Rockwell Automation AADvance Controller System Build - Manual (Page 11)

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This chapter provides an overview of a controller and briefly describes its major
components.
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The AADvance controller is specifically designed for functional safety and critical
control applications, it provides a flexible solution for your smaller scale requirements.
The system can be used for safety implement functions as well as applications that are
non-safety but still critical to a business process. This controller offers you the ability
to create a cost-effective system to suit any of the following applications:
Critical process control
Fire and gas protection systems
Rotating machinery control systems
Burner management
Boiler and furnace control
Distributed process monitoring and control
The AADvance controller is a logic solver and I/O processing device that consists of
processor modules, I/O modules and field termination assemblies that can easily be
assembled and configured. A system is built up from one or more controllers, a
combination of I/O modules, power sources, communications networks and user
workstations. How you configure the system determines the type of application it can
be used for.
An AADvance controller is particularly well suited to emergency shut down and fire
and gas detection protection applications by providing a system solution with
integrated and distributed fault tolerance. It is designed and validated to international
standards and is certified by TÜV for functional safety control installations.
A Frequency Input Module (not yet released) will provide the functionality to meet the
requirements of turbomachinary governor control and overspeed protection.
The significant benefits of the AADvance controller are its performance and flexibility.
Being designed to IEC 61508 it meets both SIL2 and SIL3 application requirements
from the basic range of modules and mixed SIL rated applications can be covered by
this range of modules.
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