ICONICS
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公司介绍
ICONICS 是一家屡获殊荣的独立软件开发商，提供实时可视化、HMI/SCADA、制造智能和一套用于卓越运营的分析解决方案。 ICONICS 产品用于楼宇自动化、可再生能源、公用事业、水/废水、石油和天然气、制药、汽车和许多其他制造应用。 ICONICS 很自豪能成为 Microsoft 年度可持续发展合作伙伴，该奖项表彰基于 Microsoft 平台的创新，这些创新可帮助世界各地的人们、组织和城市减少对环境的影响。 ICONICS 在产品设计、开发、技术支持、销售和服务方面培养了创新、创造力和卓越的国际文化。该公司总部位于马萨诸塞州福克斯伯勒，在美国和荷兰、英国、澳大利亚、捷克共和国、中国、意大利、印度、法国和德国设有办事处，其 50% 以上的销售额来自其国际操作。
物联网应用简介
ICONICS 是自动化与控制, 功能应用, 分析与建模, 传感器, 基础设施即服务 (iaas), 和 应用基础设施与中间件等工业物联网科技方面的供应商。同时致力于汽车, 水泥, 化学品, 食品与饮料, 生命科学, 金属, 矿业, 国家安全与国防, 石油和天然气, 药品, 运输, 和 公用事业等行业。
技术栈
ICONICS的技术栈描绘了ICONICS在自动化与控制, 功能应用, 分析与建模, 传感器, 基础设施即服务 (iaas), 和 应用基础设施与中间件等物联网技术方面的实践。
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Ameren Callaway Plant's Transition to ICONICS GENESIS32 for Enhanced Data Access and Remote Maintenance
Ameren, Missouri’s largest electric utility, was faced with the challenge of replacing a legacy solution that was no longer supported after the year 2000. The company needed a new system that would provide remote access to inline chemistry analyzer readings, including numerical output and trend graphs. The previous system was limited, with live chemistry data only accessible on a few PCs that had the legacy software installed. Ameren also aimed to eliminate the mainframe from the plant, which was a significant goal for the company. The challenge was to find a solution that would not only replace the legacy system but also enhance the accessibility of live data to all personnel on site, provide pager alarm notifications to technicians, and allow for remote accessibility and single web page views.
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Customer Success Story: Continental AG
Continental AG, a leading tire manufacturer, sought to update their process analysis and control systems across 18 separate locations worldwide. The company aimed to develop a system capable of near real-time data collection from production equipment for process and product analysis and optimization. This led to the initiation of the 'DOPAC' project, standing for 'Database for Online Process Analysis and Control'. A pilot project began in 2016 in the company’s Puchov, Slovakia plant, with a year spent on prototype development. The company decided to move on from installed legacy systems and, after considering multiple vendor solutions, decided upon ICONICS HMI/SCADA and data historian to comprise the heart of DOPAC.
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Customer Success Story: Rimske Terme
Rimske Terme, a luxurious Business, Wellness and Spa Resort in Slovenia, embarked on a project in 2010 to update their Building Management System (BMS). The resort wanted to integrate a number of existing automated systems, including hotel room temperature regulation, room emergency/security functions, air conditioning, lighting, and diesel fuel use. They also wanted central control over their heating/cooling (heat pump) station, pumping station, thermal water pump station and electric power station operations. The hotel room automation required a BMS that could adapt to a few differences in each location. For instance, the heating/cooling in Hotel Sofijin Dvor and Hotel Zdraviliški Dvor is based on air diffusers, while in Hotel Rimski Dvor, it is accomplished via fan coils.
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Swiss Grid's Successful Implementation of ICONICS Software
Swiss Grid, an independent coordination company for the Swiss extra high voltage grid, is tasked with ensuring the security of the Swiss national transmission grid at all times, even under the intensive energy exchange between members of the interconnected European network. The company has developed and established the concept of operational congestion forecast with the UCTE-wide Day-Ahead Congestion Forecast (DACF) module as a kernel. However, the complex DACF algorithms needed to be fully automated and integrated into the daily congestion management process. The calculations are based upon actual data from partners within the European interconnected network, and data presence and quality needed to be continuously monitored. Swiss Grid network engineers needed a way to monitor and control the DACF process. The company also needed a solution that could seamlessly integrate with its network of power application systems, as well as with different national and international trading and scheduling systems.
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Customer Success Story: Kazakhstan Railway
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.
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Implementing Advanced Industrial Automation Software at The Ceramic Factory - Botevgrad
The Ceramic Factory - Botevgrad, a leading supplier of construction materials in Bulgaria, was experiencing growth in line with the booming construction industry in the country. With this growth, the company faced the challenge of visualizing its manufacturing processes, particularly those involving its furnaces and the transportation line for the produced bricks. The company also needed to monitor and report on these processes to manage downtime and increase productivity. As the business expanded, the company realized the need for robust, premium solutions to meet its visualization, control, and reporting needs. The solution had to integrate with the company's existing VIPA PLCs, approximately 150 I/O points, and KEP OPC Server for Siemens PLCs. It also needed to work with the company's Microsoft Access database and its desktops and servers running Microsoft Windows XP Professional.
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Beijing Traffic Control Center Success Story
Beijing, the capital of China, is a major transportation hub with a population of over 18 million people. The city's traffic control center, BTCC, was established to monitor a network of Operational Control Centers for the various rail lines operating in the country. The project was mainly developed and deployed under the supervision of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. (ST Engineering), one of the largest listed companies on the Singapore Stock Exchange. The project requirement was to integrate various systems, with emphasis on having a unified user interface linked to real-time information. These systems include SCADA, operator information, CCTV, passenger information, decision support and incident evaluation.
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Vitkovice Steel's Digital Transformation with ICONICS Software
Vitkovice Steel, a leading European manufacturer of rolled steel products, was faced with the challenge of replacing an outdated production monitoring system from the late 1980s. The company was also dealing with control systems based on obsolete Czechoslovakian computers (PPC-4). The need for a modern, efficient, and reliable system was paramount to ensure the smooth operation of the company's production processes. The challenge was to find a solution that could seamlessly integrate with existing systems, provide high availability, and meet the needs of about 180 users. The solution also needed to be able to handle the diverse user group that ranged from general plant and service personnel to developers, administrators, and supervisors.
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Customer Success Story: CSL Behring and CSL Limited
CSL Behring, a subsidiary of CSL Limited, is a pioneer in the field of immunology and operates some of the world’s largest flu vaccine manufacturing facilities. In 2009, following the announcement of an influenza pandemic by the World Health Organization, CSL developed a pandemic vaccine (H1N1) and signed a 180 million dollar contract with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide bulk H1N1 influenza antigen. The challenge was to ensure rapid and safe production of the H1N1 flu vaccine for the US market in CSL Behring’s FDA-approved filing and packaging facility in Marburg, Germany. The company needed a system where production data could be logged reliably and stored safely, meeting the recording requirements of the FDA, specifically the 21 CFR Part 11, which outlines the controls necessary for the regulated industry to utilize electronic records and electronic signatures.
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Customer Success Story: MSC Cruises
MSC Cruises, the world’s fourth largest cruise line and largest privately-owned cruise company, sought a modern monitoring and control system for its latest cruise ship, the MSC Meraviglia. The company wanted to include the latest technology in its newest cruise ship, not only for the entertainment of its passengers but also for their, and its crew’s, personal comfort. The comfort and safety of its passengers were a top priority, which included the monitoring and management of its ship wide HVAC system. The cruise ship, the 13th to join MSC Cruises’ fleet since the company’s inception in 2003, is 315 meters long, 43 meters wide and 65 meters high and can travel up to 22.7 knots. Among the ship’s attractions are a water park with multiple water slides, a Himalayan rope course, a Cirque du Soleil theatre, and the largest LED dome at sea.
