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1. Solutions process control engineering for Overview and Outlook Frenk Mulder Senior ConsultantETM Benelux

2. 1. 2. 3. Agenda “Whats the future..........” • An introduction to upcoming features in PVSS II “Where’s the future” • An example of what can be achieved today ! “The future is now !”

3. Real thin client All operating systems supported Remote maintenance from every client (only Java Runtime is needed on the client) Processing of events and reaction takes place on server Client only for visualization Same “look” of panels on the remote client like in the control room In combination with remote alerting shortest reaction times Java-UI ‘Disadvantages’ • No support for ActiveX • Performance less than native UI • Design constraints ( font, ActiveX, PVSS widgets like trend, table ) • Code executed on server

4. Native S7 Driver • Native driver for Siemens S7 PLC • Support for both Windows AND Linux • No additional HW needed • Full support of S7 Messaging protocolDifferent address ranges can be handled in one request, thereby guaranteeing utmost performance. • Support of CERN TSPP ( spontaneous data from driver ) • Support for redundant PLC and redundant connection to a PLCFuture plans: • Support of S7 MPI • Support for Siemens S5 TCP/IP Windows ‚Beta‘ available, Linux -> Q2/2005

5. QT User Interface The graphics of PVSS-II will be enhanced using the “QT-Lib” libraries. An early stage has already been reached. Actual implementation will depend on willingness of customers to participate in this development. • State-of-the-art graphics • “Same” graphics for Windows and Linux( All PVSS ‘widgets’ now available on Linux as well ) • New dp-Selector window • New color-Selector window • New Trend display • New script editor • Embeddable widgets ( ‘ActiveX’ for Linux ) • Panel-in-panel on all platforms • And much-much more......... ............

6. A first look Trend widget: • unlimited zoom, pan of all or individual curves via the mouse • intelligent zoom function in either x/y/time direction via mouse • time based display including time-move also in x/y trend • no longer needs running/stopped mode • tooltips in all trendparts • ruler tooltip also without legend • display of invalid values by using markers and much more !

7. SAP .NET Connector ETM Hannover realised an interface between a PVSS-II ( supervisory ) and SAP system. • Interface built using SAP’s “NetWeaver” • Support for simple data types, complex structures and tables • Is a COM object to PVSS • Can be used easily from any PVSS Script • SAP has become more open through NetWeaver • Connect PVSS to SAP without significant coding effort idispatch sapClient = CreateComObject( “PvssSapClient.PvssSapClient” );.. idispatch mySAPTable = createComObject( “PvssSapClient.MySAPTable” ); sapClient.GetMySAPTable( mySAPTable );

8. Communication Center • Bi-directional communication • Alerting independent of location • Fast information on system faults around the clock • Shift-plans and rosters, including outfall or change of staff • Speech synthesizer • Simple configuration and handling • Low costs for end devices (mobile phone, …) PVSS II 3.0 or higher

9. RDB Archiving RDB Archiving allows storage of historical values and alarms in a relational database • Currently Oracle (extension to others possible) • Archiving of values AND alerts in one DB • Use standard PVSS tools to query data (trend, event panel, script) or 3rd party tools • Benefit from Oracle features like ‘Data guard’ or ‘Real application cluster’ • Direct reading functions (without detourvia Event  Data  RDB Manager) • Windows, Linux and Solaris • Oracle 9i or 10g • PVSS II 3.0.1 or higher DB Database manager EV Event manager RDB Archive manager Oracle DB

10. Helpdesk & Trouble Ticketing Example of integration in S16 project

11. Helpdesk & Trouble Ticketing Functions • Completely integrated in PVSS II (functions & UI) • Parameterization of basic data for Helpdesk module: • User, statuses, location, categories, … • Datapoints for automatic ticket creation (defined alert classes) • Classification of new trouble tickets • Definition of checklists for problem solution • Configuration of user rights for editing tickets • Templates for more frequent ocurring problems • Cyclic check of trouble ticket statuses • Escalation levels for non-edited tickets • Filtering of archived data (trouble tickets)

