总部位于瑞士的自动化供应商ABB发布了其工业IT扩展自动化系统800XA的最新版本。主要系统增强功能包括旨在帮助客户在不需要系统停机的情况下添加应用程序的功能，并将各种地理位置的多个800XA系统集成到一个控制室中，以了解和控制全球分散的制造运营。
"As many of our customers must run their operations continuously, 24/7, to remain profitable and meet their targets, system downtime is not an option. These enhancements allow them to add programs, modify configurations, and implement software upgrades while production is running, and then simulate the impact these changes will have on running production before they are executed. This capability greatly reduces the risks commonly associated with system modifications and additions," says Alicia Bauer, Director of Systems Marketing, ABB Inc., in Wickliffe, Ohio. "System 800xA also provides even more visibility and control throughout the entire manufacturing operation with enhanced multiple system integration, so that various manufacturing sites can be viewed and accessed from one place, bringing multiple sites into a single operations and engineering environment. With these enhancements, System 800xA sets the new standard for corporate-wide productivity and efficiency."
组合数据
System 800xA's integration capability allows customers to combine data from traditionally disparate automation-related applications into a single integrated information view in real-time to facilitate business decisions and actions to maximize productivity, ABB says. It provides the capability to tailor information content and format to the user's job function, facilitating faster navigation, assimilation and decision-making.
LOAD-EVALUTE-GO使客户可以修改，下载和评估新的或“修订”的应用程序，而不会干扰运行的“当前”应用程序。他们可以看到新应用程序如何与其控制器和输入/输出（I/O）设备一起使用，以及它将如何影响生产过程，同时继续运行当前应用程序。评估后，客户可以选择将新应用程序在线放置，对其进行修改或丢弃。ABB说，该能力大大降低了与运行过程中的应用更改相关的风险，并通过避免生产停止，错过或延迟的产品交付以及昂贵的停机时间来提高整体效率。负载评估是ABB与密歇根州米德兰市Dow Chemical Co.之间持续合作的结果。
Multi-System Integration makes it possible to supervise and operate several 800xA systems from one central operating room, regardless of system location. Customers can access and view objects configured in one system from another system, further expanding the reach and capability of System 800xA. Multi-System Integration enables the linking of geographically separate 800xA Systems with local control rooms into one common control room. It also promotes the sectioning of multiple line processes to simplify their maintenance and increase their integrity, and also makes it possible to stage system commissioning without interfering with running processes, ABB says.
工程沙箱
Multi-User and Distributed Engineering provides an even more flexible engineering environment to move, copy and reuse configuration data between different systems, and to make engineering changes in an environment that is separate from running production. In this collaborative "engineering sandbox," engineering teams from multiple locations can work together on a project, and synchronize their results for implementation when appropriate after completion. These engineering changes do not immediately impact the version of the application running the process, says ABB; when the customer is ready to make these changes, they are deployed to the production environment in one single transaction.
System 800XA旨在显着扩展过程控制和企业可见性，远远超出了基本过程控制的领域，包括生产管理，安全，智能仪器，智能驱动器和电动机控制，信息管理，资产优化，模拟和文档。系统800XA集成了这些区域，以便可以从其单一操作环境中查看，访问和适当修改信息，从而使植物/工厂可以更有效地运行并实现大量的成本节省。它的工程环境管理一组一致的数据，用于单点输入，单点更改并在工厂中重新使用，以帮助用户扩展并重复其最成功的工程策略和最佳实践。
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