Get your data, by all means

It has been many years since this classic ad came out. Since them we've come up with a lot of new and cool ways to "get your data" from 1 to 2,000,000 I/O

Operational Excellence at Bermuda Electric

Bermuda Electric Light Company Limited (BELCO) is Bermuda's sole supplier of electricity, operating a generating plant and transmission and distribution systems throughout the Island chain.

Its Mission: to provide a secure, reliable and sustainable electric power system for the people of Bermuda.

As BELCO begins work on its integrated resources plan for the next 20 years, its innovation and can do spirit will enable it to address the Island's development and energy issues, including renewable energy and sustainable development.

With a little help from Schneider Electric.

The Venetian and Palazzo Resort Hotels & Casino

The world's largest hotel and resort, known for award-winning sustainability practices, entrusts Wonderware software to provide a facilities and power management solution for real-time monitoring and maximized efficiency.

The Venetian is the largest green building in the world 

One of the brightest stars on the Strip is The Venetian Resort Hotel family of properties. With The Venetian, The Venezia Tower, the Sands Expo Convention Center and The Palazzo Las Vegas, these properties comprise the largest hotel and resort in the world, covering 67 acres and approximately 14 million square feet of facilities.

And so it comes as no surprise that the complex has one of the most innovative redundant power and Facility Management Systems ever developed. Part of the resort, The Palazzo Las Vegas, has been awarded a Silver LEED® Certificate (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) by the U. S. Green Building Council. According to the Council, The Palazzo is not only the largest LEED-certified building in existence, but is over four times bigger than the second-largest recipient of the designation.

A commitment to green and sustainable processes can be seen throughout the resort.

HMI and Supervisory Control Excellence: AENA, Barcelona El Prat Airport

 We'd like to congratulate Wonderware Spain and AENA for winning the HMI and Supervisory Control Excellence category of the Schneider Electric Software OPEN Contest. Find out why.



The gateway to the beautiful city of Barcelona is the El Prat Airport. In a typical year, over 35 million passengers and 96 thousand tons of cargo pass through the Barcelona El Prat Airport

The AENA Group is responsible for the operations of the Barcelona El-Prat Airport. AENA is one the world's top airport operators, in terms of the number of passengers handled. More than 200 million travelers pass through AENA's 46 domestic and 15 international airports.

AENA created a Smart City solution at the Barcelona El Prat Airport that boasts a dynamic, high-functioning, reliable and secure infrastructure.

With a little help from Wonderware

F&N Dairies Thailand manufactures 2,500 cans a minute = 3 million cans a day = 24 million cases a year

F&N Dairies Thailand, the largest canned milk manufacturer in the world, achieves significant savings in production, logistics and inventory costs with Wonderware MES software

Results:

• The plant achieved its production goal of 2,500 cans a minute = 3 million cans a day = 24 million cases a year

• It reduced quality traceability time from 4 hours to only 1 minute

• The manufacturing facility achieved its return on investment within one year

• The plant achieved “100% First-Time Quality,” a lean metric that indicates what parts are manufactured correctly the first time without need for inspection, rework or replacement.

The plant achieved its production goal of 2,500 cans a minute = 3 million cans a day = 24 million cases a year

Wonderware Teacups

When I was still working in Asia-Pacific, we gave out custom made, limited edition teacups to customers, partners and friends. They are priceless now.

Wonderware, industrial strength software that's fun to use

It isn't just in Jim Brown's head, Wonderware really is industrial strength software that's fun to use. You can read about the legendary Wonderware stories from Gary Wilkinson's posts.

The Wonderware Y2K Ad

The copy says "Everything grinds to a halt in eight hundred and sixteen days" so I'm suspecting the ad came out around October 7, 1997.

Am I right? Yes, of course - it's in the fine print. See below.

The years leading up to the year 2000, those were fun times, if you were an automation engineer.

Read the Eskom Success Story

"Wonderware software provides our engineering and management teams with access to usable data that before was not readily available. We can now make decisions in real-time on our electricity generation capabilities, enabling Eskom to continue to improve the quality of life of more than 50 million people."

John Viljoen, Corporate Consultant for Generation Business Eskom Holdings Ltd.

