January, 1999

When faced with the need to automate their Pilot Plant Facility, a major New England based pharmaceutical company called Superior Controls. Their goal was to design an entirely flexible control system- something their research scientists could easily understand and control intuitively. The system had to maintain sophisticated temperature controls of 23 jacketed batch reactors, include validation documentation to "prove" system functionality, and provide detailed reporting for each batch/reactor.

Superior Controls engineers are configuring and implementing a Fisher Rosemont, Delta V, DCS (Distributed Control System) and expanding the Allen Bradley PLC system to control and monitor all the valves, pumps, and equipment associated with the 23 batch reactors. Superior Controls is configuring six Operator Stations, nine controllers, and two Allen Bradley PLCs to control the approximately 600 I/O devices associated with the system.

All of the enclosures and control equipment will be thoroughly tested and simulated in a formal, documented Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) at Superior Controls before the on-site installation.