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Plantwide control
News Release from: Citect | Subject: CitectScada
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 29 August 2005
Scada system tackles powerful monitoring
task
The Process Analyst is one of the major new features of CitectScada V6 and allows operators and process engineers to analyse the cause of process disturbances.
BlueScope's Port Kembla power distribution system distributes power to the company's steel plants in the Port Kembla region of New South Wales, Australia To put this into perspective, the plant uses more power than the whole of the main business district of Sydney
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 4 Sep 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The objective of the project was to replace the existing legacy control system across the high voltage distribution system (HVDS) with a new, state-of-the-art supervisory control and data acquisition system.
The HVDS is designed and structured to effectively achieve three key objectives: reduce the incidence of plant stoppages, optimise the use of energy resources, manage power distribution efficiently.
BlueScope needed a simple, easy-to-use, reliable Scada system that would allow operators to quickly and easily identify plant status and provide them with the information needed to take action to ensure disturbances do not affect operations (ie plant downtime) as well as avoiding future disturbances.
CitectScada was chosen as a lower risk option when compared with other Scada systems.
CitectScada is installed at other BlueScope sites where its flexibility has been proved.
The Process Analyst is one of the major new features of CitectScada V6 and allows operators and process engineers to analyse the cause of process disturbances by bringing together in one integrated display, trend and alarm data, which traditionally are stored separately.
BlueScope considered the Process Analyst as the ideal solution for analysing a distribution network.
With V6, the company's operators, engineers and managers can visualise real-time trend comparisons from different time frames.
This means that the characteristics of the distribution network can be better understood.
In turn, this leads to design improvements and reduced maintenance, stoppages and downtime.
For the BlueScope HVDS project, the display of trends down to millisecond resolution juxtaposed with the display of alarms/events enables very fine analysis of the sequence of events.
Therefore, BlueScope can quickly locate the cause of stoppages, the fault can be identified and rectified and the plant can be up and running with minimum disruption. Request a free brochure from Citect ...
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