An ISO 9001:2000 Company

Profile - Industrial Automation Division

www.ascentautomation.com
 About AIPL
• Ascent Informatics (India) Pvt. Ltd. is dedicated to
provide innovative IT solutions to its customers
• Young and enthusiastic team of 40+ Software
Professionals
• We strongly believe in 3 Ps
• People
• Our customers and our employees
• Processes
• Process driven, but agile approach in every activity sphere
• Products
• High quality work products
 AIPL’s USP

• AIPL takes pride in its business ethics and

professionalism
• We feel following qualities set us apart from our
competitors and they go much beyond technology -
• Flexible and sensitive to client’s needs
• Easy to work with
• Resources continuity and retention
• Involvement of top management in projects - quality +
productivity
• Cost effective and great value for money
 Industrial Automation Domain

• Industrial Automation is a vast domain with

applications ranging from plant-wide DCS to building
automation solutions to dedicated embedded solutions
• We understand these domains of process automation,
factory automation, building automation…
• AIPL has worked in many types of applications
• Web based monitoring and control
• Web enabling of hardware
• SCADA
• Device Drivers
• Embedded Systems
 Application Characteristics

• There are some special characteristics of

industrial automation applications
• Real time systems
• Optimization for performance and memory
• Continuously running (start it…forget it…)
• Interface with various types of hardware
• At AIPL, we understand and consider these
aspects in design and development
 Industrial Automation Division

• This division is dedicated to PC based and Embedded

Solutions for Industrial Automation domain
• Engineers working in this division are trained in the
domain
• This division offers a solution, PlantConnect, for
web-based remote monitoring of plants, factories and
devices
• IA division works in 3 broad areas –
• PlantConnect – Solution Implementations &
Customizations
• Turn key projects in Industrial Automation
• Embedded Development
 Business Canvas
• Turnkey Projects

• Setting up Offshore/Onsite Team

• Product Lifecycle Management

• PlantConnect Implementations
 Turnkey Projects

• Full lifecycle / partial projects based on customer

specifications
• Development of SCADA, Monitoring and Control
Systems, Data Acquisition Systems, Device Drivers,
many more…..
• Flexible development models depending on project
needs – waterfall, agile, iterative etc.
• Leveraging industrial automation domain knowledge
• Quality processes followed in all phases
• Proper documentation
 Offshore/Onsite Team
• Setting up teams / individual consultants to work
from offshore / onsite as extension of your team
• Necessary infrastructure and process maturity for
multi-location operations
• Adequate security / network isolation
• Project Manager / Team Leader to manage the team
• Leveraging industrial automation domain knowledge
• Ownership of quality and delivery with AIPL
• Quick scaling up
Product Lifecycle Management

• Product conceptualization in partnership with

customer
• Technology selection
• Product building and testing
• Packaging including security and IP issues
• Product release
• Post release support and upgrades
• Product configuration (version) management
 PlantConnect Implementations

• PlantConnect is solution offered by AIPL for remote

monitoring & control of devices (see details)
• We will
• Study your needs of remote monitoring & control
• Customize PlantConnect to suit your needs
• Get best of both worlds – std product features and
customized features
• Cost effective
• Quick project completion
• Custom branding in your name is possible
 Projects in Industrial Automation
• PlantConnect – AIPL Solution
• PlantConnect - AAQMS
• OPC Client > SuperAxis OPC Client
• Data Acquisition > PC Data Logger
• Remote Monitoring & Control > WebOSP
• Remote Monitoring > Q-web
• Remote Monitoring > Web View
• Trend Viewer > Master Viewer
• Embedded Systems > T-API Firmware Porting
• Embedded Systems > KBPrompt Porting
• Embedded Systems > Prizm V3
• SCADA > Visu4WINners
• SCADA > VCOS
• Device drivers list
 Web based system
for

Monitoring & Control

of

Devices
through

Intranet / Internet
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 PlantConnect Overview

