Most people know what crowdfunding is, but beerfunding? Yes, it does exist! Brewery De Moersleutel from Alkmaar wanted to expand and created a beer fund promotion to make that happen. Beer, beer engineers, beerfunding; it sounded like music to our ears. No doubt CoNet...
The only company in the World with an in-house Energy Test & Development center. Yes, we did it! CoNet is the First Siemens partner worldwide to develop a test box enabling us to simulate any high-voltage environment – be it a wind farm, a network or an entire...
Royaan improves her process quality & efficiency. With the ambition to further manage her process quality and efficiency, Royaan sought a way to improve logging of production data and benefit from this information. Primary goal was to enable the process operators...
Lindegas and CoNet teamed up to pull off the software migration for two large nitrogen compressors in the Lindegas-plant in IJmuiden. Everything was nicely done within the set time limit and budget, in conformity with the CSIA-protocol. “That is exactly how a project...
The company The Linde Group is a globally operating producer of gases. The production of among other things nitrogen and oxygen - and Linde’s specialisations - is based on the separation of air. The technique used is the so-called cryogenic separation technique...
A clear assignment makes for an attractive project. Gebr. van der Lee / Tank Terminal Dordrecht were very clear indeed: "Migrate the existing ABB / Omron / Priva systems to Siemens PCS 7 and make sure that the terminal stays in service without any failures or...
HHNK - migration of burner control system "Migrate the current process control systems in such a way that we gain insight into the whole process and specifically energy consumption, increase logging of process generated data and hopefully enable us to increase...
The company Dutch Cocoa produces high-grade cocoa products for the chocolate, dairy and cosmetic industry world-wide. In the Amsterdam cocoa plant, cocoa beans from Africa, South-America, Middle-America, South-East Asia and Brazil are transformed into cocoa mass,...
At some point the die has to be cast and the decision to implement a major upgrade is made. This was the case at Dutch Cocoa. In order to prevent incompatibility and further guarantee operational reliability, it was decided to upgrade the current PCS 7 system. Version...
Process software can become obsolete or newer software versions are released. Usually, upgrading the process control system has many advantages; increased functionality and better integration with other process components. However, a risk also exists; a badly...