Your systems. Working as one.

How Top Plant Managers AvoidReal-Time Chaos

Webinar – June 14th 2012

Geoff RevillReal-Time Innovations

Agenda

• Brief Company Intro• IT and Control Systems Collaboration – Benefits

sought• What’s blocking access to these business

benefits? - The RT Wall• How to use the RT Wall as a foundational SoS

Element• The Solution – A Real-Time ESB• Summary

About RTI

• Market Leader– fast, scalable communications software for real-time

operational systems and IT & Business Systems Systems Integration

• Pedigree– 20 year+ history in

• High-performance highly scalable networking & control

• Middleware & Tools

• Standards Leader– OMG Board of Directors– Market leader in DDS (Data Distribution Service)

• Maturity Leader– 15+ years of commercial availability– U.S. DoD Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 9

ROI Example – JBC-P – Blue Force Tracker

04/13/2023

Legacy design:• Custom, proprietary• 2-8 years to develop• 1.5m lines of source code• 12,000 tracks• 11 servers w/88 cores• Poor reliability and uptime

DDS design:• 100% standards based• Proof of concept in under a week• 50k lines of source code• 250,000 tracks• 80% of a single core• Full redundancy

IT & Operational Collaboration

Business Centric DecadeShift from enabling technology

to using

Available and proven Technologyto improve Business Performance

throughOperational Efficiency

• Business Goals– Return on Assets– Continuous Improvement– Flawless Execution– Increased Automation– Total Cost of Ownership– Increased Commonality of

Infrastructure– Reduce Barriers to

Information

• Business Benefits– Operational Effectiveness– Asset Utilization– Minimize Variable Costs– Reduce Downtime– Preserve Capital Assets

Business Centric

The Highest Barrier to Information?

TIME

Collaborative Production Management

• To be delivered by Collaborative Process Automation Systems (CPAS)– Single, unified environment for the presentation of

information to the operator as well as present information in context to the right people at the right time from any point within the system

– ARC Advisory Group

CPAS

• As defined by ARC Advisory Group– extraordinary performance– continuous improvement– proactive execution– common actionable context– single version of the truth– automate everything that should be automated– facilitate knowledge workers– common infrastructure based on standards

The shift to CPAS

Example: Predictive Maintenance

• Is it solely an Operational Control issue?– What about the changing trade off between risk of

an asset failing versus cost of maintenance?– What about the changing nature of customer

supply demands versus maintenance schedules?– How do your business systems get informed

immediately of the consequence of an operational asset failure?

Different Realities Operational Systems IT Systems

Architecture Decentralized (peer to peer) Centralized data center (hub and spoke)

Speed “Real world” (physical processes) Human

Data flow Event-driven: sensors, alarms, commands. Extremely time critical.

Transactional, non real-time

Platforms Tiny embedded or mobile systems through powerful servers

Powerful servers

Lack performance and scalability

Lack integration power

OT and IT Developers think differently

• Peer-to-peer• Events, alarms, sensor

readings, status updates• Pub-sub pattern

• Client-Server• Remote Method

Invocation• Request-Reply pattern

The Real-Time Wall Operational Systems IT Systems

Architecture Decentralized (peer to peer) Centralized data center (hub and spoke)

Speed “Real world” (physical processes) Human

Data flow Event-driven: sensors, alarms, commands. Extremely time critical.

Transactional, non real-time

Platforms Tiny embedded or mobile systems through powerful servers

Powerful servers

Lack performance and scalability

Lack integration power

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Collaboration drives Scale!

• More things producing and consuming data

• Greater volume of data• System of systems

integration

• The Software Architecture must enable change in scale

How do we take down the RT Wall?

• What if….?– Every application could dynamically define it’s real-

time requirements to the infrastructure?– the infrastructure could sustain a quality of service

contract between every communicating entity?– the infrastructure could act like a database and

represent system state in real-time?

Turn the RT Wall into a System SW Foundation Operational Systems IT Systems

Architecture Decentralized (peer to peer) Centralized data center (hub and spoke)

Speed “Real world” (physical processes) Human

Data flow Event-driven: sensors, alarms, commands. Extremely time critical.

