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Schneider Electric Launches Aquis 7.0 to Help Improve Control of Water Distribution Networks
Schneider Electric announced general availability of it's Aquis 7.0, software application for water distribution network management.
Several global issues face the water management industry, including regional drought conditions, growing demand and rising energy costs. Smart water systems offer ways to improve visibility, increase utilization and better manage this increasingly scarce and valuable resource.
Aquis 7.0 helps to reduce operation and energy costs associated to water distribution activities by providing operators with information about the forecasted behavior of their water networks, adding more intelligence to water network management and helping to reduce the impact of unplanned events before they happen. Specific improvements now part of Aquis 7.0 include:
- Faster, enhanced hydraulic engine management
- Faster load and save time of model files and enhanced find functionality to help improve the user experience
- Faster master/operator communications to help improve collaboration
- Extended system log facilities
- Improved display of control mode of pumps and valves
Schneider Electric Launches Termis 7.0
Schneider Electric announced general availability of it's Termis 7.0, software application to help optimize cooling and heating systems used with water distribution network management.
One of the many challenges water network utilities must overcome are wasted energy costs that occur when daily consumption fluctuations are not taken into effect. Termis provides an integrated application to read real-time data from SCADA systems and weather forecast data, helping operators to better predict future consumption. This information helps to reduce supply temperature to the minimum required level, thereby reducing energy consumption.
Termis 7.0 is focused on energy management professionals, helping to provide a dynamic approach to master planning and engineering design. It is suitable for system implementation, commissioning, operation and maintenance, retrofits and expansions planning.
A mobile app, available on Apple iOS or Google Android, evaluates possible cost savings from implementing Termis 7.0 to a district heating network. Input is based on metrics, such as energy produced, average temperature and current energy costs. Specific improvements now part of Termis 7.0 include:
- Faster load and save time of model files
- Faster master/operator communications
- Introduction of an accumulator as a stand-alone object
- Enhanced find functionality
- Display of control mode of heat plants, pumps and valves
- Extended system log facilities
Customers can purchase this software directly from Schneider Electric or through channel partners.
Schneider Electric Introduces Water Network Optimization: A Real-time, Smart Water Solution
Schneider Electric introduced it's Water Network Optimization (WNO) Suite, a Water and Wastewater industry solution powered by Aquis 7.0 and built on Wonderware System Platform. Water network operators can use WNO to acquire and centralize real-time data from network critical points for enhanced visibility and control of their water distribution network.
The water industry, among others, faces the challenge of doing more with less. Infrastructure asset lifecycles must be extended, drought conditions have created significant sourcing and demand forecasting difficulties, and increasingly stringent regulations must now be adhered to. At the same time, greater focus on sustainability, energy cost and carbon reductions are putting new pressure on operations.
Water Network Optimization Suite is a new industry solution from Schneider Electric that provides both real-time and "future-time" visibility into Water and Wastewater networks. This offers operators the ability to perform "what-if" analysis of potential maintenance actions, such as isolating a section of the network for maintenance and simulating the impact on delivery pressure through the next 48 hours.
WNO is supported by Customer FIRST, Schneider Electric's software maintenance and support program, which is a portfolio of services that helps to protect and extend Schneider Electric Industry Solutions across their lifecycle. A Customer FIRST Agreement establishes a formal service relationship with Schneider Electric, enabling access to the latest software upgrades while providing technical assistance, optional services and self-help tools to help improve operational effectiveness.
Schneider Electric Launches Enterprise Supply Chain Software to the Mining, Minerals and Metals Industries
Schneider Electric announced the first release of it's SimSci Spiral Suite focused specifically on the Mining, Minerals and Metals (MMM) industries.
Mining companies constantly seek operational improvement as the shift to productivity and supply discipline continues. Historically, MMM organizations have used a combination of point solutions within various departments, such as planning and scheduling, and operations. Experts typically produce complex custom reports for the next step in the supply chain. Not only does this time-consuming process rely on a handful of tool experts, but it can also lead to miscommunication of key data and impede collaboration.
SimSci Spiral Suite's architecture has been developed as a single unified solution reaching across the pit-to-port supply chain for the MMM industry. Specifically designed to help eliminate inefficiencies arising from legacy point solutions, SimSci Spiral Suite helps to maximize collaboration across the enterprise.
Schneider Electric Advances Ampla Operations Management with Inventory Visibility and Management
Schneider Electric announced new inventory visibility and management capabilities of it's StruxureWare Plant Operation Ampla Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solution for the Mining, Minerals, and Metals (MMM) industries. Ampla end users can leverage this real-time inventory visibility to help reduce losses, improve recovery and increase operational excellence.
Maintaining operational visibility to capture accurate inventory levels of materials, from ore to finished product, is an important operation to manage for any MMM company. Traditional inventory management strategies based on spreadsheets and manual processes can often produce inaccurate data with time lags in reporting. In today's increasingly "on-demand" 24/7 environment, Chief Information Officers (CIOs), mine planners, mine managers, plant managers and maintenance managers need a solution with automated data collection, real-time visibility and intelligence to perform continuous improvement.
Ampla Inventory addresses these issues by helping to capture, aggregate, and transform inventory data into actionable insights for productivity analysis, data mining, querying, and reporting. It is an end-to-end production and inventory accounting solution that can also help integrate disparate systems to provide a more comprehensive view of business performance, including productivity, OEE, equipment uptime and energy usage, in addition to inventory management.
Mining, Minerals and Metals companies that automate production and inventory management with Ampla can help to improve decision making with actionable intelligence, which can help to reduce material losses, improve materials recoveries, perform ad-hoc analysis and process diagnosis and better optimize planning and performance improvement.
Keywords: Water Distribution Network Management, Water Distribution Network Management, Water and Wastewater, Mining, Minerals and Metals (MMM), ARC Advisory Group.