System Platform promotes consistency in diverse operations.
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Wonderware System Platform supports consistent operations across range of industrial processes and manufacturing facilities by delivering common set of applications software services. Built on industry standards-based ArchestrA software architecture, unified solution helps information and automation personnel normalize integration and application generation issues to adjust to changing needs. It provides one common strategic platform for all networked supervisory solutions.
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Wonderware Introduces New System Platform Built on Industry Standards-Based ArchestrA Software Architecture
Wonderware Introduces New System Platform Built on Industry Standards-Based ArchestrA Software Architecture
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Nov. 10, 2006 - Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, today 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.
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. "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 leverage 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
