CitectSCADA
SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
A system with a primary function of collecting information (data) and providing an interface to control specific equipment such as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) etc.
CitectSCADA is a fully integrated Human Machine Interface (HMI) / SCADA solution that enables customers to increase return on assets by delivering a highly scalable, reliable control and monitoring system. Easy-to-use configuration tools and powerful features enable you to quickly develop and deploy solutions for any size application.
What's new in CitectSCADA?
CitectSCADA V7.0 is designed to provide industrial companies of all sizes with agile control over both engineering and runtime operations to significantly improve performance and achieve a lower cost of ownership. The new architectures made possible by the advanced clustering technology available in V7.0 help safeguard plant reliability. Customers also benefit from rapid-change deployment and a number of other enhancements that help increase security and maximize engineering productivity.
Advanced Clustering Technology
- Provide a seamless operator view across existing control systems
- Provide a combination of control (including alarms, reports and trends), local to the process, paired with a central standby server
- Support additional processing for expansion requirements by simply adding a new server to the control system
- Segment your control system to ensure changes in one business unit do not affect the others
- Connect to multiple control systems to analyze the alarms and trend data directly from the SCADA systems
- Use cluster swapping to re-use graphics screens between matching systems or for simulation or replay
Examples of new clustering options:
Ad-hoc Clustering
V7.0 allows a single client to view the alarms, trends and reports from multiple groups of servers without combining all the projects together into a single large project.
Reliable Clustering
Reliable clustering is a proposition unique to CitectSCADA. It enables a single server to be a redundant pair to many remote servers.
Repeatable Clustering
The ability to create an operational cluster is at its worse when you have identical systems (typical of an OEM application with multiple identical machines). In this case this release enables the user to define the tags, alarms and trends without clusters and have the system automatically duplicate the configuration for each of the clusters.
Rapid Change Deployment
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Roll out changes to graphics screens without restart
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Enable alarms, trends and reports changes without client restart
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Deploy the changes to all system in a single step
Other Enhancements
- Increased network fault tolerance support
- Greater communication control with priority levels for standby communication paths
- Reduced code overhead by processing code only when tags change
- Simplified logging of users’ actions
- Support for MS Windows XP-embedded
- Support for Virtual Machine environments
- New dynamic-point licensing whereby customers only pay for the points they use
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