• Web based distributed solution for monitoring and

control of factories, plants and equipments
• Scalable, flexible and can be adapted to different
deployment scenarios
• Can connect to controllers from different manufacturers
• PlantConnect allows authorized users to monitor and
control these devices using a standard web browser from
anywhere anytime
• Provides huge cost savings for maintenance and support
teams and improves their response time
• OOAD, J2EE, C++, OPC, MS Access

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PlantConnect
Architecture • Data Acquisition
Server (DAS) connects
and polls devices
which are to be
monitored. DAS uses
protocols like OPC,
Modbus etc.
• One DAS per site
• DAS sends the data to
PlantConnect
continuously (if server
on Intranet) or
periodically (if server
on Internet)
• PlantConnect server
provides various
functions to browser
based clients
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 Features
• Connection to multiple devices using various protocols
like OPC, Modbus etc.
• View online data of all devices – trends / values
• View mimic pages of all devices
• Alarms and events alerts and acknowledgement
• Set point change
• Historical data view
• Alarms history view
• Customizable Reports
• Various charts for analysis, e.g. frequency distribution,
polar, wind rose
• Appropriate security features

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 Deployment

• Remote Monitoring - Monitor devices from anywhere

anytime
• Equipments installed at various client sites
• Multi-location plants / factories
• Central Monitoring - Monitor from any PC in your
plant / factory
• Air Quality Management in Plant
• Large Factories with many CNC machines
• Process Plants

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 PlantConnect - AAQMS
A special version of PlantConnect is created for monitoring ambient air quality.
Monitoring is done by acquiring data from various gas analysers for measuring
CO, SO2, NOX, SPM etc. and from weather station. System allows user to
continuously monitor data as well as perform analysis through various reports and
charts. It supports various charts like wind rose, poll rose, perspective bar, polar
chart etc.

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 Deployment

• Remote Stations 1, 2 and 3

• T-API Gas Analyzers
• CO
• NOX
• SO2
• Mass Flow Calibrator
• Met One SPM Analyzer
• Ambient Temperature Sensing System
• Central Station
• Dynalab Weather Station

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 Devices and Drivers - 1
• T-API Gas Analyzers
• CO Analyzer – Model 300
• NOX Analyzer – Model 200E
• SO2 Analyzer – Model 100E
• Mass Flow Calibrator – Model 700
• Communication Driver - Serial driver using T-API
RS232 Interface

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 Devices and Drivers - 2
• Met One Instruments SPM Analyzer
• BAM 1020
• Communication Driver - Serial driver using RS232
Interface published by Met One
• Ambient Temperature Sensing System
• Nishko Series mcs 2000
• Communication Driver - Modbus RTU
• Weather Monitoring Station from Dynalab
• Communication Driver – Dynalab Ethernet driver

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 Reports

• Reports
• Daily Environment Report
• Monthly Environment Report
• Average Tabular Report
• Calibration Report

• Data history

• Alarms history

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 Charts

• Charts
• Wind Rose
• Pollution Rose
• Perspective bar chart
• Perspective line chart
• Frequency analysis
• Trends
• Online data trend
• Historical trend
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 Project Details
Client Profile Honeywell Automation India Ltd. First installation at NTPC,
Anta,

Project Size 6 person months

Team Size 3

Application Area Web based Industrial Automation - Ambient Air Quality

Monitoring

Technology Technologies : OOAD

Profile and Tools DAS Component - C++ with DLLs for device drivers – Teledyne
API, MetOne, DynaLab
Web Component – Servlet, JSP, Applets
Tools: Rational Rose, Visual Studio, Eclipse

Environment Windows

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 OPC Client > SuperAxis OPC Client
This application implements an OPC Client for SuperAxis Remote Performance
Monitoring System. The application has a configuration module and a runtime
module. It is compatible with OPC DA 2.0 specifications

Client Profile EcoAxis Pvt. Ltd.

