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PlantPAx Distributed Control System

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The PlantPAx® system helps producers make better, faster process control decisions. This system enables you to respond more quickly to the demands of your customers and fast-changing specifications. The latest system release has been designed to be an integral part of your digital transformation strategy that helps you be more productive and profitable while reducing operational risk.

Rethink what a modern distributed control system (DCS) can do for you.

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    PlantPAx Quick Facts Sheet

    Ready to make your plant smarter and more efficient? Our PlantPAx® Quick Facts brochure is your key to unlocking the full potential of your operations. Discover the power of seamless integration, real-time insights, and enhanced cybersecurity to optimize your production and reduce downtime. Get your brochure today and see how PlantPAx® can transform your plant.

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    PlantPAx Differentiation Video Series: Cybersecurity

    Stop cyberattacks in their tracks with PlantPAx from Rockwell Automation. This secure distributed control system (DCS) keeps your plant running smoothly and protects it from ever-evolving threats.

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    PlantPAx Differentiation Video Series: Process + Power

    Struggling to integrate power and process in your production operations? PlantPAx, Rockwell Automation's distributed control system, seamlessly unifies power and process, simplifying your operations and maximizing performance.

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    PlantPAx Differentiation Video Series: Total Plantwide Control

    Tired of siloed process control systems? PlantPAx, Rockwell Automation's distributed control system, seamlessly integrates your entire plant, boosting efficiency and providing valuable insights.

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Accelerate Your Digital Transformation with Our DCS

Producers like you are adept at navigating the complexities and challenges of staying competitive. This is true in a variety of industries ranging from pharmaceuticals, consumer packaged goods, and food and beverage to mining and chemical. That’s why it’s so important to implement the latest technological advancements to continue your ever-evolving digital transformation journey.

From the control room to the board room, process system users face the persistent challenges of balancing productivity against budget and resource constraints as well as proactively addressing evolving operational risks. Meet these challenges and experience real productivity gains in all areas of your plant with the PlantPAx distributed control system (DCS).

System features positively impact the lifecycle of your plant operations by ensuring that plant-wide and scalable systems drive productivity, improve profitability, and reduce overall risks for operations.

The latest system release introduces:

Networks and Security Updates: Cybersecurity updates and new Stratix switches strengthen your system's defense and network reliability, while OPC UA integration streamlines data exchange. Enhanced network health objects monitor performance and proactively address potential issues. Expanded support for our partner, Aparian’s, Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus PA devices ensure seamless connectivity across your entire industrial network.

Analytics Enabled: Gain actionable insights and optimize operations with KPI-aligned alarms and events dashboards, comprehensive device information dashboards, and seamless integration of multiple PlantPAx data sources into a unified enterprise view, powered by FactoryTalk DataMosaix for both cloud and on-premise deployments.

Enabling Process and Power: Seamlessly monitor and control your electrical distribution across IEC-61850 and Ethernet/IP, with support for our ProSoft Gateway or in-chassis IEC-61850 solutions. Utilize included objects for Rockwell Automation, SEL, and ABB protection devices to optimize your power management strategy.

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PlantPAx Distributed Control System The Modern DCS

The PlantPAx® system, a modern DCS, is a key component of The Connected Enterprise®.

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This annual industry-leading event addresses the production challenges you face every day. You can depend on our thought-provoking keynotes, insightful tech sessions, and hands-on labs to help you learn about the latest process automation technologies.

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PlantPAx: The Modern DCS

Rethink What to Expect from a Distributed Control System

All of your automation operations can be integrated into a Connected Enterprise with the PlantPAx system being a key component. This technology will help to drive productivity, increase efficiencies and reduce costs in your organization.

PlantPAx, the modern DCS, provides a single, plant-wide control system and increased flexibility to enable better business decisions.

Plant-wide Control and Optimization: The PlantPAx system uses a common automation platform for seamless integration between critical areas of your plant. This modern DCS connects process, discrete, power, information, and safety control into one plant-wide infrastructure. Benefits include common platforms, seamless information flow, ease of management, and lower total cost of ownership. See Our High Performance Architectures

Scalable and Modular Architecture: A wide range of architecture options for increased flexibility are provided with the PlantPAx system. The same platform can be used for single stations or large distributed architectures. This means easy integration without replicating data, faster time to market, and scalable system capabilities such as HMI, batch management and data collection. Explore Design and Implementation Solutions

Open, Information-enabled, and Secure: The PlantPAx modern DCS is based on open communication standards leveraging EtherNet/IP as its backbone. As a result, real-time information is readily available throughout the enterprise for better business decisions. Make better business decisions by leveraging virtualization and mobility, enabling IT/OT convergence with COTS hardware, energy reduction of up to 10% and a systematic approach to defense-in-depth. Secure Your Information

Flexible Delivery and Support Network: You are able to select the optimal implementation and support team based on your needs with the PlantPAx DCS. We can deliver the system and other world-class solutions or your local process system integrator with whom you have established a working relationship can provide your support.


