Is Energy Management Critical to your Organization?

How much does it really cost to make a product?  When is the best time of day to run equipment?  How do you allocate energy costs to operational events, departments and products?  How do you report energy costs back to ERP as part of the production record?

Whether your organization is looking to be green, reduce operating costs or both, improved energy management is now critical in most corporate goals.  To reach these goals, organizations need to be able to record consumption and demand at main and sub meters for a wide range of energy types (including power, water, chilled water, gas, air, steam, etc.). This information then needs to be associated to production output to provide the key performance indicators used in many sustainability programs.

Systems available today grew up from software developed to interface to electric meters.  They really cannot easily account for other critical components such as steam or air or water, etc. and they have little or no awareness of energy consumption in the context of manufacturing output.  Additionally, without networked meters, these limited systems provide no value at all.

Wonderware's new Corporate Energy Management Solution (CEM) addresses all of these issues.  Built on our open System Platform Technology, CEM can connect to any type of meter (electric, gas, steam, water, etc.) and collect energy consumption/demand information in the context of your manufacturing operation and operating environment.  Users can allocate cost to operational events, departments and products and begin to work to reduce energy consumption and avoid peak energy demands.  Additionally, if no networked meters are present, users can leverage our mobile front-end to manually enter needed data right at the source.

How Can I Learn More?

Wonderware is hosting Microsoft Sponsored Energy Management workshops around the county.  With Department of Energy Approved content, this is a chance to learn from experts about the principles of sustainable energy management.

If you are involved in or in charge of initiatives to reduce energy consumption within your organization please consider attending this workshop and feel free to share this invitation internally with others involved in energy management initiatives.

• Successfully avoid peak energy charges
• Have visibility to your real-time energy consumption and demand
• Intelligently allocate energy costs to your departments, operations and products

When and Where?

• April 29th, 2010 - Philadelphia, PA Microsoft Office
• May 5th, 2010 - Chicago, IL Microsoft Office
• May 13th, 2010 - Boston, MA (Part of the Wonderware North User Conference)

To learn more or to register for a workshop, please follow this link (Corporate Energy Management), call us at 877-900-4996 or e-mail us at sales@wonderwarenorth.com for additional information.

The Release of Information Server 4.0

Wonderware's Open Portal Technology now Leverages Microsoft Silverlight Technology to allow web publishing of ArchestrA Graphics. Data, reports and real-time graphics in an easy-to-configure web environment.

Wonderware has released Information Server v4.0 leveraging Microsoft Silverlight technology (free plug-in, powered by the .NET framework and is compatible with multiple browsers, devices and operating systems).  This new technology allows the publishing of ArchestrA Graphics to the web while increasing the speed at which screens are rendered. Version 4.0 also provides an XML- based InTouch screen publishing feature.

Wonderware Information Server (Included in the Wonderware Historian and Wonderware System Platform) provides the full spectrum of industrial information content including process graphics, trends and reports on a single web page. It acts as a unified web server source for all System Platform, InFusion, Historian, Intelligence, Batch, and MES online client and reporting capabilities. This enables employees across the enterprise to make better-informed decisions based on the real-time status information and historical data they need to improve operations.

Wonderware Information Server software also helps connect personnel with non-Wonderware data sources so they can access overall performance records using a single source of information. Wonderware Information Server Web Clients are designed for the more casual user who relies on a Web browser to access real-time dashboards, pre-designed reports of industrial activities as well as the occasional requirement for ad-hoc analysis or write back capabilities to the process.

Information Server 4.0 Value:

• Key Production/Process Information anywhere
• Easy Access to Information enables Productivity and Cost improvements
• Enable Process Improvement Collaboration
• Reduce Total Cost of Ownership with a Solution Designed for Operators, Engineers, Operations Managers and IT
• Add Operations Information Context to Corporate Portals
• View Process Graphics Anywhere
• Merge Process Information, Production Information and Business-side information into one seamless view

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.

Wonderware's CE-Based HMI

The Powered By Wonderware program allows users to leverage InTouch Based Technology on light, inexpensive CE-based platforms from a variety of major vendors.

For too long, the realm of the low-end HMI panel has been dominated by bundled, proprietary hardware/software offerings that offered minimal capability within closed systems that were unable to be tied into the broader plant infrastructure.  The shortcomings were ignored because these panels were pushbutton replacements or basic interface terminals and so we sacrificed capability for cost.

