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Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility Leverages iFIX to Operate at Max Efficiency

Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility (CVWRF) is a state-of-the-art facility that treats wastewater using a trickling filter/solids contact process for secondary treatment

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Company
Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility
Industry
Water & Wastewater
Products
iFIX, HMI/SCADA

Overview
Bespoke Standards in iFIX
Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility Leverages iFIX to Operate at Max Efficiency
Easy Communication with PLCs
Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility Leverages iFIX to Operate at Max Efficiency
Convenience and Ease of Developing Screens
Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility Leverages iFIX to Operate at Max Efficiency
Improving productivity and process control

Improving Productivity and Process Control

Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility (CVWRF) is a state-of-the-art facility that treats wastewater using a trickling filter/solids contact process for secondary treatment. Every day, millions of gallons of wastewater are collected and piped into the facility from 7 member entities. CVWRF treats 50 to 60 million gallons of wastewater daily from these entities and clean water is returned to the Jordan River system. There are two components to Central Valley’s Facility: the collection system and the treatment facility. The collection system gathers all the wastewater and conveys it to the treatment facility. Once at the treatment facility, the wastewater undergoes treatment processes to meet Utah’s water quality standards. The wastewater treatment can be divided into two categories: liquid treatment and solids treatment.

They’ve been using Velotic’s iFIX solution for over 25 years to improve productivity and process control across their facility with industrial-strength SCADA automation software and high-performance HMI.

Results from industrial-strength SCADA automation software and high-performance HMI:

  • Ability to create and set bespoke standards in iFIX
  • Ease of upgrades and updates
  • Easy communication with PLCs
  • Convenience and ease of developing screens
Creating bespoke standards

Creating Bespoke Standards

Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility has been able to partner with Velotic to create their own standard with iFIX. Through this standard, they’re able to bring everything in from other control systems and mimic what those control screens are doing via Visual Basic.

“I like the Visual Basic background and speed of graphics – overall, I’m really happy with it”

Project Coordinator/SCADA Controls at Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility
Ease of upgrades and updates

Ease of Upgrades and Updates

Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility averages about 1-2 updates a year with iFIX. From 2022-2023 they were able to upgrade 3 sets of redundant servers, each of those servers running about 28-30k tags each. In the past they would have to shut those down, bring up new ones, and rename them - in addition to a host of other tasks. But with Velotic, the upgrades have greatly improved and gotten easier to implement.

When they upgraded from Quantam to M580, Modicon came out with an OPC-UA card which was not a standard communication card as far as UA communication, so they had some difficulties with the securities on their side. They were able to work closely with Velotic support to create it and help set up through the IGS (Industrial Gateway Server) – enabling them to quickly migrate their their OPC-DA tags. From there they were able to upgrade their system in order to both select the tags and publish the screens faster.
Investing in Automation

Investing in Automation

Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility leverages iFIX’s integration with IGS in order to communicate with their field equipment and pull in just about any kind of PLC or other equipment out there.

“Velotic and iFIX specifically have done a great job at helping and assisting us as we work through problems and bring in information to put on our screens for our control room.”
Ease and convenience of being able to develop screens

Ease and Convenience of Being Able to Develop Screens
“I really like the ease and convenience of being able to develop screens… the database layout is straightforward which has been nice and there hasn’t been any problems with compatibility. Each revision of iFIX isn’t so different that we have to go and redevelop every screen we have, it's been tailored to upgrade with minimal process, and the standard abilities that Velotic has for some of the graphics are nice features to have for an out-of-the-box quick start.”
Training modules

Training Modules

Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility utilizes Velotic’s basic layouts and training modules to update their staff, teach new hires & get them up to speed quickly and take the guess work out of learning new processes.

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