Wonderware

Wonderware Well Field Application

2013-07-31T21:56:00.000-07:00

Wonderware Well Field Application

Today’s increasingly demanding upstream oil and gas operations environment requires a comprehensive, integrated solution. Invensys offers a control system built for on-shore oil and gas well field operations providing full integration of all applications across all departments and functions to create a real-time operations management environment.

Wonderware Well Field Application manages wells by providing on demand reports which can be sorted by asset, route, operator or foreman, and show at a glance whether wells are underperforming or meeting production targets. Assets in need of intervention can be quickly identified, allowing for problem wells to be prioritized, saving time and truck hours.

Built on the ArchestrA System Platform and using a galaxy database it provides the ideal platform for a scalable solution from a small number of wells to a large, distributed well field.

Key Benefits

Ease of configuration minimizes cost of engineering
Real-time information for performance monitoring
Maximize profitability of existing resources
Instantly see how the entire field is producing
Web and mobile access to production reports

Key Capabilities

Easily locates wells to get production summarized data and trends
Easily adds and edits new well configurations
Manages maturing well fields with multiple automation generations
Connects and configures a wide range of RTUs
Scalable from fields of less than 10 wells to multiple fields with thousands of wells spread across different locations

Wonderware IntelaTrac

2013-06-24T22:27:00.002-07:00

Wonderware IntelaTrac

Wonderware IntelaTrac is the industry-leading mobile workforce and decision support system. IntelaTrac includes configurable software and ruggedized mobile hardware solutions that enable workflow, data collection and general task management, for plant operations, maintenance management, production tracking and compliance applications.

IntelaTrac is a key component of a complete plant intelligence solution that connects all of your wired and stranded assets – enabling an even broader visibility into the performance of your assets than ever before. IntelaTrac’s asset-centric approach makes tracking asset performance straightforward, supporting Reliability Centered Maintenance initiatives.

IntelaTrac is not just a point solution, but an application framework that delivers mobile capabilities to important plant systems, including data historians, asset management systems, manufacturing execution systems and others. IntelaTrac provides the mobile infrastructure for remote data collection, event tracking, procedure execution and validation.

The Wonderware IntelaTrac mobile framework has application in Refining, Upstream Oil & Gas, Power Generation, Chemicals, Food & Beverage, Water/Wastewater, Metals and Mining and many more industries.

Key Benefits

Improved operational discipline and reliability
Improved safety and compliance
Increased workforce productivity
Higher asset availability
Improved process visibility

Key Capabilities

Advanced workflow creation and scheduling
Dynamic procedures triggered on asset condition
Comprehensive analysis and reporting
Integrated with Wonderware System Platform and Historian
Easily extended for custom applications or integrations
Connectivity with many popular back-end systems

2012-12-13T04:04:00.000-08:00

Corporate Energy Management Application

Corporate Energy Management (CEM) refers to sets of actions that move accountability for energy outcomes to upper levels of the firm. With CEM, energy is no longer the sole responsibility of plant managers and engineers. In fact, CEM programs are designed to involve many areas of business activity, such as accounting, marketing, and others that were not traditionally concerned with energy. Bringing corporate-level attention and management into the picture helps to ensure enterprise-wide opportunities are explored.
The Wonderware Corporate Energy Management Application allows plant personnel to monitor real-time energy use and automatically notifies operators, supervisors and cost accountants of energy inefficiencies and waste. It connects directly to meters on a network, through industrial controllers or though building automation systems. The application is layered on top of ArchestrA System Platform, enabling integration with a wide range of industrial controllers, peer applications and I/O data sources. This unique approach enables direct integration with the process and adds essential context to energy usage, such as asset state, production results and operating parameters. Application functionality includes recording consumption and demand at main and submeters for a wide range of energy types, including power, water, chill, gas, air and steam. The current price for each energy type can be updated in real time to reflect the emerging wholesale markets for energy or the cost of site generation.

Key Features

Granular, contextual reports – view analytical energy consumption reports and drill into details
Scalable – collect data from one plant, from one site or from geographically dispersed sites
Diverse – address all energy types, including power, water, gas, chill, air and steam

Key Capabilities

Enables real-time “energy management” – discover wasteful energy situations, saving money
Transforms raw energy data into actionable information – understand consumption history, patterns and costs
Collects energy data from a wide array of meters – quickly maintain and configure new meters

2012-12-13T03:32:00.001-08:00

ArchestrA Workflow Software is an advanced workflow management solution based on a rigorous BPM (Business Process Management) foundation that helps you manage and track critical work activities. Every day, industrial companies execute complex workflows involving many different people and systems. How can you be certain that each work step is being executed correctly every time?
With ArchestrA Workflow you can model each work task, including the proper sequencing and dependencies. The system orchestrates the execution of each workflow driving higher operational consistency. The outcome of each work task is recorded with the detail you need to evaluate both good and bad performance.
ArchestrA Workflow’s new Mobile Client allows you to manage your Work Task via an iPhone or iPad.

