“Proof of the pudding” in action at SA’s newest iron ore mine
paid off. “All that was required was to create
is about 50% of the original project, but the
new instances of the existing templates
SCADA development took less than 10%
could be redeployed with confidence
(motors, valves, conveyors, crushers, screens,
of the original development thanks to the
etc.) for each piece of equipment that had
standards enforcement of the underlying
necessary scalability, flexibility and ease of
to be added,” says Pienaar. “No testing and
ArchestrA technology. The savings in time
expansion the project required
integration was required, seeing as these
will be even more pronounced during
templates had already been thoroughly
commissioning.
Conclusion
“We are thankful for Wonderware’s
Proof positive that the bottom line is
ArchestrA technology because its
impacted positively when industrial
Once the object instances had been created
developers obviously understood our very
production solutions “understand” the
(exports from the FDES instrumentation
real needs and built an environment that
long-term view rather than cater for the
design software and CSV imports were
allows us to grow painlessly, quickly and
immediate fix. Based on soaring world
used to automate this process in both
to the benefit of our clients,” concludes
demand, it’s predictable that Khumani will
System Platform and in RSLogix5000), the
Pienaar.
continue to expand and continue to hone its
• The System Platform provided all the
tested. The same applied to the PLC programmes.”
new mimics were created by dragging and dropping the associated object graphics on
production processes to maximise profits.
Benefits
detail. The graphics and animation form part
Through design, the solutions now in place “understand” that this is the norm of today’s
to the mimic pages and adding the static • Using standards developed during the
industrial marketplace and will continue
of the object templates, so no additional
initial phase of the project greatly reduced
to deliver results that keep pace with the
configuration or testing was required.
engineering time
inventiveness and ingenuity of their owners. After all is said and done, it’s results that
The sise of the Khumani Expansion Project
• Thoroughly tested existing templates
count – not promises.
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