FDM R400 Product Summary, Enhancements &
Specifications
John YingstProduct Manager
Phoenix, AZ
April, 2009
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FDM R400 Enhancements Summary
• Topology -- New Multi-Server Environment
• Capacity Increase
• Device Load and Network Build Time
• Device Health and Network Scan
• Save History Behavior
• Dynamic Scanning
• Bulk Operations
• Tag Generation
• Explicit Upload (DTMs)
• FHM Changes
• MUX Monitoring
• New Base Model
• New Max License Count models
• Compatibility
• Installation
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FDM R400 Benefits
• Manage assets for any size plant!
• Cover more devices, more Experion Servers, and more non-Honeywell networks than ever before!
• Save more time than ever with vastly improved device load times!
• Save time and money with new bulk loading options!
• Save time managing bandwidth limited HART MUX networks with Device Health and Network Scan Settings!
• Enjoy the only management tool that handles both EDDL and DTM for devices!
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FDM R400 Basics – Topology & Capacity
FDM Server
FDM Server
FDM Server
FDM Client
FDM Client
FDM Client
FDM Client
…
• New Multi-Server Environment
- Supports multiple FDM Servers (no limit)
- FDM Client connects to any FDM Server
- Client can switch Servers on-the-fly
• Capacity Enhancements
- 16,000 devices max per FDM Server (was 4,000 before)
- 6 Experion Servers per FDM Server (was 4 before)
- 25 MUXs per FDM Server (was 10)
- 25 MUX Monitoring connections per FDM Server (was 4)
- 25 RCIs per FDM Server (was 10)
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FDM R400 Basics – MUX Monitoring
• MUX Monitoring- For getting device info into Experion
- FDM Gateway decoupled from FDM Server
- Can install in any PC now (formerly in FDM Server only)Uses ACE component (no license required!)
- More flexibility and capacity 6 Gateways max per FDM Server
2 Gateways per Experion Server
2 Gateways per PC
12,000 devices max per FDM Server
FDM Gateway
Gateway PC
FDM Gateway
FDM Gateway
Gateway PC
FDM Gateway
FDM Gateway
Gateway PC
FDM Gateway
FDM Server
6 total Gateways per FDM Server
ExperionServer
MUXs
DA
TA
ACE
HART
DEVICES
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FDM R400 Basics – New Models
• New Base Model
- HC-SV0000 is now HC-SV0001 in R400
- Now includes… 1 Client license (new in R400) 1 MUX license (Hardware Multiplexer
network connection) (new in R400) 16 devices (new in R400) 1 HART Modem connection (no change) All essential device configuration
management functions (no change)
• New Maximum License Counts & Models
Pre-R400
Model
R400
Model
Description Pre-400
Limit
R400
Limit
HC-HMOMAX HC-HMOMX1 License that provides ability to connect to maximum
number of multiplexers supported.10 25
HC-MMOMAX HC-MMOMX1 License that provides ability to have maximum
number of multiplexers monitoring
connections supported.
4 25
HC-RIOMAX HC-RIOMX1 License that provides ability to have maximum
number of RCI connections supported.10 25
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FDM R400 Details – Topology
• FDM Client can connect to any FDM Server- Removed one to one correspondence between Client
and Server
- User specifies which FDM Server to connect to
- Either from launching Client or from within the Client
FDM Server
ExperionServer*
FDM Server
ExperionServer*
FDM Server
ExperionServer*
FDM Client
FDM Client
FDM Client
FDM Client
…
RCI
6 Experion Servers max per FDM
Server or Redundant Server Pair
25 total RCIs, including Experion
Servers, max per FDM Server
25 Clients max per FDM Server
FDM Client may
connect to 1 FDM
Server at a time
FDM Client may run in the
same PC as FDM Server or
RCI (see Configuration
Guidelines)
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FDM R400 Details – Topology (cont’d)
• Experion Station Client
- Connects to FDM server on-the-fly when launched
- Maintain config file on each station
- Contains map of FDM Server node name vs Experion Server node name
• Removal of FDM from Configuration Studio
- Requirement of new topology
- No longer associated with just one Experion server
User can switch to a different
FDM Server without closing the
FDM Client.
