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Lightweight Data Monitoring

A major nutrition company invests in thin client monitoring for its SCADA system to reduce industrial PC maintenance costs and provide better redundancy.

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There’s been a wave of industry reports about how control platforms, middleware and business solutions can dramatically improve food and beverage plant efficiencies. Sensor cost, cloud storage, lightweight systems and experienced system integrators are just some of the reasons why enterprises are adding new technologies to plant floors.

Sometimes it calls for addition by subtraction. Recently, a multinational nutrition company removed the industrial PCs tied to its supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, replacing them with a thin client. The ACP ThinManager provides the ability to remove software maintenance routines by implementing thin client PCs on the plant floor or control rooms. The processing is done by a central server.

The objective was to reduce PC maintenance costs, speed up disaster recovery and provide redundancy at the client level—all without affecting the validated state of the system, according to Malisko Engineering, the system integrator that implemented the system.

The company operates in food production, so it falls under strict regulations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Each aspect of its system must be validated through thorough documentation. The FDA validation for this company includes acceptable, trustworthy electronic signatures of processes and batches.

The company’s architecture consists of 10 production areas with individual SCADA servers and 48 thick clients. These thick clients include a mixture of desktop PCs and industrial touchscreen PCs.

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