Bilfinger / Interessengemeinschaft Regelwerke Technik
Process industry test plant, demonstrating readiness and capabilities of Namur Open Architecture (NOA)
Background
- Interessengemeinschaft Regelwerke Technik (IGR) e.V. with 30+ member companies wanted to demonstrate readiness and capabilities of Namur Open Architecture (NOA)
- Bilfinger is an international industrial service provider with 30,000+ employees and more than 20 years of experience in the process industry
Business need
- Advance digitalization in process industry
- Make real-time production data available for monitoring, optimization and other IoT applications
- Build test plant with commercially available products
- Keep the plant flexible, so that it can be used to test different scenarios
Technical Requirements
- Connect via Bluetooth to the smartphones/tablets
- Support communication protocols like HART, Profibus PA and Foundation Fieldbus
- Suitable for non-Ex, Ex zone 2 and Ex zone 1 areas
- Stable communication between the field device and the tablet
- Bilfinger built a NOA test and demonstration plant for IGR
- Test plant integrates products and components from a large number of vendors including dataFEED OPC Suite and Secure Integration Server from Softing Industrial
- Test plant sends the data to cloud based applications
- Softing’s dataFEED OPC Suite integrates data from PLCs
- Softing’s Secure Integration Server aggregates data from dataFEED OPC Suite and other data sources
- Softing products comply with architecture requirements as defined by NOA
- Easy deployment, easy reconfiguration
- Test plant demonstrates production readiness of NOA
- Real production data can be used to test and optimize software applications
