Stage Technology Compendium 2016 www.pc-control.net © [email protected] 2 contents PC Control Stage Technology Compendium 2016 20 Sibelius Hall, Finland: World class 30 Statecore Innovative Entertainement concert acoustics with Beckhoff Technology BV, Netherlands: automation technology Beckhoff technology ensures that show flows smoothly 4 | editorial 6 | Stage Industry 26 | Show Industry 8 | China Railway 17th Bureau Group Co., 18 | HFE, Germany: EtherCAT and TwinCAT 28 | UC Leuven Limburg University, Belgium: China: Jilin City shines with optimize stage processes Pukkelpop festival keeps the party going People’s Grand Theater using green energy 20 | Sibelius Hall, Finland: World class 12 | Stage Entertainment, Germany: concert acoustics with Beckhoff 30 | Statecore Innovative Entertainement Innovative light control in Hamburg’s automation technology Technology BV, Netherlands: new musical theater Beckhoff technology ensures that show 22 | Schauspielhaus in Nuremberg, Germany: flows smoothly 14 | HOAC, Germany: Embedded PC Complex stage and theatre technology controls movable stage turntable at with PC- and EtherCAT-based control historic Danish theater 16 | Kuopio, Finland: Integrated lighting control at the Kuopio City Theater Success-Stories Stage Technology The Stage Technology Compendium 2016, a special edition of our PC Control customer magazine, is a collection of selected application reports about stage and show technology and building automation projects which have been realized with Beckhoff technology. The wide range of applications with varying degrees of complexity will give you an idea of how versatile the solutions are that can be implemented with the open and universal PC- and Ethernet-based control technology from Beckhoff and the benefits it provides. PC Control Stage Technology Compendium 2016 contents 3 © ATELIER BRÜCKNER/Michael Jungblut BRÜCKNER/Michael ATELIER © © Changi Airport Group Singapore Airport Group © Changi 38 MKT AG, Germany: PC-based control 52 Changi Airport, Singapore: system adds life to kinetic landscape EtherCAT synchronizes the movement model of 1,216 servo axes 34 | Unique Applications 58 | Entertainment Industry 68 | Building Automation 36 | Utinam, France: Monumental clock in 60 | Flying by Foy, USA: Pegasus – precise flying TGV train station in Besançon effects for stage and show technology 38 | MKT AG, Germany: PC-based control system 64 | United States Bowling Congress (USBC), adds life to kinetic landscape model USA: Bowling robot shows the way to the perfect game 42 | Scandinavian Design Group, Norway: “Breaking the Surface“ – Servo terminals 67 | Steel Construction and Robotic Machinery move virtual ocean (S.Co.R.E), Lebanon: Powerful Industrial PCs for high-speed image processing 48 | as systems, Germany: Magical water feature enabled by PC-based control 52 | Changi Airport, Singapore: EtherCAT synchronizes the movement of 1,216 servo axes imprint PC Control – Editor-in-Chief: Picture proof: Microsoft Köln, p. 68 The New Automation Technology Magazine Frank Metzner Alterface S. A., p. 58 Milla & Partner GmbH, p. 35 Aquatique Show, p. 26 Miroslav Krčma, p. 6 Published: Project management/editor: ASML, p. 6 MKT AG/Changi Airport Group, p. 3, 4, 34, 52 – 57 Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG Martina Fallmann ATELIER BRÜCKNER / Michael Jungblut, p. 3, 34, 38 – 41 People’s Grand Theater, p. 8 – 11 Huelshorstweg 20 Editors: Charlottenburg Palace, p. 71 Ralph Larmann, title, p. 27 33415 Verl/Germany Gabriele Kerkhoff City Theater Kuopio, p. 16 – 17 Sibeliustalo/Sami Lettojärvi, p. 2, 20 – 21 Phone: +49 5246 963-0 Stefan Ziegler Deutsches Museum, p. 70 Scala Milan, p. 7 [email protected] ESPRIT arena, p. 70 Schauspielhaus Nürnberg/Theatertechnische Systeme GmbH, www.beckhoff.com Phone: +49 5246 963-140 Eventions Products BV/Statecore Innovative Entertainment p. 22 – 25 [email protected] Technology BV, p. 2, 26, 30 – 33 Schüco International KG, p. 68 www.pc-control.net Fantawild/Huaqiang Intelligent Technology Co.Ltd, p. 58 Spidercam GmbH, p. 26 Ferry Porsche Congress Center, p.70 Stage Entertainment GmbH / Morris Mac Matzen, p. 6, 12 – 13 Flying by Foy/Tomasz Rossa, p. 58, 60 – 63 Steel Construction and Robotic Machinery (S.Co.R.E), 67 Design: www.a3plus.de HFE professionelle Studiotechnik GmbH, p. 18 – 19 Tower 185, p. 69 HOAC® Schweißtechnik GmbH, p. 14 – 15 UCLL, p. 28 – 29 James Fox, Abida, p. 34, 42 – 47 United States Bowling Congress, p. 64 – 66 KEA – Copenhagen School of Design and Technology, p. 68 Utinam, p. 36 – 37 Matthias Nutt, p. 48 – 50 4 editorial PC-based control: The platform for implementing creative ideas © Changi Airport Group Singapore © Changi editorial 5 Michel Matuschke, Market Manager Stage and Show Technology, Beckhoff In parallel with the growth in world population and the