Update tasks anywhere, anytime
Receive new task notifications
Approve or Reject a task
Flag a task based on importance
Fill out a form

ArchestrA Workflow enables organizations to:

Standardize work processes across all domains (Production, Quality, Maintenance)
Digitize SOPs, GMPs and work instructions
Coordinate human-centric and system-centric tasks effectively
Gain real-time visibility to active work processes
Measure and improve the performance of work processes
Enforce company policies and regulatory compliance
Maintain comprehensive process audit trails
Synchronize disparate applications

Key Benefits

Increases work process agility and ownership
Optimizes resource utilization, reduces operational costs
Maximizes user productivity and responsiveness
Facilitates knowledge management, manages best practices/standards
Provides comprehensive framework to manage continuous improvement initiatives
Enhances the value of Control, HMI, MES, EAM and ERP applications
Now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2012! SQL Server 2012 sets the new standard for “mission critical,” coupled with industry-required high availability and performance capabilities

Key Capabilities

Intuitive, visual modeling environment for easy process design (ArchestrA IDE or Web)
WYSIWYG forms editor enables end-users to create forms to collect or visualize data
Advanced human workflow management for task assignment and escalation
Multi-channel task delivery and response: web, smartphone, email, IM, and voice
Native integration with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Office
Connectors available for Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft BizTalk, as well as Wonderware MES, InBatch, and IntelaTrac
New InTouch Control provides work task indicator & quick access to work task
Higher Security - Electronic Signature Support allows you to:
- Authenticate a user via their electronic signature
- More easily comply with regulatory requirements

Wonderware Supply Chain Connector

2010-01-24T23:16:00.000-08:00

Wonderware Supply Chain Connector is an optional extension to Wonderware Operations & Performance Software that provides data import/export capabilities in standardized formats to facilitate enterprise integration of Wonderware MES software.

Key Benefits

Fast configurable standardized interface
Low cost of maintenance due to ease of configuration and information mapping

Key Capabilities

Automatic import and export of critical order, material and performance-related information
Out-of-the-box data exchange using standard schema templates and SQL interface

Wonderware Enterprise Integration Application

2009-10-28T21:35:00.000-07:00

Wonderware offers powerful capabilities to complete the manufacturing supply chain by linking the manufacturing system to business applications like ERP, PLM, SCM and LIMS systems.

Wonderware Enterprise Integration Application provides a scalable and configurable solution designed to accommodate even the most complex requirements for tightly aligning business and manufacturing systems.

Key Benefits

Reduces cost of ownership for control to enterprise system integration using industry standards such as ISA-95 and B2MML structures
Enables existing business and manufacturing systems to work in a complementary fashion that is loosely coupled yet extremely reliable

Key Capabilities

Transactional integration with ArchestrA real-time data model and namespace with full architectural freedom
Out-of-the-box integration using adaptors and pre-defined mappings
Message transformation, buffering, mapping and event detection

Wonderware Remote Response Objects

2009-10-23T02:48:00.001-07:00

With increasing demands on time and resources, Wonderware Remote Response Objects enable alarm and event information to be delivered to your mobile and offsite engineering personnel, keeping them informed of significant production or process changes regardless of their location.

By integrating the two most common mobile message based technologies (email and SMS), your engineers are never more than a handset away from being informed, and able to acknowledge critical events.

Incorporating a powerful yet easy to administrate scheduling system, your operations staff are in contact 24 hours a day, and escalation rules give built-in backup notification for supervisors and reserve personnel.

Key Benefits

Build as ArchestrA Objects – allowing to easily extend your existing application
Email and SMS (via appropriate gateway) support
Operator response (acknowledgement) via email or SMS
Low cost

Key Capabilities

Built-in scheduler
PIN-based security option
Configurable escalation in case of non-response
Operates with redundant (failover configuration) of System Platform

Wonderware Data Historian

2009-10-23T02:45:00.000-07:00

The Wonderware Data Historian solution leverages the state-of-the-art Wonderware System Platform, industry leading historian technology, web-based reporting capabilities and renowned open data source connectivity from Wonderware. The resulting historian solution is unlike any other data archiving and reporting solution found in the market today.

With blazing speed, broad scalability, highly efficient data storage and retrieval, high availability and simple one click historization set-up, the Wonderware Data Historian solution has an industry reputation low total cost of ownership.

Pre-configured web based reports and data analysis capabilities drive immediate value from data captured by the Wonderware Data Historian solution.

Key Benefits

Preserves plant record
Improves operational decision making
Scalable to any application
Helps drive higher plant performance

Key Capabilities

High speed storage and increasable data compression
Easy to setup & maintain
Broad data source connectivity
Highly efficient data capture & retrieval
High availability ensures data integrity/continuity
Integrated web-based reporting & data trending

Industry Application for Packaging

2009-10-08T02:15:00.000-07:00

The Industry Application for Packaging is a pre-configured, bundled software module specifically designed for the needs of the packaging process. Line efficiencies and productivity are gained through fast, disciplined changeovers and visibility to throughput, performance, OEE, downtime & alarms.

Based on Wonderware System Platform, InTouch HMI and Wonderware Performance Software, the Industry Application for Packaging out-of-the-box capabilities help producers meet critical business objectives. The Industry Application for Packaging decreases costs by reducing losses, maintaining quality and consistency, with the flexibility to handle many products; and has a fast time to value, with quick deployment and a maximized ROI.

The Industry Application delivers features that meet the needs of all users. The ‘Planner’ window supports the creation, sequencing and dispatching of jobs to lines. The ‘Packaging Area Overview’ window displays the real-time status of each line. The ‘Line Detail’ window shows the status of the line and each piece of equipment in the line. The ‘Equipment Summary’ window shows the real-time status, run rate, yield and alarms. The ‘Equipment Detail’ window shows real-time performance, OEE, state and machine utilization.

Industry Application for Facilities Management

2009-10-08T02:13:00.000-07:00

The Wonderware Industry Application for Facilities Management provides an open and standardized Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for facilities management solutions, able to collect and process building automation information from large distributed campuses or multiple buildings under central supervision.

