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Geographically Distributed SCADA (Geo-SCADA) Software Solutions
Facilities Management
Overview
Through our world class distribution channel and over 3,500 independent Systems Integrators, Wonderware can provide open architected, secure and sustainable software solutions for the facilities management market worldwide.
These solutions are built on and integrated with a single, open and scalable software architecture provided by the Wonderware System Platform and powered by the evolutionary ArchestrA architecture. Utilizing the award winning Wonderware InTouch 10.0 HMI visualization environment, users and owners are empowered with the world’s most robust and efficient solutions available today to help manage any facility, regardless of the type. This enables users to integrate and expand their existing facility management systems without having to rely on any one vendor alone. This provides broader choices enabling more open, robust and industry standard applications, helping to:
- Lower the total cost of system ownership
- Capture operational domain knowledge
- Employ unparalleled security
- Leverage open connectivity
- Enable performance optimization and data analysis
Lower the Total Cost of System Ownership
Building Automation System vendors have often denied access to third party Facility Management Systems service providers through their proprietary distribution channels. With Wonderware, access to training, service and applications experience can be obtained directly from our world class distribution channel or multiple Independent System Integrators, providing a competitive environment for software and SCADA solutions. Our sustainable software solutions are tightly integrated, but decoupled from the proprietary hardware devices offered by many vendors. This allows for commercially available, off-the-shelf computer hardware, software and support. Additionally, Wonderware is renowned for unparalleled migration path capabilities, so applications developed 20 years ago migrate forward to new computer operating systems and hardware platforms as technology changes. Our world class training is provided in several formats including getting started tutorials, on-line mini-series seminars, and applets. In addition, in-classroom instructor-lead courses are offered to anyone wanting to experience Wonderware technology, further enabling more choices for support and expansion.
Capture Experienced Personnel Domain Knowledge
As the most experienced personnel in the operations department prepare for retirement, facilities managers are faced with potentially losing valuable and irreplaceable domain knowledge. Wonderware can help capture this knowledge in object templates, which can be tested, debugged, optimized and reused throughout the organization. All systems, devices, applications and assets within facilities can be modeled as templates, enabling the building of the entire solution with approved standards -- providing further support for a robust and sustainable model. This saves a tremendous amount of time as engineers reuse these templates containing all of the information necessary for supervisory control including scripts, alarms and communication methods. This technique greatly improves system reliability as these templates are already field-proven.
Employ Unparalleled Security
System security is an increasingly critical factor and an essential requirement for facilities managers. Wonderware offers a security model that can be managed and integrated with the IT department Windows OS security system while providing robust data level security. This model optimizes the management of security within the IT department while also furnishing protection to the SCADA system from cyber, internal or physical risks. Wonderware offers extensive knowledge on securing critical networked applications that coexist with other systems within an open infrastructure. Wonderware achieves the creation of securable applications, tools and architecture as well as best practices, deployment guidelines and prescriptive guidance for maintaining a secure environment, by collaborating with customers and other industry experts.
Leverage Open Connectivity
Within the facilities management industry, proprietary and closed protocols were often seen, but more recent systems offer support for open standards. Wonderware recognizes the importance of a new supervisory system’s ability to connect to existing building automation systems which is often achieved through the open standards of BACnet®, LonMark®, Modbus and the OPC® protocol. Wonderware offers the most extensive selection of device integration servers and protocols within the industry. With a history of providing successful software solutions for the facilities management industry for many years, Wonderware integrates with not only the most popular protocols, but a variety of other standard and specialty protocols as well.
Enable Performance Optimization and Data Analysis
Wonderware Facilities Management Software Solutions offer many capabilities that can help corporations measure key performance indicators (KPIs) such as daily energy consumption and costs, efficiency calculations, operational costs and regulatory compliance. The ability to track these KPIs over the entire organization can significantly improve visibility into the profitability of the business. Data, alarms and events from all parts of the operation can be aggregated and transformed into useful information, enabling real-time decision making. This information can be displayed via web-based clients throughout an enterprise and used to optimize team performance.
Types of Applications
Wonderware provides a centralized facilities management system, enabling optimized performance solutions for:
- Manufacturers seeking to combine factory floor supervision with facilities and utilities management
- Industrial or institutional facilities in education, health care, life sciences, government and other industries
- Energy optimization and real-time pricing applications for utilities and physical plants
- Supervisory Control and operations management of transportation systems
- Multi-building campuses, distributed building monitoring and integrated building systems