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.