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Engineering Power, Versatility and Scalability
The underlying ArchestrA technology of the Wonderware System Platform provides easy and intuitive development of modular industrial software solutions, which can be easily changed to meet your current and future needs.
Wonderware System Platform solutions are developed using the ArchestrA Integrated Develop Environment (IDE), which generates all the code required for running an application. The System Platform can automatically deploy application components to geographically distributed computers without the need to physically visit them.
Within the System Platform, all the graphics, I/O, alarm, historical collection, supervisory scripting and security configuration are stored within ArchestrA application objects as part of the plant model.
ArchestrA application objects are defined once as templates and reused many times over with complete control of deployment, change propagation and maintenance, saving you time and money throughout the lifecycle of your system.
Efficiency is increased and valuable engineering time is saved when teams of developers from multiple locations collaborate on projects and share applications using efficient check-in/check-out procedures as well as audit trail logging and revision history capabilities of the ArchestrA Integrated Development Environment.
Within the plant model, ArchestrA objects and templates can be employed to represent:
- Devices such as pumps, conveyers, valves, control loops, PLCs or plant equipment as well as computer hardware used to run the software application
- Processes like calculations, sequences, database triggers or workflows.
This simple, yet incredibly powerful approach makes applications easier to maintain, with all the logic and configuration related to the object stored in one manageable location.
ArchestrA objects and templates can be easily replicated, linked and combined to form more complex structures. Each component can build upon others, with the ability to define, configure, monitor and accurately represent all information and aspects of your operation.
Application Development Services include:
- ArchestrA Object technology with powerful, re-usable, template-based graphics, scripts, history, IO, alarms, history and more
- Different, logically abstracted, development views, which show:
- How the application is related to the facility or plant (Model view)
- How the application is distributed across the network (Deployment view)
- Parent-child relationships for templates and runtime components (Derivation view)
- A Multi-Developer Environment for concurrent development
- Integration and support with Microsoft products including Microsoft Windows® operating systems, Visual Studio® development system, SQL Server, BizTalk® server, SharePoint® Capabilities, Microsoft Office, and Internet Explorer® Internet browser.
