This document provides an overview of industrial automation and modern connectivity. It discusses how connecting factory equipment to other networks allows data transfer and optimization of production processes. Three case studies are presented: an automotive story demonstrating automated data collection and reporting; a candy production story showing standardized recipe management across global plants; and an integrator story using remote desktop support. Basic security recommendations are provided, such as backing up software, network isolation, and using recommended practices guides.
Industrial Automation and Modern ConnectivityControlEng
In an age when manufacturing is overrun with information, getting the right information to the right person at the right time is crucial. A new era of mobile devices has helped deliver the promise of greater productivity. With it comes the challenge of network security, achieving both is possible, as we’ll demonstrate.
Selecting and Working with a Systems IntegratorControlEng
With plant staffs stretched thin at a time of continuing manufacturing growth, system integrators have come into increasing prominence. Understanding what should you expect from your SI—and what he should expect from you—is critical to ensuring that your project is achieved on time, on budget and up and running on Day 1.
Were we Just Hacked? Applying Digital Forensic Techniques for your Industrial...ControlEng
Companies that have had their industrial networks attacked from the outside usually don’t realize it at all, or if they do, that knowledge probably comes a year or more after the initial incident. Why? Companies don’t understand their own networks well enough to know when something is happening that shouldn’t be happening. There is no practical way to apply concepts of digital forensic investigation if you don’t understand your own networks. Robert M. Lee and Matthew E. Luallen will discuss how you can analyze and document your systems well enough to perform incident response and learn from those attacks. Your ability to know every detail about your systems is the biggest advantage you have when trying to secure your systems. Put that knowledge to work.
10 Warning Signs of Weak Requirements ManagementPerforce
Struggling to find the latest version of your requirements document? Stakeholder input and reviews getting lost? Customers finding bugs that should have been fixed and tested before release? These common problems and seven others mean you need a better way to manage and track requirements.
We will also show you how Helix ALM solves these problems and helps:
- Facilitate requirements reviews.
- Centralize, organize, and customize requirements data.
- Automate traceability.
- Simplify backwards and forwards impact analysis.
- Extend JIRA’s capabilities to requirements management.
How to save time and money with Versiondog - the
change management system for automated
environments.
Are you ready to radically reduce the risk of
production loss and damage to assets in your
business while making it a safer place to work for
your staff?
Prism-IND is a technology consulting company delivering the professional services of experienced Windchill ESI Professionals (SAP and Oracle Applications) to clients in multiple countries.
Essential Tips for Modern Requirements Management Perforce
Inadequate requirements. They’re the #1 cause of project failure.
While we’ve come a long way from massive, antiquated requirements documents, requirements (or epics and user stories) still provide a GPS for your product.
So, how do you make sure requirements:
-Communicate your true vision?
-Keep your project lean and on track?
-Adapt to change without adding risk?
-Transform into a quality product?
Join us for this webinar to learn essential tactics for better requirements management — from discovery to review and testing.
We’ll cover:
-Common signs of poor requirements management.
-Principles of modern requirements.
-Essential communication tactics for results-driven development.
-Ways to streamline the requirement review process.
-Tips for adapting to changes in requirements.
-Templates for organizing your requirements.
-PLUS, get concrete tips from ACTUAL requirements management tool makers.
Industrial Automation and Modern ConnectivityControlEng
In an age when manufacturing is overrun with information, getting the right information to the right person at the right time is crucial. A new era of mobile devices has helped deliver the promise of greater productivity. With it comes the challenge of network security, achieving both is possible, as we’ll demonstrate.
Selecting and Working with a Systems IntegratorControlEng
With plant staffs stretched thin at a time of continuing manufacturing growth, system integrators have come into increasing prominence. Understanding what should you expect from your SI—and what he should expect from you—is critical to ensuring that your project is achieved on time, on budget and up and running on Day 1.
Were we Just Hacked? Applying Digital Forensic Techniques for your Industrial...ControlEng
Companies that have had their industrial networks attacked from the outside usually don’t realize it at all, or if they do, that knowledge probably comes a year or more after the initial incident. Why? Companies don’t understand their own networks well enough to know when something is happening that shouldn’t be happening. There is no practical way to apply concepts of digital forensic investigation if you don’t understand your own networks. Robert M. Lee and Matthew E. Luallen will discuss how you can analyze and document your systems well enough to perform incident response and learn from those attacks. Your ability to know every detail about your systems is the biggest advantage you have when trying to secure your systems. Put that knowledge to work.
10 Warning Signs of Weak Requirements ManagementPerforce
Struggling to find the latest version of your requirements document? Stakeholder input and reviews getting lost? Customers finding bugs that should have been fixed and tested before release? These common problems and seven others mean you need a better way to manage and track requirements.
We will also show you how Helix ALM solves these problems and helps:
- Facilitate requirements reviews.
- Centralize, organize, and customize requirements data.
- Automate traceability.
- Simplify backwards and forwards impact analysis.
- Extend JIRA’s capabilities to requirements management.
How to save time and money with Versiondog - the
change management system for automated
environments.
Are you ready to radically reduce the risk of
production loss and damage to assets in your
business while making it a safer place to work for
your staff?
Prism-IND is a technology consulting company delivering the professional services of experienced Windchill ESI Professionals (SAP and Oracle Applications) to clients in multiple countries.
Essential Tips for Modern Requirements Management Perforce
Inadequate requirements. They’re the #1 cause of project failure.
