Product category:
Application integration
News Release from: Wonderware United Kingdom | Subject: Wonderware System Platform
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 November 2006
System platform built on industry
standards
Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, has unveiled a unified industrial software platform called the Wonderware System Platform.
Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, has unveiled a unified industrial software platform called the Wonderware System Platform The System Platform supports simplified and consistent operations across a wide range of industrial operations and manufacturing facilities by delivering a common set of applications software services
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 5 Mar 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Software to help manage energy conservation
To help industry manage energy conservation, software interface combines the Wonderware and Echelon applications to give a single software platform for real-time operations.
New Wonderware FactorySuite A2 software
New Wonderware FactorySuite A2 software integrates GE Fanuc iFix and FIX32 legacy systems. ArchestrA technology greatly simplifies integration of Invensys' Wonderware and GE Fanuc software products.
The Wonderware System Platform is designed to make it easier for industrial information and automation personnel to normalize their integration and application generation issues to rapidly adjust to the ever-changing needs of their customers and the overall market.
The expansive platform services and functionality serve to extend Wonderware customers' existing systems and software investments and enables new flexibility in rapid application development.
"Manufacturing companies and industrial operations are challenged with being more responsive to worldwide competitive pressures, while at the same time identifying hidden production and supply-chain costs and creating a leaner environment with less working capital," said Steve Garbrecht, marketing program manager for Wonderware platforms.
Further reading
New versions of InBatch Premier and FlexFormula
Invensys' Wonderware Business Unit releases new versions of InBatch Premier and FlexFormula software products in response to increasing market demands
OPC connectivity for Wonderware products
Wonderware's FactorySuite Gateway is a new product that provides OPC connectivity to current and legacy Wonderware products running across a wide range of Microsoft Windows operating systems
ArchestrA Bulk Import Utility
Wonderware Releases ArchestrA Bulk Import Utility to Ease Migration of Legacy Applications
"Traditional application architectures lock users into inflexible solutions that take a long time to develop and change to meet new needs".
"The goal of the Wonderware System Platform is to give our customers the very best software environment for strategic agility".
Built on the industry standards-based ArchestrA software architecture, the Wonderware System Platform allows customers to have one common strategic platform for all of their networked supervisory HMI, SCADA, production management (MES) and performance management (manufacturing intelligence) solutions.
The underlying industrial automation and information application architecture, ArchestrA, provides customers with the means to dynamically reformulate their manufacturing footprint - enabling an incremental, low-risk deployment of increased application functionality, one step at a time.
The Wonderware Systems Platform includes a comprehensive set of capabilities that previously would have required multiple product offerings:.
1 Industrial domain services for industrial computing functions that are not provided by commercial operating systems or products.
2 Software and device connectivity services for easy communication to virtually any plant or business information source.
3 Information and data management services for management of real-time and historical information.
4 Information delivery and visualization services for functions that provide information to the right user at the right time, and in the form in which they expect it.
5 Application development services that provide easy and intuitive development of modular industrial software solutions that can be easily changed to meet future needs.
6 System management and extensibility services that provide easy management, expansion and modification of the application or the computing architecture.
In addition, new Wonderware software modules exploit the Wonderware System Platform by adding functional capabilities to meet specific operational needs.
These new modules include one or more QuickStarts.
A QuickStart consists of a pre-configured example of best practices to address a specific manufacturing scenario.
QuickStarts accelerate the design and implementation by supplying example applications, database structure, HMI graphics, Web reports and implementation guidelines.
"Wonderware software is legendary for ease of use and the combination of the System Platform and software modules, along with QuickStarts, are intended to dramatically simplify and modularize the way in which customers approach software solutions," Garbrecht said.
For more information on the new Wonderware System Platform, software modules and QuickStarts, please contact your local Wonderware representative.
• Wonderware United Kingdom: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Manufacturingtalk email newsletter
• Manufacturingtalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