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Customer Success Story - MultiTrode
MultiTrode, a company dedicated to providing advanced solutions to municipal water and wastewater authorities, needed a robust SCADA system for their Outpost 2 product. The system needed to be designed specifically for the needs of water and wastewater networks, and include a graphical interface, alarming & trending, a datastore and reporting interface, a master telemetry unit, and remote telemetry units. The system also needed to be open and powerful, interfacing directly with MultiTrode pump controllers and RTUs to provide valuable information from every site. The system also needed to be easy to use, reducing operational and engineering costs by minimizing the need for site visits while improving asset performance.
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University of Pennsylvania's Unified HMI/SCADA System Success Story
The University of Pennsylvania sought to create a unified HMI/SCADA system for 120 buildings, equaling nearly 14 million square feet, throughout its Philadelphia, PA campus. The university wanted the means to manage connected systems via its centralized Operations Control Center (OCC) in order to gain complete visibility into building automation equipment and facility operations. The new system would replace an existing one that the operators found to be obsolete. The selected HMI/SCADA solution would be required to monitor and control critical equipment across multiple campus buildings including those related to HVAC systems, chiller plants, electrical substations, lighting and space conditions. In addition, the university required system-level redundancy in order to maximize the uptime of these building systems. Also, whichever vendor was chosen would need to work with third-party contractors responsible for implementing each phase of deployment and work through the replacement of the entire campus command and control system while all the buildings involved remained occupied and in use.
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Customer Success Story: Cucamonga Valley Water District
Cucamonga Valley Water District (CVWD) embarked on an expansion project with the aim of integrating web-based and mobile functionality into their control system. They needed an HMI/SCADA solution that would seamlessly integrate with their existing systems (AB Controls, Rockwell, etc.) and operating systems (transitioning from Microsoft Windows 2000 to XP). The organization sought a web-enabled solution that wasn't processor-intensive, a mobile component for employees in remote locations, and comprehensive reporting abilities. They partnered with engineering firm, Black & Veatch, to find a solution that met these requirements.
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Customer Success Story: Dematic
Dematic Limited, a market leader in innovative logistics automation systems and solutions, needed a way to visualize the exact status of all parts of their system to ensure high availability. Their warehouses can be extraordinarily large due to retailers outsourcing their warehousing. When handling as many as 34,000 items or supplies to 700 retail stores, automation and visualization are key functions. Blockages in the warehouse require fast and accurate action, and the pan-and-zoom feature of ICONICS’ worldview is the best tool to solve the problem.
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Customer Success Story - Deutsche Bahn
Deutsche Bahn AG, one of Europe’s largest transportation providers, operates railways that carry more than 1.8 billion passengers per year throughout Germany and neighboring countries. The company also moves 78 billion tons of freight annually. All service and rail stations are maintained by DB Stations & Services, while DN Netz provides the track infrastructure. The company faced the challenge of efficiently washing different types and shapes of trains, including the modern bullet train. The washing system needed to accommodate any train and ensure every part of the train is washed. Another challenge was that all trains are electric power and, under most circumstances, water and electricity do not mix. Since all trains need to enter and exit the washer under their own power, the water used in the washing application needed to be treated so it would not be conductive.
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Customer Success Story - Poste Italiane
Poste Italiane, the national postal system of Italy, was facing challenges in managing its vast operations. The company processes over 7 billion pieces of mail in sorting centers, operates thousands of post offices, and manages thousands of employees. The company needed a solution that could provide real-time information access, enable new customer services, and reduce processing costs. The company aimed to improve several business functions, including plant supervision, monitoring and control, monitoring of production progress, support to plant management, tracking of flows within the sorting center, data collection from field systems, and integration with administrative systems.
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Customer Success Story: Schiphol Airport
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, the national airport of The Netherlands, is the 10th biggest airport in the world based on total number of passengers and 14th based on the number of tons of cargo shipped. The airport is built as one large terminal split into three large departure halls, with further expansion planned. The airport needed a robust system to monitor and manage various systems including HVAC, Fire, Security, Lighting, Telephone, and Water Systems. The challenge was to implement a solution that could handle over 300,000 tags, run on multiple PCs, and handle over one million alarms and events per month.
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Customer Success Story: Cork County Council
Cork County Council, the largest county in Ireland, was tasked with reducing energy consumption by 30% by 2020 as per a directive from the European Union (EU). The council treats and supplies water to approximately 40,000 non-domestic customers and 100,000 homes across the county. Due to its size, Cork County is divided into four zones– North, South, East, and West Cork–which makes data aggregation challenging. The council was using manual data entry with Excel to produce the leakage figures required by the Department of the Environment. However, with four zones to maintain, this method made it too difficult to efficiently calculate leakage figures. Furthermore, the average daily volume of water produced in Cork County is estimated to be well over 150,000 yd3 /day with the total length of water in the Public Water Supply Schemes estimated to be 3,500 miles long. The number of yards from which to retrieve that data continues to increase – approximately 391 DMAs with up to 3 yards per DMA. With such a vast supply network, the Council could not meet the new EU directives on energy consumption by continuing to use traditional manual data collection methods.
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Customer Success Story: BAA/Heathrow Airport T5 Terminal
The T5 Terminal at London’s Heathrow Airport was one of Europe’s largest construction projects, funded by BAA at £4.2 billion. The terminal was designed to be a fully integrated facility, monitored through a central Terminal Service Centre (TSC) and mobile devices. A common user interface was needed to access heating, ventilation, lighting, fire, elevator, CCTV, and security systems as well as to centralize alarm management and automate system interaction. At its opening, T5 included over 50 different systems, producing a massive tag count of over 3 million. In addition, by using open industry standards based on OPC, the resulting architecture has been designed to provide flexibility for future expansion and integration, as required by the customer.
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Customer Success Story: AES Wind Generation
AES Wind Generation, a division of AES, an international power company, was in need of a robust system that could perform calculations in real time from both user input and data coming from the field. They needed a system that could connect via open standard protocols and provide both instantaneous and aggregate data for monitoring and reporting. The company was also looking for a system that could be implemented quickly and efficiently, given the high amount of repetition involved with each unit having identical inputs and outputs. Additionally, they wanted a system that would fit into a virtual machine environment to facilitate backup and recovery in case of a hardware or software failure.
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Customer Success Story: City of Lubbock Water Utilities Department
The city of Lubbock, located in the arid Texas panhandle, faces significant challenges in managing its water resources. With a growing population, the city must draw water from multiple sources, including Lake Meredith, groundwater from aquifers, and well-fields operated by the Canadian River Water Authority. The Lubbock Water Utilities Department is responsible for managing all aspects of the city's water needs, including water collection, water and wastewater treatment. The department needed a solution that would allow it to efficiently monitor and control all aspects of its water treatment plant, wastewater treatment plant, and well-field. The solution needed to provide real-time data on critical process variables, including chlorine, turbidity, suspended solids, and oxidation-reduction potential (ORP).
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Customer Success Story: ContourGlobal Maritsa East 3 Thermal Power Plant
Maritsa East 3 Thermal Power Plant (TPP) is the third largest power plant in Bulgaria, generating 30 percent of the country's electricity. The plant was built by Russia between 1978 and 1981 and supplies electricity grids in both Turkey and Bulgaria. However, the plant was in need of large-scale modernization and upgrades, an increase in output and power capacity, and meeting the European ecological requirements. The final part of the project was the integration of all control systems on a single platform. EXBIT was chosen as the developer and system integrator for the Control and Monitoring Integration System. The objectives for the Maritsa East 3 TPP project included large-scale modernization and upgrades, an increase in output and power capacity, and meeting the European ecological requirements.
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Customer Success Story: Dalmacijacement d.d.
The Republic of Croatia, in cooperation with The European Union, introduced legislation for environmental protection through continuous emissions monitoring. Dalmacijacement d.d. set out, with assistance from ECCOS inženjering, to bring all of its factories under compliance, with the goal of creating a continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS). Manufacturing facilities are often assumed to be sources of pollution, so a system was required that could continuously monitor emissions, graphically depict these emissions, normalize the measurements, archive measured and calculated (i.e. normalized) values, inform the public through corporate Web pages and, most importantly, create daily, monthly and yearly reports in Microsoft Excel and XML-formats that adhere to the legislative requirements.
