Portfolio
Our company’s specialists have solved tasks in a wide variety of industries. Even though technological processes in different industries vary greatly, the needs and principles of satisfying them are similar.
For instance, both a potato chip factory and an ore mining enterprise need to measure the weight of raw materials and products. For the factory, we created an automated system that received data from truck scales, equipped with a modern Flintec weight processor. For the mining enterprise, the weight of iron ore was determined from the load table of mining dump trucks (Caterpillar, Komatsu) using a readiness signal from a long-running Krupp crusher with an ancient Siemens Simatic S5 controller. We successfully solved both tasks.
Below, we will provide some interesting examples of the projects we have implemented.
Business software for distribution company (industrial automation products)
The program implements the functions of accounting (bookkeeping-taxes), warehouse management, personnel, after-sales services, customer relationships, and forecasts (goods & logistics, finance, taxes) for management accounting. For the warehouse, after-sales, and document management subsystems, interaction with barcode scanners has been implemented.
Products & Tools: Microsoft SQL Server, Delphi.
Automated system for accounting & controlling the movement of raw materials and products
To control and account for the movement of raw materials, products, and waste to/from the food factory Kraft Foods Inc., an automated accounting system was developed and commissioned. This system eliminated manual data entry. The system automatically received the weight of an empty and loaded vehicle from truck scales at several arrival/departure points at the factory. This was confirmed by an authorized operator using a personal electronic pass.
Products & Tools: Microsoft SQL Server, Delphi, custom serial and network protocols for weighing and card reading devices.
Data gateway ('blackbox') between process automation systems and quality control system
To provide data for a new quality control (traceability) system being implemented for high-quality steel production, maintenance-free hardware/software gateways have been developed. These are based on embedded PCs with a watchdog, receiving technological information from the local process automation system of a particular metallurgical workshop. Several gateways in each workshop, at all stages of metal processing, provide actual data to the new system at the ArcelorMittal steel plant.
Products & Tools: Delphi (console app), Wonderware Device I/O servers, TCP/IP networking. Data sources: Siemens Simatic S7-400/S7-300, Schneider Electric Modicon Quantum/Premium, ancient InTouch HMI v.7, Microsoft Access. Data destination: Oracle database, TCP/IP UDP listener.
- Software for quality control laboratory (Products & Tools: InterBase SQL database, Delphi).
- Software for tasks planning and execution control in municipal public utility company (Products & Tools: Clarion).
- Control room software for the gas transportation compressor station. The system was created to combine information from two dozen various control subsystems of a multi-turbine gas compressor workshop. It was implemented in fifteen unique workshops with a consolidating information system in the control center. It allowed further introduction of the material balance information system (data reconciliation management system). Mimic diagrams of various subsystems were unified and repeated in a single SCADA-software and distributed storage of all technological information was organized. For autonomous systems and non-standard devices, secure methods of obtaining data have been implemented. Products & Tools: Wonderware InTouch SCADA, Wonderware Historian; Delphi and sniffers for development, a lot of serial drivers (Modbus-like) for ancient, poorly documented field devices.
- Driver for SCADA Driver for connecting special purpose uninterruptible power supply/rectifier with custom network API/protocol to SCADA Wonderware InTouch (Products & Tools: Delphi).
- Automated system for recording and visualizing statistics of production equipment operation (Products & Tools: Wonderware Active Factory).
- Software for visualization of the technological process of the industrial cooling unit (Products & Tools: Wonderware InTouch).
- Industrial computers, servers, and SCADA-software modernization in the technological network of the electric steelmaking shop at the metallurgical plant (Products & Tools: IBM, Advantech, Wonderware InTouch).
- Software for visualization of the technological process for industrial centrifugal compressor equipment (Products & Tools: Wonderware InTouch).
- Human-machine interface to the boiler (Products & Tools: Unitronics Vision 120).
- Software for visualization of the technological process for industrial oxygen compressor equipment (Products & Tools: Wonderware InTouch).
- Software for the management and control of potato storage modes at a chip factory (Products & Tools: Wonderware InTouch).
- Software for automated operator's workplace for keeping statistics on the operation of the equipment, the control system, and accounting for the processed mining mass (Products & Tools: Delphi, Citect SCADA).
- Implementation of the Wonderware Historian & Information Server software of the energy resources preparation shop of the metallurgical plant (Products & Tools: Wonderware Historian).
