If you were able to attend the recent Philadelphia WonderWorld event, you would have had the opportunity to learn about and see the release of a significant new offering from Wonderware.  The new Wonderware System Platform provides the foundation to support the modular growth of plant floor HMI, SCADA, and MES systems for companies working to drive operational excellence.  All within a single flexible system.

The System Platform supports simplified and consistent operations across a wide range of industrial operations and manufacturing facilities by delivering a common set of applications software services.

The Wonderware System Platform is designed to make it easier for industrial information and automation personnel to normalize their integration and application generation issues in order to rapidly adjust to the ever-changing needs of their customers and the overall market.  The expansive platform services and functionality serve to extend Wonderware customers’ existing systems and software investments and enables new flexibility in rapid application development.

“Manufacturing companies and industrial operations are challenged with being more responsive to worldwide competitive pressures, while at the same time identifying hidden production and supply-chain costs and creating a leaner environment with less working capital,” said Steve Garbrecht, marketing program manager for Wonderware platforms.  “Traditional application architectures lock users into inflexible solutions that take a long time to develop and change to meet new needs.  The goal of the Wonderware System Platform is to give our customers the very best software environment for strategic agility.”

Built on the industry standards-based ArchestrA software architecture, the Wonderware System Platform allows customers to have one, common strategic platform for all of their networked supervisory HMI, SCADA, production management (MES) and performance management (manufacturing intelligence) solutions.  The underlying industrial automation and information application architecture, ArchestrA, provides customers with the means to dynamically reformulate their manufacturing footprint -- enabling an incremental, low-risk deployment of increased application functionality, one step at a time.

The Wonderware Systems Platform includes a comprehensive set of capabilities that previously would have required multiple product offerings:

• Industrial domain services for industrial computing functions that are not provided by commercial operating systems or products.

• Software and device connectivity services for easy communication to virtually any plant or business information source.

• Information and data management services for management of real-time and historical information.

• Information delivery and visualization services for functions that provide information to the right user at the right time, and in the form in which they expect it.

• Application development services that provide easy and intuitive development of modular industrial software solutions that are easily changed to meet future needs.

• System management and extensibility services that provide easy management, expansion and modification of the application or the computing architecture.

In addition, new Wonderware software modules leverage the Wonderware System Platform by adding functional capabilities to meet specific operational needs.  These new modules include one or more QuickStarts.  A QuickStart consists of a pre-configured example of best practices to address a specific manufacturing scenario.  QuickStarts accelerate the design and implementation by supplying example applications, database structure, HMI graphics, Web reports and implementation guidelines.

If you are considering software infrastructure to help manage information on your manufacturing floor, and need a flexible modular platform that allows you to grow and add functionality at your pace, you will be interested in the WonderWare System Platform.

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