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SIMOCRANE CMS Crane Management System
SIMOCRANE RCMS
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Function
RCMS central server and remote CMS
The central CMS functions concern the operation of CMS opera-
tor stations in central control rooms. In the context of harbor cra-
nes, the term "RCMS" (Remote CMS) has become established.
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As well as offering remote access to the CMS stations of the
cranes, the central RCMS offers additional functions such as:
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Plant-wide crane overview
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Remote access to individual cranes
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Central data acquisition and evaluation
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Availability overview and Gantt charts
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Performance evaluation
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Excel reporting tool for data evaluation and exporting from
MS SQL from CMS and RCMS
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Replay/Playback from RCMS on each CMS using WebClient
functionality
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Long-Term Archiving in MS SQL on RCMS
The central RCMS focuses on the entire plant, not the single
crane. Cranes of the same type can be compared and weak
points therefore detected. The determination of KPIs (Key Per-
formance Indicators) and overviews of operating modes, down-
times etc. plays a key role at this point.
Given the volume of information that has to be displayed, we
would recommend using large screens or even multi-screen
mode. The system also supports the use of the large screens,
commonly used in the control rooms of large industrial plants or
control centers.
Plant-wide crane overview
The plant-wide crane overview is a project-oriented plant display
based on a layout plan. The project engineer stores this plan as
background in a format that is suitable for WinCC. Individual cra-
nes are depicted using symbols. This display is not included in
the scope of the product, but the data interface is provided.
Example of screen for RCMS – statistical overview
An alternative display is the hierarchic view as a topology tree.
The different types of crane are displayed here in groups. The
status of the individual cranes is visualized using different colors.
Example of screen for RCMS – node tree manager and cartographical
overview
Remote access to individual cranes
In the crane overview node tree manager, a crane can be selec-
ted and the CMS interface of this crane can be displayed via re-
mote access. Full access of the crane is possible from RCMS via
WebNavigator option on CMS station.
Example of integrated remote access of CMS into RCMS
Central data acquisition and evaluation
The cargo handling data, error messages, and counter values
acquired for each crane are synchronized with the RCMS server.
This server makes the consolidated data for all assigned cranes
available for further evaluations. All data from different cranes
(CMS stations), e.g. operational data, tags, messages, are sent
to the remote RCMS. The Remote CMS (RCMS) can be also
called as ‘’central CMS station’’, which means there is a central
station where the data from all cranes are collected.
An RCMS
has a Microsoft SQL database with Long-Term Archive integra-
ted into WinCC station. This means the data is stored for long
term in a Microsoft SQL database. The configuration for seg-
ments and data backup is to be configured at the beginning of
the project for RCMS configuration. More details please refer to
the CMS manuals and WinCC information on the support site.
On the RCMS a central fault message system is applied in order
to perform statistics and filtering of fault messages for each
crane in the terminal. Statistical analysis for all messages can be
performed in the message window on RCMS station. Compre-
hensive message evaluation can be performed as well in the
WinCC message system in combination with CMS and RCMS
message tables from SQL.
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