More information

For more information about the products used here, please visit the following links:

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

The Right Solution for the Right Application at Eskom

Eskom bears the enormous responsibility of providing electricity to the African sub-continent. From homes, to businesses, to industry, Eskom’s network of power plants required an integrated, reliable software solution to ensure its facilities are operating at peak performance and that it enables access to critical plant data to anyone, anywhere at any time.

 

With the implementation of the Wonderware solution, Eskom now has the tools to understand and control its vast and complex network of power generation facilities -- improving the quality of life of the millions of people who rely on the power the company provides each day.

“The drive for increased reliability and efficiency of operations requires having better plant information accessible in real time. Wonderware software provides our engineering and management teams with access to useable data that before was not readily available. We can now make decisions in real-time on our electricity generation capabilities, enabling Eskom to continue to improve the quality of life of more than 50 million people.”

John Viljoen, Corporate Consultant for Generation Business Eskom Holdings Ltd.

More information

For more information about the products used here, please visit the following links:

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

Challenge: Integrate plant and business systems

A series of Challenge, Solution ads came out when we were introducing Application Server and ArchestrA and this was one of them.

Challenge: Integrate plant and business systems. Solution: Wonderware Software. Integrate your business system and existing plant systems in 4 months or less.

Here's another one. Challenge: Faster,easier regulatory compliance. Solution: Wonderware Software. Reduce the pain, time and money associated with regulatory compliance.

 



Wonderware really came out with the coolest ads.

You are missing a lot if you have an HMI in your plant without a historian

When you add Wonderware Historian to your HMI system, you gain greater insight into your process through rich historical data capture and analysis tools. Indeed, the secret to getting even more from your HMI system is to add a Wonderware Historian.

More information

For more information, please visit the Wonderware Historian page.

Linking IT with Plant Processes Improves Both Business and Operations Performance at Eskom

“As far as IT was concerned, plant control systems were just black boxes which we just didn’t understand. Our IT department’s focus was on integration and storage methods for transactional systems which operated on a fragmented outsourced IT infrastructure. It just wasn’t suitable for processing or managing real-time plant data.

With the implementation of Wonderware System Platform and its various applications, we’ve been able to bridge the divide between IT and the plant floor enabling each department to effectively collect and assess data for making critical business decisions.”

Vicki Naudé
Senior Advisor for Generation Information Management

More information

For more information about the products used here, please visit the following links:

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

Eskom responds to incidents quicker with Wonderware Historian

Eskom structured the new plant management system by employing a single Wonderware Historian at each power station to collect data. This data is replicated at the corporate office in a centralized Historian application for assessment of overall plant operations and reporting.

“Because our plants are spread over several miles, Wonderware Historian was the ideal choice for data historization. The software is able to maintain data integrity while handling intermittent, late or bursts of data. The software also is able to generate actionable information for faster, more accurate decision-making,”


Vicki Naudé
Senior Advisor for Generation Information Management

The capabilities of Wonderware Historian now provide Eskom with a high-performance real-time database that offers unparalleled scalability offering up to 500,000 tags with greater retrieval throughput than ever before. With Eskom power plants located throughout South Africa, Historian provides aggregated data that enables operators to compare the performance of multiple facilities, and make informed decisions on plant improvements and quicker incident responses.

More information

For more information about the products used here, please visit the following links:

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

A Comprehensive, Standardized Software Platform at Eskom

Adopting the Plant Data System (PDS) strategy using Wonderware software makes plant data openly accessible and in a standard format enabling workers in every area of the business to access and use the real-time data collected from each of Eskom’s plant. 

“The Invensys solution featured capabilities that meet the needs of collecting and providing real-time information to our staff to support both operational and business decisions, while also addressing the issue of standardization. It also provided the company with a cost-effective solution by enabling us to purchase a half million tags to be used wherever needed throughout Eskom, instead of having to purchase individual sets of tags for each power station."

John Viljoen, corporate consultant for Generation Business Engineering at Eskom

Comprehensive, Standardized Software Platform Easily Links All Plants

Wonderware System Platform was implemented to provide a comprehensive, standardized software platform that would link all Eskom facilities.  Wonderware System Platform offers common services such as visualization, configuration, deployment, communication, security, data connectivity, data storage and management and people collaboration.

These services allowed Eskom to build a single, unified “Plant Model” that logically represents its processes, physical equipment and industrial systems, even legacy systems, making the design and maintenance of these systems more efficient, more flexible and with less risk. The Plant Model also gives essential context to power plant data, greatly assisting with diagnostics and troubleshooting, as well as providing valuable system documentation throughout the system lifecycle.

