PROFWARE SYSTEMS
Powerful software for industrial applications
ICE Package is a set of applications that aims to improve your experience of working with process simulation cases created in UniSim Design Suite (Honeywell Company product).
It helps to get around "single process - single CPU core" nature of dynamic process simulations by managing multiple simulation cases, running them synchronously and providing OPC interface for real time data exchange. That is to say, you can split a large, slow and resource-demanding model into several smaller models and run all of them in parallel gaining in simulation speed but maintaining modeling accuracy.
The OPC interface is ready to link simulation cases with any kind of OPC clients or servers: from PC based data collection and recording utilities to industrial multi-variable model predictive controllers (RPMCT, DMC, SMOC/PACE etc) and Distributed Control Systems (DCS's). That opens wide spectrum of problems where ICE Package can be applied. You could run simulation cases solely for higher performance, test logical controllers and physical devices in interaction with a process model, exchange data between process simulation environment and real plant DCS or even build an Operator Training Simulator (OTS) station.
ICE Package includes following components:
OPC Client unit operation for UniSim Design Suite. Multiple client instances can be added in a process simulation case. Each client instance can be configured to send/receive data to/from local or remote OPC server, for example control system. Hundreds of OPC tags can be configured while specifying required data types and referencing objects inside the model. The client supports bulk copy-paste of references from MS Excel, provides bumpless initialization when starting the data exchange, and features OPC address space browsing.
OPC DA 2.0 Server based on Light OPC SDK - fast and centralized source of data with dynamically updated address space, where the clients can write and read from.
OPC Interface - simulation cases manager that can run multiple dynamic process models synchronously with specific real-time factor. The interface application can send key information to a specified OPC server so that a remote control system can be emulated at the same speed with the process models.
