#10 2006

Itskovich E.L. The features of today`s industrial automation market

The paper overviews distinctive features of automation tools and systems segment that determine current position of Russian vendors and engineering companies developing and implementing automation systems. It compares products and projects of domestic and foreign automation companies and focuses on the issues that could be allowed for by potential clients as well as by vendors for improving their competitiveness.

Trajexia - the new dynamic controller

The paper discusses the features of architecture, software and design of Trajexia - the new multiaxial displacement control platform, and discusses its basic capabilities. One of the first controller`s applications was the new LPK wrapping machine from LogicPAK

Flow control sensors from Turck

Various techniques of flow velocity and rate are discussed with the focus on calorimetric methods and Turck`s flow control sensors.

Butov O.V., Mukhametjanov I.M. Fiber-optic sensors in modern industry

Various-purpose sensors are a paramount element of practically all automated systems. Those can be chemical sensors, various design photosensors, temperatue sensors, pressure and strain gages, displacement, electromagnetic field and other sensors. As a component of industrial controls, the sensors enable process feedback. The paper overviews 5 key types (according to operation principles) of fiber-optic sensors.

Akinshin L.G. CompactPCI segment determines on multikernel processors

The relationship between CompactPCI market and the office world remains very strong that allows the technologies arising in desktop PCs and servers segment to find applications in a wider area as against they were initially aimed to. For example, modern CompactPCI systems can be hardly imagined without USB 2.0 and Serial-ATA high-speed serial interfaces. Recently, the same thing happened to the PCI Express bus. The paper discusses CPU with several equal kernels and how they can affect the CompactPCI market.

Discussing a subject…
Automated control of engineering services in buildings: operating expenses reduction

Introduction

Uvarov A.V. Effective supervision systems for modern buildings and complexes

The subsystems of modern building`s survival system are overviewed. A complex approach to building automation based on DEKONT hard-/software system is presented. The examples of implemented projects in the field of intelligent buildings are adduced.

Zhilenkov N.N. Smart villages

Key ideas and principles implemented by Prosoft in the first project of an intelligent cottage village are discussed with the focus on overcoming the problems of engineering systems and the subsequent operating expenses reduction. The underlying ideas can be implemented in similar cottage construction projects and also be useful in the development of automated systems for housing and communal services of multistorey apartment houses, offices, and industrial edifices.

Maximenko V.A. Buildings automation and operation efficiency

Much attention has been paid recently to improving buildings operation efficiency. In the building`s lifecycle including the construction period, 85% of total expenses fall on operating expenses that increase with the building`s aging. For decreasing the operating expenses, the paper suggests to apply an integrated approach including the simultaneous analysis of all engineering systems and processes of the object.

Parshikov A. V. How to build and intelligent house?

The advantages of overall automation of buildings` engineering services are discussed. Software tools applied in the design of automation systems for intelligent buildings are described; the examples of implemented projects are adduced.

Demchenko D.A., Lanskiy V.B., Tretiakov S.A. A distributed network control platform for building`s automation systems design

The structure of DDCNP scalable distributed control platform, its logical model, levels destination and services, and the family of specifications are discussed. The scalaBACS (www.datamicro.ru/download/scalaBACS.html) intelligent scalable building safety and automation system based on this platform, its software components and hardware are described.

Makhmutov N.G., Strashun Yu.P.Configurable controllers in building`s engineering services

A class of configurable controllers applied in automation and control systems of buildings is considered. With a case study of a heating system`s control unit, the paper shows the controller application efficiency. The variants of configurable controllers` software enhancement for improving their service performance are considered.

Myasoedov B.A., Mukhametzyanov I.M. The success is based on the wiring system

Permanent renovation policy is the key principle of Wieland Electric. A bright example is the issue of gesis® CON series electrical connectors for buildings wiring. The Company has implemented the wiring in such stately objects as Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Kommerzbank in Frankfurt am Main, Media Markt stores, and turnkey houses built by Platz Haus Saulgau.

Yermolov S.A. The ways of pumps protection against dry operation in heating and water supply systems

Various approaches to pumps protection against dry operation in heating and water supply systems are described. The most prevalent protection techniques are characterized, and the recommendations on pump protection in various cases are made. The procedures offered can be applied in any systems where circulation pumps are used for liquid transmission.

Rumyantsev M.A., Kozlova G.N., Doay Kh.A. Identification of distortion ratios in an isolated power system with direct frequency converters on the basis of numerical experiment

The methods enabling power saving and its distribution and quality improvement in isolated power systems of intelligent buildings are discussed.

Housing and communal services without problems: integration and energy efficiency

The modernization of Russian housing and communal services is a topical task. Actual problems exist at any level of industry development, construction funding, environmental protection and technology. Organizations and specialists addressing the situation, consider it in full complexity. The key issue of heat, water, and power supply systems modernization is energy efficiency.

Suslin N.I. Automation of municipal heating system saves a lot

The rate of heating and hot water costs increase is so high that the experience of their saving gains national importance. Heat and power engineers from Reutov (Moscow Region) achieved impressive fuels savings with ensuing costs reduction.

Beckhoff`s automation technologies at the service of the temples of art

Beckhoff`s technologies underpin automated control systems of first-rate historic buildings. In La Scala theater (Milan), the stage machinery was modernized, while in Charlottenburg castle (Berlin), air conditioning, ventilation, and lighting systems were reconstructed. The paper briefly reviews the features of the implemented projects.

The control and supervision system for the engineering services of "Kutuzovsky, 88" shopping center in Moscow

The integrated engineering services control and supervision system for "Kutuzovsky, 88" shopping center (Moscow) is briefly outlined. The system was implemented on the basis of Schneider Electric`s hard-/software tools.

A supervision system for the Ice Palace`s engineering and processing facilities

The paper discusses the implementation features of individual heat point, ventilation and air conditioning, cold supply, ice fields cold center, power supply, and lighting control subsystems included in the supervisory engineering and processing equipment system of the "Mytischi Arena" Universal Ice Palace (Moscow Region)

Alenin D.S. Building supervision system for Kuzminki Domestic Affairs Department (Moscow)

The features of an overall automation project for the new building of Kuzminki Domestic Affairs Department (Moscow) are briefly discussed. The project was implemented on the basis of KONTAR equipment.

Journal`s Club

Paltsev A.V., Shevgunov T.Ya. Filter parameters calculation for Siemens drives

A method for vibrations elimination in machine axis drives based on Simodrive digital electric drives with Sinumerik 840D numerical control system. An example of filter parameters calculation using the capabilities of the above digital electric drive is adduced.

Industrial Automation companies

Hirschmann`s equipment in Russian automation market

At the cutting edge of technological progress

In September 2006, the company RODNIK known by Russian industrial community as a vendor of nonstandard and unique IT solutions celebrates its 15th anniversary. The Journal offers the interview with the General Manager of RODNIK Scientific and Production Company Mr. Yu.V.Kirilov.