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Customer Success Story: Longmont United Hospital
Longmont United Hospital, located in Longmont, Colorado, is a world-class healthcare facility that is rated among the top 10% of hospitals for patient experience in the United States. In January 2000, the hospital opened a five-story patient tower with new private rooms and soothing environments for patients and their families. The hospital is committed to providing compassionate care, which is reflected in its building management system. However, as healthcare has advanced, Longmont United has had to expand and update its facilities. This has required the hospital to upgrade to the latest innovations in building automation and monitoring solutions.
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Customer Success Story: Lincoln Wastewater System
The Lincoln Wastewater System (LWWS) in Lincoln, Nebraska, needed a comprehensive solution to ensure the proper collection and treatment of current and future wastewater flows in an environmentally sound and cost-effective manner. The system comprises 970 miles of sanitary sewer lines, 14 pumping stations, and two municipal treatment plants, handling up to 23.5 million gallons of water per day. The challenge was to install a system that could control all manual and automatic aspects of each process, including raw water pumping, flow dispersal, aeration basin dissolved oxygen monitoring, return activated sludge flow set points/rates, and effluent flow disinfection/totalization. The system also needed to control solid waste removal from the treatment facility. In addition, the system had to be secure and allow managers to monitor any functions that the operators monitor.
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Customer Success Story: KHS Maschinen
KHS Maschinen, a market leader in the deployment of Aseptic Cold Filling (ACF) applications for the beverage market, was looking for a solution to control its applications and machines and to visualize the entire ACF process. The ACF process allows for fruit juices to be filled into PET bottles at a temperature of only 68 Deg F (20°C), eliminating the need for preservatives and improving product quality. However, this process required a sophisticated solution for scalability, graphic capabilities, and modularity for machine control and visualization.
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Customer Success Story - PRAKAB a.s.
PRAKAB a.s., one of the largest producers of wires and cables in the Czech Republic, embarked on an extensive investment program to modernize its plant and increase production. This involved the launch of new cable production lines and the reconstruction and maintenance of management systems for existing production lines. The company's manufacturing processes involve multiple machines, including extruders, decoilers/unwinders, rewinders, heating/cooling devices, and PVC granulate dosers. An average of 300 I/O points are incorporated into each of PRAKAB’s 15 cable and wire manufacturing lines. The company mainly uses Siemens S7-300 PLCs that provide data to the SCADA system over PROFIBUS and Ethernet networks via OPC communication standards.
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Customer Success Story - VIA University
VIA University, established in 2008, has grown significantly over the years, expanding from 38 sites to 18 sites across Denmark. As part of this expansion, the university began construction of new facilities and sought new options for building management solutions. The university required a software vendor who could provide a cost-effective, open building management solution for their Aarhus N and Aarhus C campuses. The primary concern was the monitoring and control of campus buildings’ daily operation, especially the comfort of occupants, as the university believes that an optimized indoor climate is the best environment for learning. Minimizing operational cost was also a factor in the school’s decision. The university has its own building management user’s manual, revised once or twice a year, which is considered essential to optimal operations. With this in mind, the school sought a software vendor that would reduce complexity in operations, while ultimately reducing associated costs.
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Customer Success Story: Transneft Russian Pipeline
Transneft, Russia’s largest oil pipeline company, manages the world’s largest oil pipeline that extends over 48,000 miles from Siberia to the Baltics. The pipeline transports 420 million tons of oil a year through severe environments. The installation project involved installing over 400 pumping stations and 1000 holding tanks in 101 locations supplying 35 refineries. The challenge was to monitor and control this extensive pipeline system, which is responsible for transporting 99.5% of all the oil used in Russia. The system supplies 35 different refineries with their daily crude oil and provides both Europe and China with oil products. The pipeline system required a centralized dispatch and SCADA system to monitor the 400 pumping stations and 1,000 large oil tanks in 100 different tank farms.
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Customer Success Story - ScholleIPN
ScholleIPN, a global packaging solutions provider, faced challenges in managing its complex and high-output production process across its 14 global sites. The company had hundreds of data islands, with each local site calculating asset performance and quality metrics differently, leading to inconsistencies. The lack of a consistent platform made system improvements unscalable across the globe. The company's Continuous Improvement (CI) Team identified a need to replace the culture of local individualism with global collaboration, while still supporting certain local autonomous needs.
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Aksa Natural Gas Distribution, Inc. Case Study
Aksa Natural Gas Distribution, Inc. sought an automation system for its Natural Gas Regulating and Metering Stations (RMSs), which are divided into three separate types (A, B, C) according to pressure classes. These stations reduce and regulate downstream pressure, measuring the quantity of energy transferred from Aksa’s natural gas transmission system to medium pressure networks or to consumers who are connected directly to the transmission system. They also add the distinctive odor to the gas, providing prompt detection of any leakages, as required by national and international safety standards. Aksa required the stations’ data to be gathered by a central HMI/SCADA system via OPC servers and PLCs. Alarms are generated from critical values within the received data. Aksa required that their selected alarm management system be able to integrate with their RMS system, as well as to provide notifications. The alarm management system needed to handle thousands of tags, with each tag’s status made available to multiple locations, and if necessary, allow for expected intervention within 15 minutes.
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Customer Success Story: Attiki Odos Motorway
The Attiki Odos Motorway, one of the most modern motorways in Europe, needed a system to centralize motorway operations and provide the status of all electromechanical systems. The motorway extends over 60 km, is four lanes wide, and has 32 multi-level interchanges and hundreds of overpasses. The motorway uses the most modern equipment for incident detection and emergency response. The challenge was to enhance the ability of motorway operators to easily identify and handle emergency situations and overcome malfunctions of equipment in order to provide better quality of services.
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ABB Foundry Group Customer Success Story
ABB Foundry Group needed a solution to monitor and control the melting process in their foundries. They required a system that could handle connectivity to multiple devices from a single Windows-based server. The system needed to connect to temperature measurement devices, analyzers, and spectrometers, and offer a variety of operational reports. The system also needed to be quick-to-learn, easy-to-use, controller (PLC) independent, support multiple languages, and work with different unit systems. The system was to be configured to individual foundry requirements and operations.
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Customer Success Story: City of Grapevine
The City of Grapevine, located in the DallasFort Worth area in North Texas, realized the need to replace or upgrade their existing HMI/ SCADA, PLCs and radio communications systems. Their needs as a city were growing and they required a system better equipped to handle a diverse and multifaceted infrastructure. Additionally, they were also faced with the potential of the FCC narrow banding their frequency, which would affect the reliability and functionality of their existing PLCs, communications and stability of their current system as a whole. This set of needs started the journey to find the best option for Grapevine.
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Customer Success Story: Converteam
Converteam, a leading supplier of power conversion engineering, needed a reliable and efficient HMI system for their C-Series Vessel Control System (VCS) used in the marine and offshore industry. The HMI system needed to comply with standards and regulations concerning night vision and other safety measures. It also needed to be extensible, modular, flexible, and have good connectivity. The company had tried several other HMI systems but they failed in these key areas. The HMI system was to be implemented in a fleet of LNG tankers designed to transport liquefied natural gas.
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Customer Success Story: Fort Collins Utilities
Fort Collins Light & Power had a number of specific goals in mind before upgrading its SCADA system. The SCADA software itself needed to support five substations and 2,600 data and control points using OPC communications standards. The HMI would need to interface with multiple applications including system power quality and security, to name a few. Fort Collins also planned to establish a dedicated GIG Ethernet fiber loop to each of its substations, as well as to the utility’s Drake Water Reclamation Facility, to provide a high-speed secure data highway for SCADA and future applications such as distribution automation. The utility also planned upgrades to all substation remote terminal units (RTUs) and power quality meters (involving both hardware and software).
