A PC based SCADA
system has been
used to upgrade a fire
behaviour training
rig at Staffordshire
Fire & Rescue Services
Headquarters (Photo
courtesy of Staffordshire
Fire and Rescue Service).
training situations that the trainees
have been exposed to. It also generates
a record of the warnings of when pre-
agreed temperature limits are about to be
exceeded, which can be used to identify
individual fire fighter’s successful decision-
making sequences and for condition
monitoring of the equipment.
Based on Movicon NExT, Progea’s
revolutionary future-proof SCADA platform,
the fire training rig is fully modular,
scalable and open. Movicon.NExT is
designed so that users can easily achieve
optimum solutions for HMI, supervision,
MES, historian and analysis duties, yet it
also provides a flexible solution that can
be reconfigured if requirements change.
Further it can easily integrate with cutting
edge technologies and solutions, such
as 3D graphics, animation, multimedia,
augmented reality, Industry 4.0 and the IoT
to expand systems capability.
Paul Bunn at S&H Systems says, “After four
months of use, the fire trainers have given
positive feedback regarding the ease of
use of the system, security of data and the
reliability/stability of the control system.
Since these were key parameters set-out
when we embarked on the project that is
a great compliment to us and the software
we chose to build the system around.”
S&H Systems has been supplying control
systems for fire training rigs and many
other applications for over 20 years now. It
has an international client base and installs
and supports systems worldwide. Mr Bunn
says that standardising on the Progea
Movicon/NeXT SCADA platform from
P4A ensures a cost-effective solution for
both basic HMI and complex SCADA type
applications.
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The control system monitors
the temperature within a
number of training rigs to
drive read outs that display
the temperature at a number
of different points in a
burning building.