Schneider Electric, has released a new HMI software product that can directly connect to industrial data sources, the new software enables users to access the information they need to improve plant operations and lower total cost of ownership in real time.

Wonderware InTouch Machine Edition software enables users to replace a traditional panel-computer HMI, whilst providing the functionality normally found in larger PC-based HMI systems; it offers more than 240 native communication drivers with connectivity to almost any control hardware; and its rich visualization, scripting, security, alarming, trending and recipe management functionality empowers plant operators to make better business decisions using real-time data. Additionally, customers in regulated industries will benefit from features that are powerful enough to be used as part of a 21 CFR part-11 compliant solution.

Microsoft Windows operating systems

Designed to run with modest hardware requirements and operable on embedded versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems, the software offers users scalability integration with Wonderware Historian and Wonderware System Platform.

The software can also feed information to a larger supervisory system and provide a common control room environment for high-level operations management. Providing users greater control, faster response times, higher operating efficiencies and lower total cost of ownership.

The solution provides integration with Wonderware Historian software so that data can be securely and reliably saved, retrieved, analyzed and interpreted for greater insight into the business. This includes store-and-forward capabilities that will save the information locally if the connection to the historian is interrupted and then subsequently forward that data to the historian when the connection is re-established.

Live data can be communicated to desktop versions of Wonderware InTouch, Wonderware System Platform and Wonderware InBatch software. Data can be used in scripts, alarms, history, recipes and graphics to enable monitoring of machine status and performance information such as OMAC PackML data and overall equipment effectiveness. This level of integration with the Wonderware software portfolio makes it easier than ever before to integrate machine-level information in production-line and plant-level solutions.

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