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Features
- User
friendly format designed for NT Windows – with a plot
plan cover screen
- It
boasts compatibility with any existing tank gauges
- Users
can call up configurable group’s display allowing
client specific set up
- Detailed
single Tank displays
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Provides Inventory Management information
- Tank
Level Monitoring
- Temperature
Monitoring
- Temperature
Profiling
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Water Interface Monitoring
- Density
Profiling
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Complete configurable alarm logging, with colour coding
configurable audio alarm system and integrated security
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Historical Data Trending Inventory Reports
- Extensive
Diagnostics
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Interactive Help facility accessible through Motherwell
Control Systems Web Site
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Five-tier security system
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Introduction
‘NT5000’
is our Windows NT based system for ‘real-time’ monitoring
of tank gauges on medium to large tank farms.
The NT5000
Tank Gauging System has been designed to facilitate centralised
management of liquid products over a wide geographical area.
It’s intuitive
point and click user interface allows users to display and
print tank inventory, status and historical data with the
click of a mouse. In a nutshell, the system has been designed
with ease of use in mind.
The system
also incorporates full pipeline flow control capabilities,
enabling the operator to open and close valves, start and
stop pumps with usual indication of the state of the devices
on the system.
The system
is fully configurable for each individual client’s needs.
The check
and pack option performs an integrity check of the systems
databases. Free space in data files is also recovered.
Plot
Plan Cover Screen
This screen
provides an aerial view of the client’s tank farm and allows
the operator to navigate through the various features of NT5000,
with the support of the Tool Bar and the Command Now Menu.
Alarms
Users
will receive alarms to warn of various states, accompanied
by an audible message identifying the alarm type. Further,
Tank Icons have been colour co-ordinated for additional practicality.
Monitoring
Tank Movements
NT5000
allows users to record the ‘start’ and ‘end’ dips of tank
movements. During tank movement the approximate Flow Rate
is calculated for the changing liquid level and displayed
on the movement page, and the progress on the column shows
the quantity of product received / delivered in ‘real time’.
Graphs
Graphical
displays of data are available within the NT5000 system. The
user can opt to trend, Level / Temperature / Gross Volume,
for any tank within any selected periods of time.
Furthermore,
an alarm bar chart is also available to illustrate alarms
generated within the system for the given time period. The
system can achieve a number of forms of graph types such as
3D depth, line graphs.
Tank
Details
Security
The integrated
security system has five levels, each operator is allocated
one of these levels. Some information or control can therefore
remain the responsibility of selected personnel. The system
identifies what level the current user has been allocated,
through their unique password.
Added
security is provided through the ‘back up’, and ‘check and
pack databases’ features.
Under
normal circumstances, users do not have to back up any part
of the system, because this is done automatically each day
by the system at 2:00am.
Users
can examine an extensive range of tank data. The windows in
which clients can access this data are the Inventory, Set
Up, Gauge, Alarms, Alarm Log, Movement and PLC. (See Screen
Shots).
Compatibility
The software
communicates with a wide variety of tank gauges. It currently
communicates with the complete range of Motherwell Control
Systems tank gauges (Float, Servo, Radar, Intelligent Transmitter
Boards). Whessoe Servo and Float Gauges, Modbus compatible
systems, AS40 systems, ASCII compatible systems, GE Faunc
PLC range, Mitsubishi PLC range, 123 compatible systems etc.
The system
has an open architecture allowing new hardware / technologies
to be easily supported.
The systems
database is paradox based and is therefore ODBC compliant.
Motherwell Control Systems can provide ODBC integrated systems
to allow easy reporting on live tank gauging data to Word,
Excel, Access and any other ODBC compliant system.
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