Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Wonderware Enterprise Integration Application


Wonderware offers powerful capabilities to complete the manufacturing supply chain by linking the manufacturing system to business applications like ERP, PLM, SCM and LIMS systems.

Wonderware Enterprise Integration Application provides a scalable and configurable solution designed to accommodate even the most complex requirements for tightly aligning business and manufacturing systems.

Key Benefits

  • Reduces cost of ownership for control to enterprise system integration using industry standards such as ISA-95 and B2MML structures
  • Enables existing business and manufacturing systems to work in a complementary fashion that is loosely coupled yet extremely reliable

Key Capabilities

  • Transactional integration with ArchestrA real-time data model and namespace with full architectural freedom
  • Out-of-the-box integration using adaptors and pre-defined mappings
  • Message transformation, buffering, mapping and event detection

Friday, October 23, 2009

Wonderware Remote Response Objects


With increasing demands on time and resources, Wonderware Remote Response Objects enable alarm and event information to be delivered to your mobile and offsite engineering personnel, keeping them informed of significant production or process changes regardless of their location.

By integrating the two most common mobile message based technologies (email and SMS), your engineers are never more than a handset away from being informed, and able to acknowledge critical events.

Incorporating a powerful yet easy to administrate scheduling system, your operations staff are in contact 24 hours a day, and escalation rules give built-in backup notification for supervisors and reserve personnel.

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Key Benefits

  • Build as ArchestrA Objects – allowing to easily extend your existing application
  • Email and SMS (via appropriate gateway) support
  • Operator response (acknowledgement) via email or SMS
  • Low cost

Key Capabilities

  • Built-in scheduler
  • PIN-based security option
  • Configurable escalation in case of non-response
  • Operates with redundant (failover configuration) of System Platform

Wonderware Data Historian


The Wonderware Data Historian solution leverages the state-of-the-art Wonderware System Platform, industry leading historian technology, web-based reporting capabilities and renowned open data source connectivity from Wonderware. The resulting historian solution is unlike any other data archiving and reporting solution found in the market today.

With blazing speed, broad scalability, highly efficient data storage and retrieval, high availability and simple one click historization set-up, the Wonderware Data Historian solution has an industry reputation low total cost of ownership.

Pre-configured web based reports and data analysis capabilities drive immediate value from data captured by the Wonderware Data Historian solution.

Key Benefits

  • Preserves plant record
  • Improves operational decision making
  • Scalable to any application
  • Helps drive higher plant performance

Key Capabilities

  • High speed storage and increasable data compression
  • Easy to setup & maintain
  • Broad data source connectivity
  • Highly efficient data capture & retrieval
  • High availability ensures data integrity/continuity
  • Integrated web-based reporting & data trending

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Industry Application for Packaging





The Industry Application for Packaging is a pre-configured, bundled software module specifically designed for the needs of the packaging process. Line efficiencies and productivity are gained through fast, disciplined changeovers and visibility to throughput, performance, OEE, downtime & alarms.

Based on Wonderware System Platform, InTouch HMI and Wonderware Performance Software, the Industry Application for Packaging out-of-the-box capabilities help producers meet critical business objectives. The Industry Application for Packaging decreases costs by reducing losses, maintaining quality and consistency, with the flexibility to handle many products; and has a fast time to value, with quick deployment and a maximized ROI.

The Industry Application delivers features that meet the needs of all users. The ‘Planner’ window supports the creation, sequencing and dispatching of jobs to lines. The ‘Packaging Area Overview’ window displays the real-time status of each line. The ‘Line Detail’ window shows the status of the line and each piece of equipment in the line. The ‘Equipment Summary’ window shows the real-time status, run rate, yield and alarms. The ‘Equipment Detail’ window shows real-time performance, OEE, state and machine utilization.

Industry Application for Facilities Management





The Wonderware Industry Application for Facilities Management provides an open and standardized Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for facilities management solutions, able to collect and process building automation information from large distributed campuses or multiple buildings under central supervision.

This new application not only integrates mechanical systems, security / personnel access, fire / life safety, lighting, energy / utility, maintenance and other facility components, but also helps facility managers capture domain knowledge into standard application objects for reuse, support, maintenance and deployment across the enterprise.