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Customer Success Story - LUKOIL
LUKOIL, a major international oil and gas company, was planning to build a new datacenter in its Moscow office. The company required an HMI/SCADA system that could provide maximum security and performance of datacenter utility systems while also ensuring high energy efficiency. The datacenter computer rooms were to include over 100 server racks, each designed with a capacity of 17kW of power. The company also required 24/7 control capability for its utility systems. LUKOIL wanted an HMI/SCADA system that could provide estimates for the datacenter rooms’ technological and climatic metrics and could quickly acquire status information for all nodes of power and cooling/air conditioning systems. As the planned datacenter was to include approximately 5,000 data points, LUKOIL sought an HMI/SCADA solution that easily centralizes functional mode management for utility systems.
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Customer Success Story: Leciva a.s. Pharmaceutical
Leciva, a.s. Pharmaceutical, the largest Czech pharmaceutical company, needed a system to meet their high recording requirements for documenting every aspect of their production process to meet GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) standards. They required a system that provided extensive security measures, audit trails for operators, reliable logging of all production data, operational sequence checking, and traceable alarm and event history recordings. The system also needed to meet their process documentation, production data collection, and report requirements to meet their GMP standards.
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Customer Success Story: Lake Cities Municipal Utility Authority
Lake Cities Municipal Utility Authority had an aging infrastructure system that needed help from top to bottom. Upgrading the system was one of the organization’s biggest priorities, so that they could better maintain it. A large portion of LCMUA’s budget at the time was being spent on call-outs, false alarms and failing equipment, so the authority sought solutions to reduce these related costs. One effort involved replacing their older SCADA system. The pre-existing system was actually a combination of three competitor products, which ended up providing LCMUA personnel with three different sets of operating data. In addition to requiring a unified solution for their new HMI/ SCADA, the authority also required one that could handle Distributed Network Protocol (DNP3) communications and interface with existing Servelec Technologies Tbox combined PLC/RTU hardware installed at every lift station, pump station and elevated storage tank in their system.
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Customer Success Story: IDRA Presse S.p.A.
IDRA Presse, a leading producer of Pressure Die Casting Machines, had the requirement of sampling process parameters on their Pressure Die Casting Machines at 10,000 cycles/sec and needed a software system to have the ability to collect real time data at those rates. They used an external sampling system with real time operating software. This system was connected through an Ethernet link with ICONICS software using an OPC Server on a PC, where TrendWorX32 trends the data collected. This data was then sent via a LAN to a centralized database for final evaluation and storage. IDRA selected ICONICS to provide them with state-of-the-art injection press machine monitoring and control after evaluating nine other suppliers including Intellution, Wonderware, WinCC and RSView. IDRA replaced their existing Orsi Cube system with the GENESIS32™ HMI Software suite.
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Customer Success Story: Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch, a globally recognized financial management and advisory company, required a monitor and control solution for their building campus in Hopewell, New Jersey. The campus consisted of twelve buildings, including office buildings, assembly buildings, and parking garages. The company aimed to manage every aspect of the building complex, including HVAC, Lighting, Energy, Security, Fire, and other Energy Smart Buildings. They also utilized ice plants as a cost-efficient method for building energy management, freezing water at night when electricity is cheaper and melting it during the day to cool the buildings. This 'time shifting' of energy usage was designed to help reduce the energy bill.
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Customer Success Story: Metal Trade Comax a.s.
Metal Trade Comax a.s., a producer of non-ferrous casting alloys and surface treated metal sheets and bands, needed a comprehensive monitoring and control solution for their production processes. They required a system that could ensure the coated metal exits the production line without defects. The company also wanted to gain interoperability with their devices from different vendors. They were looking for a solution that could interface with their Siemens SIMOTION PLC, which controls the main drives or motors of the production line, and a Siemens Simatic S7-300, connected with industrial ethernet.
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Customer Success Story: Mohegan Sun
Mohegan Sun, a renowned gaming and entertainment destination, needed a system to monitor and control the various aspects of their facility. This included the status of chillers, boilers, and other behind-the-scene systems, as well as approximately 250 VAV boxes, about 60 air handling units (AHUs), 30 exhaust fans, a dozen fan coil units, and a host of temperature and humidity readings. An interesting aspect of this project is the AHUs deployed for the arena. There are four fans moving 200,000 cubic feet per minute of air. Normally these are used to air condition the facility for spectators. However, in case of a fire, the smoke detector system puts these AHUs into “Smoke Mode”. Instead of bringing air into the arena, dampers change and these pull the smoke out of the area, making it easier for firefighters to enter the building.
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Customer Success Story: Mosenergo Heating and Pipeline
Mosenergo Heating and Pipeline Network in Moscow, Russia, distributes hot water to 99 percent of all the buildings in Moscow for heating. The entire network has 12 regional dispatch centers and over ten heating plants, pump stations, and local facilities. The main challenge for this 24/7/365 application was to deliver thousands of real-time parameters to operators and for operator commands to be delivered back down to the PLCs in a few seconds. Mosenergo had previously tried to develop an in-house system to monitor and control the pipeline heating network.
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Customer Success Story: PGT Industries
PGT Industries, a leading manufacturer and supplier of residential impact-resistant windows and doors in the U.S., was facing a challenge of demand exceeding production capacity, which was constraining revenue growth. The company had developed a capital plan to expand their manufacturing operations. However, before executing the capital expansion, the Vice President of Operations decided to test the assumptions about current capacity by installing and applying a productivity analysis tool. The company selected ICONICS Productivity Analytics software to analyze the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) of the current plant. The software’s drilldown and correlation capabilities were used to zero in on sources of loss of OEE, focusing on three OEE factors: availability, quality and performance.
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Customer Success Story: Racine Water & Wastewater Utility
Racine Water & Wastewater Utilities had been using the GENESIS for DOS as the HMI operator interface software for their plant wide SCADA system at their water utility since 1991. This system controlled the entire water plant and distribution system operation of 3 remote tanks and 1 remote pumping station, from a central control room. However, with the advancement of technology and the need for more efficient and reliable systems, the utility needed to upgrade their system. In 1996, the system was upgraded to GENESIS for Windows and in 2001 the wastewater plant was modernized using GENESIS32™ to increase capacity and to automate and centralize the control to one room. An extensive evaluation was made of leading SCADA vendors. GENESIS32™ was selected because of the speed and redundancy of data collection systems, as well as due to the superior OPC-based data engine allowing live changes to the system without the need to restart.
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Customer Success Story: R-CUA
R-CUA, a company specializing in the design, financing, development and operation of heat networks, power stations and associated energy sources, sought an automation software solution that would monitor the power plant and heat distribution in the city of Strasbourg in real time. The company required that the software be able to provide information via web browser as well as via mobile devices. In addition, the company sought to manage consumption and potentially save on energy costs. A primary location involved in the installation is the Eco2 Wacken plant, located in Strasbourg. The selected automation software solution needed to integrate with multiple BACnet controllers, with three controllers located at the Eco2 Wacken plant. The entire network contains over 2,000 tags, including 16 delivery points, each managed via BACnet controller. The delivery points and the boiler house are connected via 8 kilometers of optical fiber. R-CUA wanted a solution that would work with its existing Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 machines and Windows SQL 2012 databases, as well as with cloud-based servers and multiple mobile clients.
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Customer Success Story: University of Bristol
The University of Bristol (UoB) is a top-ranking university in the UK with a vast estate comprising over 600 hectares of land and more than 370 buildings. The buildings range in age from the late 17th century to the 21st century. Given the large number of buildings, estate management is crucial. A major requirement of the project was to integrate the buildings together to provide a secure, future-proof centralized building management solution. The UoB was looking for a modern, future-proof solution platform that would allow them to continue to build new capabilities as new equipment and buildings were needed and connected to the Secure Data network (SDN). The University needed a company with reliable software solutions that could meet several objectives, including providing all departments of the University with accommodations of quality and functionality, ensuring the most efficient use of all built space, working to reduce the University’s carbon emissions, and enabling Building Management System (BMS), Fire Monitoring, Critical Alarms, Sustainability Monitoring, etc.
