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News Release from: Citect | Subject: CitectSCADA Reports
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 August 2007
Collect plant data from all types of
plant control
The UK water industry must comply with numerous regulatory data reporting requirements: 'CitectSCADA Reports' delivers data from multiple plant control systems using industry standard reporting tools
In recent years, the pre-requisite has been for more extensive reporting, more numerous compliance reports to be generated, together with longer timeframes for historical data and improved security of the data stored For any central database solution to acquire plant data effectively, it must gather all data points across possibly disparate processes, conditions and sources
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 23 Nov 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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CitectSCADA Reports v4 provides exactly these functions - and more.
Built on the familiar MS SQL Server 2005, CitectSCADA Reports delivers high speed, high integrity production reporting, directly accessible through company favourite business tools, such as MS Excel and Reporting Services.
It bridges the plant-to-business divide with technology endorsed by IT, Plant and Corporate Managers alike, allowing them to create and access scheduled or ad-hoc reports without the overheads of mastering and maintaining a proprietary reporting solution.
CitectSCADA Reports "seamlessly collect, archive and deliver reporting data from multiple plant control systems".
An off-the-shelf solution employing the software, users can visualise data from multiple SCADA systems in web browser; analyse this data with MS Excel; transfer data between control systems and MS SQL or Oracle databases, archive all control system data into MS SQL Server 2005 and report using industry standard reporting tools.
Open standards; familiar technology and user interface, and secure reporting, make doing business easier and more cost effective with CitectSCADA Reports.
In addition, version 4 offers powerful performance with high data integrity, fast active data transfer rates and changes per second, and unrivalled functionality.
For example, queries can be made by time or variable such as operator, shift, product, batch, mode etc, providing up-front real-time analysis of operating conditions as well as analysis of trend information from past records without interfering with the running of the process.
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