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HMI/SCADA in the Dredging Industry - atvise® Success Story

Regulation automation

The Easydredge series not only uses a standard design; the vessels are also installed with standard automation and control equipment, explains Jeroen Peters, engineering manager at Royal IHC Systems. “This is a very efficient way of shipbuilding. We can reduce lead times and reduce costs.” Our Dredge Control System focuses on operational efficiency and is designed to be very operator friendly. We are flexible in the brands/suppliers we use to build the system. We use suppliers like Rockwell, Cimplicity, Proface, Moxa, Siemens, Wago, but we also build several control systems with the help of Bachmann hardware and software. In every case our dredging knowledge is captured in our own modular software platform called Digisys. This enables us to configure the desired functionality of the control and monitoring system very efficiently. To improve efficiency, we add automatic controllers like, a pump controller (maintaining flow) or suction pipe control to steer and safeguard the pipe position or a controller that maintains the trailing speed adds Pieter de Boer, Royal IHC’s lead engineer. “We use e.g. Bachmann to integrate all this automation into the control system. We want to deliver an integrated system to the client, so it is important that the end user interface has one look and feel. atvise^® is a great platform to build the visualization for the operator. It is as very user-friendly platform for engineers to design and make the HMI’s.”