ЖУРНАЛ «СТА» 4/2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS CTA 4/2008 SYSTEM INTEGRATION/ Building Automation 56 LonWorks technology and Series 750 WAGO I/O equipment as the basis for the implementation of the engineering system dispatching and automation projects By Dmitriy Kuznetsov The article shows the examples of implementation of the dispatching and automation systems based on the open art LonWorks technology and the distributed input/output system WAGO I/O built on the WAGO Series 750 modules. The article provides a brief discussion of the specific features of the configuration of the 750 319 and 750 819 controllers of this Series, supporting the LonTalk Protocol. SYSTEM INTEGRATION/ Chemical Industry 64 Automation of a liquid ammonia railway loading rack By Roman Mochalov, Aleksei Pastukhov, Aleksandr Khudov and Andrey Yazev The article examines an option for building an automation system consisting of the independent safety and automated control subsystems. Also included are the functional capabilities of the system, technical characteristics, architecture and service of hardware and software. The operator interface is briefly described. DEVELOPMENT/ Control & Measuring Systems 74 Smart Wireless solutions from Emerson Process Management for the process control By Aleksey Khamov The article presents Smart Wireless solutions from Emerson Process Management, which are the first industrial solutions using technology of the self organizing wireless networks for the process control. HARDWARE/ Power Supplies 76 Use of the LXI standard for the control of the programmable power supplies By Aleksei Lobov The LXI standard based Ethernet technology continues to grow in popularity when solving the tasks of control of the secondary power supply sources. The use of this standard in the Gegesys series programmable power supplies from Lambda provides some additional competitive advantages such as an easy control and configuration, possibility of integration via LAN, and reduction in the modernization costs. HARDWARE/Information Display 80 New players in the Magelis XBT graphic terminal family By Sergey Kulnev The article describes a few series of the graphic terminals from Schneider Electric: an early version – Magelis XBT GT and two recent versions – Magelis XBT GK and Magelis XBT GTW. The fundamental difference between the early version of the product and those newly launched is that they have been built on a new technological platform. PORTRAIT OF THE COMPANY 82 Performance Technologies – a guide to the world of the embedded modular communication systems By Aleksandr Buravlev It is the aim of this article to familiarize the readers with the business model and products from Performance Technologies (USA). The article shows the historical milestones in the development of the company, its achievements and the key economic figures. Also included is an overview of the products and examples of its use in telecommunications, industry and safety systems. ENGINEER'S NOTEBOOK 92 Hardware redundancy in industrial automation. Part 3 By Victor Denisenko Redundancy is practically the only way for providing fail safe operation or functional safety of the automatic systems. The article gives an overview of the well known «hot» and «warm» redundancy methods as well as the voting method performed well in the industrial automation systems. SHOWROOM 103 SYSTEM INTEGRATION PROJECTS IN BRIEF 109 NEWS 102 CD ROMS in this issue Mitsubishi, Advantech REVIEW/ Hardware 6 Modular compact HPC systems and ATCA servers for telecommunications and industry. Part 1 By Vyacheslav Vinogradov The paper offers an analysis of the high capacity modular systems and ATCA standard servers for telecommunications and computer systems of the industrial automation. Particular emphasis is given to the new parallel pipeline systems with the convergent switched environment of communication providing the simultaneous transmission of the large data flows at the gigabyte data rate. 16 Thermokon in the light of the LON technology. Part 1 By Vladislav Raznikov The objective of the article is to show – in the light of the LON technology – the strengths of the Thermokon equipment, cover a range of the Thermokon products for the automation of the residential and commercial buildings, the equipment for the so called «intellectual home», specify the features of the equipment, promising technologies and innovations and demonstrate a wide variety of the LON products for choice from one specialized supplier. SYSTEM INTEGRATION/ Extractive Industry 22 Coal mine personnel monitoring and warning system By Anatoliy Blagodarny, Oleg Gusev, Sergey Zhuravlev, Lydia Karatysheva, Victor Kolodey, Eduard Mikhaltsov, Gennadiy Cheido and Rudolf Shakirov The article describes a coal mine personnel monitoring and warning system (SNiOP) for emergencies. The system was developed by the Design and Technological Institute of the Computer Engineering, the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (KTI VT SO RAN, Novosibirsk). The basic tasks of the system are the continuous monitoring of the location of the coal mine personnel and prompt search in the rock falls in case of an accident. 28 Mine hoist monitoring system By Vladimir Vorobiev, Yanis Agris Berzinsh, Evgeniy Budaev, Nikolay Mironov, Yaroslav Izvekov and Sergey Chernenko The article presents a mine hoist monitoring system based on the Fastwel and Pepperl+Fuchs industrial equipment. Also discussed are the architecture of the system, its capabilities and principles of operation. The experience of implementation and operation is analyzed. The article covers the prospects for modernization and development of the system. 34 Automation of the ore reduction and flotation product density monitoring By Aleksei Nikitin, Dmitriy Skripchak, Andrey Trifonov and German Zamanov The article reviews various densimeter designs, their advantages and disadvantages as well as experience of development and implementation of the density monitoring system featuring a reliable operation and accuracy of measurement. The system employs the state of the art transducers and a highly reliable logical programmable controller. SYSTEM INTEGRATION/ Urban Transport 40 SCADA RTEC control system for the traction substations of the municipal electric transport By Vladimir Chiklickchi, Denis Sidorenko, Vyacheslav Sidorenko, Aleksandr Kudryakov, Vladimir Alekseenko, Greta Eremey, Aleksandr Anatsky, Sergey Pustovalov and Valentin Sukliyan The article describes the SCADA RTEC system developed by SoftCom S.A. This system is a comprehensive solution offering an advanced automatic process control system for the municipal public electric transport enterprise RTEC (Kishinev). 46 Vehicle borne information and computing system for a tramcar By Igor Savin and Olga Bortnikova The article describes an information and computing system providing the acquisition of data from the vehicle borne measuring devices installed in a modernized tramcar 71 605, data processing and data presentation in the form of a virtual panel of the instruments and data saving in a file. SYSTEM INTEGRATION/ Railway Transport 50 Expansion of the functionality of the MPTs MZ F microprocessor centralization system based on the universal modular data acquisition and control systems By Yurii Smagin and Oleg Shatkovsky The article presents the MPTs MZ F microprocessor centralization system designed to control the facilities of the railway stations. The functions and the architecture of the system are described. The article covers the trends of the expansion of its functional capabilities based on the integration of the relatively inexpensive additional modular devices into the system. This offers the conditions for the optimization of the distribution and substantial increase in the data acquisition and control resources. СТА 4/2008 www.cta.ru 112