While we’ve come a long way from massive, antiquated requirements documents, requirements (or epics and user stories) still provide a GPS for your product.
So, how do you make sure requirements:
-Communicate your true vision?
-Keep your project lean and on track?
-Adapt to change without adding risk?
-Transform into a quality product?
Join us for this webinar to learn essential tactics for better requirements management — from discovery to review and testing.
We’ll cover:
-Common signs of poor requirements management.
-Principles of modern requirements.
-Essential communication tactics for results-driven development.
-Ways to streamline the requirement review process.
-Tips for adapting to changes in requirements.
-Templates for organizing your requirements.
-PLUS, get concrete tips from ACTUAL requirements management tool makers.
How SAS Institute Drove Digital Transformation Through DevOps - AppSphere16AppDynamics
Learn how to drive a digital transformation by condensing systems to one global SaaS Solution for corporate services, which reduces IT and business support burdens. It also increases integration between SaaS solutions that provide data feeds to each other and helps you proactively identify when jobs are running long.
Hear how to increase the amount of data available for IT analytics, providing a single truth for data.
Key takeaways:
o How to evolve your DevOps culture
o Provide more business analytics and increase value to the company
o Do more with less
For more information, go to: www.appdynamics.com
Lavacon 2014: But will it fit in my bathroom? Creating a single interface for...Mark Peterson
Much presale information was treated as literature rather than content. Customers needed to search on any device for products that had the dimensions and styling they needed to fit their bathroom or kitchen, but many of the critical dimensions were buried and unsearchable. So Kohler Company created an XML database using web-based X-Forms for input, X-Queries for search, XSL for output, and Windchill roles for data access. Now, changes are made only once by the data owner. Content is accessible by user role. People can search for data without opening PDFs, and outputs can be tailored to the user’s task and preference.
Today’s IT organizations are being pressured to do more with less. Manage more applications, data, users, and devices with fewer internal resources. Execute complex IT initiatives on flat, year-over-year budgets. And above all, extract as much value from the IT investments they’ve already made.
It’s this last notion of getting more value that is the focus of our discussion today. Riverbed customers should always expect more value. And we’re committed to ensuring they get it.
Accenture and Worksoft Explain Why Businesses Need a Digital Testing StrategyWorksoft
Originally presented February 11th by Matthias Rasking, Principal Director and Testing Platform Lead at Accenture, and Shoeb Javed, Chief Technology Officer at Worksoft.
Based on research with Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) in Europe
Product Idea Validation - 3 Factors to ConsiderRaahul Raghavan
This presentation will discuss 3 core factors which can add value and make a product validation cycle more effective. Presentation was prepared with a primary intention to touch upon the primary concepts.
Fraction ERP is design for small to medium sized manufacturing companies. Cloud hosted software for make to order or batch manufacturing businesses. Integration with Xero Accounts and Quickbooks Online.
AppSphere 15 - HUT Group Leverages Analytics to Turbocharge Business OutcomesAppDynamics
DevOps teams in E-commerce companies are often asked to provide answers to recurring business questions like:
- Why were sales softer than expected today/last week/last month?
- Who was responsible for softer sales? Technology or pricing?
With 100s of KPIs being collected for many different applications resulting in thousands of graphs, sifting through this data could take days. Sometimes, no answers would be found even after days.
In this talk, we will show how AppDynamics has reduced the mean time to get these answers from days to a few hours.
Management of Scaffolding requests, their approval, production and material inventory effectively and efficiently. System supports the full cycle of scaffolding management and comes with a customized work-flow to validate steps to promote safe working practices.
Scaffolding Management Software controls the sequence of status changes a request is moved through during its lifecycle with its flow-engine. The software provides facility to authorized parties to mention all necessary procedures and authorization are completed before moving to the next stage in the sequence.
One can put forward an easy communication, collaboration and
tracking of complete scaffold life cycle through ASK-EHS Scaffolding Management Software
Das Microsoft Operational Framework (MOF) basiert auf ITIL® und der Team Foundation Server ist das Microsoft Tool für die MOS-Unterstützung.
Referent: Dieter Rüetschi
As the economy improves, many organizations that have delayed hiring will find themselves in a significant catch-up mode. Even as manufacturers look to expand hiring to meet production and growth needs in an improving economy, there will be a lot of competition to recruit and retain young talent.
With plant staffs stretched thin at a time of continuing manufacturing growth, system integrators have come into increasing prominence. Understanding what should you expect from your SI—and what he should expect from you—is critical to ensuring that your project is achieved on time, on budget and up and running on Day 1.
How SAS Institute Drove Digital Transformation Through DevOps - AppSphere16AppDynamics
Learn how to drive a digital transformation by condensing systems to one global SaaS Solution for corporate services, which reduces IT and business support burdens. It also increases integration between SaaS solutions that provide data feeds to each other and helps you proactively identify when jobs are running long.
Hear how to increase the amount of data available for IT analytics, providing a single truth for data.
Key takeaways:
o How to evolve your DevOps culture
o Provide more business analytics and increase value to the company
o Do more with less
For more information, go to: www.appdynamics.com
Lavacon 2014: But will it fit in my bathroom? Creating a single interface for...Mark Peterson
Much presale information was treated as literature rather than content. Customers needed to search on any device for products that had the dimensions and styling they needed to fit their bathroom or kitchen, but many of the critical dimensions were buried and unsearchable. So Kohler Company created an XML database using web-based X-Forms for input, X-Queries for search, XSL for output, and Windchill roles for data access. Now, changes are made only once by the data owner. Content is accessible by user role. People can search for data without opening PDFs, and outputs can be tailored to the user’s task and preference.