More information

For more information about the products used here, please visit the following links:

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

Wonderware software enabled Eskom to improve the overall performance of all its plants

In 2008, Eskom developed the Plant Data System (PDS) initiative to centralize all plant management activities via a standardized software solution from Wonderware. With this, Eskom management, plant technicians and administrators now have access to real-time information to more effectively make operation and business decisions that directly affect service to its customers, as well as the company’s bottom line.

Eskom implemented a number of Wonderware based applications that enables its staff to use plant data and overall information more effectively

Standardizing on an information technology systems using a single, integrated software platform was the most important requirement to effectively accessing and evaluating plant data and operations information. Using Wonderware software, Eskom is able to comply with ISA-95 standards as well as conform to its Generic Plant Breakdown Guide.

“Each power station is unique and in the past, each ran its own operations and monitoring software programs -- no attempt was ever made to standardize all of our facilities on one single, integrated software system. Our highest priority in implementing the Wondderware solution was to eliminate duplicate engineering efforts by centralizing data and operations on a single platform that could be accessed by authorized managers and operators at any time.  Wonderware software enabled Eskom to improve the overall performance of all of our plants.”

John Viljoen, corporate consultant for Generation Business Engineering at Eskom

More information

For more information about the products used here, please visit the following links:

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

45% of the electricity used in the African continent is generated by Eskom

On a continent spanning more than 11.7 million square miles and home to millions of people in 54 countries, the demand for reliable electricity is great, and essential to the everyday lives of residents as well as businesses. As in most countries around the world, keeping up with society’s insatiable appetite for electricity grows every day. No company is more familiar with this than Eskom Holdings Ltd.
 

Eskom is responsible for generating and distributing approximately 95 percent of the electricity used in South Africa alone, and about 45 percent of all the electricity used throughout Africa

The electricity produced by Eskom is used not only by residents, but also powers a variety of industrial applications such as mining, commercial businesses and agricultural.

More information

Through the next series of posts, I will discuss the Wonderware solution implemented at Eskom. For more information about the products used here, please visit the following links:

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

The world's best MMI

This one's a classic that always evokes a lot of good vibes. I remember when I first saw this ad in one of the trade publications - I must admit, it made me investigate what this Windows based visualization software could do. After that, I was hooked forever.

Read the University of Strasbourg success story

Read the University of Strasbourg success story at the Schneider Electric Software website.

More information

If you'd like to know more about the products used in the University of Strasbourg, please click on the following links:

1. University of Strasbourg Website
2. Wonderware Supervisory Control
3. Wonderware InTouch
4. Wonderware System Platform
5. Wonderware Historian
6. Wonderware Historian Client

Wonderware InTouch provides a user-friendly view of each of the University’s building control systems

 

“The object-concept Wonderware InTouch is based on corresponds to our department’s need for precise visualization and presentation of critical data. The application’s innovative device integration capabilities and extensive connectivity to virtually every device and system at our various locations, enable enterprise-wide control and data acquisition bringing the right information to the right people at the right time.”

Damien Bertrand
Energy Department Manager
University of Strasbourg

Wonderware InTouch provides a user-friendly view of each of the University’s building control systems

Wonderware InTouch provides a user-friendly view of each of the University’s building control systems which can be accessed by Energy Department staff and management from any location. Staff is able to quickly address issues and troubleshoot problems in real-time. Wonderware InTouch also sends alerts and alarms to individual workstations, so operators can take immediate action to rectify issues immediately.

With Wonderware InTouch, the staff at the University of Strasbourg can make better decisions faster, drive maximum performance of facility assets, lower operating costs, and secure critical data. Wonderware System Platform and its integrated applications provide the University of Strasbourg with unparalleled visualization, configuration, deployment, communication, security, data connectivity, data management, and people collaboration capabilities.

With the help of  Wonderware, the University has successfully updated and integrated its operations management processes, and can now effectively blend its buildings’ “old world charm” with an effective “modern-day” facilities management software system.

More information

If you'd like to know more about the products used in the University of Strasbourg, please click on the following links:

1. University of Strasbourg Website
2. Wonderware Supervisory Control
3. Wonderware InTouch
4. Wonderware System Platform
5. Wonderware Historian
6. Wonderware Historian Client