In one of my earlier blog posts, I provided a quick overview
of the Wonderware System Platform R2 and key capabilities of the latest release. This post focuses on the
benefits of the new version of the System Platform R 2, such as increased operator awareness, more effective alarms and Simple
Field Device Connectivity for your
visualization and supervisory applications.
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credit: wonderwarepacwest.com
Innovation that Leads
the Industry
Wonderware
System Platform 2014 R2 extends its reputation for innovation, ease of use, and central
system design, management and control even further by improving design
workflows, dramatically simplifying field device connectivity, adding smart new
engineering and alarm tools, and maximizing the management and efficient
storage and utilization of historical alarm and event data.
Complexity Simplified
New
simple to follow Best Practices in HMI design and easy-to-use conversion tools
reduce engineering costs and time and ensure consistency of HMI designs. These tools shorten design time and the
learning curve for novice engineers.
Upgrading existing applications is quick and convenient - easily convert
older applications to advanced graphics that capitalize on the latest
technology.
Increase Operator
Awareness
The
expanded Situational Awareness Symbol Library
and extensive improvements in design workflows and alarm management
capabilities facilitate greater operator awareness and extend real-time
visibility into your processes and minimize nuisance alarms. These improvements
greatly enhance the ability for both experienced and entry-level operators to
focus on what is most important and helps them identify, understand, react to
and resolve, abnormal situations more easily.
More Effective
Alarming
New
Alarm Shelving and ‘Plant State’ based alarm suppression features minimize
nuisance alarms, which improves operator attention to more critical events. New
Alarm Client Symbols take advantage of the these capabilities to visually present
aggregated active and historical alarm information. Alarms are grouped by
severity and shelving status to further simplify the engineering effort and
improve operator awareness and prioritization of alarms.
Simple Field Device
Connectivity
The
new I/O Auto Assignment feature, matches attribute references to field devices
based on manufacturer naming conventions to enable drag-and-drop association of
objects to field references prior to deployment. This powerful new feature
drastically reduces engineering time and frustration, enables live
pre-validation of connectivity, and improves connectivity accuracy. All major
brand industrial controllers are supported.
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To
see the full extent of the 2014 R2 release, check out the ‘Wonderware HMI and Supervisory Solutions What’s New in 2014 R2’ datasheet.
Related information:
- System Platform 2014 R2 - InTouch Modern Application [video]
- Wonderware System Platform 2014 R2 and InTouch 2014 R2 are now available
- Wonderware System Platform - What’s New
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