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Motor control assets are foundational elements in many industrial operations. In the mining industry, these assets primarily consist of motor control centers and drives, which are available with a comprehensive assortment of control and monitoring devices. Various intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) are now used to prevent machine damage and downtime.As motor control devices have advanced in technology, so too have the IEDs that protect them. This dissertation investigated the steps involved in interfacing IEDs to a mining process control network via the use of the IEC 61850 standard. As a result of this study, several key technological advancements were made including the development of (i) vendor independent system to communicate with IEDs in a mining environment over IEC 61850, (ii) command and control methods for communication based assisted automation of IEDs for mining firms, (iii) effective solutions to incorporate electrical distribution data in the process control system, (iv) enhanced safety platforms through remote operation of IEDs, (v) standard visualization faceplate graphics for HMI operators with enhanced security, and (vi) new methods for time stamped dataflow to be correctly inserted into a process historian for "true" Sequence of Events Records.iii | P a g e

This paper investigates various forms of industrial time synchronization and attempts to apply them to Programmable Automation Controllers (PACs) for power system applications. PACs have been used in industry for many control applications, but advancements in synchronization technology has allowed for PACs to be used in high speed control and data acquisition systems. This paper looks at utilizing a PAC as a time synchronized Sequence of Events recorder (SER) for substation automation. It is shown that a PAC can be time synchronized to multiple time references and provide accuracies accepted by the power industry.

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