Foxboro DCS Integration

The following topics are applicable only to Foxboro DCS.

Foxboro DCS Tag Management

AVEVA Batch Management with Foxboro DCS components interacts with other Foxboro DCS Control Suite components such as Control Processors and FoxView software through tags. Several AVEVA Batch Management with Foxboro DCS components create, edit, link, validate, communicate, and generally manage tags.

Tag Communication

All tag communication between AVEVA Batch Management with Foxboro DCS components and Foxboro DCS Control Suite is through the FoxAPI™. Tag communication between AVEVA Batch Management with Foxboro DCS components and Foxboro DCS Control Suite is used to interact with unit control logic, phase logic, and operator displays. Two utilities or tools are available to diagnose, troubleshoot, and exercise tag communications between AVEVA Batch Management with Foxboro DCS components and Foxboro DCS Control Suite.

Process Status (ProcStatus) Tool

You can use the ProcStatus tool to monitor tags of AVEVA Batch Management with Foxboro DCS components at run time.

Batch Alarms

Batch alarms in AVEVA Batch Management with Foxboro DCS components are captured, associated with a batch, and stored in the history database. The LOOPID parameter of the Foxboro DCS compound is the key in accomplishing this. All units, connections, and segments have system tags that reflect the batch to which they are allocated. Each unit, connection and segment also has a corresponding Foxboro DCS compound or block in the Foxboro DCS control station. When the Batch Manager allocates equipment to a batch, it writes the Batch ID to the system tags of the equipment. These tags are linked to the COMPOUND. LOOPID parameter of the equipment. When alarms occur in the compound, an alarm message is sent to AVEVA Batch Management with Foxboro DCS components, where it is stored in the history database and annunciated in FoxAlert.

AVEVA Batch Management with Foxboro DCS components Display can start FoxAlert so that you can view the alarms for a selected batch. Additionally, from FoxAlert, you can select an alarm and append a comment to it using the Alarm Comment Editor.