INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS LTD (ITS) WINS A £640K+ CONTRACT TO IMPLEMENT A SIEMENS PCS 7 CONTROL SYSTEM BASED ON PCS 7 ARCHITECTURE FOR NATIONAL GRID
National Grids Churchover site currently receives gas from the North only. This gas is compressed and piped off the station for delivery to Wales and the South West via the National Transmission System. National Grid is installing new facilities to enable the supply of natural gas from the Milford area of Wales to the National Transmission System.
AMEC has won the overall contract to install the gas compressor unit, new gas metering and new multi-junction valves including upgrades to the Fire & Gas, Station Protection and Station Control Systems to support the new bi directional flow of natural gas. AMEC has awarded Industrial Technology Systems Ltd (ITS), a Siemens solution provider, a £640K+ contract to design, configure, implement and test the PLC and SCADA hardware and software for the Siemens PCS 7 control system based on Siemens PCS 7 architecture.
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The new control solution, designed by ITS’ engineers will be fully dual redundant and consist of the Fire & Gas, Station Protection and Station Control Systems. The solution will consist of two Siemens PCS 7 servers, three Siemens dual redundant PCS 7 controllers on a fault tolerant industrial ethernet network, two operator stations, dual redundant I/O and power supplies.
The Safety Integrity Level required for each function in the plant control, shut down and control systems will be assessed, designed and implemented in accordance with the IEC 61508 and 61511 principles.
Malcolm Knott, Managing Director of ITS said, “We are delighted to have won this project and will be dedicated to delivering it successfully and strengthening our relationship with AMEC. Our team is looking forward to further use of the technology, expanding our knowledge internally and applying our expertise in IEC 61508 to win more safety-related projects in the future.”
For further information contact Industrial Technology Systems Ltd, Middlesbrough.
Tel: +44 (0)1642 222232 Fax: +44 (0)1642 222166
E-mail: enquiries@its-ltd.co.uk Web: www.its-ltd.co.uk/news-siemens-pcs7-contract.htm
