Atos Origin has been awarded contracts for the 3 drinking water plants of the Syndicat des Eaux d’Ile de France (SEDIF) on the following locations: Choisy le Roy, Méry-sur Oise and Neuilly-sur-Marne.
Business Challenge
Ensure full automatic interpretation of the real time situation in order to set up the appropriate set points to the supervision & control system of the main plant, water network and secondary plants, particularly on days and at times when operators are not on site. This system has been in operation for 7 years and allows permanent improvement according to the new requirements.
Solution
Atos Origin has designed and built an intelligent system based on the G2 expert
system engine by representing the process. This way allows to gather and
capitalize on the metier expertise and to structure the principle of the reasoning
process of the specialist staff.
Main functions:
- Daily water consumption calculation, based on statistical models which are
- themselves readjusted to actual data.
- Forecasting production capacity according to scheduled unavailability and the
- treatment rate required.
- Planning operation of the main plant, secondary plants and the safety reserves.
- Co-coordinating the operation of the plant's various operational stages:
- Supervising the quality and quantity of water produced and deviations.
- Detecting dysfunctions, analyzing the causes and taking decisions.
- Re-assessing the strategy.
- Calling on astriction operators in difficult situations.
- Slowing down production or shutting down the plant in serious cases.
- Testing new water supply line rules on a parallel system.
- Operator can take control of the plant at any time by switching to tutor mode.
Benefits
- automatic monitoring and control of the plant,
- reliable consumption forecast,
- producing the requested reports,
- reducing production costs,
- minimizing the staff to mobilize during the night, the week-end and days off.
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