 The Elmis company (Belarus) has developed a serial project for modernization of control systems for concrete mixing plants with the capacity of 40 m3 per hour and inplemented it on the Stetter plant (Germany).
The control system provides possible alterations of the Stetter plant layout (for example, from vertical to horizontal) during its assemblage at a new location and takes into account the relevant changes at all levels of the project.
The intellectual part of the control system consists of a Siemens Simatic PLC and a PC-based controller under control of TRACE MODE SCADA software providing a human-mashine interface in the Windows environment.
Due to capabilities of the TRACE MODE development kit, the controller software can be adapted to a joint operation with electric automatic devices being already available, which allows to avoid expensive works on complete re-installation of electric equipment.
In doing so, the Stetter concrete mixing plant has retained all its basic functions but was enabled for personalisation at eventual customer's request, which in the given conditions can be implemented more  effectively.
Such approach has brilliantly proven itself in modernization of a Stetter concrete mixing plant of Glavmosstroy-Beton (Moscow, Russia).
This project can also be adapted, to a certain extent, to modernization of concrete mixing plants of other manufacturers.
Due to the project implementation, the customer got an opportunity to launch the foreign equipment and to control it through operator interface in local language. |
AdAstrA Research Group has released a new SCADA TRACE MODE runtime module, TRACE MODE Data Center, providing remote access to real-time control system information using web-browser via Internet/Intranet or wireless networks (GSM, GPRS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth).
New free of charge drivers for TOSHIBA TOSVERT series frequency converters are added to the TRACE MODE SCADA/HMI software and published at the AdAstra Web site for download:
On January 30, 2007, a new release of the integrated SCADA-system TRACE MODE 6.05 has been made available, both in Professional and Standard editions. 
AdAstra Company (Russia) announced the release of real-time monitor (LinRTM) for the operating system Linux. 
The Krasnodar heat and power plant launched an automated control system for the 2nd power unit that was developed using SCADA TRACE MODE system and the RK-131/300M controllers.
AdAstrA Research Group, Ltd made available an external driver for Micro TRACE MODE 6 industrial controller programming system. This driver is designed to connect WinCon 8000 controller to sensors and flowmeters using a popular HART protocol. 
