Turkey: US Industrial Automation Company Helps Boost Gürmat Elektrik Geothermal Power Plant

Rockwell Automation performs complete digital network migration at Turkey’s largest geothermal power plant (Automation Update)

New controllers, software and network architecture deliver more robust cybersecurity, higher performance, easier diagnostics and significantly enhanced data capture.

With the advent of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0, manufacturing and process data has taken on a whole new level of importance. With smart devices, much deeper integration and enhanced tools to collect, collate and exploit this data, operators and plant owners now have a level of insight into their operations that gives them the ability to make more informed process-critical decisions faster than ever before.

This data-driven paradigm does however rely on robust systems at every level; and even one weak link in a network can negate the efficacy of the data being collected in terms of its speed, effectiveness, security, timeliness and volume. For this reason, a data infrastructure should encompass every facet of a plant’s operation in order to extract the best possible information for the optimisation of operations.

Gürmat Elektrik, which operates the biggest geothermal power plant in Turkey, faced this scenario recently, recognising that the existing data and networking infrastructure was not only incapable of delivering contemporary levels of performance, but was also lacked robust cyber security.

To counter these issues, Gurmat contacted Rockwell Automation in Turkey, asking it to assess and propose a solution.

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