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Customer Success Story: Kazakhstan Railway

Customer Company Size

Large Corporate

Region

Asia

Product

ICONICS GENESIS32™ OPC-based HMI/SCADA suite

Tech Stack

Windows Server
Windows XP
Windows Small Business Server
Microsoft Office
Access
SQL Server

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Cost Savings
Productivity Improvements

Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Applicable Industries

Railway & Metro

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation
Maintenance

Use Cases

Energy Management System
Remote Asset Management

Services

System Integration

About The Customer

Kazakhstan’s railways celebrated their centennial in 2004. The state rail facilities have been incorporated into JSC National Company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) more than ten years ago. Kazakhstan’s railroad combines about 14,000 kilometers of rails with 700 stations and KTZ is one of the railways reform leaders in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). According to KTZ’s mission statement, the company works to ensure the “effective organization, coordination and maintenance of transportation processes with the purpose of the maximal satisfaction of needs of freight senders and the population at rational use of resources”.

The Challenge

Kazakhstan’s railways, incorporated into JSC National Company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), combines about 14,000 kilometers of rails with 700 stations. The amount of cargo and passenger traffic grows every year, inevitably leading to higher electricity expenditures. Electricity usage reform and increasing prices for energy resource are common everywhere. Therefore, implementation of an Automation System of Control and consumption for Energy (ASCUE) for the rail node was seen as a necessity. The railways need the system for real-time electricity monitoring to minimize energy use and ensure an optimum relationship between costs and the volume of work and services.

The Solution

The system integrator Technik-Trade, a PROSOFT company dealer in Kazakhstan, offered ICONICS GENESIS32™ OPC-based HMI/SCADA suite for Kazakhstan’s railway ASCUE. The solution was approved by KTZ’s Energy Supply Department thanks to ICONICS ability to meet the specified project requirements. ICONICS’ GENESIS32 software was selected to replace a competitor’s legacy product. The teamwork of Technik-Trade, KTZ’s Energy Department engineers and managers, the railway division’s ASCUE specialists, the metrological service direction of the Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company (KEGOC) and the contractors’ staff (from organizations including Transtelecom, Astel, TEP, RECLE and KESH) helped ensure the success of the project.

Operational Impact

The ASCUE system implemented with ICONICS GENESIS32 HMI/SCADA suite helps KTZ cut the cost of electric power purchasing, as well as control all levels of energy consumption.
The project also supports the data exchange between analogous energy accounting control systems.
KTZ and Technik-Trade are working on expanding the system to other KTZ locations and developing a new ASCUE system for South Kazakhstan.

Quantitative Benefit

322 substations (including 58 energy nodes and 264 standard substations) that were automated in the project.
Three hundred data acquisition nodes and 9,100 parameters were configured as part of the project.