COPA-DATA release their latest SCADA System, combining reliable, redundant operation with market leading features such as linked-object editing to meet the demands of modern manufacturing. This thoroughly modern SCADA system has evolved through 40,000 projects currently installed in the field.
(PRWEB) October 21, 2005 -- COPA-DATA release their latest SCADA System, combining reliable, redundant operation with market leading features such as linked-object editing to meet the demands of modern manufacturing. This thoroughly modern SCADA system has evolved through 40,000 projects currently installed in the field.
Machine builders and system integrators must provide flexible SCADA systems with minimal configuration requirements and powerful design tools. Time is money, downtime to set up software systems between batches is unacceptable to manufacturers. Close relationships with customers such as BMW, Audi and Festo have developed a fully featured but user friendly zenOn 6.2 SCADA System for modern manufacturing.
Manufacturers are experiencing the shift from mass production to “mass customisation” where companies produce a greater variety of products built to customers’ specifications. This requires more flexibility whilst maintaining optimum quality and throughput for the production, assembly, and packaging of manufactured goods.
The zenOn 6.2 system is built on an object-oriented platform that reduces engineering time. Great care has been taken to make the system easy to install, even for very large and complex applications. By using dynamic objects – which can be cloned indefinitely, a big help in constructing large systems – and linking them together a change in the “master” object automatically changes all linked objects in the system.
For greater speed and efficiency, the network uses event-driven broadcast techniques instead of time-consuming polling; this keeps all the stations updated in real time. Network-based decentralisation means that any PC in the system can be a client or a server. The software is compatible with any topology, but a ring topology is favoured to continually “shadow” all communication, and in case of failure, resumes operation with no loss of data. This “circular redundancy” guarantees there is never any downtime.
About COPA-DATA
COPA-DATA is Europe’s most innovative leader in the HMI/SCADA software market. They have become global trailblazers due to their know-how and experience gained from the installation of more than 40,000 systems in the automotive and machine construction industries, and energy and production plants worldwide. COPA-DATA has been developing HMI/SCADA technology at it’s headquarters in Salzburg, Austria since the mid- 80s. With the program suite zenOn® the company released the first graphical visualization system that ran fully under Windows. The system’s universality from Windows CE up to XP has facilitated full compatibility from the terminal up to the control room, and a sophisticated distributed network technology.
The new generation 6 of zenOn, with automatic engineering and highly efficient reusability of existing project parts reduces engineering time considerably. In addition, COPA-DATA’s STRATON® offers an extremely flexible IEC-61131-3 development environment for embedded systems and soft logic. Together, zenOn and STRATON yield a completely integrated solution. Today’s COPA-DATA distribution network has subsidiaries in Germany, Italy, France and Middle East and partners all over the world. COPA-DATA presently employs more than 100 staff, and has an impressive client reference list including companies such as Festo, BMW and Audi.
http://www.copadata.com
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A-5020 Salzburg
Karolingerstrasse 7 B
Austria
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Web: http://www.copadata.com
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