User can connect to the desired FDM
Server by entering the machine name
during login/Server switch
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FDM R400 Details – Network Build Time
Build Time Enhancements
• R400 network build time is significantly enhanced
• If FDM server is interrupted, FDM RCI service keeps running
• When FDM Server is available, network information is published from RCI cache in seconds
• During Experion Server switchover, network build is much faster
• Initial network build time for hardware MUX networks has not changed
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Upon visiting each
menu, the progress of
the parameter read will
be shown here
FDM R400 Details – Device Load
Load Enhancements
• Initially, Client reads a minimal set of parameters to populate the UI
• Subsequent parameters read only when a user visits a particular menu or tab
• Non-dynamic parameters are read once on visiting a menu
• Visible dynamic parameters refreshed every 40 seconds if "Enable Dynamic Scan" enabled
• Results
- Fast device load time
- Quick response for configuration
- Low network traffic
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FDM R400 Details – Device Load
Upon visiting each
menu, the progress of
the parameter read will
be shown here
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FDM R400 Details – Dynamic Scanning
• Enable Dynamic Scanning provides optional parameter refresh
- Every 40 seconds
- Applies to PV, SV, TV, QV, etc.
- Option disabled by default
• Useful maintenance tool
- Monitoring device response
- Looking for status changes
- More flexibility in managing bandwidth
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FDM R400 Details – Save History Behavior
Save History Change
• While closing a device, prompt reminds to Save History Record
• Previously, parameters read during device load
- History saved when the last instance closed across Clients
- New device load paradigm no longer performs this
• In R400, use Save History Record
- Read all the device parameters and save the history
- FDM will read all unread values from the device before saving history
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FDM R400 Details – DTM Explicit Load
• Quick availability for configuration
• For DTMs, Client initially reads minimal set of parameters
- Most DTMs will provide data when you then visit a page or tab
• Explicit Read All Parameters option
- Used after loading the DTM
- Reads all device parameters
- Consistent with other FDT frames and systems
- Expected behavior of most DTMs
- Fewer delays while opening
- Useful for DTMs that don’t refresh page/tab
Read All Parameters
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FDM R400 Details – Device Health
Device Health and Network Scan Settings
• Health scan utility in FDM R310 now part of Settings in FDM R400
• Enabled by default, with values of 10 sec for device health scan and 2 min for network scan
• Applicable ONLY for Hardware MUX networks
• Very flexible
Device Health and
Network Scan Setting.
.
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FDM R400 Details – Device Health
Device Health and Communication Option
• If enabled, FDM scans health of all network devices every X seconds
• Provides health status of connected devices
• Also identifies disconnected or re-connected devices
• Inhibits MUX Monitoring alarms if disabled
New Devices Option
• If enabled, FDM scans empty slots for new devices every Y minutes
• Only to discover new devices
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FDM R400 Details – Bulk Operations
Bulk Operations – Bulk History & Offline Template Save
• Bulk History
- Good for snapshots of devices as commissioned
- Saves history for a large number of devices
• Bulk Offline Template Save
- For creating offline configurations of available device types
- Same as Bulk History, but can be edited and used for downloading to devices later
• Common UI for Both Operations
- Invoke from FDM Client Tools Bulk Operations
- User selects required devices from Online Network
- User can save a report of the operation
- User can abort at any point in time
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FDM R400 Details – Bulk Operations (cont’d)
Select the desired bulk operation
Devices currently available in the FDM network
Devices selected for Bulk History / Bulk Template
Prefix for the records to be saved.
Time interval within which each device must be loaded and history/template saved
Buttons to select/de-select devices
Option to filter the available network tree
Bulk Operations UI
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FDM R400 Details – Bulk Operations (cont’d)
Bulk operation progress window
Devices shows the current status of all the selected devices along with timestamp
Server Notified Errors tab lists errors (if any) notified by FDM server during Bulk Operations.
Export the Bulk Operation report to a CSV file
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FDM R400 Details – Bulk Download
• Allows configuring multiple devices simultaneously
• Applies to multiple offline configurations
• Download to one or more device types
• Two options…
- Manual selection of device versus offline configuration, or…
- CSV file to specify device versus offline configuration
• Previous FDM Bulk Offline Download…
- Applied to single offline configuration
- Download limited to single device type
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FDM R400 Details – Bulk Download (cont’d)
Selecting the devices manually through device selection option
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FDM R400 Details – Bulk Download (cont’d)
Selecting the devices Through .CSV file.
