Comprehensive Project Management Software For...

• Hybrid Control
• Process Control
• Logic Control
• Instrument Maintenance
• Fault Tolerant Ethernet

MOST Workbench Project Management Software allows you to:

• Enter project design specifications only once
• Configure your control project in a single step
• Maintain, Diagnose and Troubleshoot On-line
• Use standard drawing forms and commands
• Automatically generate as-built system documentation, I/O configuration reports, cross-reference analysis, bill of materials, instrument index, system startup, testing and maintenance information, and control strategy diagrams.

The MOST Workbench program incorporates all of the tools to create, manage and maintain a process control project. The Workbench is an integrated project development environment that coordinates project engineering activities, including instrument index, I/O database configuration, control strategy development (process and discrete), and process visualization (export table to build an HMI database). Its client-server implementation allows multiple engineers to work on the same project.

Designed using a Microsoft Windows Explorer paradigm, the Workbench's powerful and flexible framework significantly reduces project implementation and maintenance costs. Workbench capabilities such as drag-and-drop, right mouse click support and context sensitive help make developing, testing and maintaining automation projects easy and straightforward.

Comprehensive Engineering Tools
The Workbench provides extensive management tools for your control project. In addition to configuring the control logic, the Workbench also:

• Generates an export table for importing directly into popular HMI databases, including Wonderware, Cimplicity, Citect and Intellution
• Automatically assigns controller network addresses, optimizes communications and provides I/O Module and individual channel alarm status
• Configures efficient peer-to-peer capability, allowing data to be shared between any controllers on network
• Simulates control strategy before downloading to the controller
• Incorporates system maintenance capabilities while documenting the entire control system for instrument index to control strategy diagrams
• Provides system-wide security allowing for multiple levels of access to the control system

The Workbench eliminates the tedious and sometimes error-prone manual engineering work typically required during control projects, including the manual generation of design documents, bills of material and control strategy diagrams. Repetitive programming of control strategies is no longer necessary, significantly reducing errors and system configuration time.

Fault Tolerant Ethernet - LAN redundancy is provided with MOST Fault Tolerant Ethernet, a Foundation Fieldbus compliant software product. This network software product provides LAN redundancy when used with redundant controllers, that each have two independent Ethernet ports that are connected to two separate independent networks. The controller monitors the networks' health and will switch between networks when a problem is detected.