Hi,
Here is a description of a project I'm going to start working on. An oil & gas pipeline has an antiquated SCADA system (estd: 1992). The SCADA software needs to be upgraded. It the SCADA software (distributed across serveral computers) communicates via a ModBus network with several PLCs, a DCS and several flow computers. Of course, field RTUs and a complex telemetry network is present.
This is my first project on such a big scale. I know how to upgrade the SCADA software. Does anyone have any idea of how I am supposed to execute a step by step procedure for testing the new software in its complete capacity, without messing up big time and having a multi million dollar pipeline wind up in my neck?
Thanks,
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