A sustainable Spanish "Smart City" with a little help from Wonderware

Download the new success story from Schneider Electric software and find out how the Smart City solution from Wonderware helps Spain's Ecocity Vadespartera Zaragosa.

“By powering the city’s remote monitoring and management system, Wonderware software addresses two key issues for the Valdespartera team: effective and efficient control and management of all municipal networks, as well as accessibility and analyzing of environmental impact of operations in an integrated manner.”

—Noelia Olona, Technical Area Manager, Ecocity Valdespartera Zaragoza

A water solution worthy of Italy's Calabria Region

One of the benefits of the Wonderware solution at So.Ri.Cal. is alert the operators if there are possible problems on any device in the water/wastewater system. The notifications are prompt and conveyed visually so engineers know what to do right away without having to physically visit the site where the device is located.

The timeliness of these interventions is important - now pumps can be turned off promptly when the tanks are full, saving electrical energy and extending the life of the equipment. 

The status of the machinery is automatically collected and stored through Wonderware Historian and incorporated into the regular reports that the plant personnel receive on a regular basis.

 

A Flexible, Open and Scalable Platform 

 

The So. Ri. Cal. team wanted a high performance solution that would be reliable and withstand the demands of remote operation in the Calabria mountains, its forests and countryside. They wanted an open solution software platform that could evolve in the future without limitations. They wanted a solution that is easy-to-use and easy-to-learn.

 

So. Ri. Cal. selects Wonderware

“Wonderware gives us complete freedom for the future. We can focus on optimization and choose the most reliable and high-performance hardware without worrying. We have almost infinite scalability.”

Sergia De Marco, General Director, So.Ri.Cal. De Marco 

More information

 

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

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

Efficient operation at Italy's Calabria Water

For over 30 years, the Società Risorse Idriche Calabresi (So.Ri.Cal.) has supplied drinking water to the people in the Calabria Region of Italy.

The agency is responsible for a far-reaching system that covers approximately 6,000 kilometers and is comprised of 200 aqueduct systems, four dams, 10 derivation crossbars, 14 wastewater plants, 300 lifting stations and almost 1,000 tanks.

In this region, as in most of the world, water conservation is emphasized. But the challenge is compounded by the geography of Calabria and the remote location of much of So.Ri.Cal.’s system. This is the mountainous area that forms the “toe” of Italy, and most of it is covered by high peaks and thick forests. Travel and communication with outlying parts of the system can be difficult.

Remote Control and Automation Requirements

Each year, So.Ri.Cal. sells 270 million cubic meters of water to towns throughout the provinces of Calabria. And while this measurement is accurate, the agency realized that it wasn’t able to determine how much water was being produced by the system overall.

Sergio de Marco, the general director of So.Ri.Cal. recognized the tremendous opportunity to improve efficiency by eliminating waste.

“Since we didn’t have real-time data, it was impossible for us to accurately identify waste. But we knew it was mainly due to leaks in the aqueducts, poor connections and overfilled delivery tanks, as the pumps are controlled and managed manually.”

Sergio De Marco, General Director, So.Ri.Cal.

So. Ri. Cal. decided to use Wonderware.

More information

In the next series of posts, we will be talking about the Wonderware success at Società Risorse Idriche Calabresi (Calabria Water Resources Society, Ltd).

Wonderware Situational Awareness

Better HMI designs provide true “Situational Awareness”, which leads to greater operator effectiveness and fewer shutdowns. Properly designed HMI applications help optimize both the business value and the safety of your system.

Visit the Situational Awareness page and download our free whitepaper to learn how these techniques make it 5 times more likely that an abnormal situation will be recognized than traditional techniques and discover how to get even more business value from your HMI and SCADA systems.

Discover Wonderware System Platform

This video was done by Wonderware PacWest. It's a cool piece that shows the features of System Platform. If you have a few minutes, go ahead and watch it. One of the coolest product videos I've seen in a while.

 

Wonderware System Platform

Wonderware software is based on a distinctly unique, powerful and elegant approach to delivering what customers most need in their real-time industrial software systems.

