Volume 3:  May/June 2008

• WonderWorld 2008 Register Now
• Wonderware Performance & Operations Software
• Wonderware's New Water & Wastewater Industry Pack
• Our Latest Training Schedule and Updates
• Our Latest Webinar Schedule

• Industrial Displays & Computing Stations up to 60"
• Mtelligence - CMMS to Plant Floor Connectivity
• 2008 Wonderware Open
• This Month's TECHTIP
• Wonderware Patchfixes, Device Integration Releases & Tech Notes

An all-new format for the 2008 North America WonderWorld Conference brings an exciting and rich assembly of forums to a single venue – offering each member of your team precise information based on individual roles and interests.  Additionally, with significant training and hands-on lab opportunities, WonderWorld 2008 is a great venue for additional education.

WonderWorld 2008 is a true industry event geared toward anyone in manufacturing - not just users of Wonderware products.  With sessions geared toward Executive Management, Operations Management, Information Technology Professionals, Engineering Professionals, and Solution Providers, WonderWorld 2008 has something for everyone.

Don't wait to register to take advantage of early registration discounts!

 This year's guest speakers include:

• Martin Eberhard - Innovator and Co-founder, Tesla Motors
• Dr. Peter Martin - Vice President, Performance Management, Invensys Process Systems
• Charles Johnson - Managing Director, Manufacturing Industry Solutions, Microsoft Corporation
• Cindy Jutras - Vice President & Group Director, Aberdeen Group
• Sudipta Bhattacharya - President, Wonderware Business Unit, Invensys
• Rashesh Mody - Vice President, Global Product Management, Wonderware Business Unit, Invensys

With the following forums available:

Real-Time Operations Management Forum (Not just for Wonderware Users) - Industrial infrastructure and manufacturing organizations will gain new perspectives on today’s top issues and current trends. Subject experts from around the globe will share their unique insights on today’s complex challenges, including:

October 6th to October 10th The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South Las Vegas, NV 89109 Phone: 702.414.1000 or 877.883.6423 Fax: 702.414.1100

• Energy and Environmental (Green) Initiatives
• Lean Manufacturing
• Workforce Management
• Enterprise-Wide Production Strategies
• Asset Management
• Business System Integration

My Wonderware Forum - The forum for “everything you wanted to know about Wonderware” products, services and solutions. Every breakout session is clearly rated so that you can easily select the topic and level of technical detail that is right for you. Topics covered will include:

• Operations Management
• MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems)
• EMI (Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence)
• HMI (Human Machine Interface)
• SCADA (Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition)

Innovation Expo - A wide range of innovative software, hardware and industry solutions providers will be on hand to show you how to leverage your installed investments and increase your effectiveness as you design, deploy, maintain and extend solutions using Wonderware software - built on ArchestrA technology.

• Discrete Manufacturing
• Food & Beverage
• General Process Manufacturing
• Mining & Metals Specialty
• Chemical & Pharmaceutical
• Facilities Management
• Oil & Gas Power
• Water & Wastewater

WonderWorld Technical Training Institute - Make the most of your time and travel--attend a two-day training course following the main conferences. Or, if you just need a deep-dive on a critical subject, check out the two- and four-day training courses offered during WonderWorld Week by Wonderware and partners.

• Wonderware ArchestrA Object Toolkit Technical Workshop
• InTouch 10.0: Migration from 9.5 Plus Techniques for Creating Amazing Graphics
• Improving the Performance of your System Platform Application Workshop
• Condition-Based Monitoring Solutions Training
• Reporting: Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services + Wonderware Reporting
• Wonderware Operations Software 3.4 Training

Don't wait to register to take advantage of early registration discounts!

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Wonderware recently announced new software solutions that are designed to enable customers to better address critical issues in manufacturing operations. These enhanced software solutions include Wonderware Operations Software 3.4 and Wonderware Performance Software 3.4 and are evolutions of the Factelligence offerings from the acquisition of Cimnet, an MES software company integrated into Wonderware in 2007.

The new software applications offer enhanced integration with Wonderware’s System Platform and InTouch HMI software, which provide a common and strategic industrial application services platform on top of virtually any existing system. The applications are built on the industry-standards based ArchestrA real-time service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology. This integration provides a comprehensive MES (manufacturing execution system), EMI (enterprise manufacturing intelligence), HMI (human-machine interface) and SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) solution using a single, unified software platform.

Customer investments in today’s plant software solutions can be leveraged as future operations management needs evolve, such as from a single machine HMI implementation to a supervisory plant solution or to a larger multi-plant MES and EMI roll out.

Operations Software 3.4:

Wonderware Operations Software 3.4 is offered as either Standard Edition or Premium Edition, with each edition providing incremental levels of MES functionality. The editions support customers requiring a scalable MES approach that allows them to start with fundamental ROI, and easily evolve the solution as they progress on a path toward operational excellence.

