MAY 2021
AVEVA Plant SCADA
Product Overview
Formerly Citect SCADA
Updated for AVEVA Plant SCADA 2020 R2
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AVEVA Plant SCADA (formerly Citect SCADA)
A world leading industrial automation software specialist for over 30 years
1985-87 Citect for DOS
1990-92 Citect for Windows
1994-97 True Colour support. International market expansion (Europe, US & China).
Company publicly listed on Australian Stock Exchange.
2001-05 Process Analyst making it easier for operators to analyse disturbances. Further market expansion
(Germany, UK, Africa, France, SE Asia, Japan, Korea, Sth America, India & Middle East)
2006 Web Client to access data from anywhere. Clustering for unparalleled scalability. Windows integrated security
to protect your assets.
Acquisition by Schneider Electric
2010-13 Online changes for uninterrupted availability. Scheduler to optimize your process for energy costs.
Equipment objects to standardize your plant design and reduce engineering costs.
2015-18 Provided blistering performance and unlock more operational value via Wonderware portfolio connectivity.
Brand consolidation to Citect SCADA; revolutionized engineering with Citect Studio, Centralised Deployment and
Topology. Modernized operations with Workspace, Situational Awareness library and native Alarm Management
capabilities.
Merger of Schneider Electric Software Business into AVEVA.
2021+ Citect SCADA becomes AVEVA Plant SCADA, introducing HTML5 graphics, OPC-UA Server, IPv6, and more!
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AVEVA Plant SCADA
Product Overview
Focus Area or Pain Point Solved Modules
• Secure and safe supervisory control and monitoring of • Device Comms and Data Collection
disparate critical infrastructure for industrial process
• Historic Data Storage and Trending
customers.
• Alarm Handling
Description
• Reporting
• Plant SCADA is a reliable, flexible and high-performance
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) software • Graphics & Visualization
solution for industrial process customers. • Distributed, redundant, scalable infrastructure
• Includes easy-to-use configuration tools and powerful • Architecture View
features help customers develop and deploy solutions for
any size application. • Project Deployment
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Why Plant SCADA
FLEXIBLE. SCALABLE. RELIABLE.
Renowned for its reliability & flexibility, and used in a wide range of industries, AVEVA
Plant SCADA enables you to increase your return on assets by delivering highly scalable
control & monitoring systems to reduce operating costs, improve productivity and
product quality.
Flexibility Scalability Reliability
Flexible architecture… Scalable architecture… Reliable architecture, with multi-
level redundancy baked in…
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Why Plant SCADA
CERTIFIED PARTNERS WORLDWIDE.
The Plant SCADA family of partners are key to the success of our customers. Our
network of Distributors & System Integrators can help with your project needs, and
with the backing of Schneider Electric, we can assist you with software, services, and
of course, PLCs & other automation hardware requirements.
Certified Partners Worldwide Network
Certified partners, System Integrators, Global network of distributors & partners….
Distributors, and more…
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Why Plant SCADA
30 YEARS YOUNG. 30,000 HAPPY CUSTOMERS.
Plant SCADA is one of the World’s leading industrial automation software platforms,
with over 30 years of industrial automation expertise & more than 30,000 happy
customers across all market segments.
30 Years Young 30,000 Happy Customers
Proud 30-year history…
(and counting)
30,000+ happy customers are using
Plant SCADA across various industries
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Why Plant SCADA
GLOBAL BUSINESS. #1 SOFTWARE PORTFOLIO
We are a global business, with the backing of industrial giants. The Plant SCADA
research & development hub is located in Sydney, Australia. We are part of AVEVA –
the World’s Number 1 industrial automation software vendor.
Locally Made. #1 Industrial Automation
Global Business. Software Portfolio
Plant SCADA is part of the wide AVEVA AVEVA Plant SCADA, AVEVA Edge, InTouch
global network of development teams HMI, System Platform, and many more…
and support
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Why Plant SCADA
HARDWARE-AGNOSTIC CONNECTIVITY. SOFTWARE INTEROPERABILITY.
Plant SCADA has supreme connectivity, with a library of over 150 device & protocol
drivers to modern industrial hardware, as well as interoperability with the full AVEVA
portfolio of products.
Hardware-Agnostic Connectivity Software Interoperability
Superior integration to 150+ device & protocol drivers Interoperability with the largest Industrial
Automation portfolio on the market…
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Why Plant SCADA
INDUSTRIES WE SERVE.
Flexibility & scalability have always been at the heart of the AVEVA Plant SCADA
platform, which has led to Plant SCADA being relied upon in a wide range of industries.