Today’s IT organizations are being pressured to do more with less. Manage more applications, data, users, and devices with fewer internal resources. Execute complex IT initiatives on flat, year-over-year budgets. And above all, extract as much value from the IT investments they’ve already made.
It’s this last notion of getting more value that is the focus of our discussion today. Riverbed customers should always expect more value. And we’re committed to ensuring they get it.
Accenture and Worksoft Explain Why Businesses Need a Digital Testing StrategyWorksoft
Originally presented February 11th by Matthias Rasking, Principal Director and Testing Platform Lead at Accenture, and Shoeb Javed, Chief Technology Officer at Worksoft.
Based on research with Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) in Europe
Product Idea Validation - 3 Factors to ConsiderRaahul Raghavan
This presentation will discuss 3 core factors which can add value and make a product validation cycle more effective. Presentation was prepared with a primary intention to touch upon the primary concepts.
Fraction ERP is design for small to medium sized manufacturing companies. Cloud hosted software for make to order or batch manufacturing businesses. Integration with Xero Accounts and Quickbooks Online.
AppSphere 15 - HUT Group Leverages Analytics to Turbocharge Business OutcomesAppDynamics
DevOps teams in E-commerce companies are often asked to provide answers to recurring business questions like:
- Why were sales softer than expected today/last week/last month?
- Who was responsible for softer sales? Technology or pricing?
With 100s of KPIs being collected for many different applications resulting in thousands of graphs, sifting through this data could take days. Sometimes, no answers would be found even after days.
In this talk, we will show how AppDynamics has reduced the mean time to get these answers from days to a few hours.
Management of Scaffolding requests, their approval, production and material inventory effectively and efficiently. System supports the full cycle of scaffolding management and comes with a customized work-flow to validate steps to promote safe working practices.
Scaffolding Management Software controls the sequence of status changes a request is moved through during its lifecycle with its flow-engine. The software provides facility to authorized parties to mention all necessary procedures and authorization are completed before moving to the next stage in the sequence.
One can put forward an easy communication, collaboration and
tracking of complete scaffold life cycle through ASK-EHS Scaffolding Management Software
Das Microsoft Operational Framework (MOF) basiert auf ITIL® und der Team Foundation Server ist das Microsoft Tool für die MOS-Unterstützung.
Referent: Dieter Rüetschi
As the economy improves, many organizations that have delayed hiring will find themselves in a significant catch-up mode. Even as manufacturers look to expand hiring to meet production and growth needs in an improving economy, there will be a lot of competition to recruit and retain young talent.
With plant staffs stretched thin at a time of continuing manufacturing growth, system integrators have come into increasing prominence. Understanding what should you expect from your SI—and what he should expect from you—is critical to ensuring that your project is achieved on time, on budget and up and running on Day 1.
Energy in Factory Automation and the Role of Industrial NetworksPlantEngineering
In today’s world energy cost big dollars for manufactures and the fact is most plants don’t know where there energy is being used. To help with this problem the Industrial Network communities are providing common interfaces to gather and control energy in the industrial space. This presentation will focus on aspects of Energy where it relates to Industrial Automation and some of the challenges we face. We will also cover upcoming initiative for interfacing to the smart grid for demand response request.
Why we keep old systems
People
Political
Technical
Financial
Data issues
The technology adoption life cycle
Legacy systems
Ignorance is bliss
johncachat@hotmail.com
www.peproso.com
When Is Good Good Enough? When Is Excellent Not Enough?Malcolm Out Loud
In pursuit of excellence, we sometimes fall short. Not intentionally mind you, but it happens. Keep in mind that excellence can mean many different things to each of us. Isn't the idea to set the expectation, reach for it and accomplish the goal? Nothing less and nothing more! Which is exactly where the problem lies. Let me explain...
Ryan Ghere Builder as Information EngineerMike Bordenaro
Architect Ryan Ghere made a "Prezi" animated presentation for home builders that I "slowed down" and inserted my text. This is the second upload of only a test . . .
Dow Chemical Achieves Higher Quality with Less Effort Through AutomationWorksoft
Originally presented at the 2015 Worksoft Customer Conference in Dallas, Texas.
Dow Chemical delivers a range manufactured products in chemicals, electronics, water, coating, packaging, agriculture and more. As a complex enterprise with over 6,000 products manufactured in 36 counties in hundreds of locations, Dow relies on a variety of enterprise applications to support their business processes. This presentation will review how Dow’s use of automation with Worksoft Certify® to ensure all business processes work from end-to-end.
Too many people view partnerships as a form of sales. While similar, partnerships are much more involved. Here are a few tips for cultivating strategic partnerships that can generate growth and lead to long term revenue growth.
Surviving the “Big Crunch” with insight-enabled decisions inside the plant gateaccenture
The "Big Bang" period of growth in the chemical industry resulting from the North American shale gas boom will likely be followed by a "Big Crunch." When this happens, chemical companies that embraced new, digital technologies to improve plant operations will have a competitive advantage.
What should you do in the First 90 Days as a Sales Manager or VP? Brett Wallace, VP of Sales for Zoominfo, gives 10 high-impact things to focus on to ramp up quickly. A must read for newly promoted Sales VPs and Managers...or aspiring ones!
Using ai and automation to build resiliency into azure dev opsRob Jahn
Feeling the pressure to keep up with customers and competitive demand in the market? Or the squeeze to deliver more business value at an increasingly fast pace?
