Invensys' Wonderware business unit introduces SI Direct DA Server to connect to Siemens S7 PLCs; ArchestrA technology simplifies Device Integration.Wonderware (UIR UIR Upper Flight Information Region UIR Unusual Incident Report UIR User Interface Requirement UIR Wire Connector (used on drawings, etc.; phonetically, UIR sounds like 'wire') UIR Uniform Impedance Resonator UIR User Incident Report :PQG PQG Pharmaceutical Quality Group (London, England) PQG Piecemakers Quilt Guild 2336), a business unit of Invensys Systems Inc., today introduced a new DA Server called SI Direct. SI Direct is designed to replace Siemens Simatic Net middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a to connect to PLCs in the Siemens S7 family. In addition to the DA Server, ArchestrA Device Integration (DI) Objects have been created to represent the device and network hierarchy when connecting Siemens S7 PLCs to the Industrial Application Server. Wonderware's DA Servers are built using the ArchestrA DAS toolkit and offer enhanced communication diagnostics and performance. DA Servers are Wonderware's next-generation I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output servers and a significant part of Wonderware's FactorySuite A2 ("A-squared") product line. The "A2" signifies the presence of ArchestrA technology. "Leveraging the power of ArchestrA technology and the DI Object functionality, it is now possible to model a Siemens PLC as part of a FactorySuite A2 application," said Tom Muth, Wonderware's FactorySuite A2 product marketing manager. "This new DA Server builds upon Wonderware's ability to provide tighter integration with controllers, reducing the amount of configuration necessary for device communications." Wonderware's SI Direct DA Server provides access to data within the Siemens S7 200/300/400 family of PLCs through an off-the-shelf standard Ethernet network interface card. The DI Objects represent the network as well as the PLCs, providing the user with a hierarchical view of their connectivity. When used in conjunction with Wonderware's Industrial Application Server, the DI Objects allow users or systems integrators to configure, deploy and monitor servers from one centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. location known as the Integrated Development Environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE (1) (Integrated Development Environment) A set of programs run from a single user interface. For example, programming languages often include a text editor, compiler and debugger, which are all activated and function from a common menu. ). Because the IDE centralizes all systems and applications, users simply have to install the software on the Industrial Application Server once, rather than installing the software on multiple separate computers. It also allows for online configuration and diagnostic capabilities. |
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