Unified automation and monitoring system for agricultural machinery plants
How CENTO helped a major machinery manufacturer meet regulatory energy requirements, improve visibility, and build a scalable digital control platform
A leading agricultural machinery manufacturer based in Eastern Europe operates multiple large-scale plants producing combine harvesters, press-forming equipment, and casting components. The company also supplies heat, electricity, and other energy types to more than 70 industrial consumers in its region.
Due to its status as a registered energy-supplying organization and ownership of a 110 kV substation, the company faced regulatory requirements to implement a system for information collection and transmission (SSPI) and telemechanics (STM) in compliance with the local dispatch center (RDU).
Business challenges
- Lack of an integrated telemechanics system and limited monitoring of internal energy assets.
- Outdated and fragmented hardware/software architecture from pilot projects that failed to meet grid operator requirements.
- Multiple incompatible software solutions and unstable data access systems.
- Inconsistent supervision of internal power distribution, creating inefficiencies and reliability risks.
The organization needed a unified, standards-compliant automation and monitoring platform capable of meeting dispatch center requirements, ensuring data transparency, and improving operational control across its facilities.
Why the company choose CENTO
After evaluating multiple options, the company adopted CENTO as the core software platform to establish a single supervisory and data acquisition ecosystem.
CENTO provided the flexibility to integrate directly with industrial measurement devices and controllers, enabling the creation of both:
- A compliant information collection and transmission system (SSPI), and
- A telemechanics system (STM) for real-time equipment supervision.
The deployment was built around a distributed network of SATEC, WAGO, and URZA controllers, connected through the enterprise LAN, redundant communication channels, and a fiber link to the dispatch center.
CENTO’s modular software enabled the company to centralize data visualization, alarm management, and remote control functions, all within a unified interface.
Results
The implementation delivered a fully integrated system that combined dispatch-level information exchange and local telemechanics management on a single platform and set of measurement devices.
Key results include:
- Full regulatory compliance with energy-dispatching requirements through automated data exchange with the regional RDU.
- Unified monitoring and control of internal power distribution, including remote switching of high-voltage equipment.
- Optimized cost efficiency, with project financing integrated into approved energy tariffs.
- User-friendly dashboards and alarms, providing operators clear visibility of events, equipment states, and power flows.
- Role-based access control ensuring secure operations across departments.
- Reliable, real-time performance, with high-frequency telemetry transmission and redundancy for uninterrupted operation.
Over multiple project stages (2020–2024), the company successfully expanded the CENTO platform to include energy data collection, automated energy accounting, and enterprise-level supervisory control.
As a result, the enterprise now benefits from a scalable, compliant, and transparent infrastructure for managing both external energy interactions and internal consumption, laying the foundation for future digital transformation of its energy operations.
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