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I have a DCS system of Foxboro that its HMI is very old. I want to upgrade this HMI without change my DCS hardware.

HMI software is I/A series, version 3.2.2.1
OS is Venix and VRTX
The control station is PW-NB

I have 3 Control Processor 10 and several FBM1, 3, 4, 7 and 9. I want to upgrade this system by a Windows based HMI software without large change in my DCS system. I found that the new Foxboro's software such as IACC ver. 8 or FoxDraw/FoxView, can upgrade and convert the old HMI programs that made by old I/A series software. I want you that offer your opinion and help me. Thanks a lot.

Dear Friend,

My sincere advise is to scrap this obsolete hardware and install some new DCS in its place.
I used to have Foxboro I/A AW 5101 system with processor 30 and several FBCs. Total 500 points system estimated upgrade to change HMI/consoles was $200,000 US. As your 10 series processor won't talk to new series HMI/computers, you need to replace everything. New licenses will cost you a fortune.

I replaced my system at around $70,000 US with engineering, with Emerson Deltav. New system has one engineering station, one operator console and one web server, all Dell latest machines. Moreover it is very user friendly and easy to configure.
Last thing I would say is that I'm not an Emerson salesman.

Thanks.

Dear Friend,
Thanks for Your reply.
Can you help me to choose the best system?
I want an inexpensive and reliable system.

Thanks.

Siemens PCS7 or Yokogawa should work out to be cheaper.

Sudhakar

Dear Sudhakar,

Hi. I am srinivas and I am new in this Foxboro I/A series DCS for combined cycle control system. Please send me the details if you have them, else inform me where is it available. If you have txt, PDF documents please forward them to info.srinivas97 at gmail. com

Thanks and regards,

srinivas

Foxboro is the best and cost effective system compared to other vendors.

I think you forgot to add IMHO.

Chris Jennings

Dear Friend,

You would be better off installing manual valves than an inferior Delta V system.

Dear al foi,

I'm sorry to hear you feel that way about the DeltaV system. My contact information is available on the Emerson Process Experts website, http://www.EmersonProcessXperts.com and I'd appreciate knowing more about the reasons for your beliefs.

Best Regards,
Jim Cahill

I'd put in some cheap ControlLogix with some virtualized HMIs and run it for another 20 years. Make sure you are using ControlLogix rev 16 so you can import and export your code in XML. This will come in valuable when you want to do your next upgrade.

You should upgrade to Foxboro I/A system only. Today's CP of I/A system is more powerful & hence you would be able to do it in 1 Control processor only, this way probably you can reduce the cost of upgrading.