Case Study

Upgrading Food Manufacturer’s Outdated Historian Platform During “Little-To-No”Downtime Window

Background

A food manufacturing client of ours had an outdated and unsupportable historian for its manufacturing operation that was negatively affecting its production yield and record keeping. Our client needed to update to a contemporary historian to restore their excellent record of meeting production and quality goals. The conversion to the newer historian platform had to be performed without disrupting the client’s 24×7 production operation. Malisko was tasked with helping our client meet its expectations for a robust data historian.

Services:

SCADA
Historian
Software Configuration
Virtualization
Controls
Production Support
Process Data

OBJECTIVES

Install and commission a robust, secure and supportable historian for production data without interrupting the plant’s daily operation.
Meet the project’s cost and schedule requirements.

CHALLENGE

The four (4) systems consisted of different platforms of control and HMI.
Configuring a Wonderware IDE Galaxy along with historical templates that suited each of the systems’ needs.
Establishing a data format standard that could be applied to the different platforms.
Getting the OEMs of each system to follow the standards set by MEI and Client.

SOLUTIONS

Upgraded work done with old system in parallel to allow maximum testing and minimal / no downtime.
Constantly working with company corporate IT to work through issues from company-based modifications to the OS.
Configured Plant provided Hyper-V images
Configured Wonderware Servers
Migrated Wonderware objects and applications from existing to new
Configured and tested Thin Manager Hyper-V images

RESULTS

Maximized preliminary testing resulting in minimized production interruptions.
Successful upgrade, no production interruption was switched over during production’s normal cleanup period.
Client has a robust, secure, supportable and documented historian platform for years to come.

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