System 800xA Operations provides a consistent method for accessing enterprise-wide data and for interacting with multiple applications from any connected workstation in the plant or office. It harnesses the power of Process Portal, the industry’s most intuitive system interface, to provide a single window for navigating, accessing, and viewing plant information in real time to facilitate the right business decisions and actions to maximize productivity.
System 800xA gathers information from multiple plant sources and transforms it into relevant information for a diverse set of users such as maintenance technicians, process engineers, production managers or plant operators. Contextual navigation presents the entire production facility in a single window for these users.
The enabling technology for this data access, storage, and management is ABB’s patented Aspect Object framework. Aspect Objects relate all plant data, the aspects, to specific plant assets, the objects. Aspects are informational items associated with objects, such as I/O definitions, engineering drawings, process graphics, etc. that are assigned to each object in the system.