GE Fanuc’s Singapore water project one of the largest integrated SCADA systems

GE Fanuc Automation Inc, a unit of GE Industrial, has announced it is working with CH2M HILL, a multinational engineering firm and designer of Singapore’s Deep Tunnel Sewerage System, on what is said to be one of the largest integrated SCADA systems in the world. One of the project’s first centralized water reclamation facilities, the Changi plant, is configured with approximately 500,000 tags across an architecture of 50 nodes running the newly-announced Proficy iFIX 4.0, according to the company.

iFIX HMI/SCADA is part of the Proficy family of automation software products, a single intelligent production solution that will work with existing multi-vendor hardware and software solutions to gather and analyze data. Solutions can connect to equipment across the entire physical enterprise to deliver both on-line monitoring for rapid operational response as well as collect historical data as the foundation for continuous improvement.

iFIX 4.0, scheduled for wide distribution this month, offers canned functionality to drill into tag details, instantly trend variables, view enterprise data through hosted portal displays and deliver thin client connectivity to SCADA nodes through terminal services. Graphic tools deliver a variety of drawing productivity tools and advanced capabilities for 3D Piping and connected object management.

“The ever-increasing demands on today’s Water and Wastewater facilities require an increasing level of capability from the supporting automation and information technology,” said Glenn Graney, GE Fanuc Business Development Manager for the Water Wastewater Industry. “The Changi project is a great example of what effective design and productive partnerships can achieve.”

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