Workflow software for food and packaged goods
26 October, 2009 | Supplied by: GE intelligent Platforms Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has released Proficy Workflow for Food & Beverage/Consumer Packaged Goods. By leveraging electronic work instructions and exception management, this software solution is designed to help food and beverage and packaged goods manufacturers reduce variation in performance, cost and quality.
Visualisation development software
26 October, 2009 | Supplied by: GE intelligent Platforms Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has released DataViews 9.25, a set of graphic visualisation development tools for building custom applications. The new version includes features that enhance performance of display updates, support the use of scalable text in input object templates and allow the setting of background colour for scalable text objects.
PID controller simulation
26 October, 2009 | Supplied by: MathWorks Australia
The MathWorks has announced Simulink Control Design 3.0, equipped with features that automate the process of tuning proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers. These features are being released along with new PID controller blocks in Simulink.
A recipe for success — How recipe solutions can improve a company’s bottom line
02 October, 2009 | Supplied by: GE intelligent Platforms Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Today’s manufacturing companies face many pressures, including rising costs for raw materials, labour and distribution, not to mention customer demands for higher quality at lower prices. Yet these significant challenges can be used to spark new opportunities to improve the way businesses are run.
FPGA capabilities for distributed I/O
29 September, 2009 | Supplied by: National Instruments Aust Pty Ltd
National Instruments has announced new FPGA capabilities for the NI 9144 expansion chassis. By downloading the NI-Industrial Communications for EtherCAT 1.1 driver from ni.com, engineers and scientists can now run LabVIEW FPGA code directly on the NI 9144 chassis to execute custom triggering, inline processing and control within an application.
ERP web interface
29 September, 2009 | Supplied by: IFS Australia
IFS has announced the launch of IFS Enterprise Explorer (IEE), a new user interface for IFS Applications. IFS has developed the new interface in response to a common problem in the enterprise software industry - useability. Vendors are adding more and more functionality onto their products, but they are getting more difficult to use.
Model-based design for plants
29 September, 2009 | Supplied by: Autodesk Australia
Autodesk has announced the availability of AutoCAD Plant 3D 2010, a software product designed to bring model-based design to mainstream plant design projects.
National Instruments motion control development system
29 September, 2009 | Supplied by: National Instruments Aust Pty Ltd
National Instruments has announced NI VeriStand 2009, a configuration-based software environment for creating real-time testing applications such as hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and controlled environmental tests.
Combined video and trend historian
21 September, 2009 | Supplied by: Telvent Australia Pty Ltd
The Longwatch Video Historian now offers Canary Labs Trend Historian and Trend Link software that enables users to link video with plant data. Together, the two systems archive all the relevant information - video and real-time data - from a process or automation system, making it much easier for plant operators and engineers to analyse events, alarms and actions.
SCADA OEM software pack
21 September, 2009 | Supplied by: GE intelligent Platforms Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has released OEM Solutions Pack for Proficy iFIX 5.0, the company’s HMI/SCADA software. The Solutions Pack is a compilation of pre-configured out-of-the-box graphic objects and screens specifically tailored to machine-level HMI/SCADA applications.
Virtualisation technology
21 September, 2009 | Supplied by: http://www.ni.com/labview/whatsnew
National Instruments' LabVIEW 2009 introduces Distributed Intelligence and Digital Prototyping for advanced control.
Microsoft releases preview of Windows Embedded Standard 2011
08 September, 2009
Microsoft has released the Windows 7-based Windows Embedded Standard 2011 Community Technology Preview (CTP) to original equipment manufacturers.
Socially interactive devices: Have you talked to your device lately?
04 September, 2009 by John DuBay, ABB Process Automation, Asset Management Services | Supplied by: ABB Australia Pty Ltd
As well as being a source of information, the internet allows people to interact on a social level. Social internet-based environments have many powerful applications that can be utilised to service equipment in the industrial sector.
Development platform
21 August, 2009 | Supplied by: National Instruments Aust Pty Ltd
National Instruments has announced LabVIEW 2009, a graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system development.
Machine programming software
21 August, 2009 | Supplied by: GE intelligent Platforms Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has announced version 6 of its Proficy Machine Edition programming software. Proficy Machine Edition is a universal development environment for HMI, motion, and control applications that all share a single workspace and tool set.
