Wonderware Mobile Solutions

Decrease equipment downtime 1% or more - Increase operating efficiencies up to 2% - Increase workforce productivity up to 20% - Decrease overall plant maintenance costs up to 5%

More and more, executive management groups are driving an increased number of data intensive initiatives.  Programs such as Field Operational Excellence Programs, Lean and Six Sigma Initiatives, Process Safety Management Initiatives, Operational Excellence Initiatives, Compliance Initiatives, etc.  All require an integrated workforce and all require significant amounts of data.

Why are these programs coming into existence?  Because Executive Management is trying to drive increased performance and increased product quality while adhering to the rules and regulations that govern our manufacturing operations.  Increased workforce productivity, increased asset performance, lower maintenance and energy costs, continuous quality improvement and avoidance of Health and Safety violations are all key objectives.

Since upwards of 60% of plant assets are not and cannot be tied to any automation system, the problem that is faced is that we do not have the systems in place to support the above goals and initiatives.  We attempt to support these projects with a paper-based data collection process driven by our most valuable assets - our people.  Every day, teams of operations employees travel our plants with clip boards and pencils recording volumes of disconnected data that must eventually be combed through, transferred to other systems and analyzed.  Wearing belts, leaking valves, excessive equipment vibration, environmental sampling rounds, fire extinguisher and eyewash station checks, etc. will significantly impact your plant performance and level of compliance but trying to monitor these critical issues with error prone paper based systems is clearly not the answer.

Wonderware IntelaTrac solves the problem.  IntelaTrac can enable the disconnected worker help monitor non-instrumented pieces of equipment and assure that field operations and field personnel execute against standard operating procedures consistently and repeatedly according to defined best practices. IntelaTrac users can see step change process improvements with rapid hard dollar paybacks, accountability and total visibility based on intelligent and precise stewardship and corresponding empowerment of their mobile workforce.  Additionally, the ability to begin systematically collecting non-automated information generated from day to day operational rounds can serve to significantly enhance the value of other key systems as the loop between business-side and plant-side data can be closed. This closed loop process can drive significant value in overall equipment performance, product quality and reductions in maintenance costs and energy costs.

The payoff for improving support for mobile workers comes in a variety of other ways as well. Wonderware's Mobility Solution (IntelaTrac) turns field staff, previously off the radar when it comes to process optimization, into a visible part of the designed processes of the enterprise, operating according to standard procedures with accountability and auditability. Productivity can skyrocket, providing capacity for mobile staff to handle additional responsibilities for environmental, health and safety regulations.  What's more, IntelaTrac 4.0 integrates with the Wonderware System Platform providing users with an integrated system capable of handling all of their automated and non-automated information collection and analysis.  Finally, a unified platform that truly supports the goals executive management sets for the future of our manufacturing and industrial organizations.

Where can I use IntelaTrac?

• Operations – Rounds (Operator Driven Reliability).
• Maintenance and I & E – inspections
• HSE – safety and environmental rounds
• Security - Rounds
• Learning – mobile learning on-the-job
• Projects/Turnarounds – status / details
• QA – time stamped lab samples
• Calibration Rounds
• Equipment Setup/Changeover
• Supplemental data entry for Process Data Historians
• Process Optimization & Energy Management
• Process Safety Management
• Operator Driven Reliability Initiatives
• Lean and Six Sigma Initiatives
• Anywhere you are collecting information on paper...

Are Others Using the System?

5 of the top 8 largest integrated oil & gas companies, Over 50 of the top 100 refineries, Over 30 of the top 100 chemical companies, Utilities that power more than 85 million homes, and more. Wonderware IntelaTrac is widely used and industry tested and can be applied to any industry that has an operations workforce. To learn more, call us at 877-900-4996 or e-mail us at sales@wonderwarenorth.com for additional information.

Wonderware Historian Version 10.0

A powerful new tiered historian platform to support the most rigorous data collection and reporting needs.

The Wonderware Historian 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 historical information they need to drive vital productivity improvement initiatives. Wonderware Historian offers unparalleled scalability and can be configured as a single data collection and aggregation system, or as a part of a larger, tiered architecture offering the ability to implement sophisticated summary and replication systems. Hundreds of times faster than standard database systems and with the ability to save data in a small fraction of the space, Wonderware Historian also has built-in data retrieval modes which understand the questions you need to ask of your process to enable detailed, focused information and reports to be rapidly obtained.

Now, Wonderware Historian 10.0 increases the power of this already powerful product.  Wonderware Historian 10.0 introduces a number of new configuration options, performance enhancements and licensing changes, including official support for Microsoft 64-bit Operating Systems and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database. Additionally, Historian 10.0 introduces a significant architectural change allowing users to configure multi-tier historians. These tiered historians can be used for data aggregation, or high availability scenarios. Multi-tier capability is enabled by license, in all 5,000+ historical tag sizes.

