Master Control System Sample Clauses
Master Control System. Any Master Control System with respect to any Coal Area shall be owned, operated and maintained by the Gas Parties at their sole cost and expense. The Gas Parties shall also bear the cost and expense of (a) extending any Master Control System for new ▇▇▇▇▇ within any Coal Area, and (b) installing any Master Control System with respect to Coal Areas created after the date of this Agreement. Whether or not to make any material upgrade to any Master Control System (as distinguished from hooking up additional ▇▇▇▇▇ to an existing Master Control System) and which parties shall bear the Capital Costs thereof, shall be determined by the Parties in a mutually agreeable manner. The Gas Parties agree, however, that any Master Control System shall be considered a “common servant” even though it remains a Gas Party asset and the responsibility of the Gas Parties to operate. Each Gas Party shall cooperate with each Coal Party in providing necessary access to any Master Control System on a 24-hour per day, 365-day per year basis for monitoring purposes only. Any Master Control System shall at all times be operated in accordance with the general objectives and overriding principles set forth in Section 2 above.
Master Control System. This master control system is a microprocessor technology based, process control and data acquisition system. The digital technology allows for a distributed architecture in which the system's components can be located closer to the points of measurement and are connected by communication networks. In this master control system, primary operator interface is by way of a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube)/keyboard/mouse/function keys. Some operator interface is by alarm bells, signal lights, pilot lights, and printers for outputs and selector switches, buttons and other specific inputs. These hardwired inputs and outputs shall be provided where appropriate. One necessary system shall be hardwired Emergency Stop circuits which will communicate to the master control system. This master control system may have control systems consisting of DCS (Distributed Control Systems), PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers), PC (Personal Computers) and other devices that are linked together electronically to accomplish the desired control, interface, and acquisition functions. Each master control will link to vendor provided PLCs via high speed dedicated process quality data highways with watchdog timers. The handshaking and watchdog timer techniques will insure data integrity continuously and initiate major alarms upon loss of handshake. The TAG Database of the MCS will be arranged to write its contents periodically to the management information system server electronically. Thus the minute by minute process data would be able to be read by any PC in the facility that is electronically linked to the LAN server.