Lifecycle Services

Support for Your Operations Lifecycle

From the plant floor to the top floor, organizations need a global partnership that understands their industry to achieve a lifecycle strategy. Rockwell Automation delivers ingenuity by combining domain expertise and technology. We partner at every stage of your lifecycle to expand what is possible for your business so you can expand what is possible for your customers.

The PlantPAx DCS excels by impacting the overall effort to integrate the process control layer to the enterprise.  This reduces the lifecycle cost of the system and lowers operational risks in operations. PlantPAx can provide impact throughout each phase of the lifecycle.

  1. Design: With faster engineering and standardization, teams can offload non value-add tasks that consume the design stage and instead place focus on providing a differentiated higher level of value to the client.
  2. Build: Faster commissioning and better skid integration minimize disruptions to the critical path of the project timeline. Technology features in the DCS must enable global teams to quickly troubleshoot issues in commissioning phases and remain flexible to adopt late-binding changes. Skid integration capabilities and simulation tools to run effective acceptance tests help compress project timelines.
  3. Sustain: Easier to maintain, operate and modernize by reducing the total cost of ownership with a smaller footprint and simplified modernization path.
  4. Improve: Drive improvement into the enterprise with the ability to expand and enhance with diagnostic capabilities, open access, and analytics and optimization tools.
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Industrial automation services to support your manufacturing plant or facility throughout its lifecycle, whether you need to design, build, sustain or improve.

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DCS Migrations

Address the Risks of a Legacy DCS

Your DCS is the “brain of your process”— reaching out into your plant to monitor and control the multitude of devices which enable you to produce quality products on time, every time. As your equipment ages, it is inevitable that questions about part sourcing, service, potential productivity losses from old technology, and increased risks of downtime become more likely.  Learn how Rockwell Automation can help you modernize your control system with PlantPAx DCS.

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Distributed Control System Migration

Our migration solutions are designed to help you minimize downtime, maximize operational success, and lessen the risk of maintaining legacy equipment.

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PlantPAx and DCS Migrations Playlist

Are you ready to modernize your legacy distributed control system? Many process plants have an outdated DCS currently in place. Learn how DCS migration to the PlantPAx® DCS can work for you.

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Batch Control and FactoryTalk Batch

Part of PlantPAx DCS Since the Beginning

Today’s dynamic manufacturing climate presents multiple challenges: control costs, mitigate risks, and seize every opportunity to gain a competitive edge. For many companies, this means production areas must drive out inefficiencies that are holding them back with bold approaches. This requires informed decision making, data-driven exposure of inefficiencies, and a tremendous amount of collaboration. Indeed, organizations that embrace today’s rapidly advancing technologies stand to uncover new competitive advantages.

FactoryTalk® Batch provides efficient, consistent predictable batch processing that supports the reuse of code, recipes, phases, and logic. FactoryTalk Batch combines the ISA-88 standard with proven technology that provides the flexibility ranging from enterprise-wide architectures to complex single-unit applications. It also allows you to apply one control and information system across your process to improve capacity and product quality, save energy and raw materials, and reduce process variations and human intervention.

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Use equipment more efficiently, improve product quality, decrease energy use and save money with modern batch control strategies from FactoryTalk® Batch software.

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Our batch control solutions provide a flexible control environment to help you meet your demands for increased production and improved yields.

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  • Optimize supply chain
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  • Reinforce consistency
  • Room to grow

Design and Implementation Tools

Tools to Help You Configure and Apply Our Products

PlantPAx DCS leverages advancements in our design and configuration platforms. The PlantPAx System Estimator (PSE) allows you to quickly build and validate your architecture based on your requirements. The PSE wizard is part of Integrated Architecture® Builder (IAB).

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PlantPAx DCS Selection Guide
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PlantPAx DCS Selection Guide

The PlantPAx® system provides a modern approach to distributed control. The system shares common technology with all other automation disciplines in the plant.

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PlantPAx DCS User Manual
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PlantPAx DCS User Manual

Describes the add-on instructions, embedded PlantPAx instructions, and associated faceplates that are available to develop applications.

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