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University transforms energy management with big data solution
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) had set an ambitious goal of reducing energy use by 15 percent across many of its buildings. To achieve this, the university had been installing energy-efficient equipment and automating building systems to ensure that mechanical and electrical equipment minimized energy waste. However, just like a brand-new car that’s driven off the lot, building equipment starts to deteriorate as soon as it’s installed, losing energy efficiency over time. To mitigate deterioration, UNL had in the past performed ad-hoc recommissioning, but was now developing a comprehensive recommissioning program. The university wanted to find a way to maintain optimal performance without the expense of periodic recommissioning.
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Customer Success Story: Vitkovice Steel
Vitkovice Steel, a leading European manufacturer of rolled steel products, was faced with the challenge of replacing a production monitoring system from the late 1980’s, in addition to control systems based on obsolete Czechoslovakian computers (PPC-4). The company needed a system that could meet their high availability, 24x7 requirements, as well as scale to the needs of about 180 users. They also needed a system that could integrate seamlessly with existing systems, including KEP Servers, Stratus Servers, Siemens Simatic S7 PLCs, Oracle 9.2 database, UZ line-over databases, stampers in hot or cold conditions (3964R), and paint stampers. The system also needed to connect easily to the company’s existing Microsoft products, including Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2000 and XP clients, Microsoft Office and SQL databases.
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Customer Success Story: Webb County Water Treatment
The Webb County Water Treatment Plant (WTP) in Rio Bravo, Texas was facing challenges due to population growth and rising water quality requirements. The existing plant was outdated and required high maintenance. It lacked a computerized control or SCADA system, making the operation of the process equipment, water intake, and distribution systems time-consuming. Additionally, most of the plant personnel were native Spanish speakers and were not fluent in technical English. This posed a challenge in operating a new, sophisticated control system. The new SCADA system needed to be user-friendly, graphically enhanced, and bilingual to accommodate the language needs of the staff.
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Customer Success Story: Xi’an Xianyang International Airport
The growth of Xi’an Xianyang International Airport made it necessary to seek a monitoring and control solution that could handle communication with multiple different data sources as well as scale to the wide array of equipment that is continuously added. One primary concern was energy use and temperature control throughout the 360,000 square meters of indoor airport space. China Western Airport Group and the Xi’an Airport Construction Co., Ltd. created a dedicated energy center that could assist them in providing comfortable temperatures for millions of passengers as well as the great number of people who work within the airport facilities. As the airport expands, so too does its energy use, as well as the complexity of its energy system. Airport officials required an HMI/SCADA system with a safe, reliable, cost-saving energy management component.
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Customer Success Story: Town of Castle Rock
Castle Rock Water, a public utility in the rapidly growing town of Castle Rock, Colorado, was seeking a software management solution to improve its operations. The utility operates five major water treatment plants throughout the town, producing high-quality drinking water and generating approximately 16 million gallons per day during the summer months. The utility's second highest cost is power, and it was keen to monitor power consumption over its Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. The utility had installed power monitoring devices to monitor power demand on its deep well pumps, but it needed a solution that would provide the engineering staff with a baseline to give the operations staff the tools to make necessary changes in pumping operations through SCADA to maximize production while minimizing cost per gallon pumped.
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Customer Success Story: Tonawanda Water Resource Department
The Town of Tonawanda was facing high support costs for their existing HMI/SCADA package and other third-party applications such as reporting solutions. The legacy system was expensive to maintain and did not provide the flexibility and scalability required for future expansion. The town was looking for a solution that would not only reduce their support costs but also provide a platform that they could build upon in the future. They needed a system that could support additional functionality such as wireless operator stations, the ability to stay connected via mobile phones, and more. The system also needed to be robust and reliable, with redundancy at multiple levels to ensure continuous operation.
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Customer Success Story: Signature S.A.
SIGNATURE S.A., a European leader in road signage and road marking, sought a solution to assist in the automation of its paint plant using a batch process. The company wanted to connect PLCs from different manufacturers to their system, ensure traceability, and enable remote control via production manager and process engineer stations. Additionally, SIGNATURE S.A. wanted to generate daily alarms, event and production data reports, a production report by orders of fabrication (with associated alarms), and a weekly report for total consumption of raw materials used in production.
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Customer Success Story: Scottish Water
Scottish Water had a vision to establish an Intelligent Control Centre (ICC) that would allow them to respond in a timely and effective manner to emerging business events to minimise risk and impact on both the customer and Scottish Water. They wanted a solution that would revolutionize the way in which they could understand business events and ensure effective response arrangements for many years to come. The key aims of the ICC were to improve the speed of identification of various business risks that had the potential to impact on the service to their customers, ensure they had the capability to link various sources of business intelligence including telemetry, customer, weather and workflow activity data, etc. to support the early identification and response to, business events and having a system that was flexible enough to both develop and enhance in house to meet future business needs.
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Customer Success Story: Animal Health Care Co.
The animal healthcare company, a leading international manufacturer and distributor of animal healthcare products, was in need of an industrial controls solution that would best manage and monitor critical process alarms. The company also planned to replace an existing visualization system, seeking a solution that provided additional enhancements. The company’s plant is involved mainly with pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging. The company uses ICONICS solutions to interface with Allen Bradley PLCs via Foundation Fieldbus, Data Highway Plus industrial LAN and Ethernet network communication structures. Among the Microsoft solutions used on-site are SQL Server and Excel, which are used in reporting and trending.
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SASKI (General Directorate of Sakarya Water and Sewerage Administration)
SASKI, the General Directorate of Sakarya Water and Sewerage Administration, provides clean water to the province of Sakarya, Turkey. The organization sought to improve its field data collection capabilities, adding functionality such as full station status, detailed reporting, field device control, fast historical archiving/retrieval, and integration with geographic information systems (GIS). SASKI specifically required an automation software provider that could integrate with their multiple applications across hundreds of locations, including tank storage, drinking water purification/provision, wastewater purification, drilling, flow metering, and more. The water-focused organization initially planned for their new monitoring and control solution to connect to over 50,000 tags, and integrating with on-site OPC-integrated equipment (including PLCs). The chosen solution would also need to work with multiple servers, databases (Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle), and client machines.
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Customer Success Story: SAP Research Future Factory Initiative
The Future Factory Initiative (FFI) is a joint effort of SAP Research and external partner organizations, including ICONICS. It is active in key areas including a Living Lab, a Real-World Manufacturing Testbed and a Center of Excellence. The initiative is a set of innovative demonstrators showing the potential of real-world-integrated business processes in the manufacturing domain. The challenge was to create a testbed that shows leading edge software and the latest hardware developments with different scenarios, products, and prototypes in a distributed manufacturing environment. The testbed needed to span multiple manufacturers and demonstrate the viability of prototypes.
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Customer Success Story: Town of Arlington/Peirce School
Arlington Public Schools sought to consolidate its summer-school operations into one building at The Peirce School. Anticipating the need for an increase in air conditioning, the district immediately purchased a new chiller for the school building. The Regional Energy Manager for the town of Arlington, Ruthy Bennett, is responsible for looking for ways to reduce energy costs, a high priority for a town named a Green Community by the State of Massachusetts in 2010. The town and school district, both operating on tight budgets, wished to ensure that their decisions to consolidate summer school classes to one location and to purchase a new chiller made financial sense. With the goal towards lower energy and operational costs, Bennett sought energy management software that would be more beneficial than what she considered “glorified schedulers”. While researching solutions, she learned of ICONICS’ Facility AnalytiX being used to help cut energy costs at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, WA.
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Customer Success Story: Badger Midstream
Badger Midstream’s Grey Badger site in Panhandle, Texas is a cryogenic gas processing and treatment plant. The company sought an HMI/SCADA solution to control all the processes of the Grey Badger gas plant including plant metering, compression monitoring, tank/pump/valve control, and the monitoring and control of 105 proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control loops. The new solution would replace an existing system based on a combination of two competitor products due to lack of support of their installed product versions and comparatively high costs of upgrades and yearly/ ongoing maintenance charges. Understandably, Badger wanted their new solution to be more cost-effective and easier to maintain. The selected HMI/SCADA would need to integrate with the plant’s DeltaV DCS control, Allen Bradley controllers, Emerson OPC Server, and various electronic flow meter (EFM) remote terminal units (RTUs), as well as with various plant equipment including heaters, dehydrators, vapor recovery units, separators, heat exchanges and more.