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FDM R400 Details – Tag Generation
•For non-Experion devices
-Typically, from MUXs
-Provides automatic way to name tags not in the system
-Tag Name generated based on device HART Tag
-Created when device first added
-User can change through Rename or Tag Import
- If no valid HART Tag, shows INVALID TAG
-Easy to use!
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FDM R400 Details – FHM Changes
FDM HART Multiplexer (FHM)
• User-Created COM Ports for R400 FHM
- User installs hardware COM port extenders ORVirtual COM ports
- FHM service connects to one of these ports
- Third party application connects to the other
- Physical COM ports connect through a loop back connection
• FHM Device Lock Mechanism
- Device in use through FHM considered locked in FDM client
- Opens in read-only mode in any Client
- Not available to other FHM Clients
- Provides protection against unintentional change
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FDM R400 Specs – Connections & Clients
Description Value
Network connections per FDM Server (HART Modem, RS 485 HART hardware MUX network, or Experion Server or Redundant Server pair)
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Experion network interfaces per FDM Server(Consumes 1 RCI. RCI configured for Experion interface cannot be used for any other type of connection.)
6
Number of FDM RCIs configurable per FDM Server(Total of RCI PCs including Experion Servers)
25
Number of RCIs per PC 1
For Non-Experion networks, number of network connections per FDM RCI (where 1 network connection is defined as 1 HART Modem or 1 RS 485 HART hardware MUX network)
6
Concurrent FDM Clients or Station maintenance views per FDM Server(Total connections = Maximum concurrent FDM clients + Maximum concurrent Experion stations with
maintenance view open. Station maintenance display consumes one client license.)
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FDM Client-to-Server Relationship(One Server connected at a time. User can select server during login or change after log-in.)
1-to-1
Maximum number of FDM Client instances per node 1
Number of device configuration screens simultaneously opened in FDM (Subject to Server memory limitations)
50
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FDM R400 Specs – MUX Monitoring
Description Value
MUX Monitoring Solution -- FDM Gateway
FDM Gateways connected per FDM Server
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Devices monitored per FDM Gateway 4,000
Devices that one FDM Server can monitor via the MUX Monitoring (devices can be connected to one or more HART Hardware multiplexer networks)
12,000
FDM Gateways that can be connected per Experion cluster 2
HART hardware MUX networks configured for MUX Monitoring (using Server management tool )
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FDM Gateways per Gateway PC (ACE) node(FDM Gateway is a component of MUX Monitoring Solution. Each Gateway PC requires
installation of Experion ACE component and can run either 1 or 2 FDM Gateways. No ACE
license purchase is required. Note that the ACE component in the Gateway PC node
cannot be used as an Experion ACE node.)
2
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FDM R400 Specs – Server Points
Description Value
Number of network nodes one FDM Server can recognize (Device, I/O, controller, Hardware MUX, COMM DTM, or Gateway DTM)
18,000
Number of devices one FDM Server can communicate with 16,000
Number of devices connected to an Experion cluster that one FDM
Server can support(subject to Experion Server point license limitations)
10,000
Number of history records per FDM server (subject to availability of disk space )
160,000
Number of devices selected for Bulk History operation at a time(Bulk History operations can take a very long time.)
150
Number of devices selected for Bulk offline creation at a time (using
Bulk save online as offline feature)
150
Number of Offline templates created per FDM server 16,000
Number of devices to which Offline configuration can be downloaded
at a time using Bulk offline download feature
150
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FDM R400 Specs – FDM HART MUX
Description Value
Number of FDM HART Multiplexers per FDM Client PC 1
Number of FDM HART Multiplexers simultaneously connected to one
FDM Server
1
Maximum number of devices connected per FDM HART Multiplexer 2,048
Number of third party packages that can be integrated per FDM HART
multiplexer
1
Maximum number of users configured 50
Maximum number of windows groups that can be configured 20
Maximum number of audit trail records for the entire FDM database(subject to availability of disk space )
3,200,000
Maximum number of audit trail records for a single device 2,000
For HART modem, number of devices that can be connected 1
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FDM R400 Specs – MUXs
Description Value
Recommended number of device configuration screens simultaneously opened
in FDM for one Hardware MUX network
2
Recommended number of device configuration screens simultaneously opened
in FDM for one Experion Series A I/O
2
Recommended number of device configuration screens simultaneously opened
in FDM for one Experion Series C IO or PM I/O
4
Recommended number of device configuration screens simultaneously opened
in FDM per HART modem
1
Description Value
For RS-485 MUX networks, maximum number of HART devices per network 992
For MUX monitoring with P+F or MTL MUX network, maximum recommended
number of HART devices per MUX master
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Baud rates of P+F, MTL or STAHL hardware multiplexer networks that FDM can
connect to
9600 and
19.2K
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FDM R400 Specs – DTMs
Description Value
Concurrent FDT Communication Tools per FDM Server(One RCI can have one FDT Communication tool configured.)