This new application not only integrates mechanical systems, security / personnel access, fire / life safety, lighting, energy / utility, maintenance and other facility components, but also helps facility managers capture domain knowledge into standard application objects for reuse, support, maintenance and deployment across the enterprise.

Components available in The Wonderware Industry Application for Facilities Management include a library of templates with graphic components designed specifically for facilities management with animation and standard faceplates, a set of device integration and application objects, as well as Data Acquisition Servers (DAS) for native BACnet® and i.LON® SmartServer solutions. Optionally, an Application Generator Tool for BACnet systems is provided to accelerate, simplify and help standardize integration with these building and facility systems.

To facilitate integration with various systems, the base facilities platform supports standard protocols including OPC, MODBUS, SNMP, XML, ODBC as well as others for total facilities integration needs.

Key Benefits

Lower project cost through open, competitive choice for products, services and maintenance
Lower costs for connectivity and integration by accessing the broadest range of protocols and devices
Reduce risk with an industry proven robust, secure architecture
Improve productivity and maintenance by deploying a standards based solution
Improve efficiency with a library of proven, standards based, optimized applications
Reduce implementation costs by leveraging the largest global network of independent System Integrators
Achieve environmental sustainability through compliance with industry, regulatory and green initiatives
Reduce total cost of ownership by implementing a sustainable solution through the Wonderware ecosystem of partners

Wonderware HMI Reports

2009-07-02T04:18:00.000-07:00

Wonderware HMI Reports is the most intuitive and easy-to-use reporting solution available on the market today. It gives you the power to quickly and easily create reports from Wonderware InTouch HMI, and many other data sources. Wonderware HMI Reports requires no IT or programming skills to design, schedule and produce appealing and informative dynamic reports. You can easily configure HMI Reports through simple drag-and-drop operations within the Report Studio. The design Studio also gives you ease-of-use features such as intelligent report objects and friendly dialog boxes.

Wonderware HMI Reports will help you significantly reduce report development time, simplify report modifications, and empower you to transform raw data into great looking, information-filled reports. Custom reports can be created easily, quickly and inexpensively, with scheduling tools to help you deliver them to anyone, anywhere, anytime.

Wonderware HMI Reports works with Wonderware Information server or an included web portal to extend the availability of reports throughout your enterprise network and beyond.

Key Features

Reduce time and effort to create, distribute, and revise reports
Create reports significantly faster than Crystal Reports or Excel
Quickly and easily consolidate your InTouch or Historian/InSQL data into concise, visually appealing reports to better understand your processes and your business
Configure through simple interfaces, menus, intelligent report objects, and friendly dialog boxes. Requires no IT or programming skills.
Make reports available easily and securely to any authorized person with the built-in Web portal

Key Capabilities

Enjoy versatility - Intelligent Report objects include data-driven Tables, Pie Charts, Bar Charts, Line and XY Plot Charts
Easily define who has access to reports and who can create, modify, or generate reports with built-in security. You can even customize these settings on a per-report basis.
Generate and Distribute custom reports automatically in Excel, Adobe Acrobat format (PDF) and email format
Configure reports to be generated based on Events (e.g. Batch Complete), Schedules (e.g. Shifts) or on demand (ad-hoc)
Easily extract data from InTouch, Wonderware Historian/InSQL, and any data source using OPC, OLEDB, ODBC, including other vendor HMIs

Wonderware Operations Software

2009-01-30T22:47:00.000-08:00

Wonderware Operations Software (formerly known as Factelligence) provides a scalable and configurable Manufacturing Execution System (MES) designed to help manufacturers across a wide range of industries improve their operational efficiency, manufacturing responsiveness and brand integrity.
The incremental, low-risk approach to building Manufacturing Execution systems from Wonderware allows Wonderware Operations Software to be implemented in steps, from basic MES functionality including bill of materials, specifications, data collections and traceability to enhanced capabilities such as inventory management, certifications, labor and production steps.

Key Benefits

Improved inventory turns and reduce inventory costs
Reduced production errors and increased yield
Improved predictability of order fulfillment

Key Capabilities

Operational enforcement using procedural steps
Powerful WIP management using queue controls, business logic and multilevel BOM features
Monitoring accurate ‘planned vs. actual’ production quantities in intuitive user interfaces using intelligent Microsoft .NET controls for MES
Common services for security, availability, data collection, data communication and high availability

Wonderware Performance Software

2009-01-30T22:43:00.000-08:00

Wonderware Performance Software (formerly known as Factelligence) provides an enterprise level software solution for collecting, tracking and communicating real-time equipment performance and efficiency information.
The software is highly configurable and fully leverages the Wonderware System Platform, which offers many benefits as a result of the underlying ArchestrA technology. This approach reduces deployment and maintenance costs, while also facilitating rapid scaling of the application throughout the enterprise.
Wonderware Performance Software helps deliver critical equipment downtime and efficiency information to operators and decision-makers who can take immediate action to improve plant performance.

