Loy Yang Power drives long-term success
25 July, 2008 | Supplied by: Rockwell Automation Australia
Victoria’s largest energy producer, Loy Yang Power, recently embarked on an upgrade of its four-level open-cut coal mine facility, Loy Yang Mine. The ‘in progress’ upgrade includes the redesign and progressive changeover of the mine’s existing coal transfer conveyor drive systems. With a combined length in excess of 25 km, the mine’s conveying system transfers the freshly mined coal from the mine floor to the surface.
Siemens SCADA software
08 July, 2008 | Supplied by: Siemens Ltd
Siemens has expanded the functionality of its SCADA system SIMATIC WinCC with version 7.0. The scalable SCADA system now offers compatibility with Windows Vista, easy language switching, high-performance analysis functions and an integrated MS SQL Server archive historian database as standard.
Chlorine controller
08 July, 2008 | Supplied by: Convergent Water Controls Pty Ltd
Unlike ORP control, using free or total chlorine control can give precise readings of the actual hypochlorous acid or free (residual) chlorine content of the water being treated. Hypochlorous acid content fluctuates with changes in pH and regular ORP readings can give false impressions of the actual ‘effective kill’ of the chemicals being used.
Quadraplex pump controller
08 July, 2008 | Supplied by: Dwyer Instruments (Aust) Pty Ltd
The series QPC is used where four pumps are required to alternate to provide equal run time on each. Alternating loads allows for equal wear on all pumps, lengthening their operation life. The series QPC has five inputs allowing the four outputs to operate properly even if one of the inputs fails to open or close. Four LED indicators show the load that is energised by the SPST output contacts.
Proficy process control system
08 July, 2008 | Supplied by: GE Intelligent Platforms Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Proficy Process Systems Version 1.5 is a fully integrated process control system that is intended to provide customers with improved quality and reliability, increased throughput, performance and efficiency, and reduced total cost of ownership.
Output filter for motor drives
08 July, 2008 | Supplied by: Westek Electronics Pty Ltd
The Schaffner Model 510 output filters reduce voltage slew rate (dV/dt) from inverter drives for variable-speed motors. High-voltage slew rates can cause overstressing of long motor drive cables and cause insulation breakdowns in motor windings.
Premium platform for SolarGas
25 June, 2008
Engineers and scientists around the world are looking for ways to harness the sun’s thermal energy to replace the diminishing global supplies of fossil fuel with a ‘clean’, carbon-neutral energy source. Australia is particularly well placed to do this, since it has the highest average amount of solar radiation per square metre per year on Earth.
Premium platform for SolarGas
25 June, 2008 | Supplied by: Schneider Electric
Engineers and scientists around the world are looking for ways to harness the sun’s thermal energy to replace the diminishing global supplies of fossil fuel with a ‘clean’, carbon-neutral energy source. Australia is particularly well placed to do this, since it has the highest average amount of solar radiation per square metre per year on Earth.
Securing an integrated SCADA system
15 May, 2008 by Scott Wooldridge* | Supplied by: Schneider Electric
In recent years, utility companies have undergone great changes in the way they run their businesses. The pressure to increase profits and reduce expenses has them integrating their SCADA systems with their business networks to streamline operations. The popularity of the internet has customers requesting online access to their accounts as well as online bill payment, further increasing network exposure. In addition, utility companies have reduced costs by leveraging the internet to facilitate core business operations such as outage management and procurement.
The advantages of small form factor HMI
15 May, 2008 by Hector Lin* | Supplied by: Advantech Australia Pty Ltd
As embedded computers have become ubiquitous, so too the need for human machine interfaces has grown. Now small form factor HMIs appear headed for inclusion in nearly every part of human existence.
Analysing alarm and trend data: from insight to action
15 May, 2008 | Supplied by: Schneider Electric
In the complex and demanding environment that most SCADA system users operate in, real insight comes from asking and answering the right questions.
GE Fanuc to resell iPower
29 April, 2008
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has reached an agreement with Catapult Software to globally resell its iPower product as a standard Proficy HMI/SCADA-iFIX option.
HMI / SCADA software wins Product Innovation Award
18 March, 2008
InduSoft Web Studio HMI/SCADA software has been awarded the 2007 European Product Innovation Award for emerging products and technologies.
15" TFT operator interface panel
21 January, 2008 | Supplied by: http://www.control-logic.com.au
Red Lion's latest addition to the G3 series of operator interfaces is the G315C touchscreen. The G315C offers a 15" TFT active matrix 32K colour XVGA 1024 x 768 pixel LCD and a 10-button keypad for on-screen menus.
WA gas plant online by 2010
14 January, 2008
Woodside’s Pluto liquefied natural gas (LNG) project near Karratha, WA, is on schedule to commence production in 2010 after sealing a contract with Honeywell to provide its integrated control system.
