Water and Wastewater ClearSCADA 2009 Edition SCADA Host Software Water and Wastewater, FL - Sep 18, 2008 By Sherry Droeske Ottawa, Canada — Control Microsystems, global developer of advanced SCADA products for water and wastewater treatment plants, …
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Citect, one of the world’s largest, independent, real-time intelligence and industrial automation software companies, has entered the “Powered By SAP NetWeaver” Partner Program. This program is designed for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to create innovative, high-impact solutions and sales opportunities for the SAP customer ecosystem.
Both Citect and SAP support the industry standard for interoperability, ISA-95*, and are global leaders in the implementation of B2MML for plant to business interoperability. B2MML is an XML-based implementation of the ISA-95 standard developed by the World Batch Forum.
The SAP NetWeaver platform is the technical foundation of mySAP(TM) Business Suite solutions, SAP® xApps(TM) composite applications, partner solutions and customer custom-built applications. It provides the best method to integrate all systems running SAP and non-SAP software.
“Citect sees tremendous value in utilizing the SAP NetWeaver platform to leverage the capabilities of both SAP and Citect Applications for our customers,” says Richard Webb, CEO, Citect Corporation.
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DaqView 8.0–IOtech’s Out-of-the-Box spreadsheet-style setup, data-acquisition, and display software–offers new real-time scope and charting modes, including multiple and overlapping traces per chart, auto-scaling, and zooming. DaqView allows you to verify signal connections, acquire and save data to disk, and graphically view real-time data.
Two upgrade options are available. DaqViewXL/Plus provides real-time export to Microsoft Excel directly from DaqView, as well as increased chart and scope capabilities and time-domain analysis. DaqView/Pro includes all of the features of XL/Plus and adds frequency-domain analysis, digital filtering, and spectrum analysis.
DaqView 8.0 is included with all DaqBoard and Personal Daq/3000 series purchases. The 8.0 update is free for downloading. DaqViewXL/Plus costs $299, while DaqView/Pro costs $599.
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WINCC Version 6 SP4 is the latest version of SCADA software from Siemens, providing new software support, improved engineering and runtime performance, traceability and validation features for regulated industries and various other enhancements.
New features include Microsoft software support including Microsoft Windows 2003 Server SP1, Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 (for single-user systems and clients) and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP4 is used as the database.
The SQL Server system administrator password can now be assigned by the user and supports adherence to company password conventions.
SIMATIC NET software integration
Softnet S7 Lean for Industrial Ethernet is included free-of-charge with every new WinCC licence (from version 6.0 SP3 onwards).
This SIMATIC NET software supports up to a maximum of 8 S7 connections via an Ethernet network card.
SIMATIC NCM PC is included within the scope of supply with WinCC. NCM PC enables vastly improved handling of WinCC projects in an integrated environment without the need for Step7.
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Users of the Allen-Bradley IntelliCENTER motor control center (MCC) can now more quickly and easily add components and make other hardware configuration changes, thanks to new features available in IntelliCENTER 2.0 software from Rockwell Automation. The new drag-and-drop function used to add or remove devices saves time and simplifies hardware changes on an existing MCC.
“Ease of use, simple setup and fast, plug-and-play installation are at the heart of what users have come to expect from the IntelliCENTER MCC,” said Kevin Retlich, product manager, Rockwell Automation. “These benefits are evident in this new software that enables users to update quickly and easily to reflect hardware changes. It reduces engineering time and provides greater configuration flexibility.”
IntelliCENTER 2.0 features new ActiveX controls that allow the software to be readily accessed by a variety of HMI software packages, including Rockwell Software RSView32 and RSView SE, as well as Web browsers. Preconfigured screens (available as ActiveX objects in other HMI programs) reduce HMI programming time and show real-time data, trending, component history, wiring diagrams, user manuals and spare parts, all at the click of a button.
“The ability to view operating and diagnostic data in varying HMI programs gives users greater application versatility and expanded flexibility to install the IntelliCENTER software wherever it’s needed — in a control room, at an engineer’s desk or on a laptop,” said Retlich.
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Wizcon Supervisor, the complete Internet-based solution for control and information.
The new Wizcon is here! With Wizcon 9.1, Wizcon Supervisor users benefit from significant advances in security, through enhanced user management and audit trail.
Wizcon exhibits increased reliability, robustness and ergonomics.
Developers benefit from increased productivity and efficiency.
Key new features:
• Tag Templates
• Custom Actions in Images and the Event Summary
• Tooltips for greater operational efficiency
• Enhanced ability to develop FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliant app’s
• Exporting chart data
• Tag definition rules
• Event Summary alarms blinking
• Define initial values for tags at Wizcon startup
• Built on .NET technology
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Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys Systems Inc., today announced the release of a new, enhanced version of its enterprise integration offering designed to reduce the complexity and costs of business-to-manufacturing integration. The Wonderware Enterprise Integration Application 2.0 enables manufacturers to improve operational performance by integrating diverse sets of manufacturing systems and business applications to achieve greater levels of business productivity.
Built on Invensys’ innovative ArchestrA software architecture, the Enterprise Integration Application bridges the gap between the real-time domain of the plant floor and the transactional domain of business systems. By openly sitting on top of existing multi-vendor, plant-floor applications such as human-machine interfaces (HMIs), historians or manufacturing execution systems (MES), the Enterprise Integration Application aligns business and manufacturing processes. This is achieved by using powerful workflow functionality and transformation mappings configured in a non-programmatic environment to define reusable and maintainable integration solutions.
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GE Fanuc Automation, Inc., a unit of GE Industrial, announces the availability of Proficy HMI/SCADA – iFIX 4.0, a premier industry solution for the comprehensive monitoring, control and distribution of plant-wide data. A key component of the Proficy automation software platform, this release of iFIX 4.0 delivers enhanced functionality, including third-party PLC integration, productivity enhancements, and the ability to handle one of the world’s largest SCADA systems.
iFIX 4.0’s extendable architecture is capable of discovering PLC information, delivering new levels of developer productivity, efficiency, and error proofing. The iFIX 4.0 release features innovative device discovery and automated configuration capabilities supporting the Siemens S7 PLC immediately, with support for Rockwell (Allen-Bradley) PLC networks and other OPC sources to be announced in the near future.
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Simple, flexible and economical, Winlog is a real time SCADA/HMI software package for the supervision of industrial and civil plants. An integrated development environment provides different tools (Gate Builder, Template Builder, Code Builder) for the easy and intuitive creation of multilanguage applications. Communication with most available devices (PLCs, controllers, motor drives, data acquisition modules, etc.) is ensured by an extensive library of drivers; special functions can be developed and integrated directly by the user; export functions allow recorded data to be accessed from main software packages (Excel, Access, etc.). With Winlog it is possible to set up a distributed architecture based on Intranet/Internet and to use the fix and mobile (GSM) telephone network to communicate with remote devices or to send SMS.
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Vector Graphics ActiveX is professional graphics solution for creating business and technical drawings and the most powerful for today (Freeware for noncommercial use). It provides 500+ methods, properties and events and is fully object oriented. Developers get full control of all objects at run time and can process graphic documents, analyze and visualize any kind of realistic processes, create interactive GIS-, CAD- and SCADA systems.
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Vector Graphics ActiveX helps you to save development time, increase productivity and extend possibilities of your applications.
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