12. BLE HMI – Control platform for Gotthard tunnel route • 26 Tunnels • 2 languages • 4 Control centers • Oracle RDB Manager • Crystal Reports • Remedy • HP Openview ( network mgt. )

13. Solution for Building Automation PVSS will ‘adopt’ the Building Automation package realised by Viscom Engineering AG. • Used in 16 projects. From 1000 I/O up to >20.000 • HVAC, Security, Fire, Energy • Off-the-shelf symbol, datapoints • Engineering tools • and much more.... Presentation later on by Herr von Ah, Viscom Engineering AG

14. The future is here..... ETM Benelux / ETM Austria are ‘teaming’ to build a new scada platform for N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie. Some figures: In 2003 Gasunie traded 77 billion m3 of gas. • 41 billion m3from smaller dutch fields • 27 billion m3 from NAM Groningen • 9 billion m3from importExport • 44 billion m3 ( 20 billion go to Germany ) Gasunie is an expert in scada and an excellent environment for new scada ideas.........

15. Object-oriented ... `All the way‘ ABB AC800 Object oriented controller PVSS datapoints Object oriented data-model PVSS symbols 1 to N relation • ‘Automatic’ detection • ‘Automatic’ engineering • Cross-reference Standard from I/O up to symbol 1 structure in controller 1 datapoint type N graphical symbols = =

16. ‚Bulk‘ engineering A single click to ‘correct’ the application. Create PVSS datapoints to match the controller’s configuration automatically ABB Browser (C++) • Very(!) fast engineering • Difficult to make errors • Both online and offline • ‘Bulk’ or incremental Ascii file

17. Unique navigation concept The powerfull ‘Panel Topology’ is used to build a very unique navigation concept. The names of the topology nodes are used to: • Automatically build navigation buttons • Define short name to be displayed on a button • Define a long text to be shown as a title in a display • Define a teletext ( shortcut )

18. Navigation Navigation buttons built from panel topology automatically G-Gas H-Gas Blending Topology taken from multiple servers to build one row of navigation buttons

19. How to implement a large set of symbols Gasunie has a large set of symbols. Not just, different types, but also different appearances for the same symbol. Demands for these symbols were: • WYSIWYG • Efficient • As little code as possible ( more instances of the ‘same’ code means more testing ) These goals were achieved by using: • Symbol-in-symbol ( combine symbols to make more complex symbol ) • Over-parametrizing( Change properties of reference to a symbol )

20. Symbol matrix One ‘mother’ symbol is used to implement 24 different ‘appearances’.

21. Roadmap

22. PVSS II Roadmap

23. PVSS II Roadmap Next Release: 3.1 Based on 3.0, summarizing bugfixes and features: • Communication Center • RDB Manager • Native S7 driver, native S5 communication • Remote Install: Linux Server • Helpdesk & Trouble ticketing • Java UI

24. PVSS II Roadmap Add-On’s Intention: co-developing / extending (together with Partners)of “Packages” summarizing utilities and features for various domains: • Batch • Energy • Building Automation • …

25. PVSS II Roadmap Features 3.5 Targeting at “large Systems” • Simplifying Versioning and Deployment • Enhanced HMI-toolkit for large system visualization • DP-ID on demand for fast startup in large distributed systems • Dynamic polling of „visible“ I/Os • Alert Suppression and Delay in Event manager • Support of modern Compilers • Re-organization of supported Linux-platforms

26. PVSS II Roadmap Further considerations (PVSS II Version 4.0) • „transparent“ dist. Systems • Command Roundtrip Watchdog • Ring buffer archive • Initialization of statistic DP-functions • RDB interfacing to mySQL and others • XML Interface for CTRL/ASCII • Support of Linux user management (LDAP) • Distributed user management • IEC 60870 - 5 – 101 with modem

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