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News Release from: Wonderware United Kingdom | Subject: Wonderware InTouch HMI Software
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 June 2004
New Software offers reduced engineering
time
A new version of the Wonderware InTouch HMI Software offers customers significantly reduced application engineering, testing and deployment time
New version of Wonderware InTouch HMI Software offers customers significantly reduced engineering time Version 9.0 of InTouch software innovates with SmartSymbol technology, which offers considerable savings by significantly reducing application engineering, testing and deployment time
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 14 Mar 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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SmartSymbols integrate object-oriented technology with InTouch graphics and transform them into reusable templates.
Changes made to the templates automatically propagate throughout an application - even across multiple networked PC nodes.
As a result, engineers spend less time creating, modifying, validating and re-validating HMI applications.
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For example, InTouch users can now deploy an HMI symbol 1,000 times across 100 nodes in minutes.
Typically, this type of deployment would take hours to perform.
SmartSymbol graphics are the key to this significant new capability.
Users of previous versions of InTouch software can easily upgrade their HMI toolkits to leverage this technology.
"SmartSymbols are an incredible new development for InTouch software that will enable users to dramatically reduce the amount of time they spend creating, modifying and deploying applications," said Renee Brandt, visualisation product marketing manager for the Wonderware and ArchestrA business units.
"It's exciting that, by upgrading to InTouch 9.0 software, customers can leverage the benefits of SmartSymbols throughout their existing applications with minimal effort".
In addition, InTouch users can run the new script function called IOSetRemoteReferences to modify the datasource for ArchestrA Objects or InTouch tag references at runtime.
This enables developers to switch object instances for graphic symbols based on particular conditions or directly via user interaction such as clicking a button.
Users can modify an application's access name and item name at runtime, greatly increasing the amount of information viewed with minimal application modification.
By adding a button to a window, users can opt to view information from different devices, objects, areas and plants.
Updating the real-time information within the window is very fast because only one line of script needs to be executed.
This functionality applies to all standard graphical objects as well as any new SmartSymbols.
"The new runtime component expands the amount of information a user can access within one window with minimal effort," said Rashesh Mody, chief technology officer and vice president of product definition for the Wonderware and ArchestrA business units.
"This gives users a tremendous advantage in designing windows that can host vast amounts of information.
Together with SmartSymbols, these technologies offer a powerful combination to significantly increase engineering productivity".
The InTouch 9.0 software is "Integrated with ArchestrA," which means that it leverages the integration attributes of ArchestrA technology, enabling increased diagnostics and security capabilities, simplified communications deployment, remote configuration and the unification of devices and networks.
"The integration benefits offered by ArchestrA technology empower users to define equipment templates and associated symbols once and then use them during application development.
This leads to tremendous engineering efficiency," Mody said.
In addition, version 9.0 offers new features such as scripts that make viewing, creating and analysing data easier and more efficient.
It also enables users to create displays that can be viewed from workstations, PDAs, browsers and the new Wonderware Industrial Tablets and Touch Panel Computers.
The InTouch software can connect to several hundred available I/O and OPC servers that are designed to connect to Wonderware products.
The list of I/O servers is longer than that of any other HMI product on the market.
This is made possible by the Wonderware device integration team as well as hundreds of third-party product developers that offer connectivity to Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider, Invensys and other products.
InTouch enables users to visualise and control industrial processes while providing engineers with an easy-to-use development environment and extensive functionality to rapidly create, test and deploy powerful automation applications that connect and deliver real-time information to anyone who needs it, anywhere it is needed.
InTouch software is an open and extensible HMI that enables flexibility in custom application design with connectivity to the broadest set of automation devices in the industry.
Wonderware has installed more than 200,000 InTouch HMIs worldwide.
InTouch HMI software is part of Wonderware's FactorySuite product series and a component of Wonderware plant intelligence solutions, which enable plant personnel to visualise, analyse and optimise their manufacturing processes.
A squared signifies the presence of the ArchestrA architecture, which offers the industrial automation and information marketplace significant advances in reusable engineering by providing a plant-centric, modular approach to application development.
InTouch View 9.0 is the latest visualisation component that works in conjunction with the Industrial Application Server and IndustrialSQL Server historian to provide a distributed plant supervisory software solution based on ArchestrA technology.
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