Industrial Automation

Industrial Automation

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Photovoltaic monitoring - Centralized supervision

Within renewable energies and photovoltaic, Tecnoespe Srl has realized a control room for the management of more than one hundred of photovoltaic systems.
The control room is equipped with high-resolution displays for a practical overview of the status of all systems.
A single centralized supervision will monitor all systems, providing the operator with an effective overview.
Each monitored plant, sends its data to the local supervision used for maintenance and to centralized remote supervision for control operations and system monitoring.
Currently the control room manages 128 plants with our supervision.
This room is also supported by a video surveillance system and intrusion detection system.

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Automation of testing rooms for heat pumps and chillers.

For more than ten years, we offer automation and assistance to companies that make use of test rooms to check their own products or third party products. Tecnoespe has performed many of these works for test rooms dedicated to heat pumps and chillers (air conditioners).
The entire testing process is monitored and controlled by a supervision, which is a program that displays all the data of the cab in real time and in which the operator can perform certain control and management operations.
The reporting system integrated into supervision allows you to collect all the parameters of the machine being checked throughout the test cycle. The generated reports are documents in which all the measurements are given as tables and charts. These reports will be used to certify the testing process of the product.

Test room detail for heat pumps and chillers check.Test room detail for heat pumps and chillers check.

Test room supervision detail for heat pumps and chillers check.


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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Tecnoespe in the dairy industry

For several years Tecnoespe Srl is operating in the dairy sector, offering its automation products and services with professionalism and experience. Among the realizations carried out, there are for example:
    Boilers for the cheese production
  • management and supervision of the entire production process
  • plants for the pasteurization of milk
  • outcrop plants
  • management of boilers for the production of cheese
  • automated salting systems
  • management of cold stores for storage and aging
  • CIP (Clean In Place) for plants washing  .
All works are carried out in full respect of the laws concerning safety and hygiene; the electrical panels, for example, are made in stainless steel and are waterproof for isolate the electrical components from the water.

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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Tecnoespe is also on LinkedIn

To allow an increasing number of users to follow us, we have created our official LinkedIn page. This platform will enable users to follow Tecnoespe Srl and keep up to date with us.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

EnerControl - Monitoring of your PV system

EnerControl is the product developed by Tecnoespe for the control of photovoltaic plants of small and medium sizes.EnerControl - monitoraggio degli impianti fotovoltaici 
This product is characterized by its qualities of simplicity and completeness: the user can access all the essential system data with practicality and immediacy.
EnerControl is also an "open" system: unlike many products on the market, EnerControl is able to communicate with any inverter equipped with a communication protocol well known; this allows it to obtain important data for the detection of faults and/or anomalies of the entire system, regardless of brand of the inverter installed.
Another very important feature of this product is the ability to view the system data from external devices such as smartphones, tablets and PCs. All this by simply connecting EnerControl to your local network (LAN) or to the Internet.


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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Tecnoespe and Facebook

We are also on Facebook!
Tecnoespe Srl official page, was created in the famous social network. To visit it please follow this link.
Click the "Like" button to follow us and stay up to date with our profile.





Monday, September 10, 2012

Tecnoespe realizes the automation for the new hydroelectric plant in Sapanta (Romania) - 10 MW

Tecnoespe Srl will participate in the construction of a new hydroelectric plant of 10 MW in Sapanta (Romania).
As established, Tecnoespe will take care of everything related to the automation: from the construction of switchboard to the development of software that will manage automatically the 4 turbines under construction.

In 2006 Tecnoespe has realized the automation for 4 hydroelectric plants in a Firiza and Blidari north of Baia Mare in Romania (see the related post on our  blog); skills and strong experience will be the key to the creation of this new work.

The approximate area where the new power plant is being built, can be viewed through this link.
Some preview photos of the plant under construction:



In our YouTube channel has also been published a photo slideshow of the construction work.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Tecnoespe - Syrup room automation

In 2009 Tecnoespe Srl realized one of the most modern and sophisticated syrup room. At full speed this plant can produce up to two products (syrups) simultaneously and is also able to serve all seven bottling lines present in the establishment.
Almost all the operations are carried out by automation which is controlled by a Siemens S7-400 CPU in which runs the software developed by Tecnoespe.

PLC software must handle a large number of peripherals:
  • about 500 valves
  • more than 40 motors
  • about 2000 digital input and digital output
  • more than 50 PID controller
  • and much more.
The automation performs various tasks automatically:
  • ingredients mixing
  • pasteurization of certain products
  • wash the system after each preparation
  • preparation of semi-finished products in intermediate silo
  • storage of finished goods awaiting bottling
  • supply of the products to the various lines of the bottling plant
  • etc.
The entire automation process is supervised by Siemens WinCC SCADA software. Two monitors with FULL-HD resolution allow operators to control and oversee the entire syrup room. In addition to these monitors, Tecnoespe provided five thin-client embedded in automation switchboards that surround the syrup room; through these terminals, operators can monitor and control the production process in strategic points of the room, reducing operations times and increasing production .



Detail of a complex series of pneumatic valves; these are used for the distribution of the syrups to bottling lines.

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Tecnoespe - Automation of 4 hydroelectric plants near Firiza and Blidari in Romania.

From year 2006, Tecnoespe Srl has contributed to the realization of 4 hydroelectric power plants in Romania near Firiza and Blidari at north of Baia Mare.
In this project, our company has participated with the provision of the automation solution, including electrical panels, electrical equipment and automation software.

Hydroelectric turbine

In our YouTube channel, there is a new video with several photos and details of plants and turbines.
The main features of this work are:

  • 4 plants placed along the entire valley
  • 10 hydroelectric turbines of which seven of Francis type and three of Pelton type in order to optimize the production of electricity according to the availability of water.
  • 7,2 MW of total power
  • Automatic starting and stopping of each turbine based on the amount of water available.
  • Complete monitoring of all operating parameters to instantly detect failures, faults and / or possible improvements to be implemented.

Each plant is interconnected by a fiber optic backbone which guarantees a very fast and reliable connection. Through this channel, operators can monitor and command a plant while not physically in it.

The production data and operating statistics has been made public through a web application developed by Tecnoespe; this software allows registered users to monitor every single turbine displaying real-time data and historical data.


Hydroelectric power plant supervisor.

Hydroelectric power plant supervisor.


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