Friday, January 30, 2009

Wonderware Performance Software








Wonderware Performance Software (formerly known as Factelligence) provides an enterprise level software solution for collecting, tracking and communicating real-time equipment performance and efficiency information.
The software is highly configurable and fully leverages the Wonderware System Platform, which offers many benefits as a result of the underlying ArchestrA technology. This approach reduces deployment and maintenance costs, while also facilitating rapid scaling of the application throughout the enterprise.
Wonderware Performance Software helps deliver critical equipment downtime and efficiency information to operators and decision-makers who can take immediate action to improve plant performance.

Key Benefits
  • Improve plant productivity and efficiency
  • Improve asset utilization
  • Leverage best practices

Key Capabilities

  • Equipment downtime tracking
  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness monitoring
  • Template based configuration
  • Customizable .NET based operator displays
  • Web-based reporting using Microsoft Reporting Services technology
  • Highly extensible with broad connectivity

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Wonderware Industry Pack for Water and Waste Water Applications

Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, today announced the release of the Wonderware Industry Pack for Water & Wastewater designed to enhance overall productivity in facility operations for the water and wastewater industry. This is the first in a series of Industry Packs to be introduced by Wonderware that will focus on specific vertical market segments. Wonderware is providing a single unified software platform for integrating real-time information with business critical applications.
The Wonderware Water & Wastewater Industry Pack, which will be available to download for customer support members later this month, is a pre-configured set of application templates and graphics specifically built for use by water and wastewater companies and municipalities. Pre-configured content enables system engineers to minimize the overall cost and complexities associated with creating and managing water and wastewater systems. In addition, it will address critical issues facing this industry such as workforce attrition, regulatory requirements, business factors, source water supply and aging infrastructure.
Targeting municipal water and wastewater operations as well as industrial water and waste treatment, the Wonderware Industry Pack leverages ArchestrA technology for greater productivity and ease of use. The unified ArchestrA software architecture simplifies the reporting and management functions performed by operations personnel, enabling them to build systems that are easy to replicate at multiple industry sites.
“There are many companies today that provide SCADA and HMI solutions for the water and wastewater market, but the industry requires a comprehensive solution for the more demanding environment of today’s municipalities,” said Rob McGreevy, director of the Wonderware industry marketing group. “Wonderware offers a refreshing alternative to traditional SCADA system solutions by adding industry specific content and applications on top of the Wonderware System Platform 3.0 software built on ArchestrA technology. This technology enables the integration of applications across all departments and functions to create a comprehensive real-time operations management environment built for the modern municipality.”
For manufacturing environments, synchronization of water treatment systems with overall manufacturing operations provides greater operations efficiency and regulatory compliance. Wonderware software can integrate most any data source, and transform raw data and events into meaningful information that helps reduce operations costs, identifies hidden inefficiencies and enables more cost-effective operations. Extensive flexibility and scalability enables users to expand operations or change work processes as their operational requirements change.
“The ArchestrA architecture is ideally suited for water and wastewater applications by employing an easy-to-use, component-object-based environment for developing standardized water and wastewater operations management solutions,” said Eduardo Ballina, industry manager for Wonderware SCADA solutions. “This significantly improves productivity and controls the overall cost of managing and deploying solutions.”
More than 28,000 Wonderware software licenses are in use at water and wastewater sites around the world to manage plant operations. Offering one-click software upgrades since 1990, Wonderware ensures that water system operators can continue to depend on the experience of a proven software platform and personal support through a worldwide network of local distributors and systems integrators. This provides flexibility both in the way solutions are built as well as in the ability to choose how to implement and maintain systems.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Wonderware Information Server








The Wonderware Information Server offers an easy solution for aggregating and presenting plant production and performance data over the web or company intranet.
Plant personnel, with a minimum of training, can install, configure and implement a highly effective plant information web site without the need for custom web programming.
Using Information Server, large amounts of process data can be aggregated into highly informative production reports tailored to the information needs of plant personnel.
Content from the Wonderware Information Server can be incorporated into other web portals, making existing corporate IT portals more informative and valuable.

Key Benefits
Access to Key Performance Indicators (KPI) anywhere
  • Improve plant performance
  • Reduce production costs
  • Increase responsiveness to market opportunities
  • Productivity and workforce improvements
  • Key Capabilities

    Easy access to real-time and historical plant data
  • Online access to plant process graphics
  • Integrated data trending and analysis
  • Production and performance reporting
  • Integration with existing IT infrastructure and web portals
  • Wonderware Toolkits







    Wonderware Toolkits provide powerful extensibility to InTouch HMI and System Platform applications enabling developers to extend the capabilities of Wonderware products to meet specific system integration needs. Our Toolkits promote adherence to industry standards, provide additional customization and intellectual property protection, and enhance the ability to interface Wonderware products with other software and hardware.
    Wonderware Toolkits are utilized primarily by System Integrators, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Value-Added Resellers (VARs), and software developers that require a relatively high level of programming sophistication.

