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Operation objectives
- Detailed study of each step of the client’s established industrial process
- Structured overview on both current and future status
- Defining priorities
- Digitization – making the transition from relying on paper to digital network
- Integration of the industrial plan information
- Generating, despatching, surveying and analyzing data – modeling for decision-making
- Information everywhere – no matter where you are, interaction will be live
Expected results
- Reducing costs
- Process agility
- Increase in competitiveness
- Energy saving
- Increase in safety
- Environmental sustainability
- Error reduction
- Ending wastes
- Dealing transparency
- Quality of life increase
- Personalization to a degree never seen before
Operation objectives
- Description of the automation philosophy
- Maturity study (existing plant)
- Migration from still-used outdated systems
- Structuring the plant’s and system’s TAG
- General systems and subsystems architecture
- Flowchart and descriptions of “P&ID” Closed Loops
- Description of I/O, commands and interlocks
- Description and specification of Ex, SIS and grounding area
- Architecture and description of infrastructure
- Process description with operator interfaces
- Routing networks and panels in the field
- Description and data sheets of instruments
- Hardware and software specification
- Convergence design and specification for management
- Contract specifications and Vendor List
- System installation requirements
- Project management plan of the enterprise
- Operations and maintenance (O&M) training
Steps taken
- General data survey
- Acquiring knowledge on the process and technologies
- Comparing existing technologies
- Study on financial practicability
- Drafting the general layout’s documentation
- Implementing the steps on the general layout
Operation objectives
- Conceptual definition of automation and the philosophy to be followed by the project
- Technical specification – assembly of a specific scope after performing the basic engineering
- Applications – equipment specification stage
- Projects – detailing all panels, remotes and project boards
- Network routing – definition of the path of networks in the plant, each characteristic according to the specific protocol
- Network architecture – structuring the communication of devices across the network in an addressed and hierarchical manner
- Controller configuration – programming of process control algorithms, control strategies and safety system
- HMI Supervisory Configuration – design and programming of the operational control interface system. At this stage, all interfaces can be linked to the database, the management system, among others.
- Assembly – construction of support and assembly devices on equipment, such as cable runs, instruments, among others
- Commissioning – parameterization, testing and preparation of all devices
- Start – start of process power-up, normally with no load, analyzing the behavior of commands, controls and safety system, releasing for the start of load
- Assisted Operation – Checking increasing loads and general behavior up to design production, assisting during a period that allows operators and maintenance technicians to feel secure in the system
- As Built – update of all documentation upon project release to be delivered to the customer, both operation and maintenance
Expected results
- Increase in Production
- Increased repeatability in production
- Improved quality of the final product
- Reduction in production costs (processes and inputs)
- Reduction of unscheduled downtime (maintenance)
- Decreased operating cost
- Reduction of accident risks (safety)
- Increased asset life (lifecycle)
- Decreased setup and startup time (efficiency)
- Decreased decision-making time
Newon Solutions
- Autonomous trains;
- Locomotive remote control;
- Asset tracking for yards;
- Satellite tracking of assets along the route;
- RFID identification of railway assets;
- Security communication systems;
- Signal transmission from track to locomotives;
- Auxiliary systems for interfacing with the locomotive;
- Supervisory systems and monitoring systems;
- Auxiliary systems to support the machinist in unloading on wagon dumpers;