Standard Edition:

• Work Order Execution
• Production Events Tracking
• Bill of Materials
• Parameters/Recipe Download
• Data Collection

Premium Edition:

• Everything in Standard Edition
• Inventory Management
• Certifications
• Labor Management
• Control/Tracking of Process Steps

Performance Software 3.4:

Wonderware Performance Software 3.4 is a component of Wonderware’s EMI offerings that include new features for tracking an unlimited number of reasons for equipment downtime, as well as unlimited calculations of overall equipment effectiveness. Both software offerings provide an evolutionary path for existing Wonderware users, and can work in conjunction with a customer’s other software applications.

• Downtime and Utilization Tracking
• Real-Time performance monitoring (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)
• Detailed reporting and visualization tools

The integration of these new operations and performance offerings with the Wonderware System Platform and InTouch software provides logical data models for plant equipment and production activities, the ability to define reusable templates for key operational functions and intuitive user interfaces via a wide range of powerful Microsoft .NET controls that work inside of InTouch and other visualization applications.

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Wonderware recently announced the release of the Wonderware IndustryPack for Water & Wastewater designed to enhance overall productivity in facility operations for the water and wastewater industry. This is the first in a series of IndustryPacks to be introduced by Wonderware that will focus on specific vertical market segments and will leverage the powerful object oriented Wonderware System Platform with ArchestrA graphics. Wonderware is providing a single unified software platform for integrating real-time information with business critical applications.

The Wonderware Water & Wastewater IndustryPack, which will be available to download for customer support members later this month, is a pre-configured set of application templates and graphics specifically built for use by water and wastewater companies and municipalities. Pre-configured content enables system engineers to minimize the overall cost and complexities associated with creating and managing water and wastewater systems. In addition, it will address critical issues facing this industry such as workforce attrition, regulatory requirements, business factors, source water supply and aging infrastructure.

Targeting municipal water and wastewater operations as well as industrial water and waste treatment, the Wonderware IndustryPack leverages ArchestrA technology for greater productivity and ease of use. The unified ArchestrA software architecture simplifies the reporting and management functions performed by operations personnel, enabling them to build systems that are easy to replicate at multiple industry sites.

For manufacturing environments, synchronization of water treatment systems with overall manufacturing operations provides greater operations efficiency and regulatory compliance. Wonderware software can integrate most any data source, and transform raw data and events into meaningful information that helps reduce operations costs, identifies hidden inefficiencies and enables more cost-effective operations. Extensive flexibility and scalability enables users to expand operations or change work processes as their operational requirements change.

“The ArchestrA architecture is ideally suited for water and wastewater applications by employing an easy-to-use, component-object-based environment for developing standardized water and wastewater operations management solutions,” said Eduardo Ballina, industry manager for Wonderware SCADA solutions. “This significantly improves productivity and controls the overall cost of managing and deploying solutions.”

More than 28,000 Wonderware software licenses are in use at water and wastewater sites around the world to manage plant operations. Offering one-click software upgrades since 1990, Wonderware ensures that water system operators can continue to depend on the experience of a proven software platform and personal support through a worldwide network of local distributors and systems integrators. This provides flexibility both in the way solutions are built as well as in the ability to choose how to implement and maintain systems.

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Some of the latest offerings from STRONGARM are the new series of oversized industrialized large screen LCD/Plasma displays. These displays can come with various mounting solutions and can be customized with many different options depending on your exact needs. For those applications where oversized graphics or distance viewing are required, please consider the STRONGARM large screen system.

Typical Uses of Oversized Displays:

• Overhead control room displays
• Plant floor displays Visualization of plant KPIs and performance information
• Visualization of production information
• Company information displays
• And more...

Mounting Options:

• Wall Mount
• Post Mount
• Ceiling Mount
• Tilt Swivel
• And more...

Features to Consider:

• Stainless Steel NEMA 4X (<25ra finish) or Painted Systems with Optional Sloped-Top
• Sized for 37"/40"/42”/52"/60" LCD/Plasma displays
• Includes Premium LCD/Plasma display
• Hinged front or rear door with ¼ turn latches
• 3/8” Polycarbonate (LEXAN) Viewing Window
• NEMA 4X ThermoElectric Cooler supplied and wired
• Conduit holes for video and AC with all wiring to terminal block
• Optional Integrated Low Power microbox PC or thin client
• LCD offerings available with touchscreens as well

Remember that STRONGARM specializes in customized solutions so if you don's see something above that meets your exact needs, simply give us a call. We would be happy to design your specific solution.

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In an effort to continue to increase the capability that can be leveraged through the Wonderware System Platform, Wonderware has introduced their newest Endorsed Partner, Mtelligence.  The Endorsed Partner logo is reserved for offerings that have been engineered specifically to work in concert with Wonderware Technology.  Mtelligence is the first company to gain this status with their MIMOSA Interop Server product that allows the seamless integration from the Wonderware System Platform to most of the mainstream EAM/CMMS packages on the market today.

