Summary

Our customer decided to build a new heat treat line and use Siemens hardware with their own proprietary control system. Their control system used a Linux-based PC to control Siemens I/O and drives. This plant had thirteen Linux-based machines communicating with a level 2 master system that collected data and controlled all movements throughout the plant. This facility also had numerous automated and manual cranes, a Siemens safety system (for perimeter monitoring of automated areas), and multiple control rooms with HMIs that also used the proprietary Control system.

Challenges & Solution

• No one in the United States had used this control system, therefore support and training had to be done in Sweden.
• Drivers for some of the hardware had to be custom designed for this project.
• The project ran according to an accelerated timeframe and a tight deadline was successfully met.
• Prism Systems worked with a team of engineers based in both the US and Sweden.
• Prism Systems oversaw the construction of new plant, which included the correct placement of hardware throughout all systems.
• Ensured before ordering hardware that we could get it to work with this system.
• Implemented Profinet for the first time into this customer's software system.

Customer Benefits

• Created a solution to efficiently run a new specialized heat treat line using their software.
• Completed on schedule.
• Worked with the Multicultural engineer team and worked efficiently across the different time zones.

Technologies

• Proview (proview.se)
• Siemens ET200 IO
• Siemens S7300 IO
• Linux Debian
• Siemens G120 Drives
• Siemens S120 Drives