share of prosperity Beckhoff has always seen itself as a developer of a universal control technolo- found within large industrialized populations, the entertainment technology gy. Nonetheless, time and time again our customers amaze us by how they use industry is booming on all fronts. This trend will clearly continue in the coming our components and for what purposes. For example, when we developed our decades, because as spending power grows beyond covering basic needs, the servo terminal I/O solution we didn’t expect it to form the basis of the “Kinetic desire for and ability to enjoy entertainment and culture grows by leaps and Rain” installation at Changi Airport in Singapore. This is a highly complex bounds. Whether this is a visit to the opera, a musical, a live music concert, application in which 1,216 servo axes are moved synchronously, based on or an amusement park, people want to be immersed in a fantasy world away EtherCAT and our TwinCAT control software. We look forward to discovering from their everyday life – or even forget about it for a while. further examples of how our customers, who participate in the creation of “dream worlds” as “creativity to technology translators”, turn their creative All the special effects that amaze and delight us obviously involve technology. ideas into solutions by leveraging technology from Beckhoff. Be it the movements of the under- and over-stage machinery that bring about a complex stage conversion within seconds, magical lighting effects that are Our current “Entertainment Industry” compendium contains numerous ex- tuned to the music, animatronic figures in theme parks, control of 4- and 5-D amples of the variety of applications and uses for PC-based control in the effects in cinemas, a kinetic installation or a water door that interacts with markets Stage Industry, Show Industry, Unique Installations and Entertain- humans. In other words, for all the magic that captivates us, there is high-tech ment Industry. engineering in the background. Beckhoff control technology is used success- fully in these types of applications, all over the world. Thanks to its modularity and openness, PC-based control technology is ideally suited for stage and show technology applications. With the integration of all relevant stage technology interfaces and protocols for lighting, audio and multimedia in its technology platform – including OCA, DMX, sACN, ArtNet, SMPTE Timecode and PosiStageNet – Beckhoff offers a component kit that opens up virtually limitless opportunities for system integrators in the imple- mentation of creative ideas. 6 Stage Industry References “Das Wunder von Bern”, Stage Theater an der Elbe, Hamburg, Germany Stage Entertainment GmbH, Hamburg, Germany Carré Theatre Amsterdam, the Netherlands Janáček Theatre, Brno, Czech Republic Stakebrand Technische Toneelinstallaties, Heeze, the Netherlands Drivecontrol, s.r.o., Újezd u Brno, Czech Republic © Miroslav Krčma Miroslav © 7 Stage Industry References, selection: Movable Objects ACR/Elettrica Ducale srl, Manzano, Italy: Scala di Milano, Milan, Italy Drivecontrol, s.r.o., Újezd u Brna, Czech Republic: Janaček-Theatre, Brünn, Czech Republic Fomenko-Theatre, Moscow, Russia TAIT/Fisher Technical Services, Las Vegas, NV, USA: Spiderman: Turn off the Dark, Broadway, NY, USA Flying by Foy, Las Vegas, NV, USA: American Idiot, Broadway NY, USA Billy Elliot, Broadway NY, USA Mary Poppins, Broadway NY, USA Angels in America, Broadway NY, USA Fülling & Partner Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Dortmund, Germany ”Das Wunder von Bern“, Theater an der Elbe, Hamburg, Germany German Pavilion, World Expo 2015, Milano, Italy Kazakhstan Pavilion, World Expo 2015, Milano, Italy Messe Frankfurt, lifting platform, Germany Rocky, Stage Palladium Theatre, Stuttgart, Germany Helsinki Music Center, Helsinki, Finland HOAC Schweisstechnik GmbH, Moers, Germany: Royal Theatre Copenhagen, Denmark Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland Stakebrand Technische Toneelinstallaties, Heeze, NL Carré Theatre Amsterdam, the Netherlands Theatertechnische Systeme GmbH, Syke, Germany: Schauspielhaus Nürnberg, Germany Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Germany Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, Kleines Haus, Düsseldorf, Germany Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, Germany Music Theatre, Malmö, Sweden Lighting/Multimedia Ferry Porsche Congress Center, Zell am See, Austria Microsoft Deutschland GmbH, Cologne, Germany © Stage Entertainment/Morris Mac Matzen Entertainment/Morris Mac Stage © City Theatre, Kuopio, Finland People‘s Grand Theater, Jilin City, China Stage Entertainment GmbH, Hamburg, Germany: Scala di Milano, Milan, Italy “Das Wunder von Bern”, Stage Theater an der Elbe, Hamburg ACR/Elettrica Ducale srl, Manzano,