    Key Benefits
    • DAServer Toolkit – Enables developers to build device integration servers more easily
    • ArchestrA Object Toolkit - Enables developers to extend the ArchestrA architecture with objects that provide specific application or device integration functionality
    • Historian Toolkit - Enables developers to create high-value industrial applications that integrate with data sources from the System Platform and other data sources
    • Alarm Toolkit - The Alarm toolkit enables users to produce custom distributed alarm providers and consumers
    • Wizard Toolkit – The Wizard Toolkit enables users to produce their own Wizards for inclusion in InTouch HMI
    • Script Toolkit - The Script toolkit is a SDK enabling custom InTouch scripts to be developed
    • GRAccess Toolkit - Enables developers to create programmatic access to and interaction with System Platform Galaxy configuration data
    • MXAccess Toolkit - Enables developers to create programmatic access to runtime data in a System Platform Galaxy

    Wonderware Device Integration Servers








    Connectivity to your plant/facility devices is key to real-time information management. Wonderware maximizes your choices with the broadest possible communication options for industrial automation and information devices. In collaboration with more than 100 third-party interface developers, Wonderware provides the largest selection of connectivity options to hundreds of control systems such as PLCs, RTUs, DCSs, flow controllers, loop controllers, scales, gauges, bar code readers and other hardware devices. Wonderware has also fully embraced the openness of OPC technology, exposing data via OPC from our products as an OPC Client and also providing the means to connect to any third party OPC Server.
    Wonderware makes device integration more maintainable by using Device Integration Objects (DI Objects) within the Wonderware System Platform for seamless connectivity to any data source. Wonderware also offers the DAServer Toolkit which empowers you to create your own connectivity server.


    Key Benefits
    • Separation of application code from device communications management- so both can be easily managed and updated
    • Takes a flat, non-structured device and gives it structure, where it can be more easily incorporated and managed in a distributed system.
    • Takes individual communications paths and makes them available globally for any application to use
    • Allows communications and device naming to be different for the same application, allowing re-use on any machine
    • Support for OPC standards

    Key Capabilities

    • Create one application and have it automatically bind to PLC/DCS/RTU addresses at run-time
    • Create templates that can be used with any manufacturer of PLC/DCS/RTU with different naming conventions for addresses
    • Create common SCADA and HMI Applications for different PLC/DCS/RTU types
    • Support for OPC standards

    Wonderware Development Studio





    Wonderware Development Studio consists of a suite of cooperative tools designed to enable the rapid construction and maintenance of Wonderware applications.
    The heart of the Development Studio is the Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Within the IDE engineers can design, develop, test and maintain any industrial application.
    Without leaving the IDE, the user can develop vibrant and sophisticated graphics, and incorporate those into effective HMI, SCADA, MES or Operations Intelligence applications.
    Once development is ready for delivery, a single click is all it takes to deploy applications, objects and associated logic to anywhere in the enterprise namespace.

    Key Benefits

    • Unified development environment for HMI, SCADA, MES and EMI applications
    • Ease-of-use
    • Centralized, multi-user development
    • Easy re-use of previous engineering work
    • Fast deployment of changes across the network
    • Productivity and workforce improvements

    Key Capabilities

    • Template-based development of objects and graphics
    • Extensible by means of Microsoft .NET and Wonderware APIs
    • Complete and customizable graphics library
    • Configurable security and audit trails
    • Management of all I/O, history, alarms, events, graphics, scripts and more with one tool

    Friday, September 26, 2008

    Active Factory









    Wonderware ActiveFactory Software
    Wonderware ActiveFactory trending, analysis and reporting software provides rich data analysis and reporting capabilities that maximize the value of data stored in the Wonderware Historian.
    ActiveFactory software provides data-trend analysis, sophisticated numerical-data analysis using Microsoft’s Excel® spreadsheet software, comprehensive data reporting using Microsoft® Word, and the capability to publish real-time and historical plant information to the Web or company intranet site using Wonderware Information Server.
    Plant knowledge workers using ActiveFactory information can quickly troubleshoot problems, study potential process inefficiencies and eliminate the time-consuming process of locating the data.

    Key Features

    • Improve plant productivity
    • Improve plant agility and performance
    • Proactively identify process inefficiencies
    • Simplify plant performance reporting

    Key Capabilities

    • Real-time and historical data trends and reports
    • Scheduled and ad hoc plant reports
    • Simplified data queries
    • Integration with, and support for Microsoft Office® via Excel® and Word® add-ins
    • Integration with Wonderware System Platform components including Wonderware
    • Historian and Wonderware Information Server