Successful replacement of HMI Systems

For one of the UK North-Sea Oil&Gas operators, Holland-Controls has successfully delivered Human Machine Interfaces (HMI’s) by replacing existing HMI computers, the related Engineering Stations and the customer interface servers.

The offshore platform was commissioned in 2019 and received a notice that parts of the control system, such as Windows and PCS7 versions, became obsolete. Holland-Controls was requested to replace the existing (2 out of 7) HMI computers.

The replacement included a software upgrade to latest version of PCS7 and latest version of Windows cleared for PCS7.

See images for the test setup in-house at Holland-Controls before the FAT with the customer. The complete integration is tested from PLC logic to the Customer Data Acquisition package and all steps in between. Gábor Stocker from Holland-Controls managed the project.

In addition, the upgrade also includes the increase of cyber security according to customers’ policies.