Mtelligence MIMOSA Interop Server™ (MIS) helps helps manufacturers improve asset performance by predicting and preventing equipment failure. Condition Based Monitoring (CBM) enables a shift from reactive to proactive maintenance, providing maintenance planners with the tools they need to move beyond calendar and break-fix maintenance strategies, and giving operators visibility into maintenance from their HMI. CBM provides significant cost benefits to manufacturers, including positive shifts in return on assets and overall equipment effectiveness for critical assets.

Wonderware’s Condition Based Monitoring solution (powered by Mtelligence MIMOSA Interop Server,“MIS”) integrates Wonderware condition monitoring data into Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems, such as SAP PM™, IBM Maximo®, Infor Datastream®, Indus and AssetPoint Tabware. Mtelligence MIS enables utilization-based (i.e. runtime hours) and condition-based (i.e. alarm condition) work orders to be triggered automatically when tag values exceed pre-defined thresholds. This integration gives Maintenance personnel visibility and provides Operations personnel visibility into
maintenance status directly from InTouch plant floor nodes.

Benefits Include:

• Increase asset reliability and availability
• Automate predictive alarm-based work order generation within your EAM/CMMS system
• Give Operations personnel visibility into maintenance work orders and status from directly within their InTouch HMI
• Use template System Platform automation objects and compiled ArchestrA graphics for plug and play rendering of EAM-based data in your HMI
• Ensure universal integration to all EAM/CMMS systems (multi-site capability with HQ visibility)
• Eliminate the need for plant technicians to make unnecessary rounds, taking machine device readings and hand entering the results Into the EAM system

Mtelligence delivers greater visibility and greater returns on asset performance through their Maintenance Intelligence™ platform including the Mtelligence MIMOSA Interop Server™. Their real-time performance monitoring and MIMOSA Compliant® interoperability products help customers drive operational excellence throughout the organization by maximizing asset performance, increasing availability, improving coordination between operations and maintenance and reducing O&M costs.

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Here is your chance to be part of Wonderware's Circle of Excellence, and perhaps qualify as the overall Pinnacle Award winner for the 2008 Wonderware Open. We are looking to recognize noteworthy Wonderware based applications that enable innovation for real-time operational excellence.

Categories:

• Best SCADA Application
• Best HMI Application
• Best Manufacturing Execution System Application
• Best Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence Application

Prizes:

• Each category winner will receive a Wonderware Open trophy plus free admission to 2008 WonderWorld North America, where the category winners will be showcased.
• At WonderWorld 2008 in Las Vegas one grand prize winner will be selected from the four category winners and will receive the Wonderware Open Pinnacle Award, one (1) Wonderware training seat and a $1000 cash award.

At WonderWorld Week we will showcase the Wonderware Open 2008 North America regional category winners. See the “best of the best” innovative solutions in action today using Wonderware technology. You will be able to interact with the entrants, witness the judging from a panel of industry experts, and cast your own vote for the ultimate winner. Category winners will join the Wonderware Open Circle of Excellence, and one overall winner will be awarded the Wonderware Open Pinnacle Award.

All entries must be submitted to Wonderware no later than August 8, 2008 for North America.  Click here to learn more and to enter this contest.

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Registered Wonderware Customer Support subscribers can download the following Wonderware device integration releases: (www.wonderware.com/Support/MMI):

• ABCIP DAServer (v4.0)
• SuiteLink Update 2.0 Patch 1
• DAServer Runtime Components Upgrade 2.0 Service Pack 3
• Wonderware Enterprise Integrator (WEI) 2.1 Service Pack 1

Registered users can now download the following Wonderware software patchfix releases (www.wonderware.com/Support/MMI):

• Wonderware Application Server 3.0 Patch 03
• Wonderware Intouch 3.0 Patch 03
• Wonderware Intouch 3.0 TSE Patch 03
• Updated Base Galaxy Backup Files for Wonderware Application Server 3.0

The following Tech Notes and Tech Alerts are now available:

• Tech Alert 108: Duplicate ID Utility Supplemental Information
• Tech Alert 109: Potential Safety Issue – Incorrect Symbol May Be Displayed When Using ArchestrA Symbols Embedded in InTouch® 10.0 Applications
• Tech Note 544: Understanding GRAccess Licensing
• Tech Note 543: Configuring DASABCIP V4.0 for Redundant Hardware And Software Support
• Tech Note 542: Using Dynamic Object Attributes to Expose ConfigOnly Attribute Values in Runtime
• Tech Note 541: Connecting ActiveFactory Web Clients to the ActiveFactory Reporting Web Server Using the Internet

Registered users can view and download these and other Tech Notes from the Wonderware Technical Support website.