Company
Profile
Abbott
Laboratories is a diversified health care company that discovers,
develops, manufactures and markets innovative products and services –
from prevention and diagnosis to treatment and cure. Abbott
Ireland based in
Cootehill
Town, manufactures
a range of nutritional infant formulae on a 5,300 square Metre facility
and employs over 150 people. The plant is totally dedicated to providing
products of the highest quality standard to its
customers.
The
Cootehill plant produces a range of infant formulae in all pack sizes
under the brand name "Similac". The range of infant formulae includes
"Similac", "Similac with Iron" and "Similac PM 60/40" To complement the
range of "Similac" infant formulae Cootehill manufactures a range of
follow on formulae under the brand name of "Gain". The range includes
"Gain" and "Gain Plus".
Situation
In
a drive to consolidate plant data with enterprise reporting systems,
Abbott Laboratories had a requirement to consolidate data from a water
treatment plant SCADA system (Wonderware InTouch / Siemens PLCs) and a
plant facility monitoring SCADA system (Schneider SMS 1500). This would
provide an overall view of the amount of oil, steam, electricity and
water used for a production period with a data historian used to capture
the data for historical analysis.
Solution
Measuresoft,
a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with expertise in this kind of system
integration project, proposed and installed a solution based on our
ScadaPro product running on a Microsoft Windows 2000 PC.
The
ScadaPro
system
was configured to acquire data from a network of Siemens PLCs on a
Profibus DP network. Communication between the
ScadaPro
system and the PLCs was
established using OPC over a LAN.
The
ScadaPro
system
was also configured to acquire data from a network of Schneider data
acquisition devices on a fiber-optic network. Communication between
ScadaPro
system and the
Schneider
system was also established using
OPC over a LAN.
Datascan Solo output
modules were used to drive a claxon alarm from both
systems.
The ScadaPro system
provides users with real-time mimic displays of
oil,
steam, electricity and water usage. An overview display
provides that ability to drill down into any area of the plant utilities
and water treatment area for more detailed information.
Abbott
Ireland now has a
consolidated system that:
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Provides
real-time data from two separate. systems – bridging two ‘islands of automation’.
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Produces
meaningful trend information and reports.
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Generates
reports automatically at end of a shift.
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Provides
an archive of data results for traceability
purposes.
Comprehensive data
historian features provide data on a daily, weekly and monthly basis for
reporting. The
ScadaPro
Trends package allows for
detailed analysis of real-time and historical data. Ad-hoc Trends can be
created in a matter of minutes.
Benefits
The
system provides Abbott
Ireland with very important
production, and utility information. The data produced assists Abbott
Ireland in its reporting and
traceability requirements.
About
OPC
OPC (originally OLE for
Process Control) is an industry standard created with the collaboration of a
number a leading worldwide automation
and hardware software suppliers working in
cooperation with Microsoft. The standard defines method for exchanging
real-time automation data among PC-based clients using Microsoft
operating systems.
OPC consists of a
standard set of interfaces,
properties,
and methods for
use in process-control
and
manufacturing-automation applications to enable communication among
diverse process control devices, regardless of the controlling software.
The OPC standard was developed
and is being maintained by the OPC
Foundation, an independent, non-profit consortium of more than 200
companies. The OPC Foundation charter is to leverage Microsoft
technologies to develop industry-standard specifications for multi-vendor
hardware/software interoperability between automation/control
applications, field systems/devices,
and business/office applications in the
manufacturing industries. The OPC Foundation website can be found at
http://www.opcfoundation.org