For Engineers:

• Capture all your process data – reliably
• Provide summarized process information at central headquarters for analysis
• Scalability and versatility in Historian network architectures
• ArchestrA and InTouch integration

For Information Technology

• Integrate with your network, your security systems and policies and your enterprise systems using an industry standard database, Microsoft SQL Server
• Maintain and synchronize historical databases for company-wide reporting

For Manufacturing Operations

• Historical information visible wherever needed, in the formats and clients you use today
• Support geographically distributed history systems, with local history archives.
• Leverage IntelaTrac to push manually collected data to the Wonderware Historian to be able to analyze automated and manually collected data in the same repository.

Wonderware Historian 10.0 Delivers important functionality for Infrastructure Applications (Water & Waste and Facilities Management), Power Monitoring Applications, Multi-Site and Multi-Galaxy Installations, Advanced Process Applications and processes that must be analyzed over long periods of time. If you want to learn more about this significant release, contact Wonderware North at 877-900-4996 or e-mail us at sales@wonderwarenorth.com.

Industry Application for Facilities Management

Traditional, closed hardware/software bundled solutions for Facilities Management are a thing of the past.

Most facilities Management Systems are bundled hardware/software solutions that provide basic control and monitoring capabilities but are not state-of-the-art systems that allow users to select from the best software front end coupled with best hardware back end that they can source. Additionally, these all-in-one solutions are often very costly to maintain and once purchased, lock users into a proprietary system with limited support resources and expensive upgrades. As users begin to understand this scenario, they are beginning to take lessons from their industrial counterparts and are moving toward a paradigm where they can select best-of-breed components that are easily upgraded, and have large, independent talent pools for installation and maintenance support.

The Wonderware System Platform's Plug-in for Facilities Management Applications

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.

What are the Key Benefits?

The System Platform was designed to be able to incorporate multiple different capabilities within the same system.  Users can leverage the product for pure Facilities Management Applications but can also leverage the platform's capability to do Condition Based Maintenance, Energy Management, and Equipment Performance Monitoring as well.  One system for everything.

• 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

If you are interested in an open, flexible platform for Facilities Management applications, contact Wonderware North at 877-900-4996 or e-mail us at sales@wonderwarenorth.com.

Oversized Displays For any Environment

Ergonomic: 1. (used with a sing. verb) The applied science of equipment design, as for the workplace, intended to maximize productivity by reducing operator fatigue and discomfort.

Some of the latest offerings from STRONGARM are the new series of oversized industrialized large screen LCD/Plasma displays. These displays can come with various mounting solutions and can be customized with many different options depending on your exact needs. For those applications where oversized graphics or distance viewing are required, please consider the STRONGARM large screen system.

Typical Uses

• Overhead control room displays
• Plant floor displays Visualization of plant KPIs and performance information
• Visualization of production information
• Company information displays
• And more...

Mounting Types

• Wall Mount
• Post Mount
• Tilt-Swivel
• Ceiling Mount
• More...

Options to Consider

• Stainless Steel NEMA 4X (<25ra finish) or Painted Systems with Optional Sloped-Top Sized for 37"/40"/42”/52"/60"
• Includes Premium LCD/Plasma display
• Hinged front or rear door with ¼ turn latches
• 3/8” Polycarbonate (LEXAN) Viewing Window
• NEMA 4X ThermoElectric Cooler supplied and wired
• Conduit holes for video and AC with all wiring to terminal block
• Optional Integrated Low Power microbox PC or thin client
• LCD offerings available with touchscreens as well

Remember that STRONGARM specializes in customized solutions so if you don's see something above that meets your exact needs, call Wonderware North at 877-900-4996 or e-mail us at sales@wonderwarenorth.com.

Video within your Plant Floor HMI

Longwatch, a supplier of video monitoring hardware and software products, was named by Wonderware as a Certified Software Partner.

The Longwatch Video Surveillance System has been integrated with Wonderware's InTouch HMI, Active Factory, Historian and MES software in several applications. The combination of Wonderware software and Longwatch Video systems allows operators in process control applications to see live and archived video from the plant floor directly on their Wonderware HMI screens. This allows operators to "see" what is going on in a process plant or factory without having to send someone to the scene. The operator can also "rewind" the video to see what happened a few seconds or a few hours before an incident.

By integrating with the Wonderware ActiveFactory trend chart object, Longwatch Video Historian software simultaneously shows trend graphs of user-selected variables (displayed as color "pen" lines) with archived video. The video panel and trend chart can be "linked" (synchronized) with the click of a button on the Viewer display. When the user clicks and drags the chart object's time cursor (normally used only for displaying the process variable's engineering units value and status at a selected point in time), the Video Historian also moves the video forward or backward accordingly.

When Longwatch Operator Console Monitoring software is employed on a Wonderware system, everything that appears on the HMI-and everything the operator enters from the keyboard or mouse-is logged as a video stream, so a plant can "play back" everything that happened during an incident or event for analysis or training purposes.

