Some folks use FSIM to do this sort of testing. See this for a general overview of our offerings http://www.simsci-esscor.com/us/eng/services/operatortraining/default.htm And http://www.simsci-esscor.com/us/eng/products/productlist/fsimplus/FSIM+Plus. htm for FSIM particularly. FSIM runs the CP code so that you can be sure that what you see is what you will get. Alternatively, you can buy duplicate hardware. :) Regards, Alex Johnson Invensys Systems, Inc. 10900 Equity Drive Houston, TX 77041 713.329.8472 (voice) 713.329.1700 (fax) 713.329.1600 (switchboard) alex.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of brad.s.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 12:29 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] Emergency Shutdown testing Although this doesn't directly relate to DCS, I'm curious how sites handle testing of their ESD systems. Since we have nothing considered critical, we do not have a standalone system like Triconex, but rather we've written sequence code that directly toggles motors & valves and safes control loops, in addition to using EXC blocks to handle DEP block shutdowns. Our problem is that our reliability engineer wants to test those ESD programs by turning on ALL the motors and then verifying that they all stop when the code is run. I don't like to idea of having everything running dry & deadheaded. If you test your ESD systems, how do you ensure that it will actually do everything that you want it to do? Brad Wilson Process Control Engineer ExxonMobil Chemical Co Edison Synthetics Plant 732-321-6115 732-321-6177 fax Brad.S.Wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave