#2 2018

CONTENTS №2

Industrial automation companies

Living in the era of IT revolution - This is gripping!

AdAstra based in Moscow successfully operates at the industrial automation market for the recent 25 years. TRACE MODE SCADA system, AdAstra's flagship product is well known in various industries both in Russia and abroad. In the anniversary year, the Journal offers an interview with Mr. L. Anzimirov, the Company's founder and president.

Keywords: SCADA system, process control system, monitoring systems, visualization, import replacement, IT revolution.

Discussing a Topic…

Packaging and housing - The variety of design solutions

Yegorov E.V.  Ten years later, or whether affection is time-limited

By examples of various prototyping and small-lot production technologies for electronics housing the paper offers an simple discussion of the challenges faced in economy digitalization era, such as heuristic algorithm limitations, atomization of material production and its partial migration to service industry, the groundlessness of the hopes for magic "cure-all" technologies as well as the fleeting time, the corruption of morals, and many other things that we take personally.

Keywords: prototyping, housings, electronics, digitalization, form factors.

Derevyago E.V.  Computer's house

The paper overviews commercial housing solutions for industrial automation, such as budgetary systems, high-end solutions, ultrastrong, modular, and for harsh environments. Advanced and traditional development lines are discussed.

Keywords: housing solutions, embedded systems, modular systems, stacked assemblies, interface, harsh environments.

Isanbaev V.F.  This underrated polyester or why pay twice?

Cabinets and boxes for active equipment made of pressed thermosetting materials on the basis of polyester and vinyl ester resins are widely used at the European market. Their advantages as against similar metal products are discussed.

Keywords: cabinets for active equipment, polyester, metal, glass fiber, ecological compatibility.

Cachesov E.E., Gordienko N.S., Farafontov, S.Yu., Tsvetikov A.G.  The development of an automatic storage-battery unit for semiconductor package sealing

Glass-metal packages of semiconductor devices are typically sealed at Russian factories by storage-battery capacitor welding machines. Most of them are worn-out and need replacement. The paper discusses the implementation of a semiautomatic package sealing unit based on a capacitor bank.

Keywords: sealing, packages, semiconductor devices, output, capacitor welding machine.

Shatalov A.G.  Novel housings from MicroMax

Novel housing products from MicroMax are presented. Recommendations on the selection of automation systems are made. a compatibility table for base configurations of M-Max platforms and chassis is included.

Keywords: housing products, chassis, harsh environment, embedded systems, processor.

Discussing a Topic…

Data centers: state of the art

Aristova N.I., Chadeev V.M.  Building data centers - Development outlook

Key development trends of traditional and virtual data centers are discussed. The forecasts of cloud technology development indices in the field of data centers are included. Solutions from CISCO, Schneider Electric, and AMD Technologies ensuring reliable operation and condition monitoring of data center infrastructure are outlined.

Keywords: data center, virtualization, data storage systems, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud technologies, software-defined memory, energy efficiency.

Yegorov E.V.  Complex equipment for data centers' infrastructure

Present-day data centers are outlined with the focus on necessary civil engineering systems. APRA (Germany) offering integrated solutions for data centers design and equipment supply is presented.

Keywords: data center, civil engineering systems, integrated solutions, design.

Shatskaya M.V., Abramov A.A., Likhachev S.F., Seliverstov S.I., Sychev D.A., Fedorov N.A.  Data centers for space radio interferometric projects

The paper analyses the operation of modern scientific data processing centers for major projects such as international space programs with case studies of the ongoing Radioastron and the developed Millimetron projects. Key challenges and the ways to overcome them are outlined.

Keywords: scientific data processing center, extraterrestrial radio source, radio-telescope, multiple antenna system, radio interferometer with very long baselines, tracker stations, correlation and post-correlation data processing, high-performance cluster.

Derghilev N.V., Nikolaev A.B.  Hybrid technologies in industry: new opportunities for control centralization

Under global digitalization conditions, hybrid IT solutions (hybrid clouds) provide the optimal approach to business process automation. These combine traditional IT, private and public clouds. A hybrid cloud is exemplified in the control portal of Technoserv Cloud platform discussed in the paper.

Keywords: hybrid IT solutions, hybrid clouds, public and private cloud, centralized control.

Gulyaev D.A.  Data centers: state of the art

Against the rapid technology growth, the ability of data centers to adapt to changing requirements, be flexible and scalable is becoming significant. The paper lists key development trends of data centers. A case study of Miran-1 (St. Petersburg) data center modernization and scaling is included.

Keywords: data center, servers, uninterruptible power sources, air conditioning.

Goroshkov V.Yu.  Implementation of an information and control system at a food plant

The functionality and architecture of an information and control system implemented at groats and flakes production and packaging site are discussed. Customer's requirements to the system and implementation results are formulated.

Keywords: information and control system, handbooks, reports, production orders, integration, data exchange, communication interface.

Industrial safety and the Unified Enterprise concept

The paper outlines the concept of industrial safety program development. The program should operate at the enterprise level and mitigate the risks related with personnel, processes, and technologies.

Keywords: industrial safety, cyber-security, network infrastructure.

Mitin S.G., Bochkaryov P.Yu.  The development of design procedure models and methods for automating the design of production steps with complex structure

The paper discusses the development of formalized models and methods enabling the automation of the design of production steps with complex structure and multi-product machining systems. It presents design procedure models for production tooling variants forming and production step structure development. A new method for developing rational composition of procedures for the design of production steps with complex structure within a specific manufacturing system is described.

Keywords: design procedures, computerized design, production steps, modeling, process engineering.

Yevdokimovich A.V.  Application features of carbon dioxide concentration sensor

The impact of carbon dioxide concentration in air on human physical condition is discussed. The automatic baseline correction algorithm implemented in SenseAir self-calibrating sensor is described.

Keywords: industrial safety, cyber-security, network infrastructure.

Lippy D.  Foodstuff and beverage tracking technology

The paper presents basic European and American standards regulating the safety of foodstuff and beverage consumers. These standards require the employment of automated tracking technologies at all production stages. Datalogic responds to this challenge with a variety of automatic identification tools.

Keywords: guidelines, barcode, scanner, tracking technology, laser marking, imager scanners.

Yurieva R.A., Viksnin I.I., Muradov A.R., Maslennikov O.S., Komarov I.I., Pantyukhin I.S.  Detecting new cyberattacks against cyber-physical systems by means of anomaly detection technique

The paper presents the results of the research aimed at cybersecurity improvement of distributed multi-agent cyber-physical systems (CPS). The work included the analysis of hidden destructive information impacts which do not destruct the design operation of system's components, the development of the space of indirect CPS operation symptoms allowing to conclude about the cyberattack hazard. The research resulted in the development of an extended approach to the detection of new cyberattacks against a CPS based on indirect symptoms of complex system's operation. It enables the development of robust algorithms for automatic identification of information attacks, counteraction techniques, and the replenishment of Business Intelligence functionality.

Keywords: cybersecurity, multi-agent distributed cyber-physical systems, hidden destructive information impact, attack identification.

Antonova G.M., Titov A.P.  Network batch simulator for modeling dynamic properties of communications network

Commercial network batch simulators help to solve a variety of telecommunications network research and improvement problems. However, they do not enable the simulation of network's dynamic properties. The paper describes the structure and operation algorithm of a batch simulator allowing for network's dynamics.

Keywords: network batch simulator, communications networks, dynamic properties, simulation.