Components available in The Wonderware Industry Application for Facilities Management include a library of templates with graphic components designed specifically for facilities management with animation and standard faceplates, a set of device integration and application objects, as well as Data Acquisition Servers (DAS) for native BACnet® and i.LON® SmartServer solutions. Optionally, an Application Generator Tool for BACnet systems is provided to accelerate, simplify and help standardize integration with these building and facility systems.

To facilitate integration with various systems, the base facilities platform supports standard protocols including OPC, MODBUS, SNMP, XML, ODBC as well as others for total facilities integration needs.

Key Benefits

  • Lower project cost through open, competitive choice for products, services and maintenance
  • Lower costs for connectivity and integration by accessing the broadest range of protocols and devices
  • Reduce risk with an industry proven robust, secure architecture
  • Improve productivity and maintenance by deploying a standards based solution
  • Improve efficiency with a library of proven, standards based, optimized applications
  • Reduce implementation costs by leveraging the largest global network of independent System Integrators
  • Achieve environmental sustainability through compliance with industry, regulatory and green initiatives
  • Reduce total cost of ownership by implementing a sustainable solution through the Wonderware ecosystem of partners

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Wonderware HMI Reports


Wonderware HMI Reports is the most intuitive and easy-to-use reporting solution available on the market today. It gives you the power to quickly and easily create reports from Wonderware InTouch HMI, and many other data sources. Wonderware HMI Reports requires no IT or programming skills to design, schedule and produce appealing and informative dynamic reports. You can easily configure HMI Reports through simple drag-and-drop operations within the Report Studio. The design Studio also gives you ease-of-use features such as intelligent report objects and friendly dialog boxes.

Wonderware HMI Reports will help you significantly reduce report development time, simplify report modifications, and empower you to transform raw data into great looking, information-filled reports. Custom reports can be created easily, quickly and inexpensively, with scheduling tools to help you deliver them to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Wonderware HMI Reports works with Wonderware Information server or an included web portal to extend the availability of reports throughout your enterprise network and beyond.


Key Features

  • Reduce time and effort to create, distribute, and revise reports
  • Create reports significantly faster than Crystal Reports or Excel
  • Quickly and easily consolidate your InTouch or Historian/InSQL data into concise, visually appealing reports to better understand your processes and your business
  • Configure through simple interfaces, menus, intelligent report objects, and friendly dialog boxes. Requires no IT or programming skills.
  • Make reports available easily and securely to any authorized person with the built-in Web portal

Key Capabilities

  • Enjoy versatility - Intelligent Report objects include data-driven Tables, Pie Charts, Bar Charts, Line and XY Plot Charts
  • Easily define who has access to reports and who can create, modify, or generate reports with built-in security. You can even customize these settings on a per-report basis.
  • Generate and Distribute custom reports automatically in Excel, Adobe Acrobat format (PDF) and email format
  • Configure reports to be generated based on Events (e.g. Batch Complete), Schedules (e.g. Shifts) or on demand (ad-hoc)
  • Easily extract data from InTouch, Wonderware Historian/InSQL, and any data source using OPC, OLEDB, ODBC, including other vendor HMIs

Friday, January 30, 2009

Wonderware Operations Software








Wonderware Operations Software (formerly known as Factelligence) provides a scalable and configurable Manufacturing Execution System (MES) designed to help manufacturers across a wide range of industries improve their operational efficiency, manufacturing responsiveness and brand integrity.
The incremental, low-risk approach to building Manufacturing Execution systems from Wonderware allows Wonderware Operations Software to be implemented in steps, from basic MES functionality including bill of materials, specifications, data collections and traceability to enhanced capabilities such as inventory management, certifications, labor and production steps.

Key Benefits

  • Improved inventory turns and reduce inventory costs
  • Reduced production errors and increased yield
  • Improved predictability of order fulfillment

Key Capabilities

  • Operational enforcement using procedural steps
  • Powerful WIP management using queue controls, business logic and multilevel BOM features
  • Monitoring accurate ‘planned vs. actual’ production quantities in intuitive user interfaces using intelligent Microsoft .NET controls for MES
  • Common services for security, availability, data collection, data communication and high availability