BASF plant in Sao Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil − A history of success in PROFIBUS

BASF−Glassurit has recently completed an extension to its factory for pigments and painting products located in Sao Paulo. This plant now has one of the largest chemical PROFIBUS PA installations in Brazil. More than 150 PROFIBUS devices were implemented, including pressure (LD303) and temperature
Transmitters (TT303), positioners (FY303) and current to PROFIBUS PA converter(IF303) from smar. Twenty eight radar level and mass flow devices from Conaut/Krohne and 21 DP/PA couplers from P&F were also installed. In addition, there are two DCS Advant Controllers from ABB, two PLCs as DP Masters and the PDM as a configuration tool.

Installation and Conclusions

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BASF team, SMAR and Krohne performed configuration and commissioning of the 21 -PA networks. The project was completed in 2000 and engineer Fernando Anguita Jr. believes that over 10% of the total project cost was eliminated by using
PROFIBUS PA and because of the extraordinarily smooth startup which took approximately 2 weeks. According to Claudio Antonio Oliveira Correira, Maintenance Engineer of BASF, Smar was chosen since has expertise in fieldbus and since the beginning is our partner providing us support during project, commissioning, startup and operation phases. Today with the benefits we are sure that PROFIBUS was the right choice for BASF.