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Customer Success Story: Ameren Callaway Plant
Ameren, Missouri’s largest electric utility, was in need of a replacement for a legacy solution that was no longer supported after the year 2000. The company required a system that could provide remote access to inline chemistry analyzer readings, both numerical output and trend graphs, and alarm conditions. The new system also needed to be accessible from a single web page, removing the database from the plant mainframe and allowing access to live chemistry data to all plant personnel. Prior to this, live chemistry data was only accessible on a few PCs that had the legacy software installed.
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Customer Success Story: ATICS, Ltd./The Ceramic Factory
The Ceramic Factory - Botevgrad has experienced recent growth as the construction industry continues to grow in Bulgaria. The company required visualization of the manufacturing processes involving its furnaces as well as of the transportation line for the produced bricks. The factory also sought an additional module for reports to help management mitigate downtime issues and increase productivity. The company realized that as business grew, it would require premium, robust solutions to meet its visualization, control and reporting needs. The selected solution would need to integrate with the company’s existing VIPA PLCs, approximately 150 I/O points and KEP OPC Server for Siemens PLCs. In addition, The Ceramic Factory – Botevgrad sought HMI/SCADA and reporting solutions that would also work with its Microsoft Access database and its desktops and servers running Microsoft Windows XP Professional.
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Customer Success Story: Arvin-Edison Water Storage District
Arvin-Edison Water Storage District, located south of Bakersfield, CA, is a sophisticated conjunctive use program that acquires water in wet years and stores it underground for use in dry years. This program provides water supplies to District areas covering 132,000 acres of prime agricultural land, which do not have access to surface water. The district uses ICONICS GENESIS32 for monitoring water levels and motors that pump water to upstream sites, as well as for remote turn on/off of pump motors in emergency situations. The district utilizes 46 pumping plants plus 10 plants that supply water level indicators only to the organization’s headquarters. The plants are controlled by local programming at the sites themselves through Westinghouse PC1100/ PC1200 in older systems or SCADAPacks in newer systems.
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Customer Success Story: Bohr Instrument Services
Bohr Instrument Services needed a system to monitor and control all the operations of drilling rigs for oil and gas producing companies. The system needed to collect data in real time and monitor all the extreme forces on a drill bit while providing the drilling operator with multiple graphical data monitors. The system also needed to communicate this data to two locations; the drill floor and remote offices. The many parameters that needed to be logged and converted into other parameters demanded a software system that could process an unlimited amount of real-time data from a variety of inputs.
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Customer Success Story: Brézillon
Brézillon was tasked with the design and construction of a building compatible with the ideas of the Grenelle de l’environnement, a French consortium of government, labor, industry and other related organizations with the goal of improving ecology, energy, sustainable development and territorial planning. An edict for the building was that it must be built with respect for environmental quality and safety, with the means to monitor and regulate facilities automatically in order to reduce energy costs. The construction company, working with CR System and BETHIC, had a development time of 14 months, including finalizing electric work and an automated HVAC system. The selected building automation control was meant to tie into multiple procedures and equipment.
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Customer Success Story - CIAT
CIAT, a leading producer of air conditioning, refrigeration, and heating units, was looking for a 64-bit monitoring system that aligned with their values for innovation and sustainability. They wanted a system that could unify and standardize communications with all their equipment, including meters and compressors, without breaking existing connections. The company was also keen on finding a solution that could integrate information from a broad range of equipment and systems used. CIAT's development strategy was centered around optimizing energy consumption, improving air quality, and ensuring a comfortable atmosphere inside buildings, while providing the best support available to clients.
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Customer Success Story: City of Cumberland Water/Wastewater
The City of Cumberland, Maryland, needed a system to visualize information of remote pumping stations, elevated tanks, and reservoir levels for the Water Filtration Plant. They also needed to visualize and report information about Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) events, which are important to the Wastewater Treatment Plant and the surrounding watershed authorities. When it rains, or when snow melts, there exists potentials for CSO events. Once manual and highly labor-intensive, these events are now tracked in real time and reported on as soon as the event has ended.
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Customer Success Story: City of Enid
The City of Enid’s Water Production department sought to upgrade its control system. Originally consisting of push-button controls, it evolved from an older simple one-line diagram type to ActiveX-based controls. The city considered multiple solutions, including those from several competitors, then decided upon ICONICS GENESIS32™ HMI/SCADA suite and have recently upgraded to GENESIS64. The department’s new system handles over 1,400 tags in its Water Production system, which now integrates with their Koyo PLCs. The ICONICS software also ties into additional hardware including wireless, serial and networking connections (e.g. UHF, VHF and FSK [Frequency Shift Key]).
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Customer Success Story: Comau Pico
Ford Motor Company contracted with Comau Pico to design and install multiple cold and hot test stands at the Dearborn Engine plant. The requirement was to perform 100 percent testing of every engine produced at this plant (4 & 6 cylinder engines) along with the logging and trending of results for both cold and hot testing. Cold testing does not use gasoline and the engine is basically driven by an external motor. All fluids are installed and the engine is run through its cycles. Hot testing involves adding gasoline and actually starting and running the engine through various test cycles. The test stands perform measurements on the heating and cooling of fluids as well as exhaust gases, spark timing and advancement through the RPM range. Testing is also done on the air combustion mixture of exhaust gases and fuel mixtures of the injection systems.
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Customer Success Story - Cyberlogic
Cyberlogic Technologies, Inc. is a leading independent supplier of industrial communication drivers and servers. They have introduced many firsts, including the first 32-bit communication drivers for Windows platforms, first virtual drivers to migrate legacy applications to 32-bit operating systems and the first remote drivers to enable access to industrial networks from plant networks. A recent deployment was for a large soft drink bottling company that needed traceability to track the ingredients to the original source. From a code stamped on the outside of the bottle one can quickly trace what batch of syrup was used and where the cap, bottle, and water came from. A report can then be generated that shows where other finished products that contain any of the source ingredients were shipped.
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Customer Success Story: The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), formerly The Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills (BIS) is the department for business, science, and innovation within the UK Government. The Department’s holistic aim was to rationalise their building portfolio and shrink their carbon footprint by reducing the number of buildings they own and introducing more flexible work hours for their staff. But, in order to have any chance of shrinking their footprint, BIS realised that they needed to be able to analyse the performance of their estate, detect trends and use data to drive proactive estate management. The challenge was that the data and reporting processes for their entire building portfolio was completely fragmented. BIS did make sure to monitor the performance of their buildings. However, their manual data collection processes were so complex that they didn’t have the time or resources to digest the data and act accordingly.
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Customer Success Story: Dynastar
Dynastar aimed to update the automation capabilities of its Sallanches location, a 28,000 square-meter facility producing over 300,000 skis per year. Its objectives for this project was to reduce energy consumption related to its manufacturing process, as well as implement a global visualization interface. The company wanted a system that could rationalize the use of production equipment as well as provide warnings of hardware failure. At the time, the company was running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with multiple Web clients, as well as SQL Server, in addition to Excel, for its database needs. Its existing manufacturing system was comprised of TREND and Honeywell devices, in addition to hundreds of other tags, all of which required an easily integrated automation solution. The French ski manufacturer required a supervisory product that could allow product managers to set, view and make use of real-time availability requirements of workshops and equipment.
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Customer Success Story: E.ON Trend s.r.o.
E.ON Trend s.r.o., a subsidiary of the global power and gas company E.ON, is responsible for electricity generation and heat production and distribution mainly for households in the Czech Republic. The company operates six hydro-powered electrical plants with a total output of 30 MW. These plants are monitored and controlled by a central control station located up to 100km away. E.ON was looking for a solution to replace the Promotic Microsys system, with requirements for data redundancy, real-time alarm notification, and superior graphics. They needed to centrally monitor and control their remote hydro power plants and bring all power generation together.
