OREANDA-NEWS. July 14, 2009. E4-SibCOTES, Tornado Modular Systems and E4 Group will become sponsors of the Eighth Forum "Modern Technologies for Industrial Automation. C&I Systems for Power Industry Projects” expected to be held in Novosibirsk on October 6-7, 2009.
 
The forum has been held since 1998. Professionals working in the field of automation of power industry facilities take part in this event. Participants who work for the largest Russian engineering companies, leading manufacturers of C&I and DCS systems for thermal power plants, boiler houses, and substations attend the forum.

This year the forum will look into the following:
       Market of manufacturers of production and electrical equipment for power industry projects. Analysis of the main trends.
        Problems related to power industry facilities automation. Market condition under downturn.
       Market of comprehensive automation systems for companies working in thermal power industry. Review of economical and technological components.          Comprehensive C&I system for TPP using new generation Tornado-N DCS as a case study.
       Engineering and adjustment of automation systems for power industry facilities.
       “Local” automation of power industry facilities. Standard concepts of C&I systems for individual units of TPP and other industrial enterprises.
       Automatic dispatch control systems, power industry facilities automation, C&I systems for substations, telemechanics, control and stop valves, emergency automation complexes, automatic systems for commercial power accounting.
       Market news related to industrial controllers. Presentation of Russian and foreign hardware and software facilities to create automation control systems for power industry facilities and other industrial installations.
Tornado Modular Systems, which is a member of E4 Group, will present its new DCS system Tornado-N which belongs to a new generation with its unique “peer-to-peer” backbone architecture based on Ethernet-modules MIRage-N. This innovation features higher reliability, redundancy of all critical elements, use of various media for data transfer, high productivity, unique capabilities for scaling and evolving from a small information system to a complete automation system.