The new series of integrated hardware, software and services from Schneider Electric combine world-class hardware, best-of-breed Wonderware software with the tight integration to the Wonderware By Schneider Electric portfolio, extensive plant communications capabilities and award-winning support services. This new series is a complete solution, from small footprint machine level HMI software (InTouch Machine Edition) to whole plant supervisory visualization solution with InTouch and InTouch for System Platform, on one simplified order that enables a consistent plant intelligence software solution across a broad spectrum of industrial applications.

Wonderware InTouch Panel PCs require only the hands to replace all key components and are ready to function out of the box with no moving parts due to its Solid State Drives and fan-less cooling a Modular design with tool-less component removal increases efficiency and reduces downtime. The open PC platforms are pre-integrated with InTouch and communications software, so no additional software installation is required. The Wonderware InTouch Panel PCs enable customers to use Wonderware by Schneider Electric familiar, market-leading InTouch software with increased versatility and mobility, which can reduce considerable time and expense for operator training, IT software administration and management, and vendor costs. From the low cost, Compact HMIs for OEMs, to the Standard and Premium flagship models for maximum computing power, the new series offers a host of features. Some of these include expandable hard drive and embedded disaster recovery with bundled Acronis True Image.

The full functionality of Wonderware InTouch Panel PCs can be used to provide visualization and control in many automation scenarios previously serviced only by closed proprietary terminals. Proprietary, stand-alone hardware terminals can now be replaced with networked PC-based HMI applications that are fully connected to supervisory control and plant intelligence operations.

Key benefits of the latest release:

• Modular design with tool-less component removal for increases efficiency.
• Dedicated disaster recovery drive with bundled Acronis True Image for and reduced downtime
• No moving parts throughout the entire product range: Solid State Drives and fan-less cooling are standard and provides better performance and reliability
• Advance-Exchange program to help you keep spare inventory costs down
• Integrated hardware, software and services combine world-class hardware, best-of-breed Wonderware software and one simplified order that enables a consistent plant intelligence software solution

National Instruments, the provider of solutions that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges, announced a collaboration with CERN, an intergovernmental research organization building the world’s largest and most advanced scientific instruments. The objective is to push the standardization of all CERN control systems to Linux 64-bit OSs, with goals to boost system performance, design cost-effective distributed control systems and enlarge opportunities for small and medium enterprises with expertise in NI and open-source technologies.

NI has been working with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, more commonly known as CERN, since the early 1990s on applications that help explain what the universe is made of and how it began. Notable collaborations include the Large Hadron Collider collimation system, where applications developed with LabVIEW system design software control stepping motors on approximately 120 NI PXI systems, and the MedAustron ion beam cancer therapy center, for which CERN received three awardsat NIWeek 2013. These common developments have resulted in valuable training for engineers in the fast-growing embedded systems market, and have led to long-term maintainable systems in mission-critical applications.

A recent collaboration between CERN and NI concentrated on CERN’s infrastructure improvement plans. Prior to the public release of LabVIEW support for 64-bit Linux, the Engineering Department (EN) Industrial Controls and Engineering (ICE) Group at CERN, acted as a lead user to help NI define and refine the software features needed to ensure CERN’s success in continuing to use NI tools. By working with CERN early on to learn about its upgrade requirements, NI was able to prioritize key deliverables and gain valuable feedback from CERN to increase the quality of support for 64-bit Linux.

“The EN-ICE Group appreciates the engagement of NI to develop 64-bit software for CER N in a collaborative way,” said Adriaan Rijllart, section leader of the EN-ICE Group. “This very successful initiative is paving the way for exemplary partnerships between fundamental research organizations and industry.”

Matrikon has announced that Version 2.0 of the Matrikon OPC UA Embedded Software Development Kit (SDK) has been certified by the OPC Foundation’s Independent test labs to be compliant with the Embedded OPC Server profile.

To achieve this certification, Matrikon added support for OPC UA security to the industry’s smallest commercially available embedded OPC UA toolkit. This allows product vendors the ability to provide their customers with networked products that deliver secure OPC UA connectivity right out of the box – an important consideration in today’s highly connected but unsecure world.

Darek Kominek, marketing manager at Matrikon commented, “Growing demand for products that easily interconnect and share data in meaningful and effective ways is accelerating the emergence of the Internet of Things. To meet this demand, vendors of networked devices in all sectors of the economy - from industrial to commercial and consumer sectors – need to make their products easy to integrate in a secure manner.”

Kominek further added, “While the OPC UA specification from the OPC Foundation defines how this can be accomplished, Matrikon provides vendors with the means to quickly and easily implement OPC UA directly in their products even when memory and processing resources are limited.”

To learn how to enable your products securely today and more about it visit Matrikon OPC UA Embedded Software Development Kit (SDK),

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has developed an enhanced version of the GA10 data-logging software for the SMARTDAC+® data acquisition and control system. Sales of this new version, release 2.0, will commence on January 20.

The GA10 software can collect, display, and record data from multiple data acquisition and recording devices and measuring instruments. GA10 release 2 comes with new optional real-time calculation and report output functions and features enhanced connectivity with host systems, thus helping customers improve their work efficiency and share information more effectively.

Development Background:

GA10 is a PC based data-logging program that is used in the development and production processes in many different industries to collect, display, and record temperature, voltage, current, flow rate, pressure, and other types of data from instruments such as recorders, temperature controllers, and power meters. With this software, a system can be built to collect data from Yokogawa data acquisition and recording devices and measuring instruments as well as third-party devices that support the Modbus general-purpose industrial communications protocol, eliminating the need for advanced, but expensive system solutions such as SCADA software and DCSs. GA10 is widely used to construct systems for the monitoring and recording of data. This enhanced version of the GA10 software offers the following optional functions that satisfy the needs of customers who need not only to collect data from multiple sources but also display the results of calculations and quickly create reports from this data.

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