The Core Components

• The Longwatch Video System consists of a number of software modules that provide camera management, video archiving, data management, graphic display and system configuration. The system uses a distributed system architecture, to deliver performance, scalability and fault tolerance.
• The Longwatch Video Historian is a breakthrough in data management: automatically linking and integrating real plant video to process historian data to help improve plant efficiency, documentation regulatory compliance and operations management.
• The Longwatch Operator's Console Recorder is a software module that enables automatic recording of your HMI or SCADA operator's console display. With this tool, Longwatch archives exactly what the operator was seeing, because it records the video that's being sent to the display itself.

To learn more about this product, contact Wonderware North at 877-900-4996 or e-mail us at sales@wonderwarenorth.com.

EPA Consent Decree

EPA Consent Decree Compliance & the Critical Role of Condition Based Monitoring (CBM)

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2008, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Enforcement and Compliance Program concluded civil and criminal enforcement actions requiring polluters to invest an estimated $11.8 billion to reduce pollution, clean up contaminated land and water, achieve compliance and implement environmentally beneficial projects.

By definition: “A consent decree is a decree by a judge that expresses a voluntary agreement by the participants in a suit. Sometimes a lawsuit ends when a judge issues a consent decree, or a consent judgment. This is especially the case when the consent decree is issued after one side of the case voluntarily agrees to cease a particular action without admitting to damages or illegality of the action”.

What is Mandatory?

• “Defendant has the duty to maintain in good working order and properly operate and maintain the components of the system(sic) as necessary to comply with the Facility’s Permit and the currently enforce federal requirements”
• Submit a predictive tool for approval
• Make results available upon request
• Training Certification for all users (including contractors)
• Implement an evaluation of predictive tool and compliance plan
• Establish escrow funds for remediation
• Description of any compliance problems and the remediation plan/actions proposed

How Condition Based Maintenance Can Help

Mtelligence Condition Based Monitoring (CBM) 2.0 performs a critical role in your organization’s compliance with EPA Consent Decrees by creating a “single pane of glass” into your plant floor systems including HMI/SCADA, PLCs/RTUs/DCSs, plant historians, thermographic data collection, CCTv data, OPC servers (DA, A&E), and others. This connectivity offers an unprecedented chain of custody that is critical to compliance reporting.

• Mtelligence CBM provides Certified EAM adapters provide out of the box integration with leading EAM/CMMS systems.
• Mtelligence CBM provides mapping of EAM/CMMS assets or locations to HMI tags is also simplified with a powerful hierarchical mapping wizard.
• With Mtelligence CBM 2.0, we help you tailor a Compliance Roadmap that helps you to meet all of your compliance requirements, including confidence for all Personal Certifications.

Mtelligence Condition Based Monitoring (CBM) 2.0 helps operations and maintenance personnel gain better visibility into the true condition of production equipment by simplifying the delivery of process data to a plant’s EAM/CMMS system. By monitoring process data from SCADA/HMI systems and plant historians, equipment and plant compliance issues can be caught before any instance of non-compliance with the EPA Consent Decree.

Wonderware Patchfixes, Device Integration Releases & Tech Notes

Are you a member of Wonderware Customer First?  Wonderware Customer First members gain access to a wealth of online tools and services to help you be successful wherever you are in your system lifecycle.

The Wonderware Developer Network offers extensive resources and a venue for online collaboration between Customer First members, integrators, 3rd party suppliers and Wonderware subject matter experts.

If you are interested in learning more about Customer First, call us at 215-675-5800 or e-mail us at support@wonderwarenorth.com.

Registered Wonderware Customer Support subscribers can download the following Wonderware device integration releases: (www.wonderware.com/Support/MMI):

• Wonderware ABCIP DAServer 4.1 (Support for ABCIP firmware version 17.x for the ControlLogix, CompactLogix, GuardLogix and FlexLogix Controllers.  Also support for Windows 2008 SP2)
• Wonderware ABCIP Version 4.1 DIObjects
• Wonderware InTouch Compact Edition Version 10.1, IO Driver Update 1
  

Registered users can now download the following Wonderware software patchfix releases (www.wonderware.com/Support/MMI):

• InTouch 10.1 SP2 ISO File
• InTouch 10.1 Service Pack 2
• Application Server 3.1 SP2 Build 208
• Application Server 3.1 SP2 Build 208 ISO

The following Tech Notes and Tech Alerts are now available:

• Tech Note 683 - Enabling Communication Between InBatch and Wonderware Application Server
• Tech Note 682 - Installing Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 for Wonderware Historian v10.0
• Tech Note 681 - Configuring InBatch Redundant Servers to Sync in a Workgroup Environment

Registered users can view and download these and other Tech Notes from the Wonderware Technical Support website.