April 2004

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Inspec Solutions win order to undertake a number of large WinCC SCADA applications for S&I, the large switchgear manufacturers based in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The systems are for the Sakhalin Oil development in far eastern Russia. The SCADA systems have a combined IO point count of 40,000 and will have 300 separate control mimics for operations. The systems will be developed in both English and Russian versions and will be able to switch between the languages online.

Ladle Arc furnace 2 at Corus’ Scunthorpe BOS plant new control system was successfully commissioned and handed over to Corus operations following the first of two major outages to change the existing ABB control system to Rockwell Automation Controllogix and RSView systems. The furnace was handed back to Corus fully operational a day ahead of the planned schedule. Ladle Arc Furnace 1 and the associated Alloy, Water Cooling and fume extraction systems are due to be changed over in August 2004.