Key Benefits

Improve plant productivity and efficiency
Improve asset utilization
Leverage best practices

Key Capabilities

Equipment downtime tracking
Overall Equipment Effectiveness monitoring
Template based configuration
Customizable .NET based operator displays
Web-based reporting using Microsoft Reporting Services technology
Highly extensible with broad connectivity

Wonderware Industry Pack for Water and Waste Water Applications

2009-01-20T04:00:00.000-08:00

Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, today announced the release of the Wonderware Industry Pack for Water & Wastewater designed to enhance overall productivity in facility operations for the water and wastewater industry. This is the first in a series of Industry Packs to be introduced by Wonderware that will focus on specific vertical market segments. Wonderware is providing a single unified software platform for integrating real-time information with business critical applications.
The Wonderware Water & Wastewater Industry Pack, which will be available to download for customer support members later this month, is a pre-configured set of application templates and graphics specifically built for use by water and wastewater companies and municipalities. Pre-configured content enables system engineers to minimize the overall cost and complexities associated with creating and managing water and wastewater systems. In addition, it will address critical issues facing this industry such as workforce attrition, regulatory requirements, business factors, source water supply and aging infrastructure.
Targeting municipal water and wastewater operations as well as industrial water and waste treatment, the Wonderware Industry Pack leverages ArchestrA technology for greater productivity and ease of use. The unified ArchestrA software architecture simplifies the reporting and management functions performed by operations personnel, enabling them to build systems that are easy to replicate at multiple industry sites.
“There are many companies today that provide SCADA and HMI solutions for the water and wastewater market, but the industry requires a comprehensive solution for the more demanding environment of today’s municipalities,” said Rob McGreevy, director of the Wonderware industry marketing group. “Wonderware offers a refreshing alternative to traditional SCADA system solutions by adding industry specific content and applications on top of the Wonderware System Platform 3.0 software built on ArchestrA technology. This technology enables the integration of applications across all departments and functions to create a comprehensive real-time operations management environment built for the modern municipality.”
For manufacturing environments, synchronization of water treatment systems with overall manufacturing operations provides greater operations efficiency and regulatory compliance. Wonderware software can integrate most any data source, and transform raw data and events into meaningful information that helps reduce operations costs, identifies hidden inefficiencies and enables more cost-effective operations. Extensive flexibility and scalability enables users to expand operations or change work processes as their operational requirements change.
“The ArchestrA architecture is ideally suited for water and wastewater applications by employing an easy-to-use, component-object-based environment for developing standardized water and wastewater operations management solutions,” said Eduardo Ballina, industry manager for Wonderware SCADA solutions. “This significantly improves productivity and controls the overall cost of managing and deploying solutions.”
More than 28,000 Wonderware software licenses are in use at water and wastewater sites around the world to manage plant operations. Offering one-click software upgrades since 1990, Wonderware ensures that water system operators can continue to depend on the experience of a proven software platform and personal support through a worldwide network of local distributors and systems integrators. This provides flexibility both in the way solutions are built as well as in the ability to choose how to implement and maintain systems.

Wonderware Information Server

2008-12-31T22:15:00.000-08:00

The Wonderware Information Server offers an easy solution for aggregating and presenting plant production and performance data over the web or company intranet.
Plant personnel, with a minimum of training, can install, configure and implement a highly effective plant information web site without the need for custom web programming.
Using Information Server, large amounts of process data can be aggregated into highly informative production reports tailored to the information needs of plant personnel.
Content from the Wonderware Information Server can be incorporated into other web portals, making existing corporate IT portals more informative and valuable.

Key Benefits

Access to Key Performance Indicators (KPI) anywhere

Improve plant performance

Reduce production costs

Increase responsiveness to market opportunities

Productivity and workforce improvements

Key Capabilities

Easy access to real-time and historical plant data

Online access to plant process graphics

Integrated data trending and analysis

Production and performance reporting

Integration with existing IT infrastructure and web portals

Wonderware Toolkits

2008-12-31T22:09:00.000-08:00

Wonderware Toolkits provide powerful extensibility to InTouch HMI and System Platform applications enabling developers to extend the capabilities of Wonderware products to meet specific system integration needs. Our Toolkits promote adherence to industry standards, provide additional customization and intellectual property protection, and enhance the ability to interface Wonderware products with other software and hardware.
Wonderware Toolkits are utilized primarily by System Integrators, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Value-Added Resellers (VARs), and software developers that require a relatively high level of programming sophistication.

Key Benefits

DAServer Toolkit – Enables developers to build device integration servers more easily
ArchestrA Object Toolkit - Enables developers to extend the ArchestrA architecture with objects that provide specific application or device integration functionality
Historian Toolkit - Enables developers to create high-value industrial applications that integrate with data sources from the System Platform and other data sources
Alarm Toolkit - The Alarm toolkit enables users to produce custom distributed alarm providers and consumers
Wizard Toolkit – The Wizard Toolkit enables users to produce their own Wizards for inclusion in InTouch HMI
Script Toolkit - The Script toolkit is a SDK enabling custom InTouch scripts to be developed
GRAccess Toolkit - Enables developers to create programmatic access to and interaction with System Platform Galaxy configuration data
MXAccess Toolkit - Enables developers to create programmatic access to runtime data in a System Platform Galaxy

Wonderware Device Integration Servers

2008-12-31T21:57:00.000-08:00

Connectivity to your plant/facility devices is key to real-time information management. Wonderware maximizes your choices with the broadest possible communication options for industrial automation and information devices. In collaboration with more than 100 third-party interface developers, Wonderware provides the largest selection of connectivity options to hundreds of control systems such as PLCs, RTUs, DCSs, flow controllers, loop controllers, scales, gauges, bar code readers and other hardware devices. Wonderware has also fully embraced the openness of OPC technology, exposing data via OPC from our products as an OPC Client and also providing the means to connect to any third party OPC Server.
Wonderware makes device integration more maintainable by using Device Integration Objects (DI Objects) within the Wonderware System Platform for seamless connectivity to any data source. Wonderware also offers the DAServer Toolkit which empowers you to create your own connectivity server.

