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Project Goals• Migrate 13 obsolete FactoryLink SCADA applications onto

multiple FactoryTalk® View SE distributed applications• Secure assets on a converged Industrial Data Center (IDC)

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Project Business Driver• SCADA Migration

– FactoryLink was acquired by Siemens in 2007 and switched to non-supported status in 2012

– Lower Total Cost of Ownership• Less expensive to maintain, modify and support

– Cultivating Innovation– Extend application longevity

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Project Business Driver• Virtualization Migration on a convergence IDC

– Improving productivity with better asset utilization and system performance

– Lower Total Cost of Ownership• Reduce server footprint

– Extend application longevity

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Project Business Driver• Enterprise Risk Management

– Eliminate server hardware failure resulting in downtime– Enable disaster recovery methods

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Technical Challenges• Keeping Texas Instrument PLCs

– SCADA migrations only– Working on 25 year old applications (PLC/SCADA)

• Modified by different people with different standards• <TemperManent> patches especially in the scripting

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Technical Challenges• Scripting on the server side in FactoryLink

– Due to older PLC capabilities– Cannot be imported in ControlLogix®

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Technical Challenges• Many tags, devices, alarms in each of the applications

– Alarms are always being scanned– Data optimization required in KEPServer

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Technical Challenges• Many trends in each of the applications

– Up to 200/300

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ROKTechED 2016 Process