IOT - Introduction Series

IOT – Internet of things.

Industrial revolution is happening right here, right now through the Industrial Internet of things. Hailed to be the driving force of next generation industries, IOT is taking the world by storm. Iot which started out with consumer based applications has now transitioned to industries as well. Iot stood out as a way to make 'things' more efficient. It helps people live better lives. That however is only an additional success of Iot - ironically the most attractive for consumer. The success of iot is its contribution to sustainable development and maximum utilization of available resources, that's what makes iot a perfect fit in the industrial scheme of things (no pun intended). There comes many advantages to using interconnected devices in industries.

Be it in homes or industries IOT offers convenience and a centralized way of monitoring ‘things’ and controlling them from remote locations.  Industries all over the world are looking to be more economically viable and sustainable. Manufacturing has evolved and contrary to the image of a typical manufacturing bases as old and outdated, manufacturing has actually undergone technological advancements.  Industrial assets are now smart assets and man power managing them are technicians. These smart assets must compliment the industrial processes.  Many industries are investing in next generation technology to improve manufacturing and production.

The Several advantages of IOT

IoT is as efficient as the data it holds namely data is a key component of IIoT. Data helps industries to improve operational efficiency. The data has to be collected from various equipments in a plant, these equipments communicate with each other through the common internet of things platform. This data can be collected from critical components to reduce unplanned downtime or monitor how efficiently processes are being run.  Let us consider a car parts manufacturer who is looking to reduce the percentage of faulty car parts being produced. If all the car parts are put through a diagnostics test, then one can find out which part manufactured is faulty and this can further pin point what is going wrong. The manufacturer can then optimize that the process for that particular part. Iot does not stop here,  the manufacturer can also get valuable input from his customers to know which car part needs replacement frequently. This would enable to manufacturer to cut down on losses and drastically improve the quality of his parts.  

In critical components of a plant Iot can be effectively leveraged to gather data and prevent a failure before it even occurs.   From this it becomes clear that big data and Iot goes hand in hand. Another added advantage of Iot is that it makes the industrial landscape more agile and horizontal. Moving away from the conventional vertical model of operations of industries, Iot aims to bring it all together on the same level with every aspect of industry communicating with each other.  

Iot is reshaping the industrial landscape- it is said that in 20 years time about 15 billion dollars of GDP growth can be generated and industries can be made up to 40% more efficient by utilizing IoT.

Rapidtek Controls wins new Order

Rapidtek Controls Pvt Limited recently bagged order for supply of Siemens make Pressure , DP and Level Transmitter against tough competition for Shimoga Life sciences project in AP .ProU Engineering India are the Engineering consultants for the project.
The Siemens SITRANS DS III was chosen by client for its low range avilability , accuracy and host of other features!
we expect many more orders in coming months from our various clients .

OPCview Software for Intelligent data for standalone PLC and HMI

OPCView – Field to Boardroom connectivity

Rapidtekcontrols founded by team  located at chennai , with decades of experience in Automation industry mainly oil & gas. Our OPCView Software product developed by our team of software engineers specific for the process industry.

OPCView is an OPC Client Software that interfaces to OPC Servers.

About OPC

The acronym "OPC" comes from "OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) for Process Control". Since OLE is based on the Windows COM (Component Object Model) standard, under the hood OPC is essentially COM. Over a network, OPC relies on DCOM (Distributed COM)

OPC is the interoperability standard for the secure and reliable exchange of data in the industrial automation space and in other industries. It is platform independent and ensures the seamless flow of information among devices from multiple vendors.

OPC is well suited to sharing data between different vendors’ systems because it eliminates connectivity problems caused by proprietary communications.

 OPC is implemented in server/client pairs. The OPC server is a software program that converts the hardware communication protocol used by a PLC into the OPC protocol. The OPC client software is any program that needs to connect to the hardware, such as an HMI. The OPC client uses the OPC server to get data from or send commands to the hardware.

Benefit of Rapidtek Controls OPCView

OPCView was developed to address the portability of real time process data from DCS and HMI and also to enable low cost availability of data for production analysis, operation de bottlenecking and identifying operational issues by providing historical data in Excel sheet for process and operation engineers. Few obvious benefits are listed as below:

·         Frees you from complex logic programming in your DCS / SCADA HMI for generating production reports such as Equipment running hours, flow totals, efficiency calculations, and shift wise reports including batch wise data compilations / comparisons. Now all this by OPCView in a single click

·         Unlike DCS we offer Unlimited Historian.

·         History statistics like Average , max , min values in single click

·         Desktop Data monitoring. Flexible licensing unlike DCS. Multiple desktops.

·         Desktop Trending

·         Desktop Reports in Excel. No complex scripting / programming. Leave the headache to us!!!

·         Interface to multiple third party devices like Energy meters , serial devices. We interface directly to OPCView server. No need for PLC programming or hardware modules!!!

·         MES / ERP interfaces

·         Third Party serial devices interface like weigh bridges.

·         Stand alone PLC interface for Pollution control compliance Reporting

·         Existing Analog Panels Interface for Data Digitization