Control Conversion views
Control Conversion is a set of application views and functions that allows users to develop Entity/Parameter conversion tasks between an Excel DataSource and a Control System Process Control Strategy.
This set of functions is intended for engineers that have a need to migrate legacy Honeywell or other vendor Control System platforms to Honeywell based Control systems. AST will provide preconfigured templates that support Honeywell Hiway migration to PKS Experion CEE nodes.
The current release of Control Architect supports PKS Cxxx/ACE type configuration as the output adapter for a Control Conversion task. Future releases of Control Architect will support the Honeywell UCN using an EB File as the output adapter and also integrate with Honeywell TPS Builder through a TPSB output adapter to programmatically drive configuration data into its SQL Server repositories.
Control Architect supports Bulk Build/Edit operations using a predefined set of Control Conversion views. To support Control Conversion there are three predefined templates that can be added to a project to define the Property data, the Property bindings, and the Data Source adapter. These templates are referred to as:
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Control Property Template
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Control Conversion Template
When an instance of a template is invoked to view its data, a predefined Template view is used to display its data.
Control Property Template View
This Template and its view allows you to define the scope of properties (parameters) that represent the source and target of a Control Conversion task. A Property definition requires attributes to be defined such as Name, Description, Size, etc.
Typically the source properties would be developed by pasting Excel Worksheet columns into the Property table or by using a
Wizard to extract the Property set from a Honeywell Exception Build (EB) file.
Typically the target properties would be developed by using a
Wizard to extract the Property set from an existing C300 Control Module that is being used to represent a typical or template as the target of a Control Conversion task.
Control Binding Template View
This Template and its view allows you to define Control bindings. A Control Binding defines a relationship or mapping between a source Property and a target Property and contains a binding expression that allows you to define the value conversion if required to convert the value to conform to its target control system platform.
The Control Binding Template requires you to select an existing Control Property Template file for the source and the target of the Control bindings.
Control Conversion Template View
This Template and its view allows you to define the DataSource (Excel Workbook file) and how data from the DataSource is filtered and/or queried when attached to a particular Template definition within a referenced Control Binding Template.
Typically the DataSource would either be an Excel Workbook file that contains custom engineering data or it could contain data exported from another legacy Control System that is being converted such as a Honeywell Exception Build (EB) file representing Hiway configuration data that was
converted to Excel.
The Control Conversion Template view also provides a
Control Graph view that allows you to view Control Entity relationships in a graphical view for Honeywell Hiway, Honeywell xPM, and Honeywell AM entity types. This visual Control graph is very helpful in understanding the Control Strategy relationships and the scope when making decisions on how to migrate to another Control System platform.
