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News Release from: Wonderware United Kingdom | Subject: Industrial Application Server 2.0
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 November 2004
New version of Industrial Application
Server s/w
Wonderware releases Industrial Application Server 2.0 offering unprecedented scalability, redundancy and plant information security, covering 250 to 1 million I/O points across up to 100 nodes
Wonderware is releasing a significant new version of its Industrial Application Server software Industrial Application Server 2.0 is built on the Invensys ArchestrA software architecture and incorporates highly scalable distributed processing and cost-effective redundancy functions
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 14 Mar 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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These features aim to meet the requirements of the most demanding automation and plant information applications.
Industrial Application Server 2.0 offers simple, low-cost redundancy with a click of a mouse and unmatched scalability from 250 to 1 million I/O points across up to 100 nodes.
When bandwidth is at a premium, a self-adjusting communications protocol is used to make the most of the capacity available.
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Industrial Application Server is the distributed applications processing element of Wonderware's popular FactorySuite A2 software suite.
When used in conjunction with InTouch 9.0 visualisation software, the IndustrialSQL Server historian and other integrated suite software, users benefit from an extremely powerful, secure and easy-to-use industrial application platform.
"Industrial and manufacturing companies today demand sustainable, highly integrated applications that can adapt to stringent requirements for reliability, flexibility, scalability and cost effectiveness," said Steve Garbrecht, product marketing manager for Wonderware's Industrial Application Server.
"Wonderware exceeds this expectation by delivering one of the broadest industrial applications software offerings while focusing on the lowest total cost of ownership".
Wonderware also claim to make engineers' lives even easier and more productive - whether they have a discrete, continuous process or distributed SCADA application or a plant-wide integration/plant intelligence application.
Mr Garbrecht reminds us "The ArchestrA architecture on which the Industrial Application Server was built was designed with scalability in mind".
High availability and redundancy in HMI and SCADA applications typically involves complicated scripting and testing to make a system failsafe.
Industrial Application Server 2.0 incorporates automatic switching from one node to another via a simple configuration checkbox in the ArchestrA Integrated Development Environment.
Systems can be configured so that if one node fails, a dedicated computer continues processing.
Alternatively two nodes can back each other up.
The net result is a high availability system that is easily implemented and can reduce operational downtime while keeping application development costs under control.
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