The need to deal with legacy technology is a challenge that almost every industrial company faces at some time. Upgrading and/or replacing systems without taking too much time or spending too much money becomes job #1. An interesting example of just such a case study occurred in a solar power plant in the western U.S. The founders of the solar plant were looking to transfer ownership to a new company, but the presence of proprietary control systems made the plant less desirable to the new owner as well as complicated the transfer of operations and maintenance responsibilities to the new entity. This meant the changeover to new control technology had to happen fast.
To read the whole story of how Nor-Cal Controls, the systems integrator for the project, used the PACSystemsTM RX3i control solution to make the changeover smooth and fast as well as to expand capabilities far beyond the customer’s expectations, check out this case study.