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Single Operations Center Drives Successful Digital Transformation

 Single Operations Center Drives Successful Digital Transformation at St. Louis Lambert International Airport

Successful digital transformation depends on access to information across multiple systems, including finance, maintenance, engineering, and operations. Isolated IT and OT systems leave management in the dark, making it difficult to collaborate and make real-time business decisions. But it is often unrealistic and expensive to remove existing technologies and start from scratch. The solution is a single operations center that gives users an overview of all system. St. Louis Lambert International Airfield is an example of how this method can be successful. howtoincreasedomainauthority

St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL) is an global airport serving St. Louis, Missouri, USA. It is Missouri's largest and busiest airport, with over 259 daily peak departures to 74 non-stop domestic and international airports. Its four operating runways, two terminals and five lounges serve 194,302 aircraft, serve 15.6 million passengers and carry 74,320 tons of cargo per year.

THIS IS THE LARGEST AIRPORT IN THE USA, RATED AS AN AVERAGE PRIMARY CENTER AND CURRENTLY SECOND AFTER DALLAS-LOVE. LAMBERT covers 2,800 hectares of land.

The Edge Computing Challenge: Legacy and Isolated Systems

St. Louis Lambert International Airport is a world-class transport hub. Over the past 30 years, improvement and transformation projects have been implemented at different stages in one or another part of the airport. As a result, several solutions have been installed using over 9 different and separate control interfaces to manage and modernize various parts of the airport. Over time, these repositories have become extremely difficult to operate, maintain, and maintain.

Objective: to centralize and modernize legacy and legacy systems

St. Louis Lambert International Airport was already at its best, but he wanted to be even better. Management determined that it was necessary to move from inconsistent, completely isolated operation to a modern, centralized system.

It was decided to implement a single system that could view the entire facility by connecting the operating silos. Basically, create a unified operations center (UOC) that will be able to integrate all currently installed and disparate skills into one system. They also required to make it scalable so that it would be easier to connect to new solutions, devices or systems in the future.

The digital transformation journey has already begun

Quantum Solutions is a Stratus Skills and Wonderware approved systems integrator founded in 1997 with over 50 offices in North America. STL Airport provided the integration project to Quantum and they have been participating in the successful digital transformation of the airport ever since.

Working with the airport and its advisors, Quantum Solutions installed the AVEVA and Stratus Technologies solution based on the System Platform and ftServer. They were able to integrate the various islands of automation into a complete and centrally linked facility and building management system.

Approach: system of systems

System systems

The System Systems Unified Operations Center approach integrates all disparate storage facilities into a single system with remote clients to manage and service any part of the airport from any location. The UOC provides an overview of the site infrastructure using the open and scalable System Platform architecture and the reliability and redundancy of Stratus Technologies.

results

The choice of Stratus Technologies and AVEVA allows STL Airport to connect all of your different and disparate systems together with the following benefits:

Always-on - Stratus Technologies ftServer prevents downtime for critical business applications by ensuring continuous availability even in the event of a major hardware failure.

Agnostic Supplier - STL Airport is independent from any supplier, OEM or manufacturer.

Instant alarms - all events and alarms are integrated; immediate notification allows airport staff to immediately identify problems anywhere.

Scalable standards-based system - Users can build, test, deploy, maintain and scale industrial applications using a standards-based application development environment.