Winners of Wonderware Open 2008 announced

Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, has announced the North American winners of Wonderware Open 2008, which recognises innovative industrial and manufacturing applications.

The winners were selected on their solution's impact on product quality, productivity, responsiveness and speed of time to market.

Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) won the award for Best SCADA Application, based on its use of Wonderware software to provide a range of reliable and environmentally-responsible water and wastewater services to clients.

Wonderware has provided OCWA with the ability to create standardised applications that can be deployed at a central hub or across multiple sites in weeks instead of months.

Portland General Electric (PGE) won Best HMI Application for its use of Wonderware HMI software to manage its demand-response programme, which provides electrical grid capacity by linking customer-owned generators as part of a virtual power plant for its Dispatchable Standby Generation (DSG) program.

With this system, PGE can simultaneously reduce peak loads on the grid by using the available aggregated electricity generated from customers' emergency stand-by generators as part of its reserve capacity system, all from graphical HMI screens.

Best Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence Application winner was New Belgium Brewing Company of Colorado for its use of Wonderware applications to manage its long-standing programmes to reduce, reuse and recycle.

In 1998 New Belgium Brewing became the first wind-powered brewery in the United States.

The brewery's new manufacturing intelligence system uses Wonderware software to provide track and trace capabilities and adhere to New Belgium's conservation and performance goals.

This solution enables the brewery to track any bottle or tank of beer back to all of its ingredients and processes within 30 minutes.

Cytec Engineered Materials (CEM) of New Jersey won the Best Manufacturing Execution System Application category.

As a materials manufacturer that specialises in high-performance composite materials and adhesives for commercial and military aerospace, automotive and marine applications, Cytec chose to implement an initial pilot manufacturing process based on Wonderware MES software.

The pilot implementation demonstrated Wonderware's capabilities to address a number of CEM's key business requirements, including the ability to integrate its business systems to provide real-time information to customers and reduce scrap and rework, to increase production efficiencies.

The winners of each category will compete for the Wonderware Open 2008 Pinnacle Award during the Wonderworld user conference this week in Las Vegas.

A separate Wonderware Open 2008 based in Europe is currently ongoing for applications based in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The winners will be honoured at Wonderworld in Copenhagen, Denmark, in November 2008.

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