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Inventory Monitoring exampleInventory Monitoring with Levelflex M and Fieldgate FXA520

Cement plant in Greece Loactions of sites Levelflex M FMP40

Aget Heracles,

GR

Features

Integer bulk storage information / direct

reporting without failures

Reliable and immediate feedback of the

actual and available (inbound) stocks at

each and every depot (outbound) world-

wide

Provides optimum availability based on

the needs of your customers (outbound

stocks)

Benefits

Reduce logistical cost and increase added

value

Easy to implement in current logistic

systems using open Web standards (XML

technology)

Easy implementation in the current

technical production environment using

digital communication

Cement head office

FXA520

Local SCADA

network

FMP40

4...20 HART

Cement silo with 20 m

height equipped with

Levelfex M FMP40

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Instruments International

Endress+Hauser GmbH+Co. KG

Instruments International

P.O. Box 2222

79574 Weil am Rhein

Germany

Tel. +49 7621 975 02

Fax +49 7621 975 345

http://www.endress.com

info@ii.endress.com

CS 010B/11/en/01.05

55001832

IMPR/INDD 2.0

National inventory control for cement storage and

distribution depots in Greece

Plus: Worldwide service and support with Fieldgate and software

Features

Remote service with Fieldgate HART

client

Remote set-up and diagnostics of con-

nected instruments with standard device

operation tools, e.g. ToF-Tool (for level +

pressure) and FieldCare (all products)

Commissioning tailored to the actual

situation on site saves time

Benefits

Easy implementation using open Web

standards and open digital communicati-

on (HART, FF, PROFIBUS) technology

Immediate and reliable feedback of the

actual instrument status e.g. envelope

curves from ToF (Time of Flight) products

Predictive maintenance with DTM

supplied field-devices using FieldCare

means real time condition monitoring e.g.

automatic instrument check up and error

reporting

Cement is not only cement; there are

different kinds of mixtures with different

properties on the market available today.

Cement is available in large quantities

everywhere and even on some places thereis overproduction of cement. Competition is

therefore hard. To bind customers, increase

of added value and/or cost reduction is a

must to survive.

To reduce and predict shorter delivery times

and to fulfill producing on demand means

a better knowledge of the inbound stock

situation on every production facility. This

requirement came from the marketing and

sales department witch are located far from

the different cement production facilities.

When inbound stock data is available in

production environment then it is still hardto get it from the plant process control

system. There is always hesitation when

a third party wants to access the process

control systems witch are supplied and

maintained by somebody else.

Even when there is a possibility to hook

on then it is expensive to get this data in

a standard office environment which the

sales and marketing department is using.

On top of that most of the plant processcontrol systems used on several locations

are different. This means that implementati-

on has to be done over and over again with

different software.

AGET HERACLES is one of the biggest

cement exporters in Europe and certainly

the largest cement manufacturer in Greece

with 3 production plants and numerous

storage and distribution depots situated all

over Greece. Endress+Hauser representa-

tive, I&G Controls has been entrusted of

setting up of the inventory control system

for an initial number of remote storagesand distribution depots on the island of

Crete, the Peloponese and in the mainland

especially Northern Greece.

A total of eight depots are linked up to total

15 storage silos. The cement storage silos at

these remote locations are equipped with

Levelflex M FMP40 instruments for con-

tinuous level measurement. Acquisition ofthe measured data is accomplished by the

Fieldgate FXA520, which in turn makes this

data available to the companys Ethernet

Network. Having Fieldgate as an inventory

access point, it provides an easy access of all

the instrument data without any interfe-

rence to the production control systems.

In this case the HART protocol of several

levels on the different production locations

devices were collected and transferred. The

Fieldgate acts as an internet server creating

intranet pages on demand.

In this way the companys headquartersin Athens have reliable and immediate

feedback of the actual and available stocks

at each and every depot. The system is

proving in invaluable tool for manage-

ment stock control, delivery planning and

scheduling.