Re: [foxboro] The best of the Jungle!

If you replace the word "jungle" with "Tropical Rain Forrest" it 
suddenly becomes worth saving and protecting ;->>

But a little more serious answer:
In my humble opinion the diffrences between the version 4.3 and higher 
ones upto 6.3 are not that severe. Tools nad scripts work basically the 
same and the internal system administration of the UNIX used is (at 
least almost) identical. 70 Series all have the same NT version so the 
same applies here too.
Leaves the different Control station type and Control software versions. 
The Foxboro friendly answer would be to upgrade them all to the lates 
and greatest, so if I where you I would go for that! But I'm not you. 
Software version 6.1.2 > 6.3 CAN run all with the same Control version 
software (If I recall correct). This would require an upgrade from the 
pre 6.1.2 systemss to this version to allow for the upgrade. The reason 
to upgrade you CP10's etc to CP40's could be that you can reduce the 
amount of stations to maintain but that largely depends on the 
implemtation at your site.

I would like the give the word to the next speaker here.

Regards

Ron Deen

Eudilson Núñez Cossio wrote:

>Hi List,
>We have several DCS Foxboro  to make control in our petroleoum refinery.
>Since Y2K remediation, the new projects suggest to install the last vesion
>and now a day we have a jungle of version in software and hardware and
>several quick fixes required for each version too.
>My question is: 
>Based on your experiences what do you recommend to make a good
>administration and support about the upgrades for this kind of systems in a
>big distributed application as in our case?
>Could you please suggest a good selection to standarize the system and
>reduce the knowledge, spare parts, etc required  for at lease 5 years?
>
>For example we have (as a main description of our systems) the following
>list:
>Foxboro I/A vesions 4.3, 6.1, 6.1.2, 6.2.1
>CP 10, 30, 40B, 60
>AW, AP, WP Series 50, 51, 70 styles A, B, B1, D, E
>
>Thank you very much for your concepts.
>
>Sincerly,
>Eudilson Nunez
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