A major chemical company with several production facilities around the globe requested a solution that could interconnect industrial and energy communication networks.
The reason was, that the company had extremely high energy bills due to massive consumption peaks.
The production lines didn’t provide any information about the actual power consumption, so the customer decided to integrate all available information from their own power distribution network in their industrial control center.
To be able to do so, a solution was needed that could interconnect the communication from both worlds – the industrial production and the energy distribution. That way, live data from the power distribution network including power quality and consumption could be fed into the industrial PLCs. This enabled the state of the art industrial PLCs to handle the required load shedding to keep the consumption on a stable level which results in high energy quality and low energy costs.
With the Ixxat SG-gateways they got a solution that was easy to integrate as a transparent interface between the power distribution grid and the industrial control equipment.