Key Benefits

Separation of application code from device communications management- so both can be easily managed and updated
Takes a flat, non-structured device and gives it structure, where it can be more easily incorporated and managed in a distributed system.
Takes individual communications paths and makes them available globally for any application to use
Allows communications and device naming to be different for the same application, allowing re-use on any machine
Support for OPC standards

Key Capabilities

Create one application and have it automatically bind to PLC/DCS/RTU addresses at run-time
Create templates that can be used with any manufacturer of PLC/DCS/RTU with different naming conventions for addresses
Create common SCADA and HMI Applications for different PLC/DCS/RTU types
Support for OPC standards

Wonderware Development Studio

2008-12-31T21:49:00.000-08:00

Wonderware Development Studio consists of a suite of cooperative tools designed to enable the rapid construction and maintenance of Wonderware applications.
The heart of the Development Studio is the Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Within the IDE engineers can design, develop, test and maintain any industrial application.
Without leaving the IDE, the user can develop vibrant and sophisticated graphics, and incorporate those into effective HMI, SCADA, MES or Operations Intelligence applications.
Once development is ready for delivery, a single click is all it takes to deploy applications, objects and associated logic to anywhere in the enterprise namespace.

Key Benefits

Unified development environment for HMI, SCADA, MES and EMI applications
Ease-of-use
Centralized, multi-user development
Easy re-use of previous engineering work
Fast deployment of changes across the network
Productivity and workforce improvements

Key Capabilities

Template-based development of objects and graphics
Extensible by means of Microsoft .NET and Wonderware APIs
Complete and customizable graphics library
Configurable security and audit trails
Management of all I/O, history, alarms, events, graphics, scripts and more with one tool

Active Factory

2008-09-26T00:08:00.000-07:00

Wonderware ActiveFactory Software
Wonderware ActiveFactory trending, analysis and reporting software provides rich data analysis and reporting capabilities that maximize the value of data stored in the Wonderware Historian.
ActiveFactory software provides data-trend analysis, sophisticated numerical-data analysis using Microsoft’s Excel® spreadsheet software, comprehensive data reporting using Microsoft® Word, and the capability to publish real-time and historical plant information to the Web or company intranet site using Wonderware Information Server.
Plant knowledge workers using ActiveFactory information can quickly troubleshoot problems, study potential process inefficiencies and eliminate the time-consuming process of locating the data.

Key Features

Improve plant productivity
Improve plant agility and performance
Proactively identify process inefficiencies
Simplify plant performance reporting

Key Capabilities

Real-time and historical data trends and reports
Scheduled and ad hoc plant reports
Simplified data queries
Integration with, and support for Microsoft Office® via Excel® and Word® add-ins
Integration with Wonderware System Platform components including Wonderware
Historian and Wonderware Information Server

Historian

2008-09-25T23:35:00.000-07:00

The Wonderware Historian component of the System Platform is a high-performance real-time database for historical information. It combines the power and flexibility of a relational database with the speed and compression of a true process historian, integrating the office with the factory floor or any industrial operation.
Wonderware Historian is designed to collect a wide variety of plant data, at full resolution and very high data rates, ensuring that decision-makers at all levels will have the data they need to drive vital productivity improvement initiatives. The Wonderware Historian is hundreds of times faster than standard database systems and saves data in a small fraction of the space. Advanced data retrieval modes enable plant personnel to quickly generate the detailed, focused information needed to accelerate the decision-making process and provide access to the right information when a problem is identified or an opportunity uncovered.

Key Features

Designed for all industrial manufacturing and infrastructure operations
Generate actionable information for faster, more accurate decision-making
Unify information from mulitple manufacturing and HIM/SCADA systems
Scalable for any sized application
Fully integrated with the award-winning Wonderware ArchestrA architecture and Wonderware System Platform

Key Capabilities

High Speed data compression and historization
Aids business operations and regulatory reporting
Advanced trending and reporting clients

SCADAlarm

2008-09-25T22:55:00.000-07:00

SCADAlarm alarm and event-notification software provides a telecommunications link to industrial automation software systems.
SCADAlarm software seamlessly integrates with the comprehensive Wonderware product family and has built in browsers to enable fast configuration of information from Wonderware System Platform and InTouch HMI software.
Alarms can be vocalized over speakers, intercom systems, radios, multimedia speakers, PA systems and telephones. Users can listen to and acknowledge alarms, change set points, hear exact values of variables, and operate equipment via telephone from remote locations, saving valuable time and money. Included in the SCADAlarm product case is a tested full-duplex voice modem to enable you to get up to speed right out of the box.
SCADAlarm is an essential tool for SCADA systems in all fields, from Water and Wastewater through Facilities Management to general plant alarm automation.

