Our operators are extremely happy with the product. Q: What impressed you the most about the system?Ī: The openness of the system, as well as the ease of use to the end users. As this is a power station, Citect is only used for monitoring and control. Q: Is the system integrated into a manufacturing execution system?Ī: No. Q: Is a management reporting system included in the package?Ī: Yes every day reports are printed automatically for the six units. Operators can view 700 hours of data without placing any drain on the system.
Q: Is a trending and historical data reporting system included?Ī: Yes part of standard menu page. Q: Does the scada allow for the user to create scripts to perform specific tasks?Ī: Yes, it does but due to the vastness of our project all scripts are created in the control room and not by the end users. It is one of the features of this system. Citect can run parallel to any other scada system. Q: Did you run the scada in conjunction with any third-party application software?Ī: Yes, we ran Citect and the old scada system parallel and then switched to Citect.
Q: How would you describe the library of graphic images?Ī: Comprehensive for our uses, ie furnaces stacker's boilers. Additions where made in Corel Draw at a later stage. Q: Describe the graphics development process.Ī: The images were drawn from scratch with Citect Graphic Builder. Q: What sort of redundancy is built into the system?Ī: We have being running Citect Server redundancy since 1997 (with minimal downtime). Q: Is the system integrated onto an intranet or the Internet?
#Citect 5.21 upgrade
Q: What impressed you most about the architecture?Ī: Ability to upgrade as well as the truly openness of the system. Q: What operating system is the scada running on? Q: How many tag points/I/O does the installation have? This also makes upgrades and expansion easy.
This means we were not charged for any internal tags but only the external tags that are used. Q: What sort of licensing agreement is used on the system?Ī: External tags only are counted as I/O points - these are what were sold to us ie a 1500 I/O package. In the case of emergencies, emails and 24 h support back -up line. Q: How is the after-sales support handled?Ī: Personal interaction of preventative support ie visits to Matla and support to the engineers before anything goes wrong. Q: Approximately how many man-hours did the integration take? Product name and version: Citect Version.5.21Į-mail: What industry is the scada being applied in?Ī: The monitoring, reporting of data and trends as well as all alarms of a 400 kV power station near Kriel in Mpumalanga,