Wonderware CE Based Compact Panels are coming!

Early in 2008, Wonderware will begin shipping the new Wonderware Compact Panel.  This new offering will come bundled with InTouch and will be priced to compete with other proprietary low end HMI offerings that currently exist in the market.  The Wonderware Compact  Panel will be running InTouch -- the worlds most popular HMI software...Packed with more features, alarming, and trending capabilities than any other similar system in existence.

Wonderware Compact Panels are an ideal alternative to standalone, proprietary operator interface panels. The panels combine robust hardware with powerful Wonderware human-machine interface (HMI) software to provide a comprehensive solution for supervising and managing industrial and manufacturing operations.

The new Wonderware Compact Panel computers offer superior ease of installation and a competitive entry-level price point by bundling a subset of the latest HMI runtime functionality of InTouch 10.0 software with rugged, industrial touch-screen operator panels running Microsoft Windows CE v6.0 software. Additionally,  a Compact Panel DA Server” will be available which can read real-time data from tags in an InTouch Compact Edition application and serve the data to InSQL/Historian Server or other WW application like InTouch or Application Server/System Platform. The Compact Panel DA Server can also write data to the Compact Panel so an operator at the Compact Panel can view data/graphics that provide information about other areas of the facility.

The panels are offered in a range of screen sizes (6.5", 10", 15") and are manufactured to comply with various industrial environment ratings including NEMA 4X/IP 66 and Class 1, Div. 2.  In contrast to proprietary operator interface panels, Wonderware Compact Panel computers enable customers to benefit from a common visualization strategy from the smallest devices to a network of servers or hundreds of clients all operating and managed with a common, easy to use Wonderware software toolset.

The new Wonderware Compact Panels are configured and managed via the newly introduced Wonderware Development Studio, which is designed to enable IT and engineering teams to collaborate on software application modeling, development, change management and deployment across the full range of Wonderware software applications. These applications include the latest InTouch 10.0 HMI software, System Platform 3.0 software and ArchestrA technology-based applications modules from Wonderware. Compact Panels complement existing industrial computer offerings from Wonderware and are designed for original equipment manufacturers, machine builders and customers requiring a local, yet networked panel-type solution.

Wonderware now provides a single, unified software platform for all plant visualization applications with universal data connectivity, rich extensibility and support for a wide breadth of the latest modern hardware including multi-core servers, desktops, touch panels, box PCs, tablets, thin-clients, and now, Microsoft CE-based panel computers.

Wonderware can now serve as a single source for customers by providing the world’s leading HMI software fully integrated, pre-installed, licensed and compatibility-tested with these best-of-breed panel computers. Its innovative software approach with ArchestrA-based applications enables companies to significantly improve their bottom line by retaining current application engineering investments and delivering new efficiencies with rapid standardization of software solutions across a customer’s organization.

To address the international market, Wonderware Compact Panel computers also can operate Windows CE v6.0 with Microsoft’s localized Multilingual User Interface. HMI applications can be created in English, German, French, Japanese or Simplified Chinese.

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