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COMPUTER AUTOMATION
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COMPUTER AIDED INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION (CAIA)
Computer Automation or CAIA is the use of machines, control systems and information technologies (computer softwares) to optimize productivity in the production of goods and delivery of services. The correct incentive for applying automation is to increase productivity, and/or quality beyond that possible with current human labor levels by providing such software tools with which the whole machinery can be controlled with few clicks of the mouse. In the scope of industrialisation, computer automation is a step beyond mechanisation. Whereas mechanisation provides human operators with machinery to assist them with the muscular requirements of work, computer automation greatly decreases the need for human sensory and mental requirements while increasing load capacity, speed, and repeatability. Automation plays an increasingly important role in the world economy and in daily experience.
Automation has had a notable impact in a wide range of industries beyond manufacturing (where it began). Once-ubiquitous telephone operators have been replaced largely by automated telephone switchboards and answering machines. Medical processes such as primary screening inelectrocardiography or radiography and laboratory analysis of human genes, sera, cells, and tissues are carried out at much greater speed and accuracy by automated systems. Automated teller machines have reduced the need for bank visits to obtain cash and carry out transactions. In general, automation has been responsible for the shift in the world economy from industrial jobs to service jobs in the 20th and 21st centuries.
The term automation, inspired by the earlier word automatic (coming from automaton), was not widely used before 1947, when General Motors established the automation department. At that time automation technologies were electrical, mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic. Between 1957 and 1964 factory output nearly doubled while the number of blue collar workers started to decline.
COMPUTER AUTOMATION – SOME SOFTWARE TOOLS
KW MULTIPROG
Main Features
• IEC-61131-3 Programming languages
• Intuitive programming with a clear project structure
• Cross-compiling: FBD, LD and IL can be cross-compiled to each other
• Multi user functionality shortens programming time
• Management of distributed controls
• Network variables: Easy and powerful configuration of distributed communication
• Powerful debugging tools
• Online program download
Advantech's Programmable Automation Controller (PAC) solution leverages KW Software's Multiprog and ProConOS as the single developing tool and SoftLogic control kernel. It requires only a one-time design, and then can easily leverage the control know-how into different control platforms to meet versatile automation projects needs. KW SoftLogic also creates single tagging database and HMI Software, such as Advantech Studio, shares the same tagging database by OPC server under Windows CE operating system. All the features can help users to save the visible and invisible cost.
MULTIPROG® supports all IEC 61131-3 programming languages. Depending on the task to be handled, your experience and company standards, you may choose one of the five standardized programming languages. The use of MULTIPROG offers you many advantages. Our long-term experience in the automation industry guarantees you a sophisticated software product.
OPC Server
Main Features
• Supports Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98
• Supports Advantech ASCII, MODBUS/RTU, and MODBUS/TCP protocol
• Compliant with the latest OPC Data Access 1.0, 2.04 and 3.0 standards
• Compliant with the latest OPC Alarm and Events 1.0 and 1.2 standards
• OPC DA and AE Client for rapid testing of your OPC data connections
The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech introduces a standardized interface for industrial device servers, the OPC (OLE for process control) Server. An OPC server provides devices, such as an I/O device, to communicate with a wide range of HMI/SCADA software packages residing on a host. Any software system with OPC client capabilities can access the Advantech OPC server drivers.
Advantech Studio
Main Features
• Publish real-time dynamic and animated graphic screens and remotely view as web pages using Internet Explorer’s web browser or Advantech Studio’s Secure Viewer
• Over 240 built in drivers including CANbus & BACnet
• Intellectual Property Protection
• Supports built-in Advantech Studio scripting or VBScript
• Built-in security through native support for distributed security systems and full integration with Microsoft Active Directory via LDAP
• Use SMA and any web enabled cell phone with a browser to monitor/access tags (process values) and alarms
• Supports latest OPC standards (PC UA, OPC DA 2.05, OPC .NET & OPC XML/DA)
• Supports ADO/ODBC, FTP, SNMP, PDF, Multi-Language, Reports, Recipes, Email, Redundancy, and remote diagnostic tools
Advantech Studio is a powerful, integrated collection of automation tools that includes all the building blocks required to develop modern Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs),and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System (SCADA) applications that run on 32-bit & 64-bit Windows XP/Vista/7,Server Editions and CE.NET, or in an Internet/Intranet environment. A simple drag and drop, point and click development environment simplifies the most complex behavior of your live processes, but a flexible and easy-to-use scripting language is also available for special requirements. Advantech Studio is currently being used in nearly 125,000 installations worldwide.
Advantech Studio for Windows CE.NET & Embedded is based on Advantech Studio’s full scale supervisory control and monitoring system, and has almost all of the same features, including an object-oriented database, math functions, report generation, archiving, alarms, batch recipes, and interfaces for PLCs, remote I/O and TCP/IP networking. In other words, Advantech Studio for Windows CE.NET is a full-function supervisory control and monitoring system that fits in the palm of your hand or can be embedded in the chipset of a low-cost operator interface. Advantech Studio for Windows CE.NET is software for complete supervisory control and process monitoring with an operator interface that is available for the Microsoft Windows CE.NET operating system platform.
Advantech WebAccess
Main Features
• View, control, configure system remotely over an intranet or the Internet using ordinary Web browser
• Supports Vector-based Graphics
• Use the open standard programming TCL, JScript or VB script
• Control equipment based on pre-defined schedule (time, date and holiday)
• Distributed SCADA Architecture
• Central Database Server
• Redundant SCADA and COM ports
• Global Access to Alarms & Data
• Support LonWorks LNS and BACnet IP
• Email alarm, report and message
• Customized Functional Toolbox
• Video and Audio with Animation
Advantech WebAccess is browser-based software package for human-machine interfaces (HMI), and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). All the features found in conventional HMI and SCADA software packages are available in an ordinary browser including Animated Graphics Displays, Real-time Data Control, Trends, Alarms and Logs.