Project Size 20 person months

Team Size 5

Application Area Industrial Automation

Technology C#, C++ DCOM DLL

Profile and Tools
Tools: Visual Studio.NET
Environment Windows

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 Data Acquisition > PC Data Logger
This is a PC based Data Logger service that acquires real time air quality data
from various equipments, processes it and pushes it to an SQL database. Different
device drivers are developed as dlls to connect to devices and acquire data

Client Profile Agilaire LLC, USA

Project Size 31 person months

Team Size 5

Application Area Industrial Automation

Technology C#, SQL Express

Profile and Tools
Tools: Visual Studio.NET
Environment Windows

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 Remote monitoring & control > WebOSP
This project will allow Rafiki fire panels to be monitored and controlled from
remote locations over the internet. The system uses a dedicated hardware called
Panel DAS to communicate with fire panels on one side and web server on the
other side.
Client Profile Rafiki Protection Ltd., UK

Project Size 20 person months

Team Size 5

Application Area Industrial Automation and embedded systems

Technology C#, ASP.NET, C++

Profile and Tools
Tools: Visual Studio.NET, Kiel IDE
Environment Windows, ARM based 32 bit MCU

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 Remote Monitoring > Q-web
Q-web is a ‘Central Monitoring and Control System’ that monitors all the
machines in a plant. It offers various features like On line machine data view,
Alarms management, Mimic pages, Set point change etc. Q-web is a web-
enabled system and has a browser based client. Thus the user can monitor
machines from a remote location through intranet or Internet.
Client Profile Resotec Realtime Software Technic GmbH

Project Size 10 person years. The project was executed in 3 phases. The
product was released by our client in K-Show 2001, the
biggest fair of Plastic and Rubber Industries
Team Size 5 to 8

Application Area Industrial automation

Technology OOAD, C++, LIPS protocol driver

Profile and Tools Java, Servlets, Applets, JNDI, JSP, Java Script, HTML, etc
Environment Windows, REDIS Controllers

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 Remote Monitoring > Web View for Prizm
Prizm is the HMI product of Renu Electronics. This project has 2 parts –
Conversion of HMI screens of Prizm in HTML pages. Publishing of these pages
in browser and connecting to Prizm and acquiring real time data and images from
Prizm for display in browser.

Client Profile Renu Electronics Pvt. Ltd.

Project Size 8 person months

Team Size 2

Application Web based Industrial Automation

Area
Technology VC++, HTML, Java Applets
Profile and Visual Studio, Eclipse
Tools
Environment Windows OS, Prizm hardware

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 Trend Viewer > MasterViewer
This is an offline trend viewer for paperless recorder product of the client.
The system provides facility to import data from the recorder to a central web
server and allow users to view trends and alarms on intranet or Internet.

Client Profile Tata Honeywell Ltd.

Project Size 12 person months

Team Size 4

Application Area Industrial automation

Technology OOAD, Java

Profile and Tools Servlets, Applets, JSP, Java Script, HTML, etc
Environment Windows

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 Embedded Systems > T-API Firmware Porting
Teledyne API are a leading manufacturer of Gas Analyzers for ambient air
quality measurement. This project is for porting their instrument firmware from
16 bit RTOS ‘AMX86’ to another suitable OS. The project consists of 2 phases –
POC for identification of OS and Firmware Porting. The 2 OS short listed for
POC are AMX 386 and Embedded Linux.
Client Profile Teledyne Advanced Pollution Instrumentation

Project Size 6 person months

Team Size 2

Application Area Embedded Systems

Technology C, C++
Profile and Tools AMX 86, AMX 386, XLinux
Paradigm IDE, Visual Studio with TAPS simulator from
KADAK, Borland Compiler, GCC, Ncurses etc.
Environment PC 104 compatible boards from Acrosser and ICOP

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 Embedded Systems > KBPrompt Porting
Teledyne API are a leading manufacturer of Gas Analyzers for ambient air
quality measurement. This project is for porting KBPrompt firmware from 16 bit
RTOS ‘AMX86’ to XLinux. The porting involved some redesigning and new
development due to differences in structures of AMX and XLinux. Some kernel
level drivers were also developed
Client Profile Teledyne Advanced Pollution Instrumentation

