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Your Platform for Operational Excellence
The Wonderware System Platform is a strategic industrial software application platform built on ArchestrA technology for Supervisory Control, Geo-SCADA and Production & Performance Management solutions.
Designed to suit the needs of industrial automation and information personnel, the Wonderware System Platform is the backbone and manager for all functional capabilities required for industrial software solutions.
With the System Platform, Wonderware provides an industrialized application server, a powerful historian server, an easy-to-use information server and unparalleled connectivity - all specifically built for demanding real-time industrial environments.
Business Value
Global competition and the need to respond quickly to customer requests have driven an evolution of Industrial IT architectures in recent years. This is seen in the progression of computers and software from technology that drives processes to business driving technological applications.
As a result, manufacturers and industrial operations have departed from large, monolithic application projects that require a great deal of time to design, build and deploy. Today, a modular approach is used where new application components can be created with the understanding that the requirements could completely change tomorrow.
This approach has driven the need for a strategic infrastructure that enables the identification, experimentation and execution of software applications. This empowers companies to take advantage of new business opportunities. The Wonderware System Platform is at the core of this new capability.
Furthermore, modularity involves isolating data from existing processes and creating re-usable technology components. Then, when new business opportunities arise, a firm can leverage its data and technology components. Modular applications focus on experimentation for testing new business concepts.
This allocation of resources allows an industrial organization to rapidly expand into adjacent businesses by assembling appropriate components to follow up on successful experiments.
Set Standards to Drive Consistency
The System Platform supports simplified and consistent operations across a wide range of industrial operations and manufacturing facilities. This eliminates inconsistent operation practices and measurements through a single model.
By delivering a common set of application software services, application standards are created once as templates for re-use in any application with similar functionality.
The System Platform allows standards to be established and used consistently throughout the company, resulting in reduced training and universal understanding of how to use the system.
Standardization reduces costs and drives consistency and quality. It reduces the potential for confusion caused by different interfaces and application behavior across the enterprise.
Unlock Hidden Potential through Integration
Manufacturing companies and industrial operations are challenged with becoming more responsive to worldwide competitive pressures, while at the same time identifying hidden production and supply-chain costs and creating a leaner environment with less working capital.
The Wonderware System Platform provides a unified set of capabilities to can connect business and plant-floor systems without requiring you to replace existing hardware or software.
Commercially available servers, while commonly used in IT for applications, databases and web servers, have not been built to meet the demanding needs of industrial and real-time operations.
With the System Platform, Wonderware provides an industrialized set of common services built specifically for these demanding environments in the realtime domain.
Flexibility to remain competitive
The Wonderware System Platform provides a framework which simplifies the development, deployment, maintenance and administration of distributed information and automation applications.
The Wonderware System Platform gives you the very best software environment for strategic agility. It has the ability to build on existing hardware and software without abandoning prior investments in automation and information systems, production processes, or intellectual property.
The underlying ArchestrA industrial automation and information application architecture provides you with the means to dynamically tune and add on to your operations systems capability. This is done with an incremental, low-risk deployment of additional application functionality, one step at a time.
The Wonderware System Platform provides users, whether large or small, with complete flexibility in architecture choices and topology, both during the initial system design phase and throughout the lifetime of an installed system. Topology and architectures can be modified and redeployed without any need for re-engineering your application settings giving you the advantage of freedom and speed in making improvements.