Key Features

Remote Alarm Notification for geographically isolated workers
Reduce need for 24 hour staffing at all facilities
Local voice annunciation for plant-wide status broadcasting
On-demand information on process conditions and variables
Included PCI modem tested and validated for use with SCADAlarm

Key Capabilities

Text-to-speech capability for maximum flexibility
Multiple delivery mechanisms (phone/voice, PA/speaker, pager, email etc.)
InTouch HMI and ArchestrA alarm acknowledgement capability
Voice recorder allows maximum customization
Flexible scheduler allows message delivery based on shift, day or time

ArchestrA Technology

2008-09-18T04:25:00.000-07:00

ArchestrA Technology
Wonderware offerings leverage Invensys' groundbreaking ArchestrA® technology. Products built on the ArchestrA architecture dramatically decrease the cost of developing new automation projects and the time needed to implement them by reusing existing applications. Most importantly, the ArchestrA architecture enables the integration of existing investments in automation systems with the latest software technology so that production operations are the most efficient and cost-effective possible. The total cost of ownership for automation projects is reduced as well, because using this architectural approach facilitates the easy extension and expansion of existing systems to stay competitive and increase manufacturing agility.
The ArchestrA industrial automation and information software architecture offers these business benefits through its use of a common modular application model. The most common services required for every application are now provided in a common set of infrastructure services, so users don't have to spend their valuable time engineering these functions when creating applications. Instead, users can focus their engineering efforts on their domain expertise, where they provide the greatest value. The ArchestrA architecture also facilitates collaborative engineering because multiple people can work in parallel, yet their application contributions are easily and automatically integrated.
Because ArchestrA technology enables the fast and easy integration of systems, software, hardware and applications from virtually any vendor, its hallmark is: Every system in your plant, working in concert.™

System Platform 3.0

2008-09-18T04:09:00.000-07:00

Wonderware System Platform
The Wonderware® System Platform provides a single platform for all the SCADA, Supervisory HMI, and MES and EMI Software Solutions needs of industrial automation and information personnel. It provides a common and strategic industrial application services platform on top of virtually any existing system, and is built upon the industry-standards based, ArchestrA® real-time SOA technology.
The Wonderware System Platform is designed to make it easier for manufacturers to adjust to the ever-changing needs of customers and the overall market. Its diverse functionality extends Wonderware customers’ software investments and encourages flexibility in application development.
It supports consistent and reliable operations across industrial operations and manufacturing facilities as well as promotes sustainable production and operational performance improvements.
The Wonderware System Platform contains an integral core set of capabilities and services to support sustainable production and operations performance improvement via a comprehensive set of five capability areas:
Industrial domain services

Software and device connectivity services
Information and data management services
Application development services
System management and extensibility services

These services leverage a Common Plant Model and Wonderware Clients to support sustainable, modular Industrial and Manufacturing Software Solutions. In essence, the Wonderware System Platform facilitates consistent and reliable operations across manufacturing and industrial operations to protect brand integrity. It empowers Wonderware customers to extend their systems in virtually any direction to meet their current and future needs.

InTouch 10.0 HMI Software

2008-09-18T03:27:00.000-07:00

InTouch 10.0 software leaps onto your screen with breakthrough technology, amazing graphic capabilities and comprehensive functionality delivered with Wonderware’s legendary ease of use. Wonderware’s award winning InTouch® Human Machine Interface (HMI) software continues to outshine the competition. Offered with intuitive user interaction, robust runtime functionality, seamless integration with the Wonderware® System Platform 3.0 you’ll have unparalleled investment protection.
InTouch software is an open and extensible HMI with cutting-edge graphical capabilities providing incredible power and flexibility for application design. InTouch software offers connectivity to the broadest range of automation devices in the industry.
Whether you’re an engineer or an operator, an end-user or a system integrator, an OEM or a VAR, Wonderware InTouch software offers the breakthrough capabilities you need. Now, you can realize your own breakthrough improvements in operational and engineering productivity.

Powerful, Sophisticated and Easy to Use
Already established as the world’s favorite HMI, Wonderware's InTouch software is used in over one-third of the world’s plants, in virtually every country and industry. InTouch 10.0 software raises the bar for excellence with a host of features and capabilities, including:

Vibrant, resolution-independent ArchestrA® graphic capabilities, for realism, clarity and attention

Versatile, user-friendly, multi-user development and editing environment for collaborative engineering productivity

Powerful self–contained ArchestrA graphical symbols with integrated scripting and connectivity to preserve engineering effort through re-use and standardization

Unprecedented power and flexibility with comprehensive scripting and graphical animation capabilities. InTouch 10.0 software enables software engineers as well as non-programmers and novices to quickly customize application functions

Complete control with the Wonderware Development Studio, provides a single consistent environment for centralized management and remote deployment of HMI applications everywhere, including the new Wonderware Compact Panels

Incredible scalability from simple single-node HMI to enterprise-wide supervisory solutions using the Wonderware System Platform

Comprehensive library of pre-built, eye-popping graphical symbols and faceplates

Built-in features for consistent handling and visualization of data quality

Complete backwards compatibility with existing InTouch software applications

Operational features that provide clear, clutter free, accurate and compelling visualization, while greatly expanding the amount of information available

Wonderware’ s InTouch software allows more productive and creative engineering. Build compelling, intuitive, secure, reliable and maintainable HMI, SCADA and MES applications and reduce application development costs.

Breakthrough Visualization Capabilities
InTouch software empowers you to quickly and easily develop custom graphical views of your real-time industrial processes.

Now, graphical symbols can be created, including arcs, chords, pies, curves and Microsoft Windows® operating system common controls. Enjoy the ability to create complex shapes by combining simpler shapes together using a comprehensive range of graphics primitives.

Advanced graphic attribute manipulation enables extremely powerful and precise control, via built-in animation or scripting of an incredible range of graphic attributes. This includes transparency, smooth shading, fill style, line style, orientation, size, position and visibility. Engineers can exercise their imagination and creativity to represent automation environments with style, utility and efficiency.

Ready to use Symbol Library
InTouch 10.0 software comes equipped with an extensible ArchestrA symbol library containing over 500 professionally designed ArchestrA graphic symbols. Most have customizable "intelligence" already incorporated. This gives you drag-and-drop access to pre-built engineering components.

