Emerson Process Management begins a £5 million pharmaceuticals project

Emerson Process Management has begun engineering design work for a major new pharmaceutical (injectable fluids) plant project using its PlantWeb field-based architecture. The contract, worth more than £5 million to Emerson, includes the integration of four separate skid-mounted production plant sections on a greenfield site. Using Emerson’s PlantWeb field-based architecture and its DeltaV digital automation system (including Foundation fieldbus and Hart communications for more than 1,000 analogue devices and Profibus DP communications for discrete digital I/O) the project is scheduled to start production in November 2002, in a fast 18-month timescale. On site, the fieldbus networks allow interconnection between skids, with the DeltaV workstations and PlantWeb system combined to produce a single, integrated information management and batch process control system (complete with material tracking and warehouse control).