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Hello,
I was referred to this forum by a colleague.
I work for a utility in Kansas City that is adding back end equipment. We have an Emerson DCS and Siemens MCCs. Typically, our standard is to hard wire the start/stop or the stop at a minimum. The EPC contract says the MCCs will be Profibus control. Does anyone know of any companies that have experience with a large utility relying solely on network control for MCCs. And specifically the Emerson/Siemens combination. Both the Owners Engineer and the EPC contractor state they have done backend projects like this before and see no issue with it. I called one end user that is doing this but they have only been commercial for about 3 months. I'd like to talk with someone that has been online for at least a year.
Thank you.
Michelle Marshall, P.E.
I was referred to this forum by a colleague.
I work for a utility in Kansas City that is adding back end equipment. We have an Emerson DCS and Siemens MCCs. Typically, our standard is to hard wire the start/stop or the stop at a minimum. The EPC contract says the MCCs will be Profibus control. Does anyone know of any companies that have experience with a large utility relying solely on network control for MCCs. And specifically the Emerson/Siemens combination. Both the Owners Engineer and the EPC contractor state they have done backend projects like this before and see no issue with it. I called one end user that is doing this but they have only been commercial for about 3 months. I'd like to talk with someone that has been online for at least a year.
Thank you.
Michelle Marshall, P.E.