Every second, 100,000 liters of water roars through the two 22 metric ton valves of the Eifel Rurtalsperre Schwammenauel, the second largest reservoir in Germany with a capacity of 200 million cubic meters. The Rurtalsperre Schwammenauel belongs to the Wasserverband Eifel-Rur (WVER), which operates a total of six dams with a capacity of 300 million cubic meters in the northern Eifel. They serve primarily as fl ood control, but are also used for the drinking water supply and as a local recreation area. The Rurtalsperre is the largest of the six reservoirs and, with the Urfttalsperre, forms a connected lake region which lies, for the most part, in the Eifel national park. And when it came time to update the electronics of this massive system, Kontron was chosen as a partner along with its Think IO system. The Kontron Think IO was chosen because it is a maintenance-free system with lots of connectivity potential. That, paired with Kontron’s dedication to service, combined for a great fi t to the WVER project.
 

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One of the projects of Don-RTSoft, a branch of RTSoft, is development of Technological Information Exchange System (TIES) for Irganuysk hydroelectric station (HES) including automated system of System Operator - Central Dispatch Administration (SO-CDA). Irganuysk HES TIES system is designed for automated acquisition of technological information about normal and abnormal conditions of station operations and for transmitting collected data to system operator’s affiliates, and for realization of automated control of main equipment of Irganuysk HES.

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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) enable researchers and scientists to explore hitherto unreachable depths. They also have commercial applications with oil and gas companies using them to obtain detailed maps of the seabed for laying pipelines cost effectively and with minimum disruption to the environment. Another typical life saving application is mapping an area of the ocean to determine the presence of mines.

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Crude oil is increasingly extracted from greater and greater depths under the sea. This often requires the use of innovative drilling technology. Electronic control technology, frowned upon until recently, is now finding its way to the sea bed bore holes; it is based on VMEbus systems. "There's still enough oil", says Werner Menz, manager of the electronic engineering department of Cameron, an international company specializing in supervisory systems for oil drilling and extracting. "It just gets more and more difficult to reach it."

Today, intense competition amidst oil refineries and petroleum chemical plants forces plants and companies to find new ways of profit maximization and production costs minimization at a specified product quality. A successful solution of production performance optimization tasks is not possible without structurization of large volumes of information about current condition of technological equipment and maintenance level at the enterprise.

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Detzem, a small town in the middle of the wine-growing region about 25 km from Trier, is also the location of one of the four barrages on the Moselle. These systems usually comprise a lock, weir and power station. The barrage at Detzem is a "sector weir" composed of three approximately 40m wide and 8m high sectors, the levels of which can be adjusted by a system of water conduits in the head water and tail water. In the autumn of 1997 the complete refurbishment of the electrical and control equipment for the weir was put under contract by WMA Coblenz with BEA TDL (Elektrotechnik und Automation Technische Dienste Lausitz GmbH). Automation & Software Günther Tausch GmbH was in turn given the job of developing the control section by BEA TDL.

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In order to improve efficiency of oil production processes, the management of Slavneft-Megionneftegas pc enterprise (Megion, Khanty-Mansiyski AD — Yugra) set a task to provide supervisory control of all oil production technological systems. RTSoft won a tender for realization of this task, and in the middle of 2003 engineers of the company started the implementation of a software complex, which provided output of process information from all oil production APCSs to the enterprise management level. The main purpose of the project, which was called “A process server for oil production APCS”, was to create a tool to improve efficiency of oil production processes on the base of reliable and real-time process information from all extractive divisions of Slavneft-Megionneftegas pc. Implementation of the process server for oil production APCS provided transfer of real-time oil production data from technological APCS workstations to engineers, shop floor management, enterprise management, and integration with the enterprise recourses management system.

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The demand for using renewable energy is constantly growing and wind energy is an increasingly popular choice. With the ThinkIO industrial PC, Kontron offers a powerful and reliable control solution that is now being used by suppliers of wind turbines. The ThinkIO-Duo operates without rotating parts such as hard drives and fans and also without batteries. This makes it completely maintenance-free and ideal for use in space-limited areas or where access for maintenance personnel is difficult such as, for example, in the nacelle at the top of the wind turbine. The ThinkIO communicates continuously with the peripheral control elements, such as the wind tracking mechanism and active blade pitching system, and ensures that each system parameter is set for optimal wind turbine operation in all weather conditions. The Kontron control system also constantly receives information on grid values such as voltage, current and frequency. This enables the system to react immediately to voltage or frequency changes and safely shut down until the deviations are once again within the range of tolerance.

Safety systems in nuclear power stations require proven, reliable technology that provides the highest level of system availability. That is why AECL (Atomic Energy of Canada Limited) decided to implement a safety system based on the long established VME technology. The system is working faultlessly in power stations around the world.

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Information becomes the key recourse to improve production efficiency in the context of ubiquitous amplification of modern computer technologies. The whole success of an enterprise depends on information timeliness, completeness and reliability, especially in such vitally important industries as natural gas industry and gas transportation industry. RTSoft’s engineers developed information and management system for Tyumentransgas llc’s gas transportation objects (IMS GTO) in the boundaries of large-scale project for development of Branch supervisory control system for Integrated gas supply system of Russia.

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