▶ C'mon over to https://realpars.com/ where you can learn PLC programming faster and easier than you ever thought possible! ============================= ▶ Check out the full blog post over at https://realpars.com/isa100-wireless-applications ============================= ⌚Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:23 - Single wireless network infrastructure 02:50 - Benefits of installing ISA100 Wireless 03:01 - 1) Lower capital expenditure 03:32 - 2) Decreased deployment time 03:43 - 3) Increased insights and efficiency 04:07 - 4) Advanced continuous improvement 04:32 - ISA100 Wireless enables the future ============================= ISA100 Wireless is an end-user-driven, standards-based, and robust wireless protocol. https://isa100wci.org/ It adds value by extending existing ISA100 Wireless applications, enabling new ISA100 Wireless applications, eliminating protocol barriers, and enabling the IIoT. Alcoa is a global industry leader in bauxite, alumina, and aluminum products. As Alcoa assessed their automation systems and their path to digital maturity, they envisioned a single wireless network that could serve as a plant-wide utility. The inherent features of ISA100 Wireless allow it to act as just such a single wireless infrastructure, a network of networks, which can house many different types of wireless protocols. Their vision was multi-faceted, providing automation connectivity from sensor-level data to the operator interface. ISA100 Wireless provides Alcoa with an engineered, secure, managed, and integrated wireless network. As with any complex process facility, sensors and actuators are chosen based on suitability for purpose and for providing a set of functions that support the needs of the process. This required using wireless instrumentation and sensors from a variety of protocols supplied by a variety of vendors. ISA100 Wireless allowed Alcoa to use various devices, including remote wireless sensors, and mobile operating devices. ISA100 Wireless is the only wireless protocol that is ready for true IIoT integration, with features such as IPv6, enhanced routing, IPsec security features, and online provisioning all built into the protocol. What benefits did Alcoa actually realize by using ISA100 Wireless in this way? 1) A key benefit was a lower capital expenditure from reduced installation and life-cycle costs using wireless devices instead of wired devices. Wired devices require expensive initial installations of conduit and wire, cable trays, and/or buried cable ducts. Moreover, corrosion, water infiltration, short circuits, and damaged wiring are all issues that wired instrumentation systems must contend with during their lifecycle which wireless systems do not. 2) Since wireless instruments need only be mounted at the sensing point, there is a significantly decreased deployment time for ISA100 Wireless sensors and devices. 3) ISA100 Wireless enabled the use of mobile sensors for troubleshooting or performing trials, an approach that was impossible with wired sensors. With the ability of the operator to monitor and maintain the process closer to the equipment, Alcoa was able to benefit from increased insights and efficiency from the deployment and use of mobile worker applications. 4) Integration of the newly available wireless data directly from the existing equipment and new machine-mounted sensor types enabled advanced continuous improvement processes using plant-wide process models, rich data repositories, advanced analytics, and agile maintenance methods, all of which allow operators to visualize and understand plant problems and opportunities in ways previously impossible. Alcoa is working with ISA100 Wireless instrument vendors to develop new devices to meet their automation needs. A couple of examples include: - A Lower cost lightweight wireless pressure transmitter - A Wireless safety shower panic button - A Wireless push button - An ISA100 Wireless serial interface https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYY8Nf2JApbKbAFDMXqzAZA ============================= WiFi vs Industrial Wireless | What is the difference? https://realpars.com/wifi-vs-industrial-wireless What is ISA100 Wireless? https://realpars.com/isa100-wireless ============================= Missed our most recent videos? Watch them here: https://realpars.com/hmi-philosophy https://realpars.com/plcnext-ladder-logic https://realpars.com/factory-acceptance-test ============================= To stay up to date with our last videos, make sure to subscribe to this YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/realpars ============================= TWEET THIS VIDEO https://ctt.ac/dSRKE ============================= Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealpars Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/realpars Follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/realpars Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/realparsdotcom #RealPars #ISA #Wireless