CASE STUDY 1
New Technology for Transhipping
To develop new HMI and PLC engineering tools to provide new technology so that they are substantially self-configuring.
“The hypothesis is that we can convert an existing dry loading vessel to incorporate new technology and automate the vessel’s loading facilities”.
Client: EMS-TECH Canada
Project Title: CSL– ‘WHYALLA’ (vessel) conversion
Technical objective
To incorporate new technology and automate the vessel’s loading facilities.
- This required huge changes to all the mechanical controls and the electrics used for loading the vessel. Our key objective was to create new development tools to provide electrical controls to effectively operate the new equipment for the specific vessel, but also for other projects.
- There are two key tools involved Human Machine Interface (HMI) systems incorporating visualisation facilities and within them Program Logical Controllers (PLC). We developed new HMI and PLC engineering tools to provide new technology so that they are substantially self-configuring.
