SCADA
As the industrial environment is finding more need for real time edge data, SCADA systems are becoming more and more critical to companies business infrastructure in their digital roadmap to the future.
What is SCADA?
The acronym SCADA stands for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. A well-thought-out SCADA system allows supervisors to manage alarms, create setpoints, study trends, and watch the health of the production all from one location. Manufacturers use the program to help organize and monitor the processes. Not only can it help organizations stay organized, but it also enables firms to have everything they need for smooth and efficient operations.
We design the program to fit your unique industry needs. Our experienced team works hard to create a design that displays the information clearly and concisely, so your data is organized most efficiently.
Why do you need it?
SCADA offers invaluable resources to firms in many different industries. By investing in the system, operators can become as productive as possible by relying on the foundation built from a well-designed SCADA program.
Specific benefits from operating with SCADA:
• Control the processes locally or remotely
• Record real-time events and study trends
• Remote alarm handling
• Provides analytical resources to run a successful facility
• View multiple plant dashboards in one place
• Real time trending and reporting of operations
Upgrades and Migrations
It is critical to maintain support with your SCADA software vendor and regularly updating software operating systems. Our experts here at Dean Systems manage these updates to help keep your plant operational.
When updates are not regularly managed, SCADA systems will not work as they should. Older software won't operate on new operating systems; and same thing for new operating systems, they won't operate on old hardware. Our experts transform obsolete control systems into modern technology platforms with open opportunity for improvements down the road. Today’s SCADA software is able to do more than just visualization and reporting; the investment will lay the foundation for a larger digitalization strategy including MES, analytics, and more.
Historians and Reporting
Historians are a necessary component of all SCADA packages today. Most come with great built-in tools for reviewing historical trends and some basic reporting. Getting actionable information from extensive data sets is easier said than done; unique skill-sets and tools are often required to find the information needle in the data haystack.
Our experts go beyond just installing a historian and connecting it to the plant floor. Our team is trained and experienced in manipulating SQL databases, creating custom reports, and applying advanced analytics tools. While we always prefer off-the-shelf solutions from one of our partners, we aren’t limited to them for solving more complex data challenges. Whatever your data collection and reporting needs, we have you covered.
Enterprise Solutions
For businesses with multiple facilities, an enterprise SCADA solution brings the value of a plant-level SCADA to the entire organization. Some of these benefits are the ability to view real-time operational information for any facility from a central location. Compare operational performance across the organization and tie data from all facilities into enterprise layer 3 MES systems as well as layer 4 software systems like ERP. The SCADA system also gives your team the data to shift from reactive to proactive production management.
Dean Systems is uniquely positioned to provide enterprise solutions in industrial environments. Our team of networking experts gets your data from the plant floor to the executive level for better real time decision making. We have database experts that make sure the data is stored reliably and efficiently. Our industrial programmers also bring the system to life with intelligently designed dashboards and reports securely accessible from anywhere.
At Dean Systems
We understand the importance of open, secure and scalable SCADA systems while also keeping the complexity to a minimum as you connect your enterprise. We have team members assisting in developing the ISA 112 standard for SCADA systems which will encompass every layer of the automation stack from the PLC & sensor level to the cloud systems layer and everything in between.
