Wonderware Intelligence Software 1.0
13 November, 2009 | Supplied by: Invensys Process Systems (S) Pte Ltd
Invensys Operations Management has released Wonderware Intelligence Software 1.0. This enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI) solution is intended to enable customers to contextualise, aggregate and report both historian and operational data using role-based dashboards, presenting key performance indicators (KPIs) and real-time operational business metrics that are used to monitor, tune and optimise operations and supply chains.
Open asset management with FDT: the core of a ‘smart’ process plant
30 October, 2009 | Supplied by: Endress+Hauser Australia Pty Ltd
Field Device Type (FDT) technology remains one of the automation industry’s best-kept secrets. In spite of this, it is rapidly gaining market acceptance by simplifying the digital communication between a plant’s field devices and its control environment. It is at the heart of a ‘smart’ plant’s IT infrastructure and can deliver major cost savings to the plant’s operations.
PID controller simulation
26 October, 2009 | Supplied by: MathWorks Australia
The MathWorks has announced Simulink Control Design 3.0, equipped with features that automate the process of tuning proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers. These features are being released along with new PID controller blocks in Simulink.
Visualisation development software
26 October, 2009 | Supplied by: GE intelligent Platforms Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has released DataViews 9.25, a set of graphic visualisation development tools for building custom applications. The new version includes features that enhance performance of display updates, support the use of scalable text in input object templates and allow the setting of background colour for scalable text objects.
Workflow software for food and packaged goods
26 October, 2009 | Supplied by: GE intelligent Platforms Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has released Proficy Workflow for Food & Beverage/Consumer Packaged Goods. By leveraging electronic work instructions and exception management, this software solution is designed to help food and beverage and packaged goods manufacturers reduce variation in performance, cost and quality.
Batch control software
26 October, 2009 | Supplied by: GE intelligent Platforms Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has announced the latest version of its batch control software, Proficy Batch Execution 5.5.
A recipe for success — How recipe solutions can improve a company’s bottom line
02 October, 2009 | Supplied by: GE intelligent Platforms Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Today’s manufacturing companies face many pressures, including rising costs for raw materials, labour and distribution, not to mention customer demands for higher quality at lower prices. Yet these significant challenges can be used to spark new opportunities to improve the way businesses are run.
FPGA capabilities for distributed I/O
29 September, 2009 | Supplied by: National Instruments Aust Pty Ltd
National Instruments has announced new FPGA capabilities for the NI 9144 expansion chassis. By downloading the NI-Industrial Communications for EtherCAT 1.1 driver from ni.com, engineers and scientists can now run LabVIEW FPGA code directly on the NI 9144 chassis to execute custom triggering, inline processing and control within an application.
ERP web interface
29 September, 2009 | Supplied by: IFS Australia
IFS has announced the launch of IFS Enterprise Explorer (IEE), a new user interface for IFS Applications. IFS has developed the new interface in response to a common problem in the enterprise software industry - useability. Vendors are adding more and more functionality onto their products, but they are getting more difficult to use.
Model-based design for plants
29 September, 2009 | Supplied by: Autodesk Australia
Autodesk has announced the availability of AutoCAD Plant 3D 2010, a software product designed to bring model-based design to mainstream plant design projects.
National Instruments motion control development system
29 September, 2009 | Supplied by: National Instruments Aust Pty Ltd
National Instruments has announced NI VeriStand 2009, a configuration-based software environment for creating real-time testing applications such as hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and controlled environmental tests.
SCADA OEM software pack
21 September, 2009 | Supplied by: GE intelligent Platforms Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has released OEM Solutions Pack for Proficy iFIX 5.0, the company’s HMI/SCADA software. The Solutions Pack is a compilation of pre-configured out-of-the-box graphic objects and screens specifically tailored to machine-level HMI/SCADA applications.
Combined video and trend historian
21 September, 2009 | Supplied by: Telvent Australia Pty Ltd
The Longwatch Video Historian now offers Canary Labs Trend Historian and Trend Link software that enables users to link video with plant data. Together, the two systems archive all the relevant information - video and real-time data - from a process or automation system, making it much easier for plant operators and engineers to analyse events, alarms and actions.
Virtualisation technology
21 September, 2009 | Supplied by: http://www.ni.com/labview/whatsnew
National Instruments' LabVIEW 2009 introduces Distributed Intelligence and Digital Prototyping for advanced control.
Microsoft releases preview of Windows Embedded Standard 2011
08 September, 2009
Microsoft has released the Windows 7-based Windows Embedded Standard 2011 Community Technology Preview (CTP) to original equipment manufacturers.
