Tecnomatix Production Automation software (known commercially as
FactoryLink) monitors, supervises, and controls industrial
processes enabling customers to perfect their processes and
products. Built on an advanced open architecture, FactoryLink
delivers the highest performance and flexibility to customers
building vertical applications in a wide range of industries.
Highly scaleable, FactoryLink can be used to build virtually any
size application, from the simplest Human-Machine Interface (HMI)
systems to the most complex and demanding Supervisory Control and
Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. This flexibility is demonstrated
by the more than 80,000 systems that have been installed worldwide
in dozens of diverse industries.
FactoryLink provides comprehensive state-of-the-art tools that
empower users to configure applications tailored to exactly satisfy
their requirements. Spanning the spectrum of real-time human
machine interfaces (HMI), supervisory control and data acquisition
(SCADA) and industrial information management applications, the
versatility of the product is virtually unlimited. This flexibility
is demonstrated by the more than 80,000 systems that have been
installed worldwide in such diverse industries as:
Discrete
-Automotive
-Electronics
-Semiconductor
-Packaging
Hybrid
-Food and Beverage
-Pharmaceutical
-Metals
-Mining
-Printing
Process
-Utilities
-Oil and Gas
-Chemicals
Infrastructure
-Building Automation
-Transportation
The FactoryLink Advantage
FactoryLink has many distinct advantages that provide true value to
our customers including...
Lower hardware costs.
FactoryLink's superior high performance architecture does not
require as many computing resources as competitive products to
achieve an equivalent level of performance. This reduces your
overall hardware, software, and support costs.
Grow as you go.
The exception-processing architecture allows you to scale
applications from the very small to the very large with minimal
additional hardware costs.
Compliance assurance.
Detailed audit logs, multiple security levels and other advanced
features facilitate building applications that are compliant with
industry standards and government regulations (21 CFR Part 11,
TREAD Act, etc.)
Harness the power of the network.
The multi-tier architecture design means that it can be deployed in
a wide-array of flexible architectures including single station,
multi-station client/server, and peer-to-peer.
High availability.
Best-in-class application redundancy and online configuration
capabilities are easy to set up to ensure that your system is
continuously up and running 24x7.
Comprehensively open.
Open, published interfaces based on industry standards means your
application can be seamlessly integrated into virtually any
environment.
Everything you need.
Only FactoryLink includes Microsoft SQL Server and true Microsoft
VBA in the box, ensuring that you can assemble a complete solution
without incurring additional and costly third-party licenses
expenses.
Comprehensive Functionality
Every FactoryLink system comes with comprehensive functionality to
get the job done as fast as possible...
FDA 21CFR Ready
NEW in FactoryLink 7.5 is the complete set of functionality
necessary to build FDA compliant HMI/SCADA applications including
digital signatures (single and double), detailed audit trails,
reason codes and more.
Graphical User Interface
FactoryLink's graphical interface is called Client Builder. It
provides a comprehensive object-oriented visualization environment
with embedded Microsoft VBA to enable a completely tailored
solution. NEW in FactoryLink 7.5 is the one-click client that
enables rapid deployment of client nodes across the net.
Alarms and Events
The alarm manager is completely distributed, so multiple
applications can aggregate their alarms and events, allowing a
single user to view, acknowledge and respond to geographically
dispersed applications. NEW in 7.5 is the ability to e-mail alarm
status and acknowledgements.
Reports
NEW in FactoryLink 7.5 is a comprehensive reporting application
that enables up to the second analysis of monitored industrial
processes. Integrators and users can add their own reports to the
extensible reporting framework.
Create Applications Even Faster
NEW in FactoryLink 7.5 is a 10x performance enhancement in the
automated creation of systems via our groundbreaking application
object technology allowing systems to be build entirely from Excel,
ODBC data sources or question and answer forms.
Networking and Redundancy
FactoryLink easily supports redundant applications with its
advanced networking functionality. It is just as easy to build
other network topologies including standalone, client-server,
multi-station and peer-to-peer configurations.
Trending
Users are capable of easily viewing the real-time and historical
information simultaneously on any single chart, enabling operators
to make more intelligent operational decisions.
Data Logging
FactoryLink provides high-speed recording of large data sets in a
column-oriented schema for raw speed or a row-oriented schema to
easily enable dynamic additions.
Relational Database Interfaces
FactoryLink supports any ODBC database such as SQL Server, which is
included with the product. The relational database interface can
communicate simultaneously with multiple back-end databases from
different vendors.
XML Interface
Real-time bi-directional access to the FactoryLink database is
available to any XML enabled external application.
Device Interfaces
A rich library of external device interfaces is available covering
hundreds of popular shop floor devices including PLC, RTU and DCS
hardware.
OPC Client
Standards based communication to any OPC enabled data source is
easy and quick using FactoryLink's included OPC client.
OPC Server
Unique in the industry, OPC is the standard communication mechanism
between a FactoryLink server and client. You can use the OPC server
to broadcast real-time data to any standard OPC client.
Math and Logic
A powerful server-side Math and Logic scripting language enables
almost any unique requirement to be met. It can be either
interpreted for easy debugging or compiled for maximum speed.
Recipes
A recipe task enables easy batch download and upload of process
variables with FactoryLink.
Custom Tasks
Tasks developed with the programmer's access kit are completely
integrated into the FactoryLink system and are configured the same
as FactoryLink tasks developed by Tecnomatix.
Performance and Scalability
FactoryLink provides the speed and performance necessary to handle
all sizes of applications from very small to very large. It can
scale from a system with just a few tags and one user to one with
millions of tags and hundreds of users, without sacrificing
performance.
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