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	Customer Success Story: Racine Water & Wastewater Utility ICONICS

Customer Success Story: Racine Water & Wastewater Utility

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries
Applicable Industries	Utilities
Applicable Functions	Facility Management Maintenance
Use Cases	Process Control & Optimization Remote Asset Management Water Utility Management
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Racine Water & Wastewater Utilities had been using the GENESIS for DOS as the HMI operator interface software for their plant wide SCADA system at their water utility since 1991. This system controlled the entire water plant and distribution system operation of 3 remote tanks and 1 remote pumping station, from a central control room. However, with the advancement of technology and the need for more efficient and reliable systems, the utility needed to upgrade their system. In 1996, the system was upgraded to GENESIS for Windows and in 2001 the wastewater plant was modernized using GENESIS32™ to increase capacity and to automate and centralize the control to one room. An extensive evaluation was made of leading SCADA vendors. GENESIS32™ was selected because of the speed and redundancy of data collection systems, as well as due to the superior OPC-based data engine allowing live changes to the system without the need to restart. Read More
About Customer	Racine Water & Wastewater Utilities serves 100,000 customers in the communities around Racine, Wisconsin. They have two facilities located on the shores of Lake Michigan in Southeastern Wisconsin. Their water utility processes on average of 35 million gallons of potable water per day for their residential, commercial and industrial customers. Their wastewater utility treats approximately 35 million gallons of wastewater per day before returning it to Lake Michigan. Read More
Solution	ICONICS’ GENESIS32™ HMI/SCADA software suite (GraphWorX™32, TrendWorX™32, AlarmWorX™32 and ScriptWorX™32) is being utilized for the main visualization, data storage and alarming functions. DataWorX™32 is also being used for system-wide redundancy. Another option being deployed is advanced data-logging to Microsoft MSDE database through the ICONICS MSDE data-logging option. At the water filtration plant, five workstations are used for process visualization, control, alarming and historical trending. Three operator workstations at other remote locations in the plant provide remote viewing, control and alarm acknowledgement. Two data servers are also being used for data collection and historical data logging. At the wastewater plant a central control room is utilized with five workstations as well as another ten operator workstations located around the facility. At the largest lift station a single system is installed to monitor and control 15 pumps, as well as the logging of process and alarm data. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries

Applicable Industries

Utilities

Applicable Functions

Facility Management

Maintenance

Use Cases

Process Control & Optimization

Remote Asset Management

Water Utility Management

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Racine Water & Wastewater Utilities had been using the GENESIS for DOS as the HMI operator interface software for their plant wide SCADA system at their water utility since 1991. This system controlled the entire water plant and distribution system operation of 3 remote tanks and 1 remote pumping station, from a central control room. However, with the advancement of technology and the need for more efficient and reliable systems, the utility needed to upgrade their system. In 1996, the system was upgraded to GENESIS for Windows and in 2001 the wastewater plant was modernized using GENESIS32™ to increase capacity and to automate and centralize the control to one room. An extensive evaluation was made of leading SCADA vendors. GENESIS32™ was selected because of the speed and redundancy of data collection systems, as well as due to the superior OPC-based data engine allowing live changes to the system without the need to restart.

About Customer

Racine Water & Wastewater Utilities serves 100,000 customers in the communities around Racine, Wisconsin. They have two facilities located on the shores of Lake Michigan in Southeastern Wisconsin. Their water utility processes on average of 35 million gallons of potable water per day for their residential, commercial and industrial customers. Their wastewater utility treats approximately 35 million gallons of wastewater per day before returning it to Lake Michigan.

Solution

ICONICS’ GENESIS32™ HMI/SCADA software suite (GraphWorX™32, TrendWorX™32, AlarmWorX™32 and ScriptWorX™32) is being utilized for the main visualization, data storage and alarming functions. DataWorX™32 is also being used for system-wide redundancy. Another option being deployed is advanced data-logging to Microsoft MSDE database through the ICONICS MSDE data-logging option. At the water filtration plant, five workstations are used for process visualization, control, alarming and historical trending. Three operator workstations at other remote locations in the plant provide remote viewing, control and alarm acknowledgement. Two data servers are also being used for data collection and historical data logging. At the wastewater plant a central control room is utilized with five workstations as well as another ten operator workstations located around the facility. At the largest lift station a single system is installed to monitor and control 15 pumps, as well as the logging of process and alarm data.

Impact #1	System stability, reliability, redundancy and the ability to update the data engine live are critical to the proper operations at each location.
Impact #2	The SCADA system was installed by in-house personnel and managed by Bob Gilbreath.
Impact #3	The GENESIS32™ system provides for the monitoring and control of all aspects of the water filtration and citywide distribution processes of the water utility.

Impact #1

System stability, reliability, redundancy and the ability to update the data engine live are critical to the proper operations at each location.

Impact #2

The SCADA system was installed by in-house personnel and managed by Bob Gilbreath.

Impact #3

The GENESIS32™ system provides for the monitoring and control of all aspects of the water filtration and citywide distribution processes of the water utility.

Benefit #1	There are over 1500 total data tags at the water filtration plant and 1300 tags at the wastewater plant which will be expanded to over 2000 tags after final improvements are completed.

Benefit #1

There are over 1500 total data tags at the water filtration plant and 1300 tags at the wastewater plant which will be expanded to over 2000 tags after final improvements are completed.

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Customer Success Story: Racine Water & Wastewater Utility

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