Enterprise control system of brewing malt production for Nymburk Malting Plant

For several years, the PROTECO, s.r.o. company from the city of Pardubice has been implementing a new enterprise control system of brewing malt production, energy saving and water works in the Nymburk Malting Plant. Most systems in the malting plant are controlled by Teco PLCs. Communication between Teco PLCs and the control room is provided by the Reliance SCADA/HMI system. The main aim of implementing the new control system was to control all systems in the malting plant.

The new enterprise control system provides

Control of receiving and dispatching departments
Control of storing and conveying the malting barley and malt from the silos
Control of the rettery, kiln, cooling system and the weighing department
Control of the cleaning device, degerming machine, cooling basket and the fan exhauster
Control of the Malting Plant water service
Waste water treatment plant
Control of the water preparing plant in the Sadská-Písty remote station
Control of the main power take-off and its quarter maximum

View of the barley germination in the Saladin trough

The implemented SCADA-based system consists of

Seven computers within the main building of the Malting Plant
Two computers for communication with remote stations (Sadska-Pisty water preparing plant, waste treatment plant)
Eight computers with Reliance Runtime View, installed for monitoring all significant production parts

All computers in the Malting Plant are connected to the local network (LAN) and communicate mutually via TCP/IP protocol. More than one hundred visualization screens were created in the Reliance system to provide reliable control of the Malting Plant. Most of the visualization views display a certain part of the production technology, the rest of them provide control of the facility parts.

One of the control rooms with the Reliance system installed on the computers

The SCADA-based system provides

Monitoring system processes
Controlling system processes
Generating alarms
Logging data
Creating special reports
Displaying trends of process variables
HTML documentation
Displaying detailed information about the malting barley and malt silos (including monitoring and archiving temperatures of the silos)