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AGU / Germany

Plant-wide process control using PCS7 over Ethernet

Customer profile:

AGU Planungsgesellschaft für Automatisierungs-, Gebäude- und Umwelttechnik mbh, Leverkusen, Germany, was founded on April 4,1992 and employs IT specialists, physicists, engineers and technicians. Their scope of supply of hardware and software spans power supply, building services, field and control systems, the HMI and plant management levels through to software development.

Customer requirement:

Power supply (cooling air and compressed air supplies) at 2 sites

Identical operator control stations for two sites plus one central control room

Conversion of old systems (S5) to S7 for the control room

Failure safety -> Ethernet in a ring with SCALANCE X 202-2 IRT

Bridging of long distances

Plant expansion during normal operation (interrupt ring -> add line and switch, reconnect ring)

Customer's decision:

SCALANCE X208

SCALANCE X204IRT as redundancy manager

SCALANCE X202-2 IRT

SNMP OPC Server for diagnosis of the switches

Customer advantages and benefits:

High degree of scaleability with small switches

Different media (copper and fiber-optic cables)

Integration of the network components in SIMATIC Manager during commissioning

SNMP OPC Server for diagnosis of the switches can be controlled by the operator in WIN CC

C-Plug (switches can be replaced by untrained personnel)