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Factory data acquisition
News Release from: ABB Robotics | Subject: WebWare 4.6 production tracking, data acquisition
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 December 2005
Powerful software tracks production and
data
Powerful production tracking and data acquisition software that helps track production resources includes improved robot program back-up and automatic production data acquisition and reporting.
ABB, the global power and automation technology group, has introduced a new release of its powerful production tracking and data acquisition software, WebWare WebWare helps customers keep track of their production resources by gathering data from ABB controllers, PLCs, and other plant-floor devices
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 27 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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It makes this data easily accessible through Microsoft Internet Explorer, allowing customers to safeguard and optimise their investment in robotics.
The new release, version 4.6, includes a number of new features that the market requested, including improvements to the Custom Databases concept, part of WebWare's Report Module.
Custom Databases allows customers to design their own databases in order to fully support all their needs for automatic data acquisition.
WebWare 4.6 comes with enhanced functions to make this concept even more powerful.
The database archiving functions in WebWare have also been extended to ensure that customers can keep their data for long periods without running out of disk space.
Additionally, extra features to WebWare Backup Module have been incorporated, including functions to trace the reason why backups are executed and the ability for users to insert comments as to when, and why, the back-up took place.
WebWare now also supports the latest security updates for Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, and its user interface and menus are more configurable to provide greater flexibility.
Last, but not least, WebWare 4.6 includes the WebWare Installation Guide - an interactive, step-by-step guide to installing and configuring the product.
A great help in getting started.
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