Streamlining Process Automation

An oil refinery with the capacity to process about 230,000 barrels of crude oil per day needed a solution that allowed operators to control SCADA servers both locally and remotely in order to manage large amounts of information from their process automation systems.

The facility has server rooms at four separate sites that, in addition to running various automated processes, also monitor downstream sensor information via long-range wireless. The server rooms required local control functionality, but for security reasons, no PCs or laptops were allowed in the remote site control room, while the solution also had to support FHD, be rack-mountable, and support barcode scanners.