Inductive Automation Blog

Solving Several Problems for Water/Waste Water Plants

In 2015 we built new pumping stations for waste water. At the same time the decision was made to upgrade the existing SCADA and PLC systems. The old SCADA system was installed in the late ‘90s and PLC systems were built with technology from the ‘80s with a serial communication interface. The requirement was that the new system would be able to handle even the old PLC systems and spread the investment costs for upgrading. At the same time, a fiber network covering the entire county was built.

Ignition Makes Data from Multiple Sites Available in One Place

Gente Oil’s SCADA system is a centrally managed system of the oil process from extraction to transportation. The SCADA allows users to visualize and interact with the different instrumentation and actuators involved in the process.

Real-Time Data Easily Shared for Oil Well Testing

PROS, a Professional, Reliable Oilfield Service company, provides third-party oil well testing services. PROS needed a way to collect and store this data accurately and efficiently. Tyrion Integration provided a cloud-hosted web application to provide real-time remote monitoring and control of each unit. This was accomplished with the use of Tyrion’s Nucleus and a combination of Ignition Gateways. Nucleus is a new device created by Tyrion Integration that takes the place of a cellular modem, PLC, industrial PC, and HMI.

New SCADA Provides Numerous Benefits While Keeping Legacy Hardware

The client has an aging system, Siemens FactoryLink, that is at the verge of discontinuation, and they must be upgraded to one that is currently supported while also bringing upon improvements to rationalize the cost of the change. The challenge is to create a system that is able to tie together all the legacy devices with their wide range of configurations and transition to Ignition within a set of defined phases.

Power Plants Get Data to Central Agency via Ignition

The Control Center of Energy (CENACE) is responsible for coordinating the power system’s operations in terms of security, quality and economy. As a result, CENACE requires information from all plants of energy generation for coordination, monitoring and real-time control of the National Interconnected System. To fulfill the purpose of transmitting information to CENACE, the Electric SCADA Project For the Thermal Power Plant of Manta was developed.

Unlimited History & Expandable SCADA

Sinton’s Dairy had several localized SCADA/HMIs that could not connect or share information with different parts of the plant. Operators were constantly having to jump from system to system in order to monitor and control the piece of the plant that they were operating. This brought about problems with tracking down and solving process issues because none of the historical data in these systems could be shared or used outside of the localized HMI. In order to improve usability and expedite problem solving, Sinton expressed the need for a centralized SCADA/HMI system.

Rapid Development for Natural Gas Utility

The methanization plant at Aguas Andinas’ Planta La Farfana waste water treatment plant in Santiago, Chile, generates high-BTU natural gas derived from anaerobic digester gas. The natural gas is piped to Santiago’s gas utility, Metrogas, which provides it to area homes and businesses.

Modern & Intuitive User Interface for Hospital in Italy

The system integrates products from different vendors using standard communication protocols. The graphics capabilities of Ignition and experience of PB Automation lead to the creation of a user interface (HMI) which is simple, intuitive, and at the same time, very complete. Navigating between pages is simple, and in case of an alarm, is possible to reach the detail page with very few operations.

600 Plant Managers & Experts Unified Through Ignition

The main application has three main workflows: 1) The missions, which are requested by plant managers (help, assistance, technical studies); 2) the activities (who is working on which subject); and 3) the timesheets, which now show what has been done before together with what will happen, in order to avoid duplicate entries and to provide a real-time forecast.

Safer Roadways with Active Warning System

The RIAWS (Rural Intersection Active Warning System) project was conceived as a means to reduce the speed of vehicles on the main road as they enter a rural intersection where there is another vehicle approaching from a side road that presents a potential collision hazard.