While the cloud, containerization, and microservices offer efficiency and scaling, many organizations aren’t quite prepared for that additional complexity of cloud native technologies and demands.
AI, automation and monitoring facilitate the management of complex modern delivery platforms and help build resiliency into your deployment to enable better performance. In the context of software delivery pipelines.
Continuous Performance Testing: The New StandardTechWell
In the past several years the software development lifecycle has changed significantly with high-speed software releases, shared application services, and platform virtualization. The traditional performance assurance approach of pre-release testing does not address these innovations. To maintain confidence in acceptable performance in production, pre-release testing must be augmented with in-production performance monitoring. Obbie Pet describes three types of monitors—performance, resource, and VM platform—and three critical metrics fundamental to isolating performance problems—response time, transaction rate, and error rate. Obbie reviews techniques to acquire and interpret these metrics, and describes how to develop a continuous performance monitoring process. In conjunction with pre-release testing, this monitoring can be woven into a single integrated process, offering a best bet in assuring performance in today’s development world. Take away this integrated process for consideration in your own shop.
The promise of DevOps is that we can push new ideas out to market faster while avoiding delivering serious defects into production. Andreas Grabner explains that testers are no longer measured by the number of defect reports they enter, nor are developers measured by the lines of code they write. As a team, you are measured by how fast you can deploy high quality functionality to the end user. Achieving this goal requires testers to increase their skills. It’s all about finding solutions—not just problems. Testers must transition from reporting “app crashes” to providing details such as “memory leak caused by bad cache implementation.” Instead of reporting “it’s slow,” testers must discover “wrong hibernate configuration causes too much traffic from the database.” Using three real-life examples, Andreas illustrates what it takes for testing teams to become part of the DevOps transformation—bringing more value to the entire organization.
The Top 5 Practices of a Highly Successful ChangeMan ZMF AdministratorSerena Software
ChangeMan ZMF is the most comprehensive and fully integrated solution for software change, configuration, and release management on z/OS. It can scale to manage hundreds of enterprise applications ensuring the right software change gets deployed to the right environment in a secure and reliable way. ChangeMan ZMF's flexibility and rich functionality can be a challenge for the novice ChangeMan Administrator. Join us as Tom Mavor, Sr Serena Consultant and long time ChangeMan ZMF expert, shares the top 5 essential practices for every ChangeMan ZMF administrator.
Aplication of on line data analytics to a continuous process polybetene unitEmerson Exchange
This Emerson Exchange, 2013 presentation summarizes the 2013 field trail results achieved by applying on-line continuous data analytics to Lubrizol’s continuous polybutene process. Continuous data analytics may be used to provide an on-line prediction of quality parameters, and enable on-line detection of fault conditions. Information is provided on improvements made in the model used for quality parameter prediction, and how the field trail platform was integrated into the process unit. Presenters Qiwei Li, production engineer, Efren Hernandez and Robert Wojewodka, Lubrizol Corp., and Terry Blevins, principal technologist at Emerson, won best in conference in the process optimization track for this presentation.
This interactive slideshow demonstrates step by step how we work with clients and how DCT works by providing a detailed case study, in which DCT was used to develop process to remarkably improve enzyme productivity within only 10 experiments.
On-line Process Control Lab Access and Use DeminarJim Cahill
Recorded demo/seminar of Greg McMillan presenting On-line Process Control Lab with Access and Use Instructions on May 27, 2010.
Screencast of presentation available at: http://www.screencast.com/t/Y2Q4NjM0Y
Safeabilty: Analyzing the Relationship between Safety and Reliability PlantEngineering
-What if we treated maintenance and reliability improvement like safety?
-How Would that change our focus? our tactics?
-What techniques could we apply directly from the other areas?
-How are the two the same and how are they different?
Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation InstitutePlantEngineering
Announced earlier this year, the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) is a Chicago-based manufacturing hub that will bring together public, educational and private interests to accelerate innovation and reduce development time and costs. Learn how all manufacturing will benefit from the research and development based at this digital lab.
Expanding your manufacturing facility isn’t usually something that becomes a team project with all of your employees engaged. One Cincinnati manufacturer shows that employee engagement with such a project is like building a new facility: it happens one brick at a time.
State of the Industry Update and How Thriving Companies SucceedPlantEngineering
Karen Kurek, principal at McGladrey, will discuss the firm’s exclusive Manufacturing Monitor Report, discuss the strengthening of the U.S. manufacturing economy, and highlight the trends and challenges for manufacturing in the next two years.
Lean Maintenance is gaining traction as a sound strategy to keep equipment running and productivity humming. The hardest part is getting started. On Thursday, March 20 at 1 p.m. CDT, Plant Engineering will present a Webcast that looks at the steps needed to implement a sound Lean Maintenance strategy on your plant floor and to begin to reap the benefits.
Learning objectives:
-The value of Lean Maintenance as a plant-floor strategy and the history of lean
-The steps and tools needed to get started down the road to Lean
-Getting plant-floor buy-in from line workers
-Incorporating technology into Lean maintenance
The proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is a critical component of any electrical safety program, and yet proper PPE use often is overlooked, diminished, or simply disregarded by electrical workers in manufacturing. Plant Engineering will present a Webcast on December 5th at 1 p.m. CT that will discuss the importance of PPE to mitigate arc flash dangers and other electrical safety issues.