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Concurrent FDT Communication Tools per RCI(If an RCI is configured for FDT Communication Tool, it cannot be used for any other type
of network connection like Hardware MUX, HART modem or Experion.)
1
Communication DTMs per Communication Tool 6
Gateway DTMs per Communication DTM Refer to vendor
specs
Devices per Gateway DTM Refer to vendor
specs
Concurrent Network scans per Communication Tool (Scanning devices from Gateway DTM and Communication DTM)
1
Number of device configuration screens opened in FDM at any time
per Communication DTM
2
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FDM Supported Peripherals/Accessories
Hardware Type Make Model Version
RS 232 to RS 485 converter Moxa Transio A52 -
ICP-CON i-7520A -
CMS CS485-AD -
Hardware Multiplexer MTL 4841 & 4842 Hardware Version-10
Software Version-3
Pepperl + Fuchs KFD2-HMM-16 Hardware Version-10
Software Version-11
R. Stahl IS1 -
Elcon 2700G Hardware Version-10
Software Version-8
COM Port Extender Cards Digi International AccelePort 8r 920
(Dell Part# : A0012190)
RS232 HART Modem MacTek Viator -
Honeywell Smart DE modem Honeywell MC Toolkit Modem -
Ethernet to Profibus Gateway Softing FG-100 Hardware Version-2
DTM Version- 2.03 (110)
Trebing and Himstedt xEPI Hardware Version-2
DTM Version-3.0.0.0
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FDM Installation Enhancements
FDM R310 FDM R400
Installation components through FDM Media:
Remote Communication Interface (RCI)
Client
Server
MUX Monitoring Solution
FDM Hart Multiplexer
Additional Patches:
Software Multiplexer patch,
MUX Monitoring Update,
Station display Files
Installation components through FDM Media:
RCI
Client
Server
MUX Monitoring Solution
FDM Hart Multiplexer
Station Maintenance View
Additional Patches:
No patches.
FDM Client installation requires FDM Server machine name during installation
FDM Client installation DOES NOT require FDM Server machine name during installation
MUX Monitoring installation selects FDM server, client, RCI and installs automatically
MUX Monitoring installation on ACE will not install any other components unless specifically required by user
Software MUX component must be installed for Experion server, after installation of FDM R310
Selection of RCI component during installation automatically installs software MUX component in Experion server
Compatible with Experion R211, R301.1 and R310.2
Compatible with Experion R310.3
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Illustration – Server RCI Limit
FDM Server
RCI
RCI
ExperionServer
MUX
MODEM
MUX
MUX
MUX
MUX
MUX
6 network connections max per RCI
25 network connections max per FDM Server
Total of 10 connections in this example
6 Experion Servers max per FDM Server
MUX
6
2
2
ExperionServer
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Illustration – MUX Monitoring Limit
FDM Gateway
Gateway PC*
FDM Gateway
FDM Gateway
Gateway PC*
FDM Gateway
FDM Gateway
Gateway PC*
FDM Gateway
FDM Server
6 total Gateways per FDM Server
*Gateway PC requires installation of Experion ACE component. Cannot be used as an Experion ACE node. No ACE license is required.
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Illustration -- FDT/DTM Installed Components
FDM Server
FDM Client FDM Client
RCINodeFDM/Instrument
Database
(HART/Profibus)
Gateway
Device #1
FDT Comm Configuration Tool
FDT Comm Config Tool
used to configure the
networks using the Comm
and Gateway DTMs on
the RCI machine.
Devices
Device DTM #1
Device DTM #2
Device DTM #3
Device DTM #1
Device DTM #2
Device DTM #3
Device DTM #1
Device DTM #2
Device DTM #1
Device DTM #2
DTMs can be for HART
or Profibus DP or
Profibus PA devices.
Gateway
Device #2
Communication DTM
Gateway DTM #1
Gateway DTM #2
Communication DTM
Gateway DTM #1
Gateway DTM #2
Devic
es
FDT/DTM Installed Component
Illustration (Clients and RCIs)
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