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News Release from: Verano (UK/EMEA office) | Subject: Performux
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 January 2004
Innogy selects Performux control system
Real-time plant intelligence platform lowers costs while offering secure, internet-enabled management of critical industrial operations, for three of the RWE Innogy coal-fired power stations in the UK
RWE Innogy selects Verano Linux-based Performux for core of power generation control system Real-time plant intelligence platform lowers costs while offering secure, internet-enabled management of critical industrial operations
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 21 Feb 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Leading UK energy company, RWE Innogy has installed Verano Performux, a real-time plant intelligence software platform, at three of its coal-fired power stations in the UK
Leading UK energy company, RWE Innogy has installed Verano Performux, a real-time plant intelligence software platform, at three of its coal-fired power stations in the UK, which generate 4550 megawatts of electricity-approximately half of the total company capacity.
Based on the Verano Real-Time Applications Platform (RTAP), Performux is the first Linux-based, plant operations software platform to offer secure, Internet-enabled management of critical industrial operations.
This installation is the first step in transitioning all of the RWE Innogy APMS power generation control systems to Linux.
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For the past eight years, RWE Innogy (formerly National Power) has relied on Verano RTAP to provide a flexible and reliable SCADA platform for its power generation control system as the core of the Advanced Plant Management System (APMS), developed by Innogy and Thales Information Systems in 1995.
An indispensable foundation for APMS, Verano RTAP integrated their diverse control system, business and support data, delivered it to control desk operators in real-time and provided a solid core for future application enhancements.
Performux will serve the same function, though now on the more portable, scalable and secure Linux operating system.
"Having the existing Verano RTAP solution in place made the move to Performux a natural progression and migration, allowing us to avoid expensive re-engineering costs associated with other control systems," said Andrew Lichnowski, manager of the process control systems group at RWE Innogy.
"We are confident that the reliability and performance of the Verano RTAP system will be mirrored in Performux".
Performux and APMS are now installed on operator workstations at RWE Innogy power stations at Didcot, Aberthaw and Tilbury, which run a total of 10 power generation units.
This transition to Linux will enable the company to lower capital and maintenance costs and simplify its hardware support.
"The RWE Innogy commitment to Performux is yet another indication of a general industry trend of Linux acceptance in mission-critical industrial operations," said Brian Ahern, president and CEO of Verano.
"Utility industries, such as electric power, are challenged with maintaining the highest levels of operational standards with limited capital budgets.
The Verano Performux platform is the mechanism by which customers can reduce plant automation operating and maintenance costs without compromising the most critical success factors of availability and reliability".
Performux is a fully featured and customisable SCADA and Plant Data Aggregation software platform offering secure, Internet-enabled management monitoring and control of critical industrial operations within utilities, transportation, energy and process industries.
It is built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the first Linux platform designed specifically for commercial users and certified by top enterprise software vendors.
It enables companies to collect, manage, visualize and integrate real-time data from a variety of automated operations.
Performux's sophisticated alarm and event management features provide business managers, knowledge workers and operations personnel up-to-the minute information on market drivers such as production outages, demand and usage data, facilitating optimal efficiency, better management and cost-efficient performance.
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