Arc Flash University: Safe Use of Electrical Testing DevicesPlantEngineering
Electrical safety has become a high priority due to the increasing numbers of electrical injuries, deaths and arc flash/arc blast incidents. One of the most common causes of these incidents is the misuse or use of damaged electrical testing devices.
This Arc Flash University Webcast on Thursday, Oct. 24 at 2 p.m. EDT, will explore the types of testing devices available for electrical testing and the proper precautions to assure electrical safety in the workplace.
Topics include:
-Proper meter selection
-Meter inspection
-Hazard assessment
-Personal protective equipment
-Safe testing procedures
-Be Intentional: Why is this the RIGHT message to share RIGHT now?
-Be Generous: What expertise will help AND and build trust?
-Be Ready: How will we get found AND listen?
Industrial Branding: The Lost Art in the Industrial MarketplacePlantEngineering
-The importance of leading with a true brand strategy vs. feature/benefit product strategy
-How brands are either built or destroyed by a companies actions or inaction
-Why people buy brands and understanding how the attachment to a brand works
Integrating the Marketing and Engineering Points of View in Marketing Communi...PlantEngineering
-Eliminating bias and jargon from marketing communications
-Understanding how engineers create and understand communications
-Communicating with the B2B buyer
Immunizing Image Classifiers Against Localized Adversary Attacksgerogepatton
This paper addresses the vulnerability of deep learning models, particularly convolutional neural networks
(CNN)s, to adversarial attacks and presents a proactive training technique designed to counter them. We
introduce a novel volumization algorithm, which transforms 2D images into 3D volumetric representations.
When combined with 3D convolution and deep curriculum learning optimization (CLO), itsignificantly improves
the immunity of models against localized universal attacks by up to 40%. We evaluate our proposed approach
using contemporary CNN architectures and the modified Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR-10
and CIFAR-100) and ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC12) datasets, showcasing
accuracy improvements over previous techniques. The results indicate that the combination of the volumetric
input and curriculum learning holds significant promise for mitigating adversarial attacks without necessitating
adversary training.
Final project report on grocery store management system..pdfKamal Acharya
In today’s fast-changing business environment, it’s extremely important to be able to respond to client needs in the most effective and timely manner. If your customers wish to see your business online and have instant access to your products or services.
Online Grocery Store is an e-commerce website, which retails various grocery products. This project allows viewing various products available enables registered users to purchase desired products instantly using Paytm, UPI payment processor (Instant Pay) and also can place order by using Cash on Delivery (Pay Later) option. This project provides an easy access to Administrators and Managers to view orders placed using Pay Later and Instant Pay options.
In order to develop an e-commerce website, a number of Technologies must be studied and understood. These include multi-tiered architecture, server and client-side scripting techniques, implementation technologies, programming language (such as PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and MySQL relational databases. This is a project with the objective to develop a basic website where a consumer is provided with a shopping cart website and also to know about the technologies used to develop such a website.
This document will discuss each of the underlying technologies to create and implement an e- commerce website.
Student information management system project report ii.pdfKamal Acharya
Our project explains about the student management. This project mainly explains the various actions related to student details. This project shows some ease in adding, editing and deleting the student details. It also provides a less time consuming process for viewing, adding, editing and deleting the marks of the students.
Overview of the fundamental roles in Hydropower generation and the components involved in wider Electrical Engineering.
This paper presents the design and construction of hydroelectric dams from the hydrologist’s survey of the valley before construction, all aspects and involved disciplines, fluid dynamics, structural engineering, generation and mains frequency regulation to the very transmission of power through the network in the United Kingdom.
Author: Robbie Edward Sayers
Collaborators and co editors: Charlie Sims and Connor Healey.
(C) 2024 Robbie E. Sayers
Hybrid optimization of pumped hydro system and solar- Engr. Abdul-Azeez.pdffxintegritypublishin
Advancements in technology unveil a myriad of electrical and electronic breakthroughs geared towards efficiently harnessing limited resources to meet human energy demands. The optimization of hybrid solar PV panels and pumped hydro energy supply systems plays a pivotal role in utilizing natural resources effectively. This initiative not only benefits humanity but also fosters environmental sustainability. The study investigated the design optimization of these hybrid systems, focusing on understanding solar radiation patterns, identifying geographical influences on solar radiation, formulating a mathematical model for system optimization, and determining the optimal configuration of PV panels and pumped hydro storage. Through a comparative analysis approach and eight weeks of data collection, the study addressed key research questions related to solar radiation patterns and optimal system design. The findings highlighted regions with heightened solar radiation levels, showcasing substantial potential for power generation and emphasizing the system's efficiency. Optimizing system design significantly boosted power generation, promoted renewable energy utilization, and enhanced energy storage capacity. The study underscored the benefits of optimizing hybrid solar PV panels and pumped hydro energy supply systems for sustainable energy usage. Optimizing the design of solar PV panels and pumped hydro energy supply systems as examined across diverse climatic conditions in a developing country, not only enhances power generation but also improves the integration of renewable energy sources and boosts energy storage capacities, particularly beneficial for less economically prosperous regions. Additionally, the study provides valuable insights for advancing energy research in economically viable areas. Recommendations included conducting site-specific assessments, utilizing advanced modeling tools, implementing regular maintenance protocols, and enhancing communication among system components.
4. Presenter Info
Matt Puskala
Project Director, Sr. Management
Technical: Factory Automation,
PC, Web, and Database Applications
B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Kettering University (GMI)
Joined DMC in 1999
Student co-op
5. Agenda
1. Modern Connectivity Overview
2. Three Modern Connectivity Stories
a. Automotive Story
b. Candy Story
c. Integrator Story
3. Security – Quick Tips
8. Modern Connectivity: Definition
Any time you are connecting the factory line to other
networks to allow data transfer (input or output).
• Internet
• Intranet/Subnet
9. Modern Connectivity: Definition
Any time you are connecting the factory line to other
networks to allow data transfer (input or output).
Connections To:
• Servers and Databases
• Enterprise Systems (MES, ERP)
• Internet/Remote Access
14. Modern Connectivity – Why?
3: Convenience
Remote Support
Plant floor visibility at your desk
15. Modern Connectivity – Why?
4: Standardize and Control the System Inputs
Recipe Management
RECIPE
Benefits:
• Consistency and Quality
• Reduce Product Change Over Time
17. Modern Connectivity - Goal
Introduce new ideas or new ways of
looking at old ideas to help you get
the most out of Modern Connectivity
with your Industrial Systems.
Factory
System
Internet
Intranet
21. Continuous Improvement - Solving Mysteries
Conveyor ->
Press 1
Station 1:
Stamp
Part
Station 2:
Insert
Sub
Part
Station 5:
Transfer to
Presses
Station 3:
Inspect
Insert
Station 4:
Stamp
Part
Press 2
Press 3
Press 4
Press 5
Example
22. Continuous Improvement - Solving Mysteries
Conveyor ->
Press 1
Station 1:
Stamp
Part
Station 2:
Insert
Sub
Part
Station 5:
Transfer to
Presses
Station 3:
Inspect
Insert
Station 4:
Stamp
Part
Press 2
Press 3
Press 4
Press 5
Mystery: Transfer Faults
Transfer Faults
(dropped parts)
23. Continuous Improvement - Solving Mysteries
Mystery: Transfer Faults (Dropped Parts)
Part A27: Smallest Diameter
SHIFT REPORT
Operator: Part:
Jim A27
Fault: Count:
Transfer Fault 273
E-Stop Fault 2
Low Air Pressure Fault 0
Press Jam Fault 5
24. Continuous Improvement - Solving Mysteries
Mystery: Transfer Faults (Dropped Parts)
Simple Solution: Improve the part transfer!
SHIFT REPORT
Operator: Part:
Jim A27
Fault: Count:
Transfer Fault 3
E-Stop Fault 2
Low Air Pressure Fault 0
Press Jam Fault 5
25. Continuous Improvement - Solving Mysteries
Conveyor ->
Press 1
Station 1:
Stamp
Part
Station 2:
Insert
Sub
Part
Station 5:
Transfer to
Presses
Station 3:
Inspect
Insert
Station 4:
Stamp
Part
Press 2
Press 3
Press 4
Press 5
Mystery: Jammed Station 4
Jammed Stamping
Press
DAILY FAULT COUNTS
Fault: Count:
Transfer Fault 9
Press Jam Fault 132
Low Air Pressure Fault 7
E-Stop Fault 5
26. Continuous Improvement - Solving Mysteries
Conveyor ->
Press 1
Station 1:
Stamp
Part
Station 2:
Insert
Sub
Part
Station 5:
Transfer to
Presses
Station 3:
Inspect
Insert
Station 4:
Stamp
Part
Press 2
Press 3
Press 4
Press 5
Mystery: Jammed Station 4
DAILY FAULT COUNTS
Fault: Count:
Transfer Fault 9
Press Jam Fault 0
Low Air Pressure Fault 7
E-Stop Fault 5
Add better part
queuing.
27. Continuous Improvement - Solving Mysteries
Simple Mysteries:
• Problem -> Cause
• Paper data collection by operators
Complicated Mysteries?
29. Continuous Improvement - Solving Mysteries
Challenging Mystery: Inconsistent Production
Cause?:
• Particular Part
• Particular Fault
• No obvious pattern
30. Continuous Improvement - Solving Mysteries
Challenging Mystery: Inconsistent Production
Real Problem?: Inconsistent Data Tracking
SHIFT REPORT
Operator: Part:
Jim A27
Fault: Count:
Transfer Fault 3
E-Stop Fault 2
Low Air Pressure Fault 0
Press Jam Fault 5
31. Continuous Improvement – Solving Mysteries
Improve Inconsistent Data Collection?
Through Automation!:
• Automated Data Collection
• Automated Reporting
32. Continuous Improvement - Solving Mysteries
Daily Emails of Reports to Engineers and Shift
Supervisors
SHIFT REPORT
Operator: Part:
Jim A27
Fault: Count:
Transfer Fault 3
E-Stop Fault 2
Low Air Pressure Fault 0
Press Jam Fault 5
33. Continuous Improvement - Solving Mysteries
Challenging Mystery: Inconsistent Production
What was the cause?
Unmasking the culprit
34. Continuous Improvement - Solving Mysteries
Conveyor ->
Press 1
Station 1:
Stamp
Part
Station 2:
Insert
Sub
Part
Station 5:
Transfer to
Presses
Station 3:
Inspect
Insert
Station 4:
Stamp
Part
Press 2
Press 3
Press 4
Press 5
Mystery: Inconsistent Production
Part Change Over
Disabling presses.
Reduction in throughput.
39. PLC 1
PLC 2
PLC 3
Reports
Technical Details
Part Number
Fault Number
Operator
Good Part
Rejected Part
Rejection Cause
Tags
System State
Part Created
PLC 1
Running
Faulted
Setup (Change over)
Test Mode
Starved (Up Stream Problem)
Blocked (Down Stream Problem)
41. Technical Details
Report Expert
Built in basic reports.
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Full Power of MS SQL Server
SMT APd Svearnvceerd/Complex Reports
42. Automotive Story Recap!
• Why? - Optimize Production
• How? – FactoryTalk Metrics and
Advanced Customizations
• Automated Emailed Reports
• Visibility!
50. A Better Way!
• Single Website
• Uniform Recipe Management System
• Keep Existing Control Hardware and Software
51. New System Update Recipe?
1. Log In To the Website
2. Select Plant
3. Select Production Line
4. Select Existing Recipe and Edit
OR
Create New Recipe
Technical Details?
52. Technical Details - Overview
Intranet
Website
USA Plant 1
USA Plant 3
India Plant
Custom
Service
60. Technical Details
Interface
PLC Select Recipe:
New System
1
Tags
Recipe Number
Sugar (kg)
Gelatine (kg)
Water (L)
Flavor 1 (kg)
Flavor 2 (kg)
1
Custom
Service
5.3
15.2
3.1
.2
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61. Technical Details
Custom
Service
5.3
15.2
3.1
.2
.3
1
PLC
DNN Tables
Custom Recipe
Tables
OPC Server
USA Plant 1
USA Plant 3
India Plant
62. Technical Details
OPC Server:
• Standard: Support for 100s of
Industrial Platforms
• 1996
• OPC: “OLE for Process Control”
• OPC: “Open Platform for
Communications”
63. Candy Story Recap!
• Why?
• Standardize and Control
the System Inputs
• Convenience
• How? – Cost-Effective Custom System
• Flexible – Feed Multiple Platforms
84. Resources
Recommended Best Practices
“Improving Industrial Control
Systems Cybersecurity with
Defense-in-Depth Strategies”
https://ics-cert.us-cert.
gov/sites/default/files/recom
mended_practices/Defense_in_De
pth_Oct09.pdf
85. Resources
2. List of Vulnerabilities
https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/ics-archive/
86. Recap!
Modern Connectivity and Industrial
Automation:
• Defined
• Why?
• Optimize Production
• Traceability
• Convenience
• Standardize and Control the
System Inputs
Factory
System
Internet
Intranet
Thank you all for coming to the IMTS show and coming to these presentations!
Introduce myself.
I work for a company called DMC.
Industrial Automation and Modern Connectivity
We are an engineering solutions company that focuses on software.
We’ve been around since 1996,
Growing! In addition to Chicago
Boston
Denver
We typically break the work we do into 4 areas.
We work in a lot of different fields, but more than 60%+ of our business is in Factory Automation and Integration.
PLCs, Servos and Motor Control, Robotics.
We also do a lot of custom software development for PCs, for the web, for databases.
Today I’m talking about Modern Connectivity so we really are talking about the intersections of these worlds.
Kettering University – formerly General Motors Institute.
It’s a Co-op school!
So I joined DMC as a Senior in College, basically as a co-op or an intern.
I’m part of our Senior Management
Overview – frame the discussion
Stories – what they did, and why.
TECHNICAL DETAILS!
Security – hot issue!
Before we get started, we need to define what we are talking about.
Look at traditional factory line:
Interface connected to the PLC which controls the entire system.
And that’s it.
Island – not connected to anything else.
What are we connecting to?
Why add modern connectivity to our factory system?
We want to make sure it makes sense. Nothing is free and there are always costs.
Reason 1!
Optimize your production
If I tweak the temperature or tweak the recipe, what happens?
Traceability – knowing where your product came from.
“I hope to introduce some new ideas or some new ways of looking at old ideas to help you get the most out of Modern Connectivity.”
A good friend of mine works for the automotive industry. He’s an engineer at a supplier.
Every Monday morning he has a continuous improvement meeting. He’s responsible for his set of machines that produce automotive parts and making sure they are running at optimal performance.
Every Monday morning he has a continuous improvement meeting. He’s responsible for his set of machines that produce automotive parts and making sure they are running at optimal performance.
For some quick examples.
This is a machine where parts travel along a conveyor,
Some stamping and inspections are done.
Now the press station over here takes a lot longer (bottleneck) so there are more of them.
The transfer station puts each part into one of the available presses.
A lot of transfer faults at the press.
They noticed that every time they ran part A27
they had a high number of transfer faults.
This part had the smallest diameter.
They redesigned the end effector of the part transfer station to better handle these smaller parts.
A large number of faults at station 4.
Caused by 2 parts getting stacked on top of each other.
Watched the system, noticed that station 3 was running fast and allowing 2
Fixed the problem by adding better part queuing.
Okay – so those were easy mysteries.
On this machine their Production was all over the place.
On this machine their Production was all over the place from day to day.
Nothing correlated.
No obvious pattern.
The real problem is they didn’t trust their data. It was recorded by hand by operators via paper.
Consistency
Quality
Every day the engineers and shift supervisors get emails of machine performance broken down by dozens of different factors:
Production Data By machine, by Part
Fault Data
Downtime Data
So after sifting through all the data, what was the cause of the issue?
When an operator switches from producing one part to another, the equipment needs to be adjusted as well.
Tracks along the conveyor adjusted for the diameter.
The Presses need to be adjusted for the new part.
Getting to each press is difficult – there is limited space for the operator and adjusting each one is a tight fit.
The operator was disabling certain presses rather than go through the effort of setting them up for the next part during change over.
The presses are the bottleneck so this caused a large drop in productivity.
Consistent Automated Data Collection and Reporting
Correlating was straightforward
This was a good investment.
Better armed for future mysteries.
Allen Bradley PLCs
Rockwell Automation Solution: FactoryTalk Metrics!
Automated data collection and reporting.
Base functionality can be easy to set up (preconfigured options, tools, wizards).
Customizable – Fully utilize it!
Broad overview – pulling data from multiple PLCs using FactoryTalk Transaction Manager
Storing data in a database
Viewing the data through reports
PLC 1:
Tags or Variables that tell the current state of the machine.
Basic Tags
Create a tag that keeps track of anything that might be relevant.
Closer look at the Windows Server and FactoryTalk Metrics
Getting data from the system!
Report Expert – you can browse to it. These are the simple preconfigured reports I mentioned before.
But for this system, they wanted detailed analysis of the data.
SQL Server Reporting Services.
SQL Queries.
Email configuration is simple.
Optimize – not just to fix this problem but to give them the data they need for future continuous improvement
Visibility – getting the information to the key people.
When it comes to candy, you can get a lot of variety by just slight tweaks to the ingredients. For example, for chewable candy, you add sugar, water, and gum or gelatin. If you vary the amount of moisture or gelatin you can get anything from a soft chewy gummy bear to a jujube – it’s almost more of a hard candy that you suck on.
The other component is the coloring and the flavoring.
As a result, you can create a wide variety of products and flavors from a single system by varying the recipe.
The candy industry isn’t immune to the pressures of globalization and competition. They have to always be innovating, coming up with new flavors, new ideas, new recipes.
The global engineering group for one of our clients was responsible for implementing a new recipe all around the world, a soda flavoring cross over.
These plants are all over the world, they were all built in different eras, using different PLC hardware.
So for each location around the world they had to either fly out a team or find some local integrators.
There has got to be a better way.
Windows Server
Intranet Website: Login to Update or Change a Recipe
Database: Where the Recipe Data is Stored
Custom Service (Application): Updates the recipe variables on the PLCs
Technical Details of the website
There are a lot of other Content Management Systems out there – Joomla!, Drupal to name a few.
We at DMC are Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, we love Microsoft’s tools – DNN is built on Microsoft’s stack so it makes sense.
Out of the box!
Third Party Examples:
Database editing tool.
Graphing/Charting Tool.
Reporting tool.
I can get a DNN installation up and running in 1 – 2 hours.
Base functionality of DNN on both the ASP.NET and SQL Server side.
We built an top of that using ASP.NET and SQL Server for the recipe management system.
Next let’s look at how the active recipe gets updated on a PLC.
Well first let’s look at how the system used to work before the upgrade.
There is a PLC with all these Tags or registers that tell the system how to make that recipe.
The operator selects the recipe from the interface and all of these variables get updated.
Now on the new system…
The active recipe is still selected from the interface.
The Custom Service running on the server reads the active recipe and then updates all the tags with the appropriate values for that recipe.
We wrote the Custom Service to pull in recipe data from the database.
But how do we communicate to all of these different PLC platforms?
We write to the PLCs using an OPC Server.
OPC Foundation
Why?
How? Built from Off-the-shelf and scratch components.
CMS and OPC servers and the custom software that links them all together.
They didn’t have to revamp their control systems.
As integrators at DMC we have to travel a lot. My coworker Jimmy had a rough first year.
Over his first year, he was in the office for a total of 43 days.
Jimmy was finishing up a long trip, onsite commissioning for a new line at a chemical plant.
It felt like he was so close to being done.
Jimmy was testing the I/O and of course everything was wrong.
He commanded Pump 1 to go Forward and Pump 5 went in reverse.
He commanded Valve 3 to close and Valve 6 opened.
It was a complex system with hundreds of I/O points. Typically you would look to activate each I/O bit one at a time and see what happens.
But of course the control panel is a hundred feet away from these pumps.
Typical 1 person at the controls, another at the system, signaling back and forth.
With a lot of the system left to test, what he thought would be days was looking like it would be weeks.
Jimmy gets a simple but powerful idea. He employs a connectivity idea that we use in the office all the time, that’s been used in IT for years.
Bring the controls right next to the pumps.
How do you do this?
Your interface is running on Windows, in this case iconics.
Use Remote Desktop Protocol to bring your interface onto your Windows, Android, or iOS device.
Using this tool Jimmy shaved a lot of time off and got to go home.
The client uses a tablet now as a remote interface to control the pumps when they have to go outside to connect the tankers.
This can be done on any interface software that runs on Windows.
No “One Size Fits All” Plan
A lot of variation in cost and complexity depending on what you are protecting and what you are protecting against.
Security is Challenging.
If you do nothing else for security, do this.
Production down time is typically the biggest concern.
In my experience, this is not done very often.
Stuxnet,
Target Breach (Credit Cards),
J.P. Morgan and some other banks breach from Russia? ->
in all of those cases damage could have been prevented or mitigated if these practices had been in place.
Known vulnerabilities
Automotive Story about Automating Data Collection and Reporting
Purpose: Optimize Production
Candy Story about a Global Recipe Management System that Communicates with Different Platforms
Purpose: Standardizing the System Inputs
Integrator Story about a simple trick to create a mobile interface for your system
Purpose: Convenience
Security Tips and Tricks and some great resources that the Dept of Homeland Security has to offer.
I hope today you leave with some new ideas or new ways of looking at old ideas.