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What our clients are saying
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Power Generation
“By choosing to go with Invensys, we made the decision to utilize their products for future modifications or upgrades... We expect that it will also ensure a high degree of reliability in the future.”
~ Mike Considine, Project Leader, Ontario Power Generation
Control system upgraded: Leeds & Northup
“Invensys Operations Management has been an important partner, offering us a cost-effective process control solution and has helped to sharpen our competitive edge.”
~ Mr. Jinjian, Operations, China Huaneng Power
New Plant
“The percentage of time the operators had to devote to regulating and manually intervening with the old control system had been relatively large, leaving them less time to focus on enhancing unit performance. Now, with the new Foxboro I/A Series Distributed Control System, the operators can spend more time focusing on other issues for enhancing the performance of the unit. Performance on the parameters is much better than before our retrofit. Our control range is well within — or very near — our target, and deviations are much less than with the old system.”
~ Joe Chow, Plant Manager, Castle Peak Power Station
Control system upgraded: Alstom & Babcock
“The migration approach offered by Invensys Operations Management showed that an alternative to the existing vendor’s upgrade solution was a viable option.”
~ Hugh Ferguson, C&I Engineer & DCS Upgrade Project Manager, Keadby Power Stationcse
Control system upgraded: Westinghouse WDPF
“It’s all about keeping our automation system continuously current. The days of being locked into a multimillion dollar control system that must be replaced every 10 or 15 years are over. The I/A Series system provides us an open, flexible digital control platform which can add the automation that is right for our business, as we need it.”
~ Brian Sumner, Maintenance Manager, Kentucky Utilities E.W. Brown Station
Control system upgraded: Westinghouse WDPF
Hydrocarbon Processing
“In addition to improving the control and safety system, the solution achieved outstanding performance results in separated gas and condensate production.”
~Gazprom dobycha Astrakhan
Foxboro I/A Continuously Current upgrade
Upstream Oil & Gas
“By working with Invensys, RasGas is setting the pace for the LNG industry globally, supplying more efficient and more environmentally friendly energy for export to the world.”
~RasGas
New Plant
Pulp & Paper
“The level of engineering startup, system commissioning, and site support from the Invensys Operations Management application engineers, service engineers, and technical team was outstanding.”
~ Mike Armstrong, Electrical and Instrumentation Manager, Cascades Tissue Group
Control system upgraded: ABB Accuracy Model 1180 QCS and Honeywell SLC
“We chose to implement Foxboro intelligent remote I/O because of the increased architectural flexibility and lower cost it provides”.
~ Luiz Renato Chagas Figueiredo, Automation Manager, Aracruz Celulose
Control system upgraded: Honeywell TDC3000
“Our BMS migration from Bailey Symphony to the Foxboro I/A Series Distributed Control System went very smoothly. Checkout of the new BMS was substantially complete within three days.”
~ Huitt Manering, Principal Engineer and Task Manager, BC Hydro
Control system upgraded: ABB Bailey
Sterling Chemical Q&A session with Automation World
“We went with Invensys, as they had lowest cost migration option that minimized downtime. This was based on detailed evaluation of three vendors’ migration solutions (including the OEM). We compared and selected a solution with no rewiring. We were able to retain all field wiring, I/O cabinets, terminations and power supplies.”
“Invensys has a “Continuously Current” philosophy maintaining support for products (no “Dear John” letters).”
“The project cost met budget within contingency – a significant savings compared to a bulldoze solution.”
“Here is what we learned. Do your due diligence on different vendors’ migration strategies and select the one that best meet your business condition and plan. Choose the right people for the project team – process engineer and supervisors, I/E project engineer and designer, I/E maintenance supervisor and technician and DCS engineer and technician”
“On top of all this – emphasize training, both formal, and during loop checkout and commissioning. Do the factory acceptance test – no short cut, well planned and executed.”
~ Dennis Yieh, Sterling Chemical
Frost and Sullivan 2010 Global DCS Client Value Enhancement Award
Catering to the DCS migration challenge
“One of the key reasons for Invensys’ stable performance is its I/A Series system offering. The Foxboro Plug-In migration solution is one such solution which caters exactly to the DCS migration challenge, providing users with a competitive legacy system installed a path to the latest Foxboro I/A Series system”.
ROI with Foxboro plug in migration
“A bulldozer upgrade which involves replacing an old system completely with a new system costs the customer a huge amount. The savings associated with the Foxboro Plug-In migration as compared to a bulldozer upgrade is $ 550 per I/O point. So, typically a system with 1000 I/O points amounts to a savings of $ 550,000.”
Troubleshooting without affecting the production schedules
“Due to the reversible and non-destructive nature of the Foxboro migration solution, any troubleshooting services, if required, are carried offline by the Invensys’ service engineers without affecting the production schedule of the customer. Additionally, Invensys is the sole manufacturer which enables a free migration audit for the customers, further enhancing its service capability.”
~ Frost and Sullivan 2010 Global DCS Client Value Enhancement Award