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Integration solutions
For years people have been discussing the subject of “integration” in automation technology. There are a variety of solutions available for the integration of safety and control systems. Provided the right decision is made you can take advantage of all the opportunities and potential synergies of integration, long-term.
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HIMA Safety Systems can easily be integrated into all leading process control systems.
Focus on customers’ wishes
Against a background of increasingly complex industrial automation, end-users require systems and components that offer optimum interoperability from the field right through to management level. The importance of this is highlighted by the amount of systems made by different manufacturers that are used in almost every plant.
Safety systems therefore not only have to be safe, reliable and efficient, they also have to be able to be integrated seamlessly together with control systems and other automation components. The benefits of openness and flexibility become especially clear when changes and upgrades are made over the course of long plant life-cycles.
Many integrated safety solutions are based on approaches that are specific to a particular manufacturer - proprietary solutions - which do not always offer the desired level of interoperability. Poor interoperability occurs where proprietary integrated safety systems only work with certain DCS and asset management systems and also where important functions are restricted unless all components in the field, control and management levels originate from the same manufacturer.
Read all about Opportunities of cross-manufacturer integration.