Transactional, non real-time

Platforms Tiny embedded or mobile systems through powerful servers

Powerful servers

Lack performance scalability

Lack integration power

F O NOITADNU

BSETR

Using the RT Wall as a Foundational Infrastructure

• IT systems should be able to react to critical real-time Operational Control state changes

• OT systems should be able to continuously deliver analyzable metrics for business use

• DATA is the Foundational Building Block– IT systems architect around it with their DB’s– OT systems architect around it for state changes

• Free Flow of Information is the Goal

Maintaining STATE across IT & OT

• System STATE is a function of DATA• Each Application’s need to understand STATE is

different– Only needs to know a small subset of system STATE– Has differing requirements and authority for

system STATE change• Any Application can contribute to system STATE

change• System STATE is the “single version of the truth”

Where is system STATE Maintained?

• Where the DATA is– IT in a Database– Operational Control – its on the BUS

• But the ‘bus’ is also a means to access the DB

• For CPAS and Collaborative Systems– Maintain State on the Bus in order to serve IT and

Operational Control systems• STATE needs to be maintained on a DATABUS

Where is STATE Maintained?

RTI Connext – Common Data Infrastructure

Traditional ESB

Process Automation Systems

HMI Control I/O

Plant Business Operations

Information Technology (IT)

Operational Technology (OT)

Production Management

MobileDevices

Data/Conf ig Alarms

Co

nvergence

Integratio

n

Dynamic Discovery

Peer-to-Peer

Publish/Subscribe

Global Data Access

Quality of Service

ToolsSOA Architecture Reliable Multicast

Full Redundancy

Alig

nment

Gartner

DATABUS – SUSTAINS SYSTEM STATE

The Need for App Defined QoS

• De-Couple Application Real-Time needs from the infrastructure– Infrastructure can independently evolve in line

with broader distributed systems requirements• Create loose bindings between applications

– New Apps ‘discover’ the system’s ability to serve it’s system state needs at run-time

• Connect to the DATABUS not to another Application

Connext Foundation: the RTI DataBus™

• Data centric– Structured, accessible data– Like a database for moving

data• Independent modules

– Supports SOA– Supports RT Applications

• Plug and play flexibility– Like a hardware bus

• Peer-to-peer performance– Like streaming protocols

• Standards-based interoperability

– Like TCP/IP

Data-Centric Messaging Bus

Scalable, high performance, reliable infrastructure

RTI Connext™: A Next Generation Infrastructure

RTI DataBus™

ConnextMicro

Pub/Sub API

Small Device Apps

ConnextDDS

Pub/Sub API

DDS Apps

ConnextMessaging

Messaging API

General-Purpose Real-Time Apps

ConnextIntegrator

Adapters

Discrete OT & IT Apps/Systems

Administration

Monitoring

Logging

Recording

Replay

Federation

Transformation

PersistenceVisualization

Common Tools and Infrastructure Services

Connext Messaging

Example—Production System

PLC

ConnectorMicro, linked in

process

PLC

ConnectorMicro, linked in

process…

SCADA Application

ConnectorLinked in process

DDS API

Factory Floor

Connext Integrator

ConnectorStandalone deployment

ERP System

ConnectorStandalone deployment

Web Service

A Real-Time ESB for CPAS

“The benefits that come from managing Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) convergence, alignment and integration include optimized business processes, enhanced information for better decisions, reduced costs, lower risks and shortened project timelines.”

• – Gartner

RTI started here – Naval C4I

• C4I

• Command

• Control

• Communications

• Computers

• Intelligence

• Fully data-centric design

RTI Connext Proven here…..• RATP

• Transport control systems

• WAN and LAN Integration• Multiple Platform types

• PC Windows• Linux• Solaris• Instrumentation

• Major Issue with Legacy System integration

RTI Connext Used here…..

• The ATLANTIDA consortium• 34 collaborating

organisations• Researching next

generation ATC• Massive Scalability

Challenges• Huge Collaboration

Challenges

RTI Powering Next Gen SCADA

• Siemens Windpower• Challenges

– Increase sample to 100Hz– Manage up to 500 turbines

• Existing infrastructure failed– Failed to integrate IT/OT systems– Could not deliver performance at

scale• Benefits of control vs. monitoring

– Predictive & preventive maintenance– Smart diagnostics – improve

availability and efficiency– Production planning– Continuous performance monitoring

and tuning of turbines

RTI Connext melds distributed performance with IT business intelligence

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