Wonderware Releases New Web-Based Performance Management Software

NATIONAL MANUFACTURING WEEK, CHICAGO, March 20, 2006 -- Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys Systems, Inc., today announced the release of SuiteVoyager 2.6 Web-based performance management software, which gives customers access to real-time production and performance management information. 

SuiteVoyager software enables companies to improve their manufacturing operations performance through dynamic analysis and reporting of key performance and production indicators to help make proactive decisions that improve profitability and efficiency.

SuiteVoyager 2.6 software is integrated with ArchestrA technology and takes advantage of Microsoft SharePoint Services technology, which enables users to collaborate more effectively with greater flexibility, scalability and reliability.  With this new version, plant information can easily be included in existing SharePoint Web sites, facilitating access to both business and plant information in one integrated view.  

In addition, SuiteVoyager 2.6 software enables customers to rapidly navigate through multiple performance management applications from Wonderware and third parties.  Based on their roles and responsibilities, users can access valuable information pertaining to trend analysis, event and alarm notification, downtime analysis, key performance indicator reporting, drill-down and root-cause analysis, product genealogy, traceability, and batch reporting.  

As a plant information content server, SuiteVoyager software empowers customers with the information they need to make faster and better-informed business decisions.  SuiteVoyager 2.6 software also provides central security and administration, improved efficiency and quick ROI.

“SuiteVoyager 2.6 software makes it even easier for customers to access information and content anywhere at any time, enabling them to make intelligent plant decisions in real time," said Renee Brandt, product marketing manager for Wonderware’s visualization products.  “As a visualization tool, users  can integrate content from both manufacturing and business systems, and provides valuable information which is needed to increase agility and improve production efficiency and profitability."   

SuiteVoyager software is supported on Microsoft Windows 2003 Server and leverages the latest in Web technology, enabling companies to securely view information from one site or enterprise-wide, without the need for additional software programming.  SuiteVoyager software is used in thousands of installations around the world and in a variety of vertical markets, including food processing, oil and gas, automotive, chemical, pharmaceuticals, pulp and paper, transportation, and utilities.

Production and Performance Management Software Solutions

SuiteVoyager software is a vital component of Wonderware's production and performance management software solutions, which offer an integrated and highly productive software toolset that incorporates plant-floor, IT and business systems.  These software solutions leverage industry standards to facilitate collaboration between manufacturing and business systems in real time.  As a result, users can align their entire organization to achieve overall business objectives.  Wonderware software solutions are built on and integrated with the open and scalable ArchestrA software architecture, which enables existing business and manufacturing systems to collaborate.

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Wonderware Offers Single-Node Systems Built on ArchestrA Technology for OEM and VAR Markets

LAKE FOREST, Calif., March 15, 2006 -- Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys Systems, Inc., has released an enhanced version of its Industrial Application Server for single-node environments.  The new version is designed for value-added resellers (VARs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). 

With the Industrial Application Server Runtime License for Single-Node Implementation, the ArchestrA software architecture can now be installed with Wonderware's InTouch visualization software and IndustrialSQL Server historian on a single PC.  This enables  smaller application environments that use a single PC (rather than a network) to leverage the features offered by the ArchestrA architecture. 

The Industrial Application Server's underlying ArchestrA architecture facilitates the re-use of engineering, standardization, peer-to-peer connectivity, remote diagnostics and administration, source code control, and role-based data security.  These features enable VARs and OEMs to more easily provide support for the global distribution, localization, internationalization, development and maintenance of software applications.

"The underlying ArchestrA architecture provides software cost relief for OEMs and VARs, because they can combine best-of-breed application modules just by plugging them into the framework," said Nancy Venable, Wonderware’s VAR/OEM program manager.

"The Industrial Application Server Runtime License for Single-Node Implementation enables Wonderware's VAR and OEM customers to install functionally complete Wonderware applications on a single PC using single-node operating environments such as the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system and Microsoft SQL Server Personal Edition.

The Wonderware Industrial Application Server enables significant cost reductions in the areas of designing, building, deploying and maintaining industrial software applications.  The embedded ArchestrA software architecture reduces total cost of ownership by providing a single, comprehensive toolkit for the entire range of plant automation and information application requirements along with the ability to rapidly re-use and deploy best engineering practices.

"Wonderware’s new Industrial Application Server Runtime License for Single-Node Implementation enables VARs and OEMs to provide more powerful and flexible solutions than those that are possible using a traditional HMI-based approach," Venable said. "The ability to harness the power of the ArchestrA architecture on a single computer gives machine builders opportunities to create impressively robust solutions in the same price range of traditional HMI-based solutions. 

"Customers can now take advantage of the Wonderware Industrial Application Server's powerful capabilities and ArchestrA platform services that previously were only available in distributed control environments.  The single-node version of Industrial Application Server enables VARs and OEMs to create scalable applications that address smaller but still complex automation and information environments."

Customers implementing the single-node version also can enhance their Industrial Application Server applications by purchasing additional nodes that can be adapted to a multiple-node configuration.  The single-node version is built on open technologies such as Microsoft .NET and SQL Server, as well as industry standards including OPC, XML, SQL, OLEDB, ISA-88 and ISA-95.

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Wonderware Announces Adoption of ArchestrA Technology Has Doubled

NATIONAL MANUFACTURING WEEK, CHICAGO, March 20, 2006 – Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys Systems, Inc., today announced that customer adoption of ArchestrA technology in the manufacturing marketplace has doubled as customers use Wonderware software to help drