Digital Transformation Platform Reporting Systems

What is the best reporting system for my process historian or my SCADA system How important is “dimensioning” data? How expensive are Business Reports?

• What is the best reporting system for my process historian or my SCADA system
• How important is “dimensioning” data?
• How expensive are Business Reports?
• How important is Trusted Data?
• How do we ensure process data is correct? Does it really matter?
• Do I need new technology for Digital Transformation?

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Process Historians – Do they have a limited shelf life?

How will we survive without Industrial Automation Process Historians?

• How long have we had Big Data Solutions?
• What are the core concepts when selecting a Process Historian?
• What is the life cycle of a Process Historian?
• Can Relational Databases be used as a process historian?
• What are the important factors when implementing a process historian?
• Can I used cloud based technology for process control applications?

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The Top 5 problems with SCADA Systems

• Alarm Bells
• • 1. Incorrect selection and application of SCADA network protocol stack
  • 2. SCADA Application Redundancy
  • 3. Direct connection to SCADA from external enterprise systems
  • 4. Poor engineering Practice
  • 5. Tech Bias
• Ok, I admit I have a problem. Is there any hope?

SCADA Systems are perfect…  right?

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Redundancy – Ask the Right Questions

• What are the two primary concepts of system redundancy?
• When is a RAM STUDY (Reliability, Availability and Maintainability) required?
• Even the Basics of Redundancy can become complex very easily
• What are some common traps when implementing redundant systems?
• What is SIL Rating?
• Why is SIL Rating important to Industrial Automation and Redundancy?
• Complexity peaks at failure point
• How important is system design when a product is redundant?

  

There are two primary concepts of redundancy when considering process and automation systems.

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Data Management for good SCADA Design

• Issues with unreliable SCADA Data?
• How can you have reliable SCADA data without throwing everything away?
• Are Time Series Protocols for SCADA Systems essential?
• So why aren’t some SCADA systems event logged?
• How can I improve the Operator SCADA Experience?
• Big issues for SCADA Systems that should be avoided
• SCADA Data Management Strategies by Design
• What should a data management plan for SCADA include?
• Do the devices to be monitored can influence SCADA Network Design and the architecture?
• Why do some SCADA Systems fail to operate?

 

There’s an old saying about data… “put rubbish in, get rubbish out”

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Remote Plant – how to manage?

Why are unmanned process plants often un-monitored?

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Designing your HMI with I.S. in Mind

Is a single source of truth possible for an enterprise information management system?

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Preparing for the Systems Integration Experience

A systems integrator is a unique animal that finds pleasure in connecting unlike systems to produce a system or solution of superior functionality.

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Aussie Infrastructure needs to be more Cyber Secure

If the lights go out, or the water is contaminated, who do we blame? Can we blame…

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The Network Boundary has changed

Ten years ago, “Operational Technology” (OT) vendors had only just really started to embrace Ethernet and TCP/IP as enterprise wide and global networking technology. The devices were generally designed “assuming” they would be on isolated “Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition” (SCADA) network segments and “something else” was going to take care of any security issues. In some cases, there was no security at all. If you had the right configuration software, then you could configure the OT device to do as you pleased.  This was accepted as “sort of” okay while these devices were connected to isolated networks.  The network boundary was probably a single secured building, possibly located on a secured property. Physical and network isolation did a “good enough” job of protecting the asset from malicious interference.

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Production Performance – Implementing OEE

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a standard method for measuring the improvement opportunity of a production process. It provides a single number that benchmarks a work cell’s performance. A work cell could be a single machine, a group of machines, a line or an entire production facility.

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Process Historians – It’s just infrastructure?

Since the year 2000 we have been implementing Enterprise Data Historian to Australian Industry (primarily Infrastructure/Utilities) for the past 16 years and we noticed a few things about most organisations; They do not trust their data or use it effectively Managing data accurately and the impact of data on the organisation is not part of…

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Getting SCADA data into your Asset Management System

Organising data for Asset Managment The “Internet of Things” or “Internet of Everything” is grabbing the attention of many. Asset managers want a more cost effective way of managing their “things”, unfortunately acquiring the information from existing internet devices can be challenging and overwhelming. Yes, the data may be there and available using a legacy…

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