Kongsberg Maritime - Process Simulation

D-SPICE DCS Link

D-SPICE DCS Link to Yokogawa CENTUM CS3000

D-SPICE Lifecycle Simulator
• Check your plant design
• Improve your plant design
• Protect your assets
• Train your operators
• Keep clean and safe production
• Maintain high up time
• Get the most out of your process
• Safely upgrade your process
• De-bottleneck your process
• Reuse previous investments

Introduction
Oil and gas companies are constantly
moving exploration and production
resources into new frontiers, which
makes engineering designs more
challenging. Complex processes and
advanced technology is required to
start new developments, improve Description
production and to extract more products Through the Kongsberg lifecycle concept, a D-SPICE process model can
from the world’s oil and gas reserves. be used in every phase of a project. A key contribution to several Kongsberg
The industry recognized an urgent projects was obtained by means of using the D-SPICE model as a test bed
need for a powerful tool to validate for the Control System (DCS) activities. Connecting a D-SPICE process
the engineering design, identify errors, model to the real control system configuration enables thorough testing of
ensure efficient operation, minimize the control system logic and philosophy and the ability to eliminate errors
start-up delays, achieve best “1st year in the configuration before plant commissioning, thus reducing expensive
operability” and to meet the ever more commissioning time and mitigating any operation risk. Kongsberg has developed
demanding environmental regulations. D-SPICE links to major DCS and has supplied this links to major projects.
 Technical specifications

D-SPICE Links to System

Yokogawa CS3000 Vendor Unit Hardware Software
In simulator setups for engineering, Kongsberg ES/IS PC Windows 2000/XP
training and DCS checkout, Fantoft
Kongsberg FOS PC Windows 2000/XP
has established a flexible and robust
Yokogawa HIS/OS PC WindowsXP
D-SPICE link to an exact software
Yokogawa FCS PC WindowsXP
copy of the real Yokogawa CENTUM
Yokogawa Exatif/ES PC WindowsXP
CS3000 control system. Since the
control system looks, feels and
communicates as with the real process, Kongsberg Yokogawa
operator training is highly efficient.
By using different initial plant IS / ES HIS / OS HIS / OS
conditions and training scenarios,
operators can train and rehearse
procedures for different situations.

Features
• Process Value transfer (pressure,
flow etc.)
• Control Signal transfer (controller
output, start/stop etc.)
• Simulator Commands (run/freeze,
load/save, set speed etc.) FOS FCS FCS Exatif / ES
Figure 1: The D-SPICE process model from Kongsberg is connected to an exact
Benefits copy of the Yokogawa control system.
• High Fidelity and High Accuracy
on the Linked Process Model Details
• Aid for Detailed Engineering • Comprises the Kongsberg / Yokogawa specific driver
• Process Design Auditing • Communicates directly to the Exatif API
• Detailed Dynamic Process and • Process model tags exchanged with DCS tag values
Control Studies • Calls defined for simulator specific commands via Exatif
• Control and Safety System Check- • Speed synchronization
Out and Auditing • Link configuration via D-SPICE graphical user interface
• Realistic Training Through Plant
Conditions and Scenarios
• Procedure Development and
Testing
IS / ES Kongsberg /
D-SPICE Yokogawa Process Values Yokogawa FCS
Process Model Specific Control Signals Exatif API

• Operational Support (Kernel) Driver Simulator Commands

• Process Optimisation and De-

Bottlenecking Figure 2: Link architecture.

API Application Program Interface FOS Field Operator Station

DCS Distributed Control System HIS Human Interface Station
ES Engineering Station IS Instructor Station
FCS Field Control Station OS Operator Station

DCS Link Yokogawa CS3000 / Rev.A / January 2007

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