70 Series Release Version 3.07 Firmware, Configurator, and Utilities CD were released in early November. Features include: Increased pre- and post-trigger times in the disturbance recorders. Corrected a minor issue detected in v3.05 and v3.06 that made the Configurator incompatible with older versions of firmware under rare occurrences. Improved BiView functionality with multi-drop RS-485 (BiView [...]
The OrionLX Renewable is an OrionLX with features and commercial terms tailored to the needs of wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and biomass developers, including: Full featured standard OrionLX Renewable model with the physical and software options requested on 80% of renewable projects Ships within 10 days of order 10-year Warranty Adding to the hundreds of [...]
With PCs applied in critical substations now being designated by NERC as “critical cyber assets,” engineers need to consider alternatives to the substation PC. With the OrionLX and the new Direct Video option, the substation HMI PC can be replaced with a simpler VGA terminal, eliminating HMI-related security concerns. The OrionLX Direct Video option is [...]
Utility-Grade Engineering Outperforms Competitive Solutions Clamp-on CTs present a faster, easier way to install power measurement IEDs, but often come with unacceptable compromises to consistent and accurate measurements. Engineers at the Bitronics Power Measurement Group have elegantly addressed this issue with the new external split-core CT option, available for all 50 Series SCADA Meters. The [...]
IEC 61131-3 is the international standard for programmable logic controller (PLC) programming languages and specifies the syntax, semantics and display for five languages. Multiple language support in IEC 61131-3 enables the control program developer to select the language that is best suited to a particular task.
M653 Three-At-Once Display Meter Bitronics M653 The M653 is a three-display-at-once meter mounted in a 19”, 3U high panel. This gives users who want to display three values at once (such as 3-phase volts, 3-phase amps and total Watt/VAR) a simple way to hook up one meter and have the three-screen display they want without [...]
NovaTech is pleased to announce the release of D/3® V14.0-1. This software version provides the following features: An option that allows the PVN Console login to work without requiring windows authentication The sequence database string region is increased to four Megabytes WinSSD Enhancements A new PCMINFO function in SABL. This function returns information on the [...]
D/3 and 8000 I/O to Control ADM’s Combined Biofuels and Chemical Product Pilot Facility ADM’s Development Products Division recently selected the NovaTech D/3 and 8000 Series I/O for a new Department of Energy funded biomass/biofuels pilot plant in Decatur, IL. The pilot facility will demonstrate an integrated fuel and chemical production operation with higher operational [...]
Well designed and consistently executed Applications Standards can be of great value in addressing the knowledge transfer challenges of an aging workforce and obsolete system components. NovaTech has worked with numerous customers to develop and implement consistent application standards across their global enterprises, and we continue to invest in our own engineers’ abilities to develop [...]
Chris Kourliouros demonstrates the latest version of the D/3® ProcessVision™ Console. NovaTech Europe BVBA held its third NovaTech International Conference Europe (NICE) Day on June 27. D/3® Users from ADM, Cargill, Kemira, Zebra, and Sabic were given presentations and live demos of the latest NovaTech products and integrated solutions. They gave feedback on the [...]
NovaTech Welcomes Jean Bandy as Head of D/3® Process Solutions Division! NovaTech employees and customers are excited that Jean Bandy has rejoined NovaTech to head up NovaTech’s Process Automation Division. After starting her career as a process engineer, Jean became a D/3 application engineer, transitioned to Miller Brewing, and eventually became head of MillerCoors’ plant [...]
Order guides for the Bitronics® 70 Series dual feeder models (M872 and M572) have been updated to include the new dual range options. The dual range option allows for a narrower current over range (four times nominal) but higher revenue accuracy (0.2 class) on bus 1 with a wider current over range (twenty times nominal) [...]
This new document, entitled “NERC CIP Cyber Security and the OrionLX Automation Platform” summarizes the cyber security features in the OrionLX and how they can be applied to address the following: • Creating Strong Passwords / User Groups • Setting up a Firewall • Setting up Remote Authentication • Changing Passwords [...]
The fourth of NovaTech’s eight 2011 Technical Symposiums attracted engineers from neighboring utilities to our Owings Mills, Maryland office. Engineers from PPL Utilities, Dominion Virginia Power, and Pepco presented on their experiences with using NovaTech products and services to address challenges in Capacitor Bank Monitoring, Turnkey RTU Replacement, and Distribution Substation SCADA Design. NovaTech’s John [...]
Jean Bandy joins NovaTech, LLC as Vice President of Operations for the company
On July 30, 2010, NovaTech officially released D/3® Version 14.0 on four (4) operating systems: Windows XP, Windows 7 (32 bit), Windows Server 2003 and the 64 bit Windows 2008 R2.
New Belgium Brewing (Fort Collins, Colorado), which has grown in recent years to become the nation’s third largest craft brewery, built their business on a culture of sustainability.
M651 Transducer 50 Series IP Address Identity Tool A new utility program for 50 series meters requests the IP address for a specifi c MAC address on an Ethernet network. The program, available on the 50 Series page of our website, uses the Inverse Address Recognition Protocol (InARP) to perform the lookup, and can also scan [...]
File I/O operations now supported in Orion Advanced Math and Logic New Poll Modification Application This application changes the interval in which Orion polls an IEDs from what’s configured in the NCD program. This feature will be used in a DA application to reduce the poll rate if the primary power source to a [...]
After installing Inkscape and updating NCD, users can draw screens from scratch or adapt existing templates. These screens are then associated with outputs and inputs from an XML Slave file configured in Orion, then uploaded to Orion for viewing. No PC-based HMI software or licensing fees are required. An Orion WEBserver SCADA system can [...]