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Time synchronise your key remote sites
Time synchronisation between the main plant and remote or isolated areas has neither been simple nor cost effective until now. The Omniflex TSM module enables any isolated programmable equipment to synchronize its real time clock to satellite time.
Managing processes where root cause identification is rapidly identified can generate substantial savings though improved productivity and implementation of planned preventive maintenance schedules. Knowing what happened first in a chain of events in the plant quickly leads to the appropriate corrective action. Omniflex has spent 50+ years in Alarm and Event management system design and development providing 1 milli-second discrimination to trip alarming status enabling the plant to quickly identify root cause. Our “Time Stamp at Source” philosophy immediately differentiated our trip recording by being far more accurate than supervisory system PC or DCS time stamping which is unable to account for propagation delay of network signal and the I/O scanning ability of the front-end devices. The more I/O the longer it takes! Omniflex adopted a fixed scan cycle (independent of I/O count) and a time stamp at source for every change of state, having a GPS time synchronized clock source provides unparalleled alarm time accuracy right where it’s needed.
Many time synchronizing standards have been used over the years from pulse inputs to IRIGB popular in the electrical field and more modern Plants adopting the NTP server technology (Network Time Protocols) technology on networks or IEEE1588 Protocols to bring all time stamping to a single time base. All of which require a significant investment in hardware and software and even dedicated networks in some cases to provide plantwide synchronization.
The hard part is affordability in remote or isolated plant and getting a cost-effective solution to time synchronization. Sub Stations, Pumping Stations or remote process plants away from the main plant which often need to be reviewed on the same time base as they are inter-related.
The Omniflex TSM enables any isolated programmable equipment to synchronize its real time clock to satellite time, our sequential events recorder Maxiflex can thus provide 1milli-second discrimination to chains of events at different geographic locations and when this data is overlaid the root cause can be quickly be un-covered as the time base is down to 1millisecond resolution. Any programmable device (PLC) with a serial port can be configured to get real time from the Omniflex TSM.
Features
- Independent of plant network propagation delays with direct accurate satellite synchronization.
- Compact Weather Proof Enclosure no antennae required
- Simple Set-up Plug and Play on Omniflex products.
- Supports the uses of either an RS232 or RS485 Interface port.
- Easily used with Third Party PLC, DCS or PC based systems.
- Eliminates Real Time Clock Drift errors
- Operates off 9 to 30Vdc supply.
Benefits
- Compatible with third party devices like PLCs
- Allows sensible aggregation of time stamped Data collected from different sites
- Compare similar installations by alarm performance.
- Accurate Alarm Time Logging over large geographic areas.
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