Software helps users develop FDA-compliant applications.
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IndustrialSQL Server v8.0 Historian captures detailed plant data in real-time, providing companies with better understanding of manufacturing process and enabling them to make improvements in product consistency and productivity. It offers quality analysis, production analysis, and tracking capabilities. Data samples may be acquired and stored at up to 60,000 samples per second for 1 sec durations. Software supports FDA 21 CFR Part 11 application development.
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Wonderware Introduces IndustrialSQL Server 8.0 Historian with Enhanced Performance, Scalability, and Fault Tolerance
8.0 Version Serves As Core Technology for Company's Industrial
Intelligence Initiative
LAKE FOREST, Calif., July 1, 2002 -- Wonderware, an operating unit of Invensys plc, today introduced version 8.0 of the IndustrialSQL Server historian. IndustrialSQL Server 8.0 represents a significant addition and enhancement to Wonderware's solutions for the industrial intelligence market, which includes a rich client toolset, desktop reporting and data mining tools, SPC analysis and Web visualization.
It also represents another milestone in delivering on Wonderware's continued drive toward lowering engineering costs and simplifying maintenance of industrial applications. IndustrialSQL Server 8.0 is an affordable and powerful off-the-shelf historian that delivers enhanced performance and scalability for industrial automation users. The application captures detailed plant data in real-time, providing companies with better understanding of their manufacturing process and
enabling them to make improvements in product consistency and
productivity. Combined with Wonderware's analytical client
applications, IndustrialSQL sets the foundation for companies trying to improve their industrial intelligence capabilities.
"IndustrialSQL Server 8.0 builds on Wonderware's reputation for rock-solid solutions," said Nancy Venable, IndustrialSQL Server product manager. "Whether it is a simple installation with a single IndustrialSQL server or a complex, networked system of multiple IndustrialSQL and I/O servers, the enhanced historian is well-suited for even the most demanding applications. The product's functionally also enables users to more easily develop FDA-compliant applications."
An important objective for companies, working in FDA-audited
environments is maximizing project lifecycles. With IndustrialSQL
Server's product enhancements, companies can effectively manage the implementation and maintenance costs of implementing FDA-validated applications.
Upon its introduction in 1998, IndustrialSQL Server introduced the industry's first cost-effective solution enabling manufacturing facilities of all sizes to take advantage of the benefits offered by plant historian technology. IndustrialSQL is an extension to Microsoft QL Server 2000 designed to acquire production data at dramatically increased speeds, reduce data storage volume and integrate production, vent, summary and configuration data as well as enterprise application information.
As the first historian to be available for the Windows NT platform, IndustrialSQL Server offers users quick access to their history data as well as immediate access to real-time data. To date more than 10,000 licenses have been sold worldwide.
"IndustrialSQL 8.0 has been three years in the making and is the
storage cornerstone of Wonderware's overall industrial intelligence platform," said Tim Sowell, vice president of product management, Invensys Manufacturing and Process Systems Software Development. "IndustrialSQL 8.0 is also the plant historian compliant with Invensys' new ArchestrA platform. It will enable customers to build solutions for today's and tomorrow's demanding environments, not only through its flexible architecture, but also through its ease of use in configuration and deployment."
Feature Benefits
IndustrialSQL Server 8.0 delivers enhanced performance, scalability and robustness for industrial automation users offering quality analysis, production analysis and tracking capabilities. New benefits include:
- Ultra high availability and fault tolerance including the ability to protect against server or network hardware failure.
- Lower cost of maintenance and administration for both single and multi-node systems.
- Improved performance and support of larger and more complex
applications. Data samples may be acquired and stored at up to 60,000 samples per second for one-second durations.
- Enhanced scalability with the flexibility to meet applications as small as 100 tags to large system users with more than 100,000 tags.
- Support for completely localized applications, including single and multi-byte characters in tag names, tag descriptions and string tags.
- Enhanced support for FDA 21 CFR Part 11 application development with added capabilities for audit trails, configuration change logs, securing manual data and record updates.
"This high level of overall performance allows the new version to be deployed at two different tiers of application need," Venable said. "We still meet all the needs of the plant floor historian, which is our traditional market, but we now have the high performance needed to use IndustrialSQL Server effectively in the enterprise application marketplace. This will be very important going forward, as IndustrialSQL Server becomes the historian for use with the new ArchestrA platform developed by Invensys Systems for tomorrow's automation development needs."
Availability
The new IndustrialSQL Server 8.0 is now shipping and is available
through Wonderware distributors worldwide. For further information please visit the company's Web site at www.wonderware.com.
About Wonderware
Wonderware is an operating unit of the Production Management division of Invensys plc and is the world's leading supplier of industrial automation software. Founded in 1987, the company pioneered the use of Microsoft Windows-based, human machine-interface (HMI) automation software for manufacturing operation systems. The company's mission is to provide integrated software suites that drive the customer's strategic, planning and operational decision-making based on real-time plant floor information.
Based in Lake Forest, Calif., the company has regional sales and
development offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia to provide support to its network of more than 160 distributor offices. Wonderware has more than 180,000 successful installations in more than 30,000 plants worldwide. For more information, visit the Wonderware Web site at www.wonderware.com.
About Invensys
Invensys plc is an international production technology and energy
management company specializing in helping companies to improve
efficiency, performance and profitability. Headquartered in London, England, Invensys has about 45,000 employees worldwide.
Invensys' Production Management Division (PMD) works closely with
customers to enhance production asset performance and maximise return on investments in product technologies. The division business units include APV, Avantis, Baan, Esscor, Eurotherm, Foxboro, PacSim, SIMSCI, Triconex and Wonderware. The division addresses the production needs of the oil, gas and chemicals industries; food, beverage and personal healthcare markets; and the discrete and hybrid manufacturing sectors.
The Invensys Energy Management Division (EMD) business units work
actively with clients involved in both the supply and consumption of energy and water resources. They develop innovative systems and technologies that improve the management of energy and water efficiency and the reliability and security of power supplies. The division includes Energy Solutions, Metering Systems, Home, Appliance and Climate Controls, and Powerware business units. Together, they focus on markets connected with power and energy infrastructure and commercial and residential buildings.