Library symbols may be used out-of-the-box or customized as needed. You may add your own new or modified symbols. Or, you may create your own special libraries of symbols to suit your engineering and development requirements.

Versatility and extensibility
Consistent built-in primitives provide quality information for acquired data in a consistent form. Now, it is extremely easy to view and act upon changes in data quality.The InTouch graphics environment offers incredible power and choice. Use or mix together vector graphics, bitmap graphics, library symbols, .NET controls and legacy ActiveX® controls.
ArchestrA symbols directly support embedded .NET controls. This gives you the freedom of unrestricted application extensibility without programming. They also offer access to standard controls such as Web browsers, desktop applications, mapping tools, ERP components and any other application which provides .NET compliant controls.

Wonderware Development Studio
One Powerfully Simple Development Environment
The Wonderware Development Studio preserves and expands its legendary ease of use. Now, it shares a common Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with the Wonderware System Platform. Discover how it provides unprecedented power, flexibility and scalability to your engineers and developers from the smallest HMI application to the largest enterprise automation network all within a single consistent toolset.
The feature-rich ArchestrA Integrated Development Environment found in both InTouch 10.0 software and the System Platform provides powerful multi-user features, check-out and check-in of objects and symbols under development, and graphical feedback to developers of significant changes by team members.

The ArchestrA Integrated Development Environment provides access to rapid propagation of changes throughout an application and even across multiple networked PC nodes.

Standardize, Organize, Customize
InTouch HMI software enables you to quickly create applications that adhere to company standards. Yet, they are versatile enough to be deployed strategically throughout an organization using the best-suited devices.
InTouch 10.0 software provides a powerful hierarchical project viewer. This feature allows the InTouch HMI tag database to be logically managed in organized groups to simplify the creation and maintenance of InTouch applications.
Dynamic resolution conversion provides real-time scaling between screen resolutions. You can view and develop InTouch applications on a variety of screen resolutions without having to convert the application.
The powerful QuickScript™ Editor enables you to extend and customize applications to address specific system requirements whether you are an expert software engineer or a non-programmer.
Scripts can be configured to execute based on numerous parameters, such as specific process conditions, data changes, application and windows events, keyboard strokes and ActiveX or .NET control events.
Users also can develop a library of scripts for re-use to simplify the application. Save time in decreased initial engineering and application maintenance as well as deployment.
With features like InTouch Fast Switch from development mode to runtime mode, and instant previews in the ArchestrA symbol editor, developers can quickly determine how their applications will look and behave before deploying them into a production environment.

Actionable Intelligence
Knowledge is power. Sophisticated, intelligent and interactive graphics that accurately communicate the right information are the key to this knowledge. Powerful, intelligent graphics capabilities provide context to data, enable faster analysis, and facilitate better and more rapid understanding of displayed information. Operators are presented the right information, at the right time, and in the right format. This empowers you to make timely, informed decisions, take corrective actions to reduce costs and operational incidents, and improve productivity across the entire operation.
You will be able to take advantage of robust, reliable, consistent HMI solutions with clutter-free screens and intelligent size-scalable faceplates. InTouch data aware controls, intelligent graphical objects and built-in provision of quality information, plus robust .NET controls give you intuitive, accurate and consistent visualization of operational processes, making you more productive, efficient and effective. Dynamic symbol scaling, “Tooltips” and “mouse-over” capabilities enable you to obtain more information, swiftly about operational conditions in streamlined, uncluttered screens that provide focus to the task at hand. Great multi-monitor support enables you to construct comprehensive multi-screen HMI applications with precise control of visualization and interaction

React and respond in real time
Timely visibility to system alarms and the ability to acknowledge them promptly can significantly reduce costly downtime. Faster responses in critical situations provide opportunities for preemptive resolution of potentially critical situations.
Powerful InTouch software troubleshooting tools include:
* Distributed Alarm Display – provides comprehensive summary information of current alarms
* Database View Control – displays a historical view of alarms for analysis and incident review
* Alarm Viewer Control – offers both current summary and historical session alarm

information with this ActiveX control
InTouch software also features runtime configurable tools to enable users to quickly determine the nature and location of an alarm, with options for supporting fast analysis and response to alarm conditions.

Connect and Collect
InTouch software can connect to virtually any industrial automation control device using hundreds of available I/O and OPC servers designed to work with Wonderware products.
The InTouch HMI is capable of serving as an OPC client or an OPC server, and Wonderware servers provide access to InTouch application data through:
OPC technology
Wonderware’s SuiteLink™ protocol
Microsoft DDE communications

Third-party developers can also use the ArchestrA DA Server toolkit to create additional servers, incorporating one or all of the communication methods listed above.

IT Friendly, Manageable, Secure, Extensible, Industry Standard
InTouch 10.0 software makes it easier, more time efficient and less costly for you to manage HMI applications in larger deployments. InTouch 10.0 software is IT-friendly with a centralized application management environment, a robust centralized security model, extensibility capabilities and built-in diagnostics. InTouch 10.0 software is easy to manage, secure and support with its data aware controls featuring built-in primitives for data security, quality, and status. Now, you also have support for .NET controls, support for Terminal Services, Office 2007 and Microsoft® Windows Vista™. InTouch HMI gives you flexibility with support for existing InTouch HMI applications alongside new graphics so you can upgrade one node at a time at your own pace.
InTouch 10.0 software enables you to utilize industry-leading standards, as well as adopt your own internal standards, which can be used throughout your operation, ensuring consistency, minimizing customizations and reducing the risk of unplanned incidents.

