Archiving System maintains total data integrity.December 3, 2008 -
While developed to monitor and record information in compliance with standards for secure electronic recording control, Store and Forward also overcomes challenges associated with inaccurate data reporting from communication failures. Features include redundant time- and event-based logging of process parameters; trend chart- and spreadsheet-based data presentation features; as well as secure electronic recording with total data integrity.
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Eurotherm Controls
741-F Miller Dr.
Leesburg, VA, 20175
USA
Eurotherm's Store & Forward Maintains Total Data Integrity
LEESBURG, VA, USA, Oct. 13, 2008 - Eurotherm has recently launched "Store & Forward", a data archiving system developed to monitor and record information in compliance with increasingly strict standards for secure electronic recording control, but also to overcome the challenges associated with inaccurate data reporting from communication failures.
"Store & Forward" includes fault tolerant features such as time based redundant logging to continuously track process parameters. The system automatically stores data captured during lapses in communication and forwards a complete record to the configured server once communication is restored. The result is secure electronic recording with total data integrity.
"The 'Store & Forward' system offers the ideal solution for manufacturers who must address the rising quality control standards in the face of technical communications glitches that are, by their nature, often unavoidable like power outages and network server complications," says Peter Sherwin, Eurotherm's US Heat Treatment Business Development Manager. " 'Store & Forward' provides the assurance that there is never a moment which isn't being monitored."
Time based logging parameters used by "Store & Forward" include actual maximum, minimum, and average measures of all measurable process parameters. Event based parameters monitor Channel alarms, batch start and stop times, operator actions and notes including login activity and user event messages, and electronic signatures.
Data presentation features are trend chart and spreadsheet based for clear and accurate reporting. Operators can effectively present valid batch, sub- batch, and continuous data in both absolute and relative date and time.
Optimum security is further ensured through binary encoded read-only files, auto-FTP uploads to servers, secure embedded audit trials, and electronic signing and authorizing for secure batch release.
About Eurotherm
Eurotherm is a leading global supplier of control, measurement and data recording solutions and services to industrial and process customers. The company's international reputation as a provider of innovative solutions across a broad spectrum of vertical markets is supported by engineering services designed to realize greater benefits to customers' plant-wide assets.
Eurotherm's product range includes distributed process automation systems and machine control incorporating single and multi-loop control, operator displays, data management and graphic recorders, power control and signal conditioning. Eurotherm, Inc. is an ISO9000 approved Company, and operates TickIT protocols for software management. Eurotherm is a key business within Invensys, the global automation, controls and process solutions group.
Invensys products, service expertise and ongoing support enable intelligent systems to monitor and control processes in many different environments.
Leading companies in a wide range of industries rely on Invensys to help them perform with greater efficiency, safety and cost-effectiveness.
Headquartered in London and listed on the London Stock Exchange, the Invensys Group is made up of four businesses: Process Systems, Eurotherm, Rail Systems and Controls.
Invensys, Eurotherm, Maco, EPower, Eyris, Continental are trademarks of Invensys plc, its subsidiaries or affiliates.
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