Learning Series - Process and Safety Update

The Reynolds Company’s automation specialists, Mark McGinnis and David Nute are joined in this month's Learning Series by Greylin Gimenez, a technology consultant of software and controls for Rockwell Automation^®. Together, they cover the latest updates for the PlantPAx^® and Logix SIS products and applications. Nute, starting with an overview of basic process control and safety systems, explains how the new ControlLogix^® 5590 from Rockwell Automation has integrated functionality that combines and simplifies these systems, on top of offering higher performance and redundancy. Next, Nute and McGinnis detail best practices and considerations for getting consistent results when using PlantPAx with various control system applications. Finallly, Gimenez outlines the ways that new Logix SIS functionality improves process safety system execution and reliability.