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Industrial Application Server
Applications
Add MES Capabilities Incrementally as Part of a Wonderware Production and Performance Management Software Solution
The Wonderware® Industrial Application Server plays a key role in Wonderware Production and Performance Management Software Solutions because it gives plant personnel the ability to:
- Build on existing supervisory, MES or ERP functionality;
- Add MES functions without purchasing large software applications; and
- Positively contribute to the bottom line by fine-tuning plant processes during production.
To this end, the Wonderware software enables industrial employees to quickly add a variety of calculation and product tracking capabilities to existing equipment templates, create downtime definitions and add production counters to better understand plant and equipment performance.
Systems that can provide a consistently high level of quality across production lines and enable real-time production improvements are essential in today's challenging industrial environment. But doing so requires a next-generation manufacturing system that provides an evolutionary rather than revolutionary approach to system optimization and growth. The Wonderware Industrial Application Server facilitates this incremental approach to optimizing production and performance management.
The modern manufacturer must be able to quickly respond to questions like:
- How are the production lines being used, and how often?
- Can I increase production on the existing lines, or do I need a new line?
- Do all my lines run at the same production levels?
- Is production the same for all shifts?
Because the Wonderware Industrial Application Server already defines each piece of plant equipment as part of a common plant model, personnel can easily create calculations to acquire this information.
What's more, the Wonderware software can empower plant employees to take immediate action based on the new information and execute changes in real time. The result is a logical evolution of the system in tandem with the organization's growing needs.
Get more information on Wonderware's Production and Performance Management Software Solutions.
System Architecture Adds Flexibility to Wonderware Supervisory HMI Software Solutions
The Wonderware Industrial Application Server can be a valuable component of a Wonderware Supervisory or HMI Software Solution because of its flexible peer-to-peer architecture. Its underlying ArchestrA® software architecture stores configuration data in a central location but deploys and manages run-time components as a system on multiple clients and servers in a peer-to-peer structure, in order to increase the system's overall flexibility.
Other benefits of the Industrial Application Server in Supervisory and HMI environments include the ability to:
- Re-use application engineering within the same plant as well as throughout multiple facilities;
- Expand distributed HMI applications without redesigning the applications or the system as a whole; and
- Easily and proactively manage system expansions, modifications and maintenance.
Read more about Wonderware's Supervisory HMI Software Solutions.
Improve Security and Maintainability with the Industrial Application Server and Wonderware SCADA Software Solutions
The Industrial Application Server's distributed peer-to-peer system architecture, re-usable templates, and remote deployment and maintenance capabilities make supporting SCADA applications remarkably efficient.
Ideal for applications in the Oil & Gas, Power-Delivery and Water/Wastewater industries, Wonderware's SCADA Software Solutions offer effective large-scale application and system management as a result of the Industrial Application Server's impressive scalability. Network services are optimized for use over slow and intermittent networks. This feature can significantly enhance communications and simplify application deployment. In addition, the Wonderware Industrial Application Server's flexible structure easily accommodates new equipment.
The Industrial Application Server's benefits for SCADA include:
- Decreased future development costs;
- Common platform for security, alarming, communications and visualization that accommodate geographically distributed system environments; and
- Remote deployment and maintenance, which enables increased mobility and off-site work.
Read more about Wonderware SCADA Software Solutions.
