Solar Panel Factory SCADA
Project Details
- Southern United States
- Solar Energy
- 2011
Integrating over 100 PLCs, of various manufacturers, this SCADA provides factory-wide control at a single location.
Project Overview
Innovative iCAD engineering produced this SCADA to coordinate 100 varied PLCs -- each controlling a separate machine that performs a specific task -- to facilitate automatic start/stop of each tool, remote announcement of alarms, and historization of individual operating parameters and alarms -- all from a single location!
Benefits
Providing a top-level supervisory view of the entire plant, this system will maximize productivity via access to operating parameters of all machines simultaneously, and will minimize response time to prevent or correct a machine malfunction -- without an operator being in the vicinity of the tool.
Reliability and documentation is of the highest priority of iCAD engineering!
Increased efficiency increases profits!
Technologies Used
- ControlLogix Platform: 5000 and CompactLogix (Allen-Bradley)
- Modbus RTU and TCP/IP (Networks)
- EtherNet/IP (Networks)
- Systems Platform (Wonderware)