Building & Plant Mining, Metals Power & General
Infrastructure
Facility Mgmt Operations & Minerals Utilities Manufacturing
From airports, From small buildings Whether a small HMI Most of the World’s From Solar or Wind Whether a small HMI
transportation & to large facilities, with or a fully distributed top 10 mining applications through or a fully distributed
tunnels, to water & integrated scheduling SCADA application, organizations trust to full Substation SCADA application,
waste water plants, for hassle-free Plant SCADA has Plant SCADA! Automation! your manufacturing
electrical substations, building management! your plant needs facility is safe with
or data centers! covered! Plant SCADA!
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HAPPY CUSTOMERS
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AVEVA Plant SCADA –
Some of the details
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Extensive Scalability
• Small (10 I/O) to Large (500,000+ I/O)
• Centralised or distributed system processing
• Unify any number of control systems into a single “clustered” system
• Grow the system with minimal
configuration changes
• Individual local site view, and
“enterprise” global clients
• Unified alarm lists and comparisons of
trended data across multiple systems
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Clustering
Clients at each
Each site is represented in the project
site are only
with a separate cluster, grouping its
primary and standby servers. interested in the
local cluster,
whereas Global
Clients at the central
control room are able
to view every cluster
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Class-Leading Flexibility
• True client-server architecture
• Separated tasks; I/O, Trends, Alarms, Reports
• Combined to run on a single node, or
• Separated to run independently, or
• Duplicated to run redundantly, or
• Paralleled to load-share.
• Global Clients for central access
• Control Clients
• View-only Clients
• Floating Client Licenses
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Robust Reliability
• Redundancy provides fault tolerance throughout the system
• I/O device redundancy with hot standby configuration
• Multiple communication paths for each I/O device
• I/O device data path redundancy
• Redundant LAN using multiple networks
• File server redundancy
• Task redundancy across multiple computers
• Clustering provides multiple redundant architectures
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Powerful Programming Language - Cicode
• Makes Plant SCADA even more flexible
• 1,000+ built-in functions
• 1,000s more in libraries
• .NET extensibility
• Full SQL and ADO Connectivity
• True Multi-Tasking & Multi-Threading
• Can be run in Server / Client / Graphics / Events etc
• Can be used anywhere
• Complete built-in debugging capabilities
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Comprehensive Connectivity
• Vendor agnostic device connectivity
• More than 150 native drivers
• Wide range of PLC/PAC/RTU vendors, and Industry Standard protocols
• Schneider Electric, Rockwell, GE, Siemens
• OPC-UA, BACNET, IEC61850, MODBUS, DNP3, IEC60870, SNMP…
• Open Connectivity
• OPC-UA Client and Server
• OPC-DA Client and Server
• ODBC Client and Server
• IPv6 Communications
• OLE-DB
• CtAPI
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Native SE PAC Integration
• Native OFSOPC Communication Driver
• 6x faster than traditional Modbus TCP/IP
• Supports Unlocated Tags
• Load tested up to 200,000 tags / 70 PLCs in real-world scenarios
• Native Diagnostic Tools
• Full Integration between Plant SCADA and SE PLC programming s/w (Unity)
• Single Database (Plant SCADA & Unity)
• Automatic Tag Definition (Data Dictionary)
• Online Changes with No communication Break
• Diagnostic Buffer
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Dependable Security
• Native User-Based Security configuration
• Integrated with WindowsTM User Groups, and/or local Plant SCADA accounts
• Users are assigned to Roles which determine their system permissions
• Areas can be defined to provide access restrictions within a project
• User account required for all system access; including Client and CtAPI
• User Security functions including; auto logout of idle users, password expiry, and verification of users/privileges before initiating
actions
• Additional measures that help lock-down Runtime environment to prevent misuse by operations
• Applying system start-up restrictions, disabling keyboard commands, inhibit screensaver, and more
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Online Change Management
• Make changes without interrupting operations or data gathering
• From single PC to redundant system
• Add/remove tags without taking servers offline
• Reload new server configurations on demand
• Add new servers online too!
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Equipment Configuration
Object-based overlay on Tag-based Database
• Build Custom Equipment Templates
• Define Tags, Trends, Alarms, and more
• Build once, replicate as many times as you need
• Brings design consistency, and increased engineering efficiency
• Simplified maintenance; update a template and sync to all instantiated equipment
• Include graphics within Equipment Templates
• End-to-end object design throughout your system
• Reuse and duplicate libraries across multiple projects
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Native Visualization in Web Browser
HTML5 Browser Compatibility
• Read-only access to your
process graphics via web
browser / mobile device
• Industrial Graphics Pages
can be embedded in your
company Intranet site, etc
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Remote Access Capabilities
• Digital Transformation has made data accessible anywhere.
