DCS, SCADA & more

UCOS supports any traditional control system architecture: DCS, SCADA, & more.

You can configure regulatory, sequential, and/or discrete control schemes using a single development environment. There's no need to switch tools in order to configure different kinds of control.

UCOS also supports centralized, distributed, and/or hybrid architectures. This is not cost-effective with traditional control systems.

It is cost-effective with UCOS due to the use of standard communications protocols and report-by-exception data transfer. These technologies reduce the cost of distributing control execution and even allow you to mix distributed and centralized architectures within a single system.

Details

Two of the factors that distinguish a control system architecture are:

• The type of control schemes used (regulatory, sequential, discrete)
• Where control takes place (centralized, distributed, hybrid)

A UCOS system can include any of these characteristics or a combination of them. As a consequence, you no longer have to choose just one architecture.

The Strengths of Each System

Traditionally, control engineers choose configurable, DCS-based systems primarily for the implementation of regulatory control.

They choose PLC-based systems primarily for the implementation of sequential control.

They choose SCADA systems primarily to integrate a large number of remote locations and concentrate the logic processing at a central master station.

UCOS combines the best of all these architectures.

Get All Those Strengths in One System

Like a DCS system, UCOS creates sophisticated regulatory control strategies that require little or no programming.

Like a PLC system, UCOS creates sequential control strategies and provides great flexibility in customizing every aspect of a project.

Like a SCADA system UCOS integrates remote and master stations.

However, unlike these traditional technologies, UCOS creates regulatory, discrete, and sequential control schemes using one integrated development tool. This one tool addresses every aspect of the project:

• Configuring all system hardware, including I/O cards and tag assignments to points on cards
• Developing control logic
• Building HMI graphics and other displays for operators
• Documenting the entire project

... and all other aspects of a project.