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	Customer Success Story: Dalmacijacement d.d. ICONICS

Customer Success Story: Dalmacijacement d.d.

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries	Cement
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems Process Control & Optimization
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	The Republic of Croatia, in cooperation with The European Union, introduced legislation for environmental protection through continuous emissions monitoring. Dalmacijacement d.d. set out, with assistance from ECCOS inženjering, to bring all of its factories under compliance, with the goal of creating a continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS). Manufacturing facilities are often assumed to be sources of pollution, so a system was required that could continuously monitor emissions, graphically depict these emissions, normalize the measurements, archive measured and calculated (i.e. normalized) values, inform the public through corporate Web pages and, most importantly, create daily, monthly and yearly reports in Microsoft Excel and XML-formats that adhere to the legislative requirements. Read More
About Customer	Dalmacijacement d.d., of Kaštel Sućurac, Croatia is part of the CEMEX consortium, one of the top building materials companies in the world. The company is the Croatian market leader in cement production, with three factories (plants): Sveti Juraj (Saint Juraj), Sveti Kajo (Saint Kajo) and 10. Kolovoz. Dalmacijacement d.d. selected ICONICS for its emissions monitoring system upon ECCOS inženjering’s recommendation. The ICONICS solution helped meet the building materials company’s requirements for cost-effective data visualization, control, alarming, trending and reporting. Read More
Solution	The newly created system collects raw (i.e. measured) values and recalculates them to create normalized data based on the normalization factors. Both raw and normalized values are presented to the operator through ICONICS GraphWorX in real time. If any of the measured values exceed the defined upper limits, an alarm is triggered via AlarmWorX, informing the operator to change the process in question. Any other malfunctions or errors in the equipment also trigger alarms, which are depicted in GraphWorX and stored to a database via AlarmWorX logger. Data is stored to a SQL database through ICONICS’ TrendWorX. Since the project has to satisfy people in different positions with different interests, data is stored in three logging groups; 1 minute; 10 minute; and 30 minute average values. The first two groups are important to the operators at the factory (real time) and to the public through corporate Web pages (slight delay). The third group (30 minute average values) is needed to create reports for the Croatian environmental agency. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Applicable Industries

Cement

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems

Process Control & Optimization

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

The Republic of Croatia, in cooperation with The European Union, introduced legislation for environmental protection through continuous emissions monitoring. Dalmacijacement d.d. set out, with assistance from ECCOS inženjering, to bring all of its factories under compliance, with the goal of creating a continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS). Manufacturing facilities are often assumed to be sources of pollution, so a system was required that could continuously monitor emissions, graphically depict these emissions, normalize the measurements, archive measured and calculated (i.e. normalized) values, inform the public through corporate Web pages and, most importantly, create daily, monthly and yearly reports in Microsoft Excel and XML-formats that adhere to the legislative requirements.

About Customer

Dalmacijacement d.d., of Kaštel Sućurac, Croatia is part of the CEMEX consortium, one of the top building materials companies in the world. The company is the Croatian market leader in cement production, with three factories (plants): Sveti Juraj (Saint Juraj), Sveti Kajo (Saint Kajo) and 10. Kolovoz. Dalmacijacement d.d. selected ICONICS for its emissions monitoring system upon ECCOS inženjering’s recommendation. The ICONICS solution helped meet the building materials company’s requirements for cost-effective data visualization, control, alarming, trending and reporting.

Solution

The newly created system collects raw (i.e. measured) values and recalculates them to create normalized data based on the normalization factors. Both raw and normalized values are presented to the operator through ICONICS GraphWorX in real time. If any of the measured values exceed the defined upper limits, an alarm is triggered via AlarmWorX, informing the operator to change the process in question. Any other malfunctions or errors in the equipment also trigger alarms, which are depicted in GraphWorX and stored to a database via AlarmWorX logger. Data is stored to a SQL database through ICONICS’ TrendWorX. Since the project has to satisfy people in different positions with different interests, data is stored in three logging groups; 1 minute; 10 minute; and 30 minute average values. The first two groups are important to the operators at the factory (real time) and to the public through corporate Web pages (slight delay). The third group (30 minute average values) is needed to create reports for the Croatian environmental agency.

Impact #1	The system integrates with the company’s Siemens S7/300 modular controllers, SIMATIC ET200 I/O systems, Profibus communications and a number of specialized sensors including AirLoq gas analyzers, Flowsic 102 flow monitors, RM210/FW101 dust monitors and Itabar particle analyzers.
Impact #2	ICONICS solutions also integrate with Dalmacijacement d.d.’s Microsoft software, including Windows Server 2003 R2, Office 2007 (especially Excel) and SQL 2005 Express Edition SP2.

Impact #1

The system integrates with the company’s Siemens S7/300 modular controllers, SIMATIC ET200 I/O systems, Profibus communications and a number of specialized sensors including AirLoq gas analyzers, Flowsic 102 flow monitors, RM210/FW101 dust monitors and Itabar particle analyzers.

Impact #2

ICONICS solutions also integrate with Dalmacijacement d.d.’s Microsoft software, including Windows Server 2003 R2, Office 2007 (especially Excel) and SQL 2005 Express Edition SP2.

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Customer Success Story: Dalmacijacement d.d.

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