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Customer Success Story: ENSTOR
ENSTOR, a subsidiary of Iberdrola Renewables, is a company dedicated to the storage of liquid natural gas. With facilities including both depleted reservoirs and salt caverns, ENSTOR maintains five repositories throughout North America, and is currently developing two more sites. The company leverages its various gas storage and hub service facilities to provide customers superior transfer access between major pipelines as well as rapid injection and withdrawal storage capacity. In ENSTOR’s facilities, the control system uses PLCs and gas flow computers that monitor and control a variety of compressors, gas meters, valves, dehydrators, and safety equipment to manage natural gas injection, withdrawal, receipt and delivery. Each location has a dedicated control room where operators monitor and control both storage plant and pipeline interconnection points.
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Customer Success Story: Environmental Power Corporation (Microgy)
Microgy, a subsidiary of Environmental Power Corporation, develops facilities to efficiently and reliably produce clean, renewable gas from agriculture and food industry wastes. The company uses anaerobic digestion, where methane-rich biogas is extracted from waste to produce electric power, helping farms and businesses responsibly manage the wastes they generate. The company operates in four renewable energy facilities across the United States' Western and Midwestern regions. The challenge was to monitor and control systems at these facilities, provide real-time monitoring and control, and convey data from remote locations to a corporate location in Tarrytown, New York.
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Customer Success Story: Federation Tower/ARMO Group
The Federation Tower in Moscow, Russia is set to become the tallest building in Europe, and Europe’s first “Supertall” building. The complex is divided into two towers with a shared podium with a combined floor area of 423,000 square meters. The building automation and security systems in the West Tower are being handled by the ARMO Group, a building systems, automation, and management firm also located in Moscow. Construction on the Federation Tower began in 2005 and will be complete in 2013. ARMO Group is assisting with the JCI Energy Smart Buildings and automation network in the West Tower, handling over 21,000 data points spread amongst 1,600 automated devices and using more than 20 digital integrations.
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FuelCell Energy, Inc. Customer Success Story
FuelCell Energy, a world leader in the development and manufacturing of high temperature hydrogen fuel cells for ultra-clean electric power generation, required a robust, secure Human Machine Interface (HMI) to monitor and allow remote control of the company’s power plants as standalone systems. They initially worked with a system integrator partner, then customized their resulting solution before finalizing project development on their own. The company needed a system that could provide alarm management and online functionality, allowing operators to be alerted during alarm/event conditions for immediate acknowledgement and action. The system also needed to be web-enabled for ease of use and remote monitoring/control throughout the company.
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Global Energy Generation Firm Optimizes Operations with ICONICS Software
The large-scale Russian energy provider has had basic direct digital control (DDC) for many years. Working with its system integrator, RVS, the firm initiated a major optimization effort, with a preference towards utilizing the latest software technology while simultaneously ensuring integration with a wide variety of data sources. The firm sought a solution that could handle the data from four thermal power plant (TPP) production branches (each with approximately 5,000 I/O points) as well as from its executive office. An additional major need of the plant was to provide a uniform, insightful user interface to all operations and levels of management. The company required dashboards that could provide needed insight in order to drive immediate improvement actions. The site also sought a major upgrade in its reporting capabilities. Prior to considering this upgrade, a legacy data historian from OSI PI provided limited visualization and report capability, but could not provide the depth of information available.
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Customer Success Story: Hong Kong Marine Department
The Vessel Traffic Centre of Hong Kong Marine Department monitors and regulates all ship movements within Hong Kong waters. Over one thousand big and small ships enter into or sail from the port of Hong Kong daily. The volume of traffic that transits Hong Kong waters to and from the ports at the Pearl River Delta increases annually. At any one time, there are over three hundred ships moored within the harbor. The Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, which is also under Hong Kong Marine Department, is responsible for coordinating all search and rescue operations within the Hong Kong maritime rescue responsible area, which is about the entire northern part of the South China Sea, up to the west coast of the Philippines on the east and up to the 10 degree Latitude on the south. The traffic monitoring equipment and the telecommunications equipment of both centers have recently been upgraded.
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Customer Success Story: Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board
Hyderabad, the capital city of the state of Andhra Pradesh in India, is a rapidly growing urban area with a semi-arid climate and a rainfall of 75 cms. The city faces a premium on water during the hot dry months, with a respite from the heat and relative water scarcity coming during the monsoon season, which typically lasts from late June to early October. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) has been tasked with ensuring a reliable source of water and waste treatment for its citizens. The board is also involved in other water-related projects including rainwater harvesting and water bottling/canning. The board sought assistance in automating its water supply/sewer facilities and contacted Nish Automation who, in turn, recommended ICONICS’ industrial automation software solutions, specifically the company’s GENESIS64 suite that integrates with new 64-bit computing machinery and the latest operating systems from Microsoft (including Windows Vista® and Windows Server® 2008).
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Customer Success Story: Hydrovision Ltd.
Hydrovision Ltd., a leading manufacturer of Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), required a new scalable control system for their ROVs, sub-sea tooling, and other custom tooling applications. The specifications demanded a PC-based system running under a Windows operating system and meeting open standards like OPC. The system needed to be scalable, maintainable, easy to modify after implementation, and economical. The company also wanted a system that would allow their customers to make their own modifications to the machines for different tooling or use applications.
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Customer Success Story: Manx Electricity Authority
The Manx Electricity Authority (MEA) in the United Kingdom was facing a challenge with the proliferation of different SCADA systems. Each system operated uniquely, making it time-consuming and costly to train operators and keep them updated on system changes. The MEA was responsible for the generation of electricity across the Isle of Man and ensuring the full commercial potential of the UK-IOM subsea power cable. The MEA decided to look for an integrated enterprise-level SCADA solution to streamline their efforts. They wanted a solution that could integrate their entire key infrastructure across multiple sites, allow easy expansion for future capacity, and provide a seamless switchover with parallel running capability of the old SCADA applications as a backup.
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Customer Success Story: Malpensa Airport/Elsag S.p.A.
SEA, the company that manages both the Malpensa and Linate airports in Italy, required an HMI/SCADA solution for an in-house data trending application to assist operators with determining the number of baggages processed in defined intervals. The involved system consists of two hot backup servers and 11 clients, used for monitoring the state of the HBS and EBS systems. One server runs ICONICS AlarmWorX™32 (with alarm logger), ScriptWorX™32 and DataWorX™32. Both servers handle client security (aligned between the two servers by means of a script) and can switch automatically if a failure is detected on the primary, or on demand by an operator.
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Customer Success Story: Loudoun Water
Loudoun Water, a utility company in Virginia, was seeking ways to improve its industrial processes. It determined that high-performance 64-bit computers and applications, including a feature-rich, easier-to-use, 64-bit version of its ICONICS software, GENESIS64™, would increase efficiency. However, the utility would need a newer operating system to support the upgrade. The utility’s HMI/SCADA system was based primarily on GENESIS32™ by ICONICS, installed in an environment with 15 client computers running the Windows XP operating system connected to servers running the Windows Server 2003 operating system. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 data management software supports the HMI/SCADA applications by supplying them with information gathered in real time from the utility’s industrial environment.
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Customer Success Story: LIIEC Oil Company
A Large International Integrated Energy Company (LIIEC) with over $100 billion in annual revenue is a global energy enterprise developing vital energy resources in over 180 countries around the world and is a world leader in oil exploration and production. The USA-located, ICONICS-managed oil field has in excess of 3,000 drilling wells that are using WebHMI™ software to monitor oil well performance, production analysis and maintenance operations. The challenge was to deliver data from any LIIEC Business Unit facility in the entire Western US area to any user anywhere within the LIIEC Intranet. In the West Coast Business Unit, there is a total of six major oil fields with numerous facilities controlled by Modicon and A-B PLCs.
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Customer Success Story: Kista Science Tower
The Kista Science Tower complex, located in one of the most dynamic IT regions in the world, was faced with the challenge of having an open infrastructure where all monitoring and control could be looked at as a single system. The complex houses several high-profile tenants and spans six buildings, with the tallest spanning 32 stories. The challenge was to ensure that all systems and controllers had a common platform for communication. This included the KONE elevators, lighting, HVAC, and the windows blinds for the Kista Science Tower. The complex also needed a system that could connect to any OPC server throughout the Kista Science Tower, including communication to the KONE OPC-DA server running on Linux.