Your HMI should be too.
• Plant SCADA Anywhere is an extension that provides access
to native Plant SCADA graphics via HTML5 compliant web
browsers.
• Plant SCADA Anywhere provides secure access to your
process anywhere, anytime, from any device with full
functionality!
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Integrated Development Environment
Plant SCADA Studio
• Unified configuration environment
• Powerful bulk-editing
• Graphics previews and library usage references
• Centralised server topology view and simplified server management
• Centralised deployment, managed centrally
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Central Project Configuration
Runtime Nodes
Centralised Deployment (Clients and
Servers)
• Enhanced project management
• Controlled transfer of project changes to servers & clients
• Native version-control with local & remote rollback
• Delta-only transfer (great for WAN communications!)
Deployment
Engineering
• Security built-in Server
Workstations
• Using HTTPS between Plant SCADA nodes & Deployment server
• Role based: Admin, Deploy, Upload, Read-Only
• User-friendly notification for operators
• Force, Prompt & Notify
Plant SCADA
Anywhere Server
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Dedicated Situational Awareness Workspace
Delivering it all out-of-the-box!
• Optimal Layout for Operational Efficiency
• Navigation Zone
• Faceplate Zone
• Information Zone
• Menu-driven Navigation
• With Alarm Counts
• Alarm-based Navigation
• Integrated Alarm Management
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Extensive Library of Configurable Objects
• Drives
• Valves
• Meters
• Data and UI Elements
• Mining Objects
• Polar Star
• Bar Graph
• Wind Compass
• And more…
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And Even More …
• Built-in SPC Module
• Control (XRS) charts
• Capability charts
• Pareto charts
• Native Multi-Language Support
• Include Projects
• Scheduler
• Diagnostic Tool (Plant SCADA Kernel)
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Improving Operational Efficiency
Native, Context-Aware, Multi-Monitor Support
• Out of the box support for multiple screens
• Define your resolutions
• Define layout for each screen, and what content
• Link screens, or make them independent
• Configure multiple profiles for the same project
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Improving Operational Efficiency
• Alarm Shelving
• Shelve alarms for a period of time
• Record the reason why
• Auto and Manual un-shelve
• Re-shelve support
• Appear on alarm border and navigation buttons
• Alarm Cause & Response
• Define up to 8 cause and responses
• Define consequence of no action, time to respond
• Provide decision support for new operators!
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Make Smarter Decisions
• Advanced Alarm Management
• All types, acknowledgement, filter/sorting
• 1ms resolution for time-stamped alarms
• Real Time Reports
• By a variety of trigger (time, event, input)
• Many output (printer, file, email, html)
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Make Smarter Decisions
Improve operational decision-making for Operators and Managers
• Process Analyst (trending)
• Disturbance Analysis – display all the data in one visual display
• Data Comparison – compare the same trend at multiple time intervals
• Compare how alarms and trends interacted
• Display of sampled and event analog data
• Display of digital data
• Display alarm indications
• Alarm Active / Unacknowledged state indication
• Is extensible via programmable interface
• Can push in data samples to display from a disparate source.
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Forward Thinking + Backward Compatible
• AVEVA is always looking beyond today’s market expectations
• Our software portfolio continues to evolve to support system architectures, technologies, and standards as they change
• Our tightly integrated software portfolio keeps the evolving technology landscape well in our focus
• Helping us anticipate the future user requirements we will support at every stage of adoption
• We want to help you protect your investment in our software
• We provide backward compatibility for our HMI/SCADA solutions
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represent our current judgment on what the future holds, they are subject to risks and uncertainties
that could result in actual outcomes differing materially from those projected in these statements.
No statement contained herein constitutes a commitment by AVEVA to perform any particular action
or to deliver any particular product or product features. Readers are cautioned not to place undue
reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect our opinions only as of the date of this
presentation.
The Company shall not be obliged to disclose any revision to these forward -looking statements to
reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date on which they are made or to reflect the
occurrence of future events.
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ABOUT AVEVA
AVEVA is a global leader in engineering and industrial software driving digital transformation across
the entire asset and operational life cycle of capital-intensive industries.
The company’s engineering, planning and operations, asset performance, and monitoring and control
solutions deliver proven results to over 16,000 customers across the globe. Its customers are
supported by the largest industrial software ecosystem, including 4,200 partners and 5,700 certified
developers. AVEVA is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with over 4,400 employees at 80 locations in
over 40 countries.
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