 
Wonderware System Platform surpasses all other platforms in engineering simplicity, operational agility and information empowerment. It helps customers secure their future, protect the operational integrity of their plants, enhance the operational insight of their people and enables them to adapt easily and affordably to change. These are a few of the are many reasons Wonderware software is the world’s favorite and brings value to a number of organizations.

F&N Dairies Thailand - a Wonderware MES Success Story

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.

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.

9REN Group - A Smart City Success Story

Renewable energy. It's the mantra for today's society -- to identify and implement clean renewable energy sources to wean us off our dependence on fossil fuels. This is one of the fields where Spain and Italy are taking the initiative to a global level and 9REN Group is a clear example of a company leading the way.

Because of System Platform, 9REN only requires one person to control the operation of all of the 580 plants, regardless of location.

To help operate its plants, 9REN created EOSystem, a solution built on Wonderware System Platform.

9REN is one of the more dynamic companies in Europe -- their facilities, marketing strategy and personnel radiate the vitality and energy of a company that is on the move.

More information

 

Please refer to the following links for more information:

1. 9REN's website
2. Wonderware System Platform
3. InTouch HMI as a SCADA system

Take care,
Jay

Fujirebio Diagnostics, a Wonderware Workflow success story

Located in Malvern, Pennsylvania, Fujirebio has for over 20 years been the trusted source of innovative solutions in clinical diagnostics.

Fujirebio Diagnostics, Inc. provides biomarkers to help physicians, laboratory professionals, and patients better manage disease.

With operations and office space at its U.S. headquarters in Malvern, PA, Fujirebio Diagnostics' proven manufacturing process has made it a global partner of choice among leading diagnostic companies. A major milestone was achieved at Fujirebio Diagnostics on July 1, 2013 when the manual paper-based process of periodically recording temperature readings for specific GMP-related equipment was officially replaced by a new computerized system

Operational Excellence at Campbell's Soup

Campbell's Soup won the Operational Excellence category of the Schneider Electric Software OPEN. Find out why.

Collection of key quality attributes and line processing information and use of SPC to assist operator on when to adjust line. Using Wonderware System Platform, Wonderware Workflow, Wonderware QM interfaced with SAP process orders as well as existing Micro Strategy reporting system.

Has resulted in collection of over 600,000 data points in 3 months.

Carson City, Nevada - A "Smart City" Success Story

In order to achieve its goals, the people of the Carson City Public Works Department created an infrastructure revolving around the capabilities of its people and the best available smart city technology from Schneider Electric.

Leveraging virtualization, mobile devices and smart phones to increase the efficiency of its operators and management, the smart city solution at Carson City increases situational awareness and allows the public works department to achieve a high level of operational readiness.

How Wonderware helps harness the Yellow River

The objective of the project was to create a large-scale operating system including a central database, real-time information transference and processing, and decision support distributed over 700 kilometers of The Yellow River. It had to effectively regulate water quantity and prevent flow stoppages, particularly during droughts. It was also designed to help Commission staff forecast floods and create proactive flood progressing models.

Yellow River Conservancy Commission from Invensys Videos on Vimeo.

“I believe that with the expansion of this system, we can make the Yellow River more beautiful and younger, and bring more benefit to Chinese people along the Yellow River.”

Liu Xiaoyan Director of the Water Regulation Bureau

The reusable nature of the application objects created during the system’s development will save the plant additional hours and expenses in ongoing system maintenance and expansion. the reusable nature of the application objects created during the system’s development will save the plant additional hours and expenses in ongoing system maintenance and expansion.

“The advanced functionality of the Wonderware System Platform, such as reusable objects, modularized technology and remote deployment … made it possible for us to complete the first phase of this system in 3 months, which includes 43 sluice stations and the other 4 management levels,” said Chenhua.

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

Wonderware MES Success Story: Qu Jing Tobacco Plant, a branch of the Hongyunhonghe Tobacco Group

Look beyond the industry and see what these guys are capable of doing - 3D rendered graphics to augment a complete MES solution, with track and trace, OEE, downtime monitoring using System Platform, InTouch, Historian, mobility through SmartGlance.

Wonderware MES Success Story: Qu Jing Tobacco Plant, a branch of the Hongyunhonghe Tobacco Group from Invensys Videos on Vimeo.

It's a cool application of System Platform and MES.

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

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

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