Control System Upgrade

integratedSCADA have successfully partnered with GVH engineering to upgrade a large scale PLC platform at a major brown-field industrial facility on the North West Coast of Tasmania.

Previously the plant control system consisted of a number of legacy Siemens S5 PLCs, installed in approximately 1994 when the site was originally commissioned. Due to the age of the processors, IO modules and bus communication equipment, it was determined that a full-control system upgrade was required to bring the plant back into production.

Industrial Facility Conveyer

Industrial Facility Conveyer

The Rockwell CompactLogix PLC platform was chosen as the best and most economical ‘fit-for-purpose’ solution, with existing digital and analog IO marshalled into Rockwell Flex distributed IO, communicating to the main PLC processor using the EtherNet IP protocol. Operator control and interaction is via a Rockwell PanelView Plus touch-screen HMI.

The entire plant control logic and equipment group sequence handling was then re-written to conform with the new PLC platform, following development and review of a comprehensive Functional Specification in consultation with the Client.

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