How, you might ask? Project principals credit in part the plant’s pioneering use of ABB Select I/O, the Ethernet-based single-channel I/O system for the ABB Ability System 800xA control system. Importantly, Select I/O relies on industry-standard Profinet as the backbone of its plantwide I/O network. Use of this standard protocol dramatically streamlined the integration of even third-party I/O on skids that came late to the party. Indeed,
changes during the engineering process had increased the I/O count from 1,200 to 2,400 as more gas streams and equipment were added
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