Shane Hanley - Engineers Ireland

Presentation to
IEI CPD Seminar
On
Technical Skills to Deliver Energy
Efficient Upgrades – SCADA Solutions
10 Eastgate Avenue
Little Island
Cork
Ireland
Tel: 021-4520080
Email: shanley@neodyne.ie
Web www.neodyne.ie
Presentation by: Shane Hanley – NeoDyne Director
NeoDyne - Background
Company & Background
NeoDyne was formed in 1998 and currently has 48 employees.
We specialise in:
Plant Automation
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PLC programming on all major platforms including Siemens, Allen
Bradley, Schneider etc.
SCADA systems. NeoDyne is a Certified Systems Integrator for
Wonderware Intouch.
Electrical Engineering
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Power Generation Systems design, standby diesel & CHP, Windfarms
Process Control Systems/Solutions
Gas Transmission/Distribution
Utilities Control Solutions
Pharmaceutical
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What is SCADA?
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Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
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Central Visualisation for plant processes
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High resolution – Typically 1 Second Data
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Large Historian – 5,000 to 60,000+
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Plantwide
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Not to be confused with BMS Systems
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Navigation
◦ GUI simple navigation
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Screen Layout
◦ Intuitive – Read from top left to bottom right.
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Object Oriented – Valves, Motors etc., all standard
design for ease of use by Operators
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Human Factors
◦ Operators viewing screens for long durations.
◦ Screen colour contrast
◦ Time-stamped Alarm Alerting System
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SCADA can display live Production /
Commercial data
Monitor throughput and system efficiencies
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Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
◦ Only need to see critical data at a glance
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Relevance
◦ Display Relevant Data only. Avoid cramped screens
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Aggregated
◦ SCADA systems display hourly/daily/weekly totals
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Models
◦ Boiler System/Refrigeration System Models
◦ Batching System Models
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Reports
◦ Preconfigured reports becoming less important with live data.
◦ Dynamic Reports
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KPI’s
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Relevance
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Aggregated
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Models
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Financial
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Reports
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Vendor Selection Critical – 15 year life
◦ Main Vendors:
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Wonderware Intouch & MES (New Platform)
Rockwell Factorytalk View
Siemens WinCC
GE Fanuc iFix
Schneider Vijeo Citect
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SCADA systems will generally integrate will all PLC types.
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System Platform
◦ Next generation SCADA. Object oriented systems, plantwide.
◦ Central Server based, moving away from plant floor PC’s or servers.
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Virtualisation & Thin Clients
◦ Thin clients are low cost PC’s. Limited computational demand. Computational
role fulfilled by main system server.
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Remote Access
◦ Now a basic requirement of SCADA systems. Live remote monitoring.
◦ Remote alarming via text message services of relevant critical alarms to
relevant personnel.
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Wireless / Mobile
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Future of SCADA systems.
Wireless communications to instrumentation will increase.
Desktops/laptops will be a thing of the past.
Cloud based data storage.
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How can SCADA systems reduce energy costs?
Immediate notification of reduction in KPI’s
Continuous live update of financial data available to key personnel
Advanced warning of potential equipment issues through
efficiency reductions
Detailed alarming to help pinpoint problems, reduce fault-finding
time/downtime.
Large Historian. Potential problems can be monitored through
logged data.
Plantwide energy monitoring identifying areas where energy is
inefficiently wasted, e.g.: Compressed air leaks etc.
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Systems ideally suited for SCADA Retrofit include:
Plant looking to reduce energy costs.
Plants looking to integrate existing standalone utilities into 1
‘Energy’ system.
Process plants controlled by PLC’s. SCADA system can
easily integrate into system for visualisation.
Batch process plants. MES systems are ideally suited for
monitoring throughput/yields etc.
Wastewater treatment plant ideally suited to PLC/SCADA
control systems. Historian critical for these processes.
SCADA ideal for small power plants. Larger power plants
should be visualised by MES type systems.
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