Project Size 16 person months spread over 2 phases

Team Size 4

Application Area Embedded Systems

Technology C, C++
Profile and Tools AMX 86, XLinux
KDevelop, GCC, Ncurses etc.
Environment PC 104 compatible boards from ICOP

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 Embedded Systems > Prizm V3 Firmware

• Consulting assignment for AIPL

• Prizm series HMI - text Display, graphics
display, touch screen products
• ARM processor
• Creating common firmware for all models in
Prizm series
• Responsibilitites
• Design
• Code organization
• Special issues like performance, memory etc.

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 Visu4WINners
Visu4WINners is a SCADA product for REDIS family of controllers. It allows
users to design operator panel screens with various text and graphics objects like
trends, bars, images, value display, alarms etc.
(Project done by Sujata Tilak in previous company. She was Project Manager and Technical Leader for the project)

Client Profile Resotec Real Time Teknik GmbH

Project Size 12 person years

Team Size 6

Application Area SCADA

Technology Visual C++

Profile and Tools Visual Studio 5.0
Environment Windows OS

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 VCOS
SattLine is SCADA system from Alfa Laval. Version Control of Objects in
SattLine (VCOS) is an Add-On module for SattLine. This module keeps track of
different versions of projects created.
(Project done by Sujata Tilak in previous company)

Client Profile Alfa Laval (India) Ltd.

Project Size 18 person months

Team Size 3

Application Area SCADA

Technology Visual C++

Profile and Tools Visual Studio 4.0
Environment Windows OS

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 Device drivers list
AIPL has developed many device drivers that communicate with different devices
using protocols supported by the devices. These drivers were developed for
PlantConnect as well as for some other systems. List of some drivers -
OPC Client OPC is a standard protocol supported by most of the
(Ethernet) controllers’ manufacturers like ABB, Honeywell, Siemens,
B&R etc.
FX2N Mitubishi FX series PLCs
(RS 232)
Modbus TCP / This is an open protocol from Modicon. Many PLCs and
RTU controllers support this protocol
(Ethernet/RS232)
TAPI Driver for Gas analyzers from Teledyne API, USA
(RS 232)
Selogica Injection moulding machines from Arburg, Germany
(RS 232)
Fanuc CNC CNC controllers from Siemens
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Clients
 Quality Management System
• Ascent Informatics (India) Pvt. Ltd. is
committed to Quality Management in all
spheres of activities.
• ISO 9001:2000 Certification from TÜV
Rhineland
• Well-documented Quality Management System
ensures quality of software, timely delivery and
hence total customer satisfaction
 QMS - Areas
• Optimum Quality processes followed for all areas –
• All phases of Software Development Life Cycle [SDLC]
• Requirement Analysis
• Design
• Coding and Unit Testing
• Quality Assurance
• Release Engineering
• Delivery
• Post Delivery Support
• Project Management
• Configuration Management
• System Admin
• Support areas like HR, Admin etc.
 QMS - Focus

• Reviews
• Review of every work product – design, code,
test cases
• Peer / Supervisory / Management
• Change Management
• Client Communication and Reporting
• Internal Project Control
 Infrastructure
• 2 MBPS dedicated bandwidth
• Backup bandwidth from a different provider to ensure
24x7 connectivity
• Cisco PIX Firewall
• Capability to setup VPN Tunnels for secure
communication
• McAfee Enterprise Virus Protection Solution
• Productivity boosting applications –
• Exchange server
• Version management system
• Bug tracking system
• Knowledge repository
 Thank you
We look forward to doing
business with you…

Contact us
Ascent Informatics (India) Pvt. Ltd.
R1 Pinnac Memories, Kothrud, Pune 411 038, India.
Tel.: +91 20 6500 4608, Fax: +91 20 2546 1887
arvind.tilak@aiplindia.com