After 40,000 projects, now a modern SCADA is born

COPA-Data release their latest SCADA System, combining reliable, redundant operation with market leading features such as linked-object editing, to meet the demands of modern manufacturing

COPA-Data release their latest SCADA System, combining reliable, redundant operation with market leading features such as linked-object editing, to meet the demands of modern manufacturing.

This thoroughly modern SCADA system has evolved through 40,000 projects currently installed in the field.

Machine builders and system integrators must provide flexible SCADA systems with minimal configuration requirements and powerful design tools.

Time is money, and downtime to set up software systems between batches is unacceptable to manufacturers.

Close relationships with customers such as BMW, Audi and Festo have developed the fully featured but user friendly zenOn 6.2 SCADA System for modern manufacturing.

Manufacturers are experiencing the shift from mass production to "mass customisation" where companies produce a greater variety of products built to customers' specifications.

This requires more flexibility whilst maintaining optimum quality and throughput for the production, assembly, and packaging of manufactured goods.

The zenOn 6.2 system is built on an object-oriented platform that reduces engineering time.

Great care has been taken to make the system easy to install, even for very large and complex applications.

By using dynamic objects - which can be cloned indefinitely, a big help in constructing large systems - and linking them together a change in the "master" object automatically changes all linked objects in the system.

For greater speed and efficiency, the network uses event-driven broadcast techniques instead of time-consuming polling; this keeps all the stations updated in real time.

Network-based decentralisation means that any PC in the system can be a client or a server.

The software is compatible with any topology, but a ring topology is favoured to continually "shadow" all communication, and in case of failure, resumes operation with no loss of data.

This "circular redundancy" guarantees there is never any downtime.

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