Friday, October 23, 2009

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

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.