SYSTEM OVERVIEW

GAI-Tronics Corporation won the award to design and install a supervised Communication Management System at the IAMS Company facility located in Aurora, Nebraska. Due to a plant expansion that will almost double the size of the facility, the communication system needed to be expanded and upgraded. An installed base of GAI-Tronics Page/Party® and SmartVolume™ equipment formed the backbone for a SmartSeries® Communication management System purchased in January 1997.

SYSTEM FUNCTIONALITY

The system combined standard Page/Party® and SmartSeries® stations, two central amplifier zones, a link to the PBX for telephone dial-up paging, and an interface to a programmable logic circuit (PLC) which is linked to 48 process alarms and inputs from the existing fire detection system.

Equipment provided includes a mix of standard Page/Party® and SmartSeries® stations, a SmartSeries® Control Unit, two custom Access Panels, and a Desktop Subset for paging into the warehouse.

The system allows intra-communication and paging, and sounding of general alarms such as "Fire" or "Tornado". Process alarms within each zone are also heard over the SmartSeries® system.

The SmartSeries® Control Unit monitors the SmartSeries® equipment in Zones 1-4 and the speaker loop integrity in Zones 5-6. The two Access Panel VDFs display fault and status information received from SmartSeries® equipment in the zones, or from the Control Unit. The panel operators can manually activate seven tone/pre-recorded messages for general alarms; pages from either Access Panel will override any alarm or page in process for emergency live voice messages.

SYSTEM DIAGRAM



This illustration shows the basic system layout for IAMS Company
Communication Management System.