Download - Food Manufacturer Modernizes and Virtualizes SCADA for Disaster Recovery, Reduced Downtime
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Project Goals• Migrate 13 obsolete FactoryLink SCADA applications onto
multiple FactoryTalk® View SE distributed applications• Secure assets on a converged Industrial Data Center (IDC)
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Project Business Driver• SCADA Migration
– FactoryLink was acquired by Siemens in 2007 and switched to non-supported status in 2012
– Lower Total Cost of Ownership• Less expensive to maintain, modify and support
– Cultivating Innovation– Extend application longevity
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Project Business Driver• Virtualization Migration on a convergence IDC
– Improving productivity with better asset utilization and system performance
– Lower Total Cost of Ownership• Reduce server footprint
– Extend application longevity
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Project Business Driver• Enterprise Risk Management
– Eliminate server hardware failure resulting in downtime– Enable disaster recovery methods
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Technical Challenges• Keeping Texas Instrument PLCs
– SCADA migrations only– Working on 25 year old applications (PLC/SCADA)
• Modified by different people with different standards• <TemperManent> patches especially in the scripting
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Technical Challenges• Scripting on the server side in FactoryLink
– Due to older PLC capabilities– Cannot be imported in ControlLogix®
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Technical Challenges• Many tags, devices, alarms in each of the applications
– Alarms are always being scanned– Data optimization required in KEPServer
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Technical Challenges• Many trends in each of the applications
– Up to 200/300
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ROKTechED 2016 Process