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Customer application 11 July 2019

Promoting Digitalization in the Process Industry with Open Interfaces

A demonstration and test system for Industry 4.0 in the Höchst Industrial Park offers companies optimal opportunities to try out new approaches, which works, because the process data is made freely available here, according to the “NAMUR Open Architecture” concept, via a second channel for monitoring and optimization tasks.

Data is essential for innovations in the process industry. When it is available, all of the advantages offered by digitalization can be utilized, new approaches can be tried, and processes can be optimized and made more efficient. Up until now, companies have lacked this possibility, because process information is difficult to access from the manufacturer-specific systems in which it is immured. An Industry 4.0 demonstration and test system in the Höchst Industrial Park solves this problem. Here, data is exported through an open interface into the system world, so that it can be freely used for monitoring and optimization tasks.

Your benefits with WAGO:

  • Automation based on the “NAMUR Open Architecture” concept

  • HART sensor readout via OPC UA, independent of the process channel for the process control

  • HART, PROFIBUS DP, Modbus® and OPC UA communication in one controller

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WAGO PFC200 XTR Controller with Key Functions

“The future of the process industry is clearly an open solution. We need the connectivity to the outside world; we need to leave the island in order to tap into new possibilities and potentials,” says Ronny Becker, testing engineer at Bilfinger Maintenance, which built the system under contract to Interessengemeinschaft Regelwerke Technik (IGR). The system consists of two containers, with pumps, valves and sensors, and is linked to two different cloud systems, with which the process data can be managed, structured and analyzed. By this means, IGR members can test current equipment technology, cybersecurity measures, uniform standards for transmitting device data and data processing and analysis within a cloud.

“Cavitation, pump tension or gas bubbles in pipelines – in the meantime, most device manufacturers have made appearances in the IGR demonstration system, have provided their devices and actively collaborate in projects,” says Elisabeth Wächter-Schäper, Manager of the Competence Center for Electrical, Measurement and Control Technology at IGR. The WAGO-I/O-SYSTEM 750 has a key function in the system. Twelve HART sensors linked to the system measure important process variables, like throughput, temperature and pressure. The WAGO PFC200 XTR Controller from the WAGO-I/O-SYSTEM collects the HART data from the wired HART sensors and transmits them both to Emerson’s Delta-V process control system and also to the cloud via a Hilscher Switch

The future of the process industry is an open solution that makes data freely available, according to Ronny Becker, test engineer at Bilfinger Maintenance.