The Smart City of Dusseldorf and Wonderware

Read the Stadtwerke Dusseldorf success story and find out how Wonderware helped the City of Dusseldorf reduce cost, optimize its control system and improve reporting.

More information

For more information on this success story, you might want to check out the following links:

1. Stadtwerke Dusseldorf
2. Wonderware Supervisory Control
3. Wonderware InTouch
4. Wonderware System Platform
5. Wonderware Historian
6. Wonderware Historian Client

All-Around Optimization in the City of Dusseldorf

All-Around Optimization

According to Stadtwerke Dusseldorf, the Wonderware solution has helped achieve its targets:

1. They have fully automated their operations, reduced operating costs and enhanced safety.
2. Plant availability is up and maintenance is improved.
3. The system is simple to administer and reporting is flexible, so the right data is readily available for better analysis and decision making.

And, since the system is built on an open platform known for flexibility and scalability, the city can look forward to meeting the needs of its customers into the future.

“Now we are able to create all required reports, analyses and documentation ourselves. We are no longer dependent on outside companies to provide us with that information.”

Matthias Rammler
Electrotechnical and System Support
City of Dusseldorf Public Works

Results of the Wonderware Solution

1. Operations are fully automated, resulting in reduced operating costs, increased plant productivity and availability, improved maintenance and simplified administration
2. With the new Wonderware solution, data is centrally archived and secure; availability of real-time and historical data has enabled the City of Dusseldorf to meet its goals for the system
3. Operators and management have the data they need to quickly analyze and efficiently optimize processes

More information

For more information on this success story, you might want to check out the following links:

1. Stadtwerke Dusseldorf
2. Wonderware Supervisory Control
3. Wonderware InTouch
4. Wonderware System Platform
5. Wonderware Historian
6. Wonderware Historian Client

The City of Dusseldorf's Water Solution: A Complete System for Monitoring, Control and Reporting

A Complete System for Monitoring, Control and Reporting

The three waterworks and the new control systems are interconnected, operating separately and redundantly to protect Stadtwerke Dusseldorf’s ability to provide uncompromised service.

Each station runs Wonderware InTouch in a multi-monitor setup to visually display the operations

One feature of the HMI that supports the department’s goals is its extensive library of standardized and customizable templates and objects. This enabled Stadtwerke Dusseldorf to keep most of the implementation in house and easily make changes and updates, saving time and operating costs.

A separate server runs the Wonderware Historian database and collects process data

Conversion of the data to Microsoft Excel format is handled on a Wondeware Historian Client workstation. With this, operators have the reports they need for hourly and daily evaluation of production data, including water quantities, electrical power and water quality.

Reports on cost allocation are quickly generated and sent to city management. Plus they’re documenting their adherence to water rules and regulations, especially those pertaining to drinking water compliance.

Once the preparation of these reports was outsourced, now Stadtwerke Dusseldorf performs these analyses internally. The new system and Wonderware software also enable data to be transmitted over the telephone system and shared on handheld devices for added flexibility and efficiency.

More information

For more information on this success story, you might want to check out the following links:

1. Stadtwerke Dusseldorf
2. Wonderware Supervisory Control
3. Wonderware InTouch
4. Wonderware System Platform
5. Wonderware Historian
6. Wonderware Historian Client

A long term Water Project at the City of Dusseldorf

Planning the Project Flow

Because the implementation of water solution would span a six-year period, the city worked with Wolfgang H. Paul Elektrotechnik GmbH (WPE), a Wonderware Systems Integrator in Germany. WPE developed the initial configuration of the control system, the networking connections and the monitoring setup between the waterwork plants and the remote stations.

This enabled Stadtwerke Dusseldorf’s personnel to carry out the bulk of the design, supervision and administration of the project. They defined a clear process for the integration based on a joint operation concept. Prior to the installation of the new control system, each component was tested at field level and installed on the network.

Once the solution was set up, the three plants were brought on in turn, allowing engineers to adjust to the new equipment without interrupting operations.

More information

For more information on this success story, you might want to check out the following links:

1. Stadtwerke Dusseldorf
2. Wonderware Supervisory Control
3. Wonderware InTouch
4. Wonderware System Platform
5. Wonderware Historian
6. Wonderware Historian Client

Safe and clean water for the 600,000 residents of Dusseldorf with a little help from Wonderware

Stadtwerke Dusseldorf, the city’s public works department, uses a new state-of-the-art control system based on Wonderware software to help automate the City of Dusseldorf’s waterworks plants.

Part of Stadtwerke Dusseldorf's goal is to reduce cost by improving operations, reporting and analysis

It's easy to understand why Stadtwerke Dusseldorf opted to modernize its control system. It makes sure that the City of  Dusseldorf's 600,000 residents have ready access to water that is safe to drink. The system carries about 55 million cubic meters of fresh H2O to households and businesses through a pipe system that extends farther than 1,700 kilometers.

Flehe, Am Staad and Holthausen

The City of Dusseldorf’s water comes from the Rhine River via three plants throughout the region – Flehe, Am Staad and Holthausen – that employ the Dusseldorf Method, a technique developed there. The process takes the water through a “multi-barrier principle” treatment. Stadtwerke Dusseldorf employees in the quality control department constantly monitor this three-step process as it treats, filters and protects the water before it is delivered to end users.

How Wonderware helped Dusseldorf Waterworks reduce costs, optimize control and improve reporting will be the subject of the next series of posts.

More information

For more information on this success story, you might want to check out the following links:

1. Stadtwerke Dusseldorf
2. Wonderware Supervisory Control
3. Wonderware InTouch
4. Wonderware System Platform
5. Wonderware Historian
6. Wonderware Historian Client