In today's environment, we are required to do more with less.  With overextended engineering staff, managing multiple types of systems and development environments for different areas of the plant has a negative impact.  The inability to share information between all plant systems no matter how basic has a negative impact.  We still need to be conscious of cost but we also need to reduce development and maintenance costs and eliminate closed islands of automation.

Wonderware addresses all of these issues with our Powered By Wonderware Program.  Leveraging our CE Based platform built on InTouch Technology, users can now purchase inexpensive terminals running on the CE Hardware Platform of their choice and gain all of the benefits of leveraging the world's most popular HMI - InTouch.

Powered By Wonderware

Wonderware InTouch HMI graphic visualization software is now widely available on the Windows CE device of your choice. Industry leading hardware manufacturers have partnered with Wonderware to offer a productive and cost saving combination of our premium industry HMI with the CE device that best fits your needs. The “Powered by Wonderware” logo lets you know the unit is fully tested, certified, and ready to go out of the box with pre-installed InTouch Compact Edition software. To enable the pre-installed HMI software, choose from several license sizes offered separately and in multi-packs for extended value.

What are the Key Benefits?

• The Power of InTouch-Based Technology at a cost point comparable to other closed, proprietary systems.  Get much more for less.
• Leverage a single development environment across all systems in your plant - The Wonderware Development Studio.
• Take existing InTouch Applications and make them usable on a CE Platform for a more common look and feel everywhere.
• The ability to share information between the InTouch CE Platform and other Higher-end Wonderware offerings like the Wonderware System Platform - eliminate islands of automation.
• The ability to leverage your choice in hardware with the best CE based HMI product on the market - all backed by Wonderware. Just look for the Powered By Wonderware Logo.

Other New Hardware News

Wonderware's new version of our OIC Panel PC product is now a direct "drop-in" replacement for aging and unstable Allen-Bradley VersaView® computers. ‘Drop-in’ replacement means the mounting holes are the same. For customers wishing to upgrade to a modern solution, the new OIC for VersaView® replacement devices enable implementation of an InTouch system with a minimum amount of engineering necessary.

If you are interested in moving away from proprietary plant floor terminals and aging, unstable hardware, contact Wonderware North at 877-900-4996 or e-mail us at sales@wonderwarenorth.com.

A Versatile, Light-Industrial Mounting System

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.

The STRONGARM MightyMount is recognized as the world’s only “machine-grade” display and keyboard mounting. In sharp contrast to “office grade” products, the MightyMount is built from sturdy cast aluminum for demanding industrial applications.

STRONGARM's legendary in-house design and manufacturing capability extend the MightyMount into a complete system that extends your software infrastructure to exactly where you need it to be, without the footprint of expensive/bulky “Refrigerators on wheels”. The Mobile MightyMount is increasingly popular as a versatile Mobile Quality Terminal, as a low-cost, high impact Packaging Line/Vision system, perhaps used as a repositionable Downtime Tracking workstation, or simply a mobile SCADA or MES terminal.

Perfect For

• MES Applications
• Quality Stations
• Pharmaceutical Packaging Lines
• Vision Systems
• Downtime Tracking Stations
• OEM Equipment
• And more...

Features of the MightyMount

• Repositions quickly and easily with counter-balanced adjustability
• 12" of vertical adjustment with lock-in-place security
• Stays level throughout vertical travel
• High strength cast aluminum construction
• Swivels 340 degrees at the display end and 180 degrees at the mounting end

Options to Consider

• Needed configuration
• Displays and Touchscreens
• Thin Clients
• Keyboard and Mouse Trays
• Mobile Mounting Options
• Fixed Mounting Options:  Table-Top Mount, Post Mount, Wall Mount
• Finish Style:  Painted or Nickel-plated for food/beverage/CPG/pharmaceutical applications

Remember that STRONGARM specializes in customized solutions so if you don't see something above that meets your exact needs, call Wonderware North at 877-900-4996 or e-mail us at sales@wonderwarenorth.com.

Save the Date for OpsManage'10

October 18th to the 22nd in Orlando Florida.  Attend the North American OpsManage Conference and Expo

WonderWorlds have evolved into OpsManage'10 - The One Multi-Discipline Event For Collaborating On Your Journey Towards Operational Excellence.  If you attended last year's event, you already know that this new format was a big hit with customers. 