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Customer Success Story: Keokuk Municipal Water Works
Keokuk Municipal Water Works, serving over 4,800 customers, is responsible for providing its residential, commercial, and industrial customers with a high-quality and reliable water supply. The Water Works service area, 105 miles of pipe within a 20-square-mile area, includes the entire incorporated area of the city of Keokuk, Iowa. Additionally, the water system serves two small private water systems outside the Keokuk corporate limits. The challenge was to monitor all functions of the plant, from analytical equipment to Rotork Valve: control, monitor, alarm, trend, etc. The system needed to connect to an Allen-Bradley Series 5 and MicroLogiX PLCs, Prolinx Hart Multiplexer, Rotork Valve System, Hach Analytical Equipment, Toshiba Drive Systems, and Rosemount Field Devices.
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Customer Success Story - Kazan Metro
The new Kazan Metro required a unified control and visualization system for its operation. The objectives for this solution were the management and security of integrated systems including Train Dispatch and Control, Antiterrorist Protection, Power Systems/Uninterrupted Power Supplies, Fire Safety, Groundwater Pumping and Tunnel Monitoring. Challenges facing Kazan Metro developers included cost-control, adaptability/expandability, and communications/data management reliability.
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Customer Success Story: International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL)
The International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) in Braga, Portugal, required a comprehensive, state-of-the-art HMI/SCADA system to handle its building management. The complex is divided into a hotel for resident researchers and the main building, where clean rooms, laboratories, high accuracy areas and administrative offices are located. The application involved deploying an ICONICS integrated Building Management System, paying special attention to the clean room and high accuracy and laboratory areas, as well as to the critical process systems. Critical areas such as clean rooms and high accuracy labs don’t allow any downtime for the HVAC system, because most of the experiments carried out in these zones are expensive and take a long time. Should any failure occur while an experiment is being carried out, it would have to be started from the beginning, implying additional and unacceptable costs. On the other hand, the HVAC system for these areas was designed to work 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. In addition to the temperature, humidity and pressure data monitoring and collection for the certification of the clean rooms, it was an additional challenge to control the temperature in the high accuracy rooms with a required accuracy of ±0.1ºC.
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InSinkErator® Improves Productivity with ICONICS Solutions
InSinkErator, a division of Emerson Electric Co., is the world’s largest manufacturer of food waste disposers and instant hot water dispensers. As part of their continuous improvement efforts, InSinkErator was looking for a way to increase their productivity and efficiency. They decided to improve efficiency within their existing buildings and identified the need to provide management with visualization of manufacturing problem areas. By closely monitoring and analyzing overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI), InSinkErator could implement improvements to its production processes.
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Customer Success Story: Mondi Packaging Paper Štětí a.s.
Mondi Packaging Paper Štětí a.s. is a leading producer of industrial packaging and paper materials. The company operates a large production plant in the Czech Republic, which receives 1000 tons of timber daily and produces 1,500 tons of pulp and paper each day. The plant, which is the largest ICONICS Web application in Europe, has over 100 buildings and employs over 1000 people. The company needed a robust and efficient system to handle the enormous amount of data generated by the plant and to provide real-time visualization of the plant’s operations.
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Customer Success Story: Museum of Krapina Neanderthals
The Museum of Krapina Neanderthals, located in northern Croatia, required a solution to integrate and automate its building management systems, security systems, and multimedia systems. The museum, which is technologically oriented and extraordinarily equipped for multimedia presentations, needed a system that could handle data acquisition and aggregation, analysis and alarming, visualization, and real-time status of installations and components. The challenge was to harmoniously integrate, coordinate, and automate these diverse subsystems, which included computers, projectors, MPEG players, audio, video and scenting equipment, electrical branch circuits and lighting, metal curtains, HVAC, Siemens fire system, and Honeywell intrusion system.
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Customer Success Story: Ondrej Nepela
The Ondrej Nepela Stadium ice rink in Bratislava, Slovakia, is one of the world’s most modern ice hockey facilities. However, the old Building Management System, installed by SAUTER for Ondrej Nepela, was unable to keep up with the needs of the ice rink. The arena needed a system that could monitor and control the air handling system (HVAC) including fan coils, VAV boxes and a heat exchange station, rink cooling technology, Emax Management System, and skylights. The system also needed to be able to handle nearly 4,000 data points and execute over a hundred defined schedules.
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Customer Success Story: Ontario Power/Hemi Controls
Ontario Power, one of North America’s largest power generators, planned to upgrade its generating stations over the next few years. The generating station being modernized had a production capacity of 240MW and comprised of one main computer supervising 8 generators including plant services equipment. There were 10 local control stations one for each unit, running on industrial type computers. The project had unique requirements, necessitating the use of the new OPC driver for “data mining” in the Unified Tag Browser within GENESIS32, which allows database write and read connections using standard SCADA graphics to a Microsoft database.
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Customer Success Story: The Pentagon
The Pentagon, the world's largest office building complex, houses over 23,000 employees and is the headquarters for the United States Department of Defense operations. The building is undergoing a renovation project that includes systems for HVAC, fire, security, lighting, IT/Telco critical monitoring, water systems, and hazardous agent monitoring. The challenge was to design a system that could monitor and access all these systems from a main screen in three operator actions or less. The system needed to be able to access any system, on any floor, in any one of the Pentagon’s five wedges, and from any one of the Pentagon’s five rings.
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Customer Success Story - Permskaya Gres
Permskaya Gres, a thermal electric power plant in Russia, was facing a challenge of synchronizing real-time OPC information from several different information systems. These systems worked independently, had different hardware and software platforms, and were placed far from each other. The goal of the project was to increase the control efficiency and capacity for all power stations, which they called the “Planned Capacity Trend functionality”. The main purpose of the application was to provide information from different power generating control systems and delivering the information in real time to remote users.
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Customer Success Story: Preciosa Ornela, a.s.
Preciosa Ornela, a.s., a division of the Preciosa Group, is a specialized glass company involved with metallurgical production, glassmaking, and the manufacturing of raw materials for jewelry. The company required an update to their existing 32-bit HMI/SCADA software involved with the monitoring of temperatures, electrical parameters, and combustion ratio glass sets as part of their production processes. The company was happy with its existing GENESIS32 installation but wanted to add the multiple modern features included in newer 64-bit software. After evaluating offerings from multiple vendors, Preciosa Ornela decided to remain an ICONICS customer and chose GENESIS64.
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Customer Success Story: Rome Metro S.p.A.
Rome Metro S.p.A. (Met.Ro.) operates the Metropolitan Rome rail and surface bus lines within the city of Rome, Italy. They also manage some regional bus lines. The organization oversees two main metro rail lines with a total of 53 stations and is currently constructing a third line with 34 additional stations. Each line is approximately 22 km in length. The challenge was to monitor and control the metro line from a centralized location and provide alarm notification for the coordination of emergency actions. The system needed to centralize security monitoring and provide the status of auxiliary equipment at each of the remote stations on the rail line. The auxiliary equipment being monitored included ventilation systems, fire systems, moving stairs, elevators, normal and emergency lighting systems, uninterrupted power supplies, inverters, etc.
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Customer Success Story - VEC Technology, LLC
VEC Technology required an HMI/SCADA solution coupled with data bridging/reporting/archiving that can be used over the Web, can integrate with the OPC communications protocol and can directly interface with the company’s product databases. They required the solution to control and monitor the company’s patented closed molding operations. They wanted a system that could manage various parameters based on several criteria, including the specific product being produced, ambient conditions and material properties. Also necessary was the ability to provide long term storage of multiple key parameters for product warranty information. The company sought a product with future-proof technology. They also looked for a solution that presented a simple user interface for making edits, as well as an easily maintained Web-based client/server architecture. VEC Technology aimed for a “single vendor” approach, intending to reduce both the number of automation interfaces as well as extra support staff to maintain various systems.
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