Create International Applications for Global Use
InTouch 10.0 software is fully supported in English, German, French, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. Additional languages are available and supported around the world by local distributors.
Support for UTC time, local time, time offsets, and daylight savings time greatly simplify the task of creating global applications.
InTouch 10.0 software leverages Microsoft Tablet PC features such as inking and annotation. You can write values and notes in your own handwriting.

Architectural Flexibility and Complete Scalability
InTouch 10.0 software can be used as self-contained, standalone visualization stations or as an integrated part of the Wonderware System Platform distributed architecture.
A Terminal Services edition of InTouch 10.0 software is available. This edition can support up to 75

Terminal Services sessions from a single server on appropriately configured hardware.
As the easiest to learn HMI in the industry, you can always start small and rapidly create a running application in production.
When you are ready to expand, leverage the flexible and scalable ArchestrA software architecture to increase system size and complexity at your discretion to meet future requirements.
Scalability from a single low end /low price node to over 400 networked PCs
Start with one node and be prepared to expand to 1 million I/O.

Security Where, When and How You Need It
InTouch 10.0 software provides a selection of integrated security models and options to match your requirements, including:
Access-Level Password Security – limits user capabilities in the InTouch HMI application based on areas of responsibility and authority
Microsoft Windows Authentication – grants permissions to InTouch HMI users authenticated on a domain controller or local computer, based on user identity and group affiliations
Data Level Security – integrates securely for customers who have adopted the Wonderware System Platform, from InTouch software all the way down to the level of each data element or attribute.
FDA 21 CFR Part 11 Functionality – complies easily with government regulations with built-in authentication fields, security script functions and variables
InTouch Read Only Software – prevents changing data or execution of controls with a view-only runtime version of the InTouch software application

Unequaled Investment Protection
Continuing Wonderware’s uncompromising and unequaled history of continuous support of our customers existing investments, InTouch applications created with the very first HMI version can be upgraded and used with the very latest InTouch 10.0 software with ease.
All of the features of InTouch ArchestrA graphics work in concert with the full range of capabilities available with earlier versions of InTouch software.
Existing InTouch HMI applications can be upgraded to InTouch HMI and work with no modifications whatsoever!
InTouch HMI provides the capabilities to modify and extend these applications with all of the new features whenever you want or need to do so.

Breakthrough Architecture – No Limits!
Used together, the InTouch HMI and Wonderware System Platform provide an information and automation application environment of unprecedented power, scalability and ease of use.
The integration of the ArchestrA IDE and the new graphics capabilities of InTouch 10.0 software provide a smooth upgrade path for InTouch software users into the world of ArchestrA applications and the Wonderware System Platform. The upgrade path offers users the benefits of scalability and increased functionality without sacrificing prior investments in InTouch HMI application development.
While the Wonderware System Platform is not required to run InTouch software, it’s the ultimate add-on. Together they will redefine your expectations for a supervisory system:
ArchestrA Graphics and Application Objects – the powerful component objects within the System Platform encapsulate InTouch ArchestrA graphics along with application logic, I/O, history and data storage, enabling drag-and-drop solution engineering. This is an incredible time saver, which also improves the consistency and maintainability of applications.
Common Plant Model – moves beyond the simple tag databases of traditional HMI’s. As a logical representation of physical equipment and processes, the common plant model of the Wonderware System Platform abstracts equipment and systems into a more powerful and productive application development environment with extensive benefits for engineering reusability and reduced lifecycle cost.
IDE Managed Applications – enable easy and robust remote application deployment and management from a centralized environment. Provides change propagation across your entire network.
Extensible Universal Application Platform – builds on the rich graphic capabilities of InTouch HMI to extend into all types of plant and industrial applications.
Automatic Configuration of System-Wide Functions – configures information once centrally, and can be re-used for any application that needs it, including graphics, history, alarm and event functions, security, logic, scripting, inputs and outputs.
Common Namespace –separates application code in the Wonderware System Platform from device communications so both can be easily managed and updated. This allows re-use on any machine or application.
Extended Data Security and Status Indication – builds on the capabilities inherent in InTouch software. The Wonderware System Platform extends the level of granularity in the definition and response for data security and status indication in a system.
Wonderware Production and Performance Modules – provide a comprehensive set of functional modules that can extend the Wonderware System Platform to fit any production or performance management need. These modules help customers optimize equipment operations and performance, improve manufacturing quality, enforce manufacturing and batch execution as well as integrate plant application to enterprise systems.

InTouch Software Training
You now have the opportunity to experience why InTouch® human-machine interface (HMI) software has been ranked the No. 1 HMI by Control magazine readers for ten consecutive years.
Go to Wonderware Online Training, where you can view a recorded InTouch software online seminar. The tutorial is designed to help long-time InTouch HMI software users make full use of their current applications in the latest version of InTouch software. The seminar will give you an overview with recommendations and references for specific instructions where appropriate. Upon completion, you will have the knowledge to quickly and easily create custom InTouch software applications.
Take the InTouch software online tutorial now at: http://training.wonderware.com/OnlineSeminars. (Select InTouch HMI Migration under the Course dropdown menu.)

World-class Customer Support & Services
Wonderware’s Customer Support Services Program makes it easy to learn, stay current, gain access to best practices and get assistance from the leading support team in the industry. This program includes access to our extensive online knowledge base center, security center, and web based training.