The perfect amount of presentations and an always open Expo Center filled with product demonstrations manned by technology experts allow customers to freely explore technology and dive deeply into products and services that they can take back to their own organizations.

The ability to schedule personalized meetings with experts to discuss projects and initiatives and the technology that can be leveraged to achieve your goals.  And then the ability to walk into the expo and see that technology demonstrated just for you and your team.

Learn how to optimize the business impact of your operation's performance and overall profitability.

See how solutions from Invensys Operation Management and our Partner Ecosystem can help improve the performance of your key resources (people, equipment, systems, energy and materials) in real time - with dramatic, measurable results.

Visit the OpsManage'10 Web Site to learn more and to save the date.

To learn more about OpsManage'10, contact Wonderware North at 877-900-4996 or e-mail us at sales@wonderwarenorth.com.

Bullet-Proof Servers

Fault Tolerance/Redundancy on a platform that is as simple to manage as a Dell Server.  If banking systems, communication systems, power systems and other critical infrastructure systems around the world can use Stratus, so can you.

Today's plant systems are often mission critical applications that drive our manufacturing operations. As such, it is vital that the hardware platforms that are running those applications and databases not fail. Often, however, employing redundancy can involve expensive and complicated server clusters, duplication of software licenses or complicated software applications to manage redundant applications. Those days are now a thing of the past with Stratus Fault Tolerant Servers.

Stratus Technologies has been in business providing the highest levels of application availability in the industry for the past 30 years. Stratus ftServers run standard Windows operating systems, RedHat Linux and VMware vSphere operating systems and provide instant failure protection through a duplicated hardware platform that looks and feels just like a standard Dell Server. With over 15,000 servers throughout the world, protecting some of the most mission critical applications, Stratus Servers are a proven technology platform that can be leveraged to provide complete application redundancy.

If you can turn on a PC, and load a software application, you can create a Status-based fault-tolerant hardware platform to enable redundancy for your mission critical applications. It is really that easy and because Stratus Servers don't need any special software to work, setting up a Stratus Server is as easy as setting up a Dell Server. Load your operating system (if it is not already loaded), load your application and run. Leverage Stratus Servers for a plant historian, an MES Server, redundant windows terminal servers, redundant HMI applications, etc. and instantly provide a redundant hardware platform to host your critical software applications.

Key Features and Capabilities

• Set up is as easy as setting up a standard Dell Server.  From the user perspective, there is no difference.
• Servers are open systems running standard Windows, Linux and VMware. Any application which runs on any of these operating environments will run without change on Stratus and become instantly continuously available.
• There is no specialized training to set up a system. A Stratus ftServer appears to the operating system to be just another stand alone server. Load your software and go.
  Achieve 99.999% application availability. Engineered to prevent failure, Stratus systems are installed in hundreds of manufacturing facilities across the globe, virtually eliminating software downtime.
• No complex setup or failover testing, no provisioning hardware, or mirroring disk drives. No engineering effort, no systems integration.
• If a component fails, the server itself can "call" Stratus and a replacement part will be on your desk the next day.  It is as simple as that.

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):

• HMI Reports Version 3.4 SP2 Installation Files
• HMI Reports 3.4 Sp2 ISO Files
  

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 are now available:

• Tech Note 701 - Creating an OEE Dashboard for InTouch®
• Tech Note 700 - Factelligence Error: Specified Row Not Found in the Database
• Tech Note 699 - Wonderware MES Sessn Table and Client Types
• Tech Note 698 - InTouch® 10.x Issues on Windows 2008 Server
• Tech Note 694 - Resolving Issues in Publishing ActiveFactory v9.2 Reports
• Tech Note 693 - Using DASMBTCP to Solve Third-Party Modbus Device Communication Problems
• Tech Note 692 - Using Virtual SMTP Server for SCADAlarm Email Notifications
• Tech Note 690 - How to Hide the Public NameSpace and Tags in ActiveFactory v9.2
• Tech Note 689 - Configuring the Compact Panel SIETH Driver to Communicate to a Siemens S7 PLC
• Tech Note 688 - Configuring the Compact Panel SRTP Driver to Communicate to a GE PLC
• Tech Note 687 - Configuring Communication Between InBatch and Application Server
• Tech Note 686 - Using FSGateway and SuiteLink® to Replace NETDDE
• Tech Note 685 - Using FSGateway to Communicate between Two Different Galaxies
• Tech Note 684 - Resolving Communication Problems for DNC and DNCPro

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