Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal Upgrade.
VRT recently completed an upgrade
to the interface between the new Rockwell ControlLogix/RSView automation system and the Mincom MineTrak production
scheduling system
DBCT Senior Control Systems Engineer, Greg Potter said "The VRT project was one of the few contributors to
this complex, multifaceted major upgrade that came in on time, on
budget and worked first time, and it was possibly the most technically
challenging component of the whole system."
SATEC Energy Meters Chosen for the Brisbane International Airport.
The Brisbane International Airport has joined the ranks of other major
international airports (Tel Aviv, Kuala Lumpur) with the installation of over 250 SATEC PM130 energy meters,
which are used to bill tenants. With the Government pushing for an Emissions Trading Scheme,
perhaps now is the time to talk to VRT about your energy measuring and reporting needs.
We can show you how SATEC and RUMS can give you a head start. Read more »
The LongView™ Family contiues to grow.
In essence, Longview is a packaged SCADA solution, specifically for longwall coal
mines. It is based on the CitectSCADA platform. It also acts as an integrating platform
for all of the currently disconnected islands that still exist to varying (and increasing)
degrees in many longwall mines.
Read more »
Brisbane Buses go Underground
[May-08] Queensland Transport's Inner Northern Busway (INB), including the underground bus station
below King George Square in the Brisbane CBD, was completed in May 2008, ahead
of time and below budget.
VRT Systems provided the overall systems integration role for all of the ITS
(Intelligent Transport Systems), as well as the PLC programming and SCADA
configuration.
Read more »
MacroView now even more OPEN.
MacroView was released on Linux several years ago. These installations have proved to be highly
reliable and possess superior performance compared with other Unix and Microsoft platforms. The recent release on Sun OpenSolaris brings the industrial strength Sun
platform back into the SCADA marketplace, but this time the OS is FREE and runs
on the standard, low cost Intel platform. This results in a best of all worlds: cost, performance and reliability. Improved security is an additional bonus.
Contact VRT's John Meehan for more info at johnm@vrt.com.au
PlantPortal now on the World Wide Web.
VRT developed the first version of its PlantPortal product in 1996 to give CSR
managers based in Brisbane a real-time monitoring capability to their
automation system in the Ord River sugar mill based in Kunnunurra in the
northwest of WA, via a simple web browser interface. This all ran on CSR's private wide area network. Read more »
VRT Archives.
For Previous News Articles Read more »
