INTRODUCTION. ABB MicroSCADA

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1 INTRODUCTION

This thesis has been made for ABB Substation Automation Systems.

The maintenance support for MicroSCADA systems is dealing with many kinds of issues occurring in the customers systems. Prediction improves reliability because the oncoming problems could be detected before any major failures happen within the system.

For example an increase in communication failures is typically a sign of oncoming problem. Also an increase in system resources used by the

MicroSCADA application and other processes is a warning of problems that are on their way. There is some useful information in MicroSCADA that could be interesting, but some data is only available from the information registered by the operating system.

The objective for this thesis was to build an application example which automatically gathers useful information from MicroSCADA application and the operating system and gathers this information in to a form of a report. This report also has to be sent automatically to the e-mail address of the maintenance support.

This first part of this thesis introduces different maintenance methods and the concept of predictive maintenance. In the next chapters it is told what kind of information is useful for the maintenance support and how this information can be accessed and gathered. A solution for sending the report by e-mail is introduced after that. The last part of this thesis is instructions for the installation and configuration of the components required for the reporting tool to work properly.