Building Management System

For your most difficult process control challenges in industrial HVAC, choose plant-wide solutions from Rockwell Automation. Increase safety integrity across your plant – while improving your capability to monitor, control and optimize your processes. We apply our industry expertise to deliver products that provide greater control and conform to stringent HVAC requirements so you can demonstrate payback and minimize your risk. Since reliability is paramount, we also provide comprehensive services that help you predict, prevent and react to operation problems – before downtime occurs.

In many large industrial plants, HVAC systems are an integral part of the process. HVAC systems have a direct impact on motor control centers, variable frequency drives, steam generation equipment and electrical rooms. Therefore, if the HVAC system is compromised, generally the process is too. HVAC systems can also impact safety. Specifically, how the HVAC system responds to a fire or gas event can affect the performance of the plant’s fire and gas safety system. In addition, HVAC system controls often must meet regulatory requirements for plant-wide safety. Until recently, traditional HVAC equipment could not communicate seamlessly with a plant’s process and/or safety systems. As a result, many plants use a patchwork of equipment, programming packages, networks and visualization systems to achieve communication. Manufacturers incur significant ongoing expense for the additional engineering, programming, wiring, training and maintenance these disparate systems require.

Single Vendor Plant-Wide Control Systems

With the PlantPAx™ Process Automation System from Rockwell Automation, you can get the information you need, when you need it, to help congure, control and optimize your operations. Integrated monitoring, alarms and detailed diagnostic and historical data help reduce engineering time – and installation and maintenance costs. When you integrate your HVAC system with programmable automation controllers (PACs), motor control centers (MCCs), variable frequency drives (VFDs) and industrial controls from a single vendor, you are ensured compatibility. As a result, you can expect less training, easier maintenance and reduced spare parts.

Real-Time Control and Visibility

Our Allen-Bradley® controllers are fully integrated into your system and deliver key bene_ts. To help protect critical processes from unscheduled downtime, the controllers over real-time visibility into monitoring air quality, temperature and humidity; trending; detailed alarming; data collection; and automated reporting. What’s more, HMI software and hardware from Rockwell Automation provides a consistent view into your HVAC system and process control.