ServiTecno, a company specializing in the supply of software and systems for industrial applications, will be exhibiting at SPS Italia (stand C014, pavilion 7) with the products and solutions of its partners GE-Digital, Stratus Technologies, SKKYNET, Nozomi Networks, DreamReport, MDT-Auvesy, Opswat, Inventia, Win911 and Idus.
Supervision and reporting for the 4.0 company with the "Proficy Revolution"
In all sectors, especially in regulated ones such as food and pharmaceuticals, manufacturing companies that intend to increase their competitiveness on the markets must adopt a correct approach to data management based on two fundamental principles: traceability and data integrity .
On these topics ServiTecno e GE-Digital they will propose to SPS Italy innovative and consolidated solutions, the result of a long experience in these areas: from complete and easy-to-use tools for supervising process data to solutions for historicizing process data, up to tools that allow you to generate static reports and dynamic, thus transforming data into a tool to support decision-making processes.
The new releases of SCADA iFix e Simplicity they represent a simple, configurable and complete tool that allows you to view data in relation to the context and to offer them to the operator on any device connected to the network, from PC to smartphone.
Instead of complex interfaces full of insignificant data, which recent studies have shown to be poorly suited to stimulate an operator's conscious reaction to critical events, the operator will have at his disposal, at any time and wherever he is, all and only the data relevant to the operations that require his intervention. historian is the solution that allows you to record the life of the manufacturing process and "rewind the tape" whenever you want to perform comparative analyzes or simply zoom in on an event that happened at a given moment.
It is therefore the basis of any process that you want to keep documented traces of: from 2022 Historian is also available in the completely “CLOUD” version in order to make the most of the cloud in view of the convergence between IT and OT.
The proposal for GE Digital Industrial Analytics also includes the Proficy Batch (for the analysis of batch productions), CSense (the machine learning and advanced analytics solution) as well as the different modules of the solution MONTH known as Plant Application.
Lastly Dream Report, the solution proposed by Ocean Data Systems available both in a stand-alone version and as a plug-in integrated into all the main Scadas on the market, including iFix and Cimplicity: a tool that doesn't just generate reports with a single click, but is able to update them dynamically to keep them “ live" and reduce the effort required to understand the dynamics of the processes.
Security, continuity and resilience
But in order to make a plant truly efficient there is another parameter to consider, in addition to the specific performance of the process: the Business Continuity.
There are two essential steps to increase the resilience and operational continuity of your company: the first is to adopt a Anomaly detection: a "sentinel" that silently listens to and understands the communications that take place on the production network, promptly signaling any traffic anomaly, the first indication of a possible unwanted intrusion into the company computer systems.
ServiTecno distributes and supports the solutions developed by Nozomi Networks, one of the most technologically advanced companies in the world on these issues. If prevention fails, however, it is essential to also have a plan B, i.e. be ready to get back on track as soon as possible, limiting the economic losses deriving from prolonged machine downtime.
For this reason ServiTecno offers (in addition to everRun, the software solution for HA and FT) the brand new ZTC Edge di Stratus: a complete solution that includes integrated Disaster Recovery functions, an Uptime guarantee of up to 99,99% and a secure and efficient "bridge-edge" towards the CLOUD and the Enterprise Network. These are high-performance EDGE devices designed to reside on the plant floor or in electrical panels: they exploit the most advanced technologies for millisecond alignment and cross-use of physical resources.
Another innovative method for directly connect the machines with the CLOUD (or the Enterprise network) is the solution devised by SKKYNET, a Canadian company that has been able to establish itself on the world scene with thousands of applications even on systems of large multinational companies.
A connection middleware capable of TRANSMIT YOUR DATA EVERYWHERE, securely and in real time: a perfect solution for industrial IoT and Industry 4.0, able to easily connect machines and plants with the CLOUD or the enterprise network, without opening firewall ports or using VPN.
Another pillar at the service of business continuity are the solutions Version Control and Change Management, the result of the fresh partnership between the two market leaders MDT e Auvesy: these are tools that keep track of all the software installed on the machines and all their versions, including controller firmware updates. In this way, if a hardware component is compromised, it will be possible to restore (or replace) it by simply and quickly recovering the latest correct version of the software. A very useful solution that can also work with legacy software.
Telecontrol: measure to understand
The basis of any strategy aimed at correct asset management is knowledge of process data. The MT telemetry modules proposed by Invent are easy to use and are the best choice for acquiring and transmitting process data regardless of the complexity and context of the application, whether it is water distribution, water treatment, environmental protection, gas, electricity and heating distribution, petrochemical installations , transportation, agriculture, building management, HVAC, surveillance and alarm systems, remote meter reading.
All the modules, from the simple sensor to the data acquisition system with on-board logic controller, exploit GSM/GPRS technology and are easy to configure and implement by integrators or by the users themselves thanks to intuitive software tools.
OT network architectures and resilience in Industry 4.0/5.0 projects
25 May 2022 – from 14pm to 45pm – Arena 15.Digital&Software
Speaker: Mario Testino, COO Servitecno
The resilience of industrial network architectures in digitization 4.0 projects. The growing complexity of network architectures and industrial systems linked to the increasingly stringent requirements of digitization projects is leading to the redefinition of traditional design models and logics. In this constantly evolving framework, the digital risk factor represents a key element for governing the process of innovation and the introduction of new technologies. For digital risk we can consider, in the industrial field, mainly the aspects related to the availability and cyber security of networks and systems. But how to mitigate industrial digital risk? What are the logics and tools that can give us a hand? The aim of the discussion will be to answer these questions with the support of numerous application examples and real cases.
