The SCADA upgrade was started with the Water Treatment Plant Upgrade in 2014 where AFI was selected as the vendor for the plant control systems. Part of this project was to develop an entirely new SCADA platform, with dual historians and new visualisation standards which were later rolled out across all other SCADAs managed by the council.
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Services provided
- Collaboration with council operations and engineering staff to create standard SCADA symbols and templates to be utilised throughout the entire SCADA network. These standard symbols have corresponding datatypes and function-blocks in the PLCs.
- Co-ordinate and work with the clients IT department as the control systems and IT systems share many resources, such as virtualised servers and fail-over communication networks.
- Data collation and reporting for NZDWS compliance (ongoing) for all water treatment plants.
- Historian integration with wider council groups to comply with resource consents.
- The system now consists of one ‘View Application’ which gives authorised users the ability to access all sites.
Product description
- Schneider Quantum PLC – including remote I/O on Ethernet and Modbus+ with 1600 I/O points.
- Allen Bradley ControlLogix PLC.
- Auxiliary Schneider M340 PLCs.
- ArchestrA / System Platform SCADA.
- Datran / QTech RTUs.
- Schneider drives and soft-starters.