Foxboro Evo process automation system

Invensys has released its next-generation process automation system. With advanced tools and applications delivered across a high-speed, fault-tolerant and cyber-secure hardware platform, including the integration of the company’s Triconex safety system, the Foxboro Evo process automation system was designed to improve operational insight and integrity.

Foxboro Evo offers more powerful processing capacity and additional advanced applications to allow users to uncover new and hidden value from within their operations. It has evolved directly from the original Foxboro I/A Series and Triconex technology, and extends the layered architecture approach through a component object-based platform, which can undergo major upgrades without halting operations.

Because users can upgrade at their own pace, the Foxboro Evo system is claimed to deliver a low total cost of automation and high return on assets. Additionally, its applications improve the ability of plant personnel to contribute toward the success of the business by streamlining and contextualising the information they need to make the right business decisions at the right time.

The system includes a high-speed controller, field device management tools, a maintenance response centre, an enterprise historian, 1-n redundancy and cyber security hardening.

Current Foxboro I/A Series DCS users can migrate to the system with little or no downtime, depending on which version they are running. Users of competing process automation systems, whose wiring terminations are still functional, can migrate to the system without ripping and replacing infrastructure, significantly reducing costs and downtime.