Operating Plant Control System Migration

Reichhold is one of the worlds largest suppliers of resins for composite and coating applications with over 25 manufacturing plants across the globe. The control system for the Port Moody plant in Canada was at the end of its support life and needed to be replaced with minimum impact on production. The most practical path was to migrate the existing Yokogawa Micro-XL to a Centum VP system. Mipac’s extensive experience in both platforms and in undertaking operating plant upgrades and migrations underpinned this project. The plant had been operating from the existing control system for many years and original design documentation was often not available to support a migration. This required a significant effort in documentation and reverse engineering the current control strategies, process logic and alarm management.