eXPert DCS is part of SDI’s eXPert Ecosystem,
designed with a modular architecture aimed at
achieving high performance levels while
maintaining essential safety requirements
for solutions dedicated to critical environments.
The SDI product allows high scalability and gradual investment, managing up to 255 control nodes on the same network and over 1,500,000 system tags in an incremental manner.
Integration with third-party systems and compatibility with numerous protocols ensure unparalleled flexibility, making eXPert DCS an ideal choice for companies seeking maximum efficiency in their operations.
Certified SIL-3 Safety
eXPert DCS can integrate SIL 3 certified Functional Safety modules according to international standards IEC 61508 and IEC 61511.
Advanced safety features include fire and gas leak detection (F&G), fire extinguishing (Extinguishing), emergency shutdown (ESD-PSD), and many others.
The SDI eXPert DCS supply is provided by adopting, in agreement with the client, cybersecurity policies at the application and architecture levels that consider risk assessments, referencing the regulations in the country hosting the facility under supervision and control (such as ISO 27001, the recently adopted Cyber Resilience Act in Europe, NIST in the United States, various Latin American countries, and other international and local frameworks and standards in different regions).
Insight
Fields of Application
eXPert DCS is SDI’s ideal product for those seeking absolute reliability, security, flexibility, and scalability in monitoring and controlling distributed industrial processes characterized by high complexity and criticality. SDI controllers ensure maximum precision in responding to real-time control requirements. Business analysis tools, based on the calculation and visualization of KPIs, support strategic and optimal process management, offering operational analysis useful for long-term decision-making.
eXPert DCS integrates advanced architectures and redundancy and cybersecurity management functions, ensuring high levels of availability and data integrity, which are crucial for business continuity.
The modular architecture of eXPert DCS easily adapts to the needs of any industrial process, supporting databases with over 1,500,000 tags and up to 255 eXPert STAR DualBus and eXPert cSTAR controllers. It also allows integration with pre-existing third-party controllers, including those certified SIL 3.
It supports various types of networks (telephone, LAN, WAN, hardwired, wireless, cloud connectivity) and enables integration with third-party systems, ensuring continuous and reliable communication between system components, as well as enterprise management functions.
SDI controllers used in the eXPert DCS solution interface with field devices and third-party systems via key standard protocols, including encrypted ones where required, ensuring unparalleled compatibility and integration.
The eXPert cSTAR Controller structure, consisting of a DIN rail and highly robust components connected via a redundant cBus based on CAN FD, ensures compactness and flexibility for use in environments where space is a critical requirement, while maintaining the typical reliability of SDI’s DualBus Controllers. ECM compliance is achieved without the need for a metal cabinet.
• Modular DCS nodes for distributed control
• Programmable controllers eXPert STAR DualBus and eXPert cSTAR; integration with third-party pre-existing controllers
• Intelligent I/O interfaces
• Fieldbus interfaces
• Communication interfaces
• Programmable controllers
• Interface with field and external systems via standard regulated protocols (OPC UA, Profibus, MODBUS, IEC 61850, IEC 60870-5-101-104, HART, etc.)
• SIL 3 certified Functional Safety modules
• Event history recording (Sequence of Events, SOE) with millisecond timestamp
• HMI oE (of Everything) at operator stations (HMI oE) and flexible video walls, via web and mobile
• Engineering workstations
• Storage stations
• Asset Management
• Advanced control and optimization modules
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