PlantScape Vista point parameters. The OPC Server is based on
Honeywell's HCI server toolkit, which in turn is based on OPC specification V2.0. It supports
all mandatory OPC interfaces. The OPC Server is included with all systems.
Network Server – The Network Server provides extremely efficient access to the PlantScape
Vista database for network-based applications such as Microsoft Excel Data Exchange.
• Microsoft Excel Data Exchange allows Microsoft Excel to obtain real-time and historical data
from the PlantScape Vista system. This option provides read and write access to data in one or
more PlantScape Vista databases, providing a powerful data consolidation and reporting tool.
Wizards for Microsoft Excel are included to help set up the data to be collected.
Three ODA licenses are included in the Vista R400 system for the above applications.
Alarm Pager – This is a software option. With this option, point alarms may be sent to an alarm
paging or messaging system. Up to 100 pagers can be configured, and each pager has a schedule
of operation so that users are only paged when they are on call. The information they receive is
what normally appears on the alarm summary. For each phone number configured, the user may
specify the days of the week and times of the day that the pager is in use. Points can be scheduled
to ring one or more of the configured pagers
Engineering Tools
Display Builder – Display Builder is an object-based, fully integrated custom display building tool for
development of application specific graphics. Two types are provided – a newer HMIWeb Display
Builder (.htm files) and the established Display Builder (.dsp files) available with previous versions of
PlantScape. The displays defined by either display builder may be intermixed within the Station HMI
environment. Animation of
displays is completed
quickly and easily with
simple point and click type
configuration. A library of
commonly used plant
equipment such as
vessels, piping, valves,
tanks, motors, etc., is
supplied with the Display
Builder to further speed
graphic development. In
addition, Template
Displays may be used to
reduce configuration time
where similar displays
need to be repeated
throughout the system.
Process objects and color
palettes allow quick and
easy creation of custom
objects with or without 3D
User Documentation
• Knowledge Builder Electronic On-line Documentation using HTML Frame Browser to access
desired information. Hyperlinks are provided throughout to access related information. See
guide and references listing in Fig. 14.
• On-line Help (F1 function key from within several applications)
• Supplemental Documents Support documents in electronic format, located on a supplemental
CD provide additional information related to product interface (HC900) and features.
Expansions
Expansions of PlantScape Vista R400 systems to include more points (up to a maximum of 2000),
more Stations (up to a maximum of five), or inclusion of the Alarm Pager option are fully supported.
Upgrades
Upgrades or transitions to PlantScape Vista R400 from previous PlantScape Vista, SCADA, or
SCAN 3000 releases to support HC900 migration are supported. The desired options present in
these packages must be available in PlantScape Vista. Please check prior to inquiry if the Vista
R400 system meets the upgrade functionality needs. Users who require features not included in
Vista R400 must utilize Experion PKS.
Development Systems
PlantScape Vista also offers a development-only license. The development license includes a
single user station, a 2000-point license, all of Vista’s standard engineering tools, and all of Vista’s
standard features and options. Users can use this system to develop and test off-line, but they
cannot use this license for on-line monitoring or control. This system has a fixed timeout.
Systems are configured for default values to optimize disk space usage for most PlantScape Vista
customers. Users can easily reconfigure any capacity limit to the maximum value once the system
is delivered.
FEATURES
System Architecture
• Client/Server Architecture • System diagnostic displays • Alarm segregation using
• Scalable – single to multiple • System status displays area assignment
stations (clients) • License summary display • Alarm parameters can be
• Real time database enabled/disabled and
• Composite point structures Operator Interface adjusted on-line
for Analog points, Status • Alarm summary filtering by:
• HMIWeb Technology –
points, Accumulator points - area
HTML display format allows
• Use of Industry Standards, - priority
integration of plant and
such as: - unacknowledged only
business data on custom
- Microsoft Windows 2000 graphics • Dedicated alarm zone
- Ethernet displays most recent,
• View displays from Station
- TCP/IP highest priority
or Microsoft’s IE6.0 (Station
- Active X unacknowledged alarm
license)
- HTML • All alarms and return-to-
• User configurable object-
- OPC normal conditions are
based custom displays
- ODBC logged in the Event
• Template Displays
Networking Summary
• 300+ pre-configured
• Fully integrated with • Individual or page
displays for fast plant start-
Microsoft Windows Network acknowledgment
up
• Flexible licensing of • Alarm cutout
• Available on Microsoft
operator stations using • External change alarming
Windows 2000 Professional
rotary connections • Control time-outs
• Display resolution of 1024 x
• Ethernet connections 768 • Hierarchical alarms
available to controllers • Embedding of bitmaps and • Messages can be attached
• Data exchange with ODBC Active X Controls into to an alarm
compliant data bases custom displays • Alarm acknowledge write
• Remote connections via • VB Scripting through to controller
WAN, RAS or PSTN (dial- • Pop-up Displays • Alarms can be linked to a
up) supported display
• OLE Automation Server
• Database access to • Alarm and events can
• Launch Windows
Network clients such as trigger reports
applications
Microsoft Excel • Custom sound files (.wav)
• Partial tag call-up to assist
Over 300 Standard Displays for annunciation per priority
when full tagname is not
known • Print to any printer on a
• Composite point detail
Microsoft Network
displays • Cut & paste facilities on live
process data • Unanswered alarm
- Analog
generation
- Status • Full screen lock is
configurable • Configurable system alarm
- Accumulator
priorities
• Alarm summary displays • True WIN32 application
• Alarm priority elevation
• Event summary display
• Configurable colors for
• Trend displays Alarm Management
alarm priorities and
• Group displays • Alarm types include: annunciators
• Summary Displays include: - PV High
Displays - PV Low
Trends - PV High High
Groups - PV Low Low
• Configuration Displays - Deviation High
include: - Deviation Low
Reports - Rate of Change
Operators - Transmitter High
Areas - Transmitter Low
Keyboard • Four (4) levels of alarm
priority:
- Urgent
- High
- Low
- Journal
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merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose and makes no express warranties except as may be stated in its written
agreement with and for its customer.
In no event is Honeywell liable to anyone for any indirect, special or consequential damages.
The information and specifications in this document are subject to change without notice.