Procidia takes advantage of the World Wide Web (www) throughout its life cycle for everything from specification, to start-up, through production and maintenance. This unique approach simplifies operation, minimizes costs, and enhances information flow for process unit and area control applications beyond anything possible with today's technologies.

One of only 22 products accepted for the ISA Tech/1999 Innovator's Center, Procidia exploits the strengths of current offerings while addressing their particular weaknesses. Specifically, Procidia combines the power of a distributed control system (DCS) with the simplicity of a loop controller at the cost of a programmable logic controller (PLC). Procidia establishes an entirely new product category called the ICS, redefining the very notion of process control for process unit and area applications. These include compressor, boiler, turbine, furnace, and simple batch applications in such varied industries as Pharmaceutical, Food & Beverage, Water & Waste Water, Metals & Mining, Electrical Power, Semiconductor, Pulp & Paper and Oil & Gas Production and Refining.

Procidia's comprehensive engineering tools are equally adept at reducing your configuration, maintenance and change efforts. Specifically, its IEC 61131-3 compliant graphical configuration software accomodates both function block and ladder logic languages, satisfying continuous and discrete requirements in one controller. In fact, Procidia features the only controller designed to deliver true hybrid control for process unit and area applications by addressing a combination of continuous, batch and discrete manufacturing characteristics. Procidia further reduces the engineering effort via an OPC data server as a global database for the entire system.

Procidia's open platform, which supports such protocols as OPC, Modbus and HART, further facilitates improved flow of process information by providing comprehensive access to system data and integration with your other systems and field devices. The OPC protocol allows you to transfer information to any other OPC compliant software or system for comprehensive plant-wide communication. Procidia's Ethernet networking capability simplifies integration and reduces networking costs.

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