FIELDBUS INTEROPERABILITY TESTING AND SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

This report is to discuss the research and Basic Interoperability testing for
Foundation Fieldbus system, as well as the development of a control loop. Devices
that use Foundation Fieldbus system cannot intemperate with devices from different
manufacturers. PE1RONAS as the established company will apply Fieldbus
technology in its plants. The objectives of the testing are to get a PETRONAS
Technical standard on the Foundation Fieldbus system and come out with a report on
the results from interoperability testing that will be the reference for system in
PE1RONAS. The other objective is to test the controller performance using the three
control modes, P, PI and PID. In order to achieve the objectives, first three tests
should be done, basic interoperability test, Stress test and Diagnostic capability, and
then a test on the controller performance will be held. Due to time constraint, UTP
team was able to complete the Basic interoperability test and the control loop
development. The author will only focus on testing HONEYWELL system and
segment 2, provided by MTL. The Basic interoperability test was successfully done
and the controller performance was successfully tested. The research about the
Foundation Fieldbus should be performed continuously, to improve the system from
time to time, and the analysis of results and reports will be used for future researches.