Re: [foxboro] Time Synchro


The TCP Timesynch is a comprehensive package that we have been 
providing to I/A customers inside and outside of North America 
for a while now. The package is available for both the 51 and the 70 series.


The package allows you to synchronize the IA master time keeper on the IA
node with an external time reference showing the local wall time. Your
external time reference can in turn be synchronized to a GPS or whatever
higher order time reference you may want to use.  The package, called
TCPtimesync, will ensure that your IA master time keeper tracks the external
reference and all adjustments to the IA time are made in a smooth way so
that there are no problems with your process or historians.
  
The only technical requirements for the external time reference are that it
runs the daytime/tcp or time/tcp protocol. If your external reference is a
UNIX box (for example Solaris) then this service is already present, if you
have an NT box, then installing the standard NT "Simple TCP Services" will
do it.
  
Generally the sites that worry about time synchronization implement a scheme
where there is a local time reference synced to an external source (GPS,
atomic clock, etc) and all the systems on site are synced to this local
reference.

More information is available upon request.


Note to Alex: 
I think you never noticed but my email address is snadeau@xxxxxxxxxx 
(I don't think that the .com address will work.)



Regards,
Sylvain.

Sylvain Nadeau
Systems Integration  & IT
Invensys Process Systems 
INVENSYS SYSTEMS CANADA INC.
snadeau@xxxxxxxxxx
514-421-8107
Fax:514-421-8054



-----Original Message-----
From: MUGARTET@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:MUGARTET@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: April 29, 2003 3:11 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [foxboro] Time Synchro



Hi List,

Can anyone help me with a robust method for time synchronization of =
different DCS's? We are using OSI PI for historization of the whole =
complex, and have several IA nodes and ABB Advant DCN's. Right now every =
node/DCN has its own time but we would like to have them synchronized, =
and also with the PI server.
Any hint will be helpful.
Thanks in advance.

Mart=EDn R. Ugarte
Control Avanzado y Sistemas
Refiner=EDa La Plata - RepsolYPF
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7 +54-221-4298310 ext. 28033
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