Contract engineering · Actemium
A treatment works,rebuilt onControlLogix.
- Engaged as
- Contract controls engineer
- Through
- Actemium Automation
- Industry
- Water
- Platforms
- ControlLogix, CompactLogix, PanelView, Profibus
- Engineer
- Michal Lukanowski
The brief
Legacy controls came out. In their place, a 6-rack Allen-Bradley ControlLogix system on a DLR ring, with well and force-pump sequencing, automated run-to-waste, and chemical dosing skids on Profibus.
Dosing skids sat on CompactLogix PLCs and PanelView HMIs, tied in over Profibus DP/PA. The sequencing had to respect how the works already ran, not invent a new process for the sake of the software.
This was delivered while Michal was contracted through Actemium Automation, inside that project team. It is not an MTL Software contract. The end client is not named.
Legacy desk, then the upgrade
Diagrams, not site photos. Drag the handle, or use the arrow keys
How it was delivered
- Step 01
Replace the legacy system
A site-wide upgrade onto a 6-rack ControlLogix architecture, with the racks on a DLR ring so a single network fault does not take the works down.
- Step 02
Sequence the wells
Well and force-pump sequencing, plus automated run-to-waste, written around the way the works already operated.
- Step 03
Bring the skids in
Distributed chemical dosing on CompactLogix and PanelView, integrated over Profibus DP/PA.
- Step 04
Commission it
Proved on site as part of the Actemium project team, not signed off from a desk.
What finished looks like
- Scoped
- Agreed before the software started, so the price could be fixed.
- Written
- PLC and SCADA structured for the next person, not just this shutdown.
- On site
- Commissioned against the plant, not signed off from a desk.
- Filed
- Documentation left with the people who will run it.
“The interesting part is the problem. The platform is just where the answer has to live.”
Michal LukanowskiContract controls engineer- Software
- Michal Lukanowski
- Engaged through
- Actemium Automation
- On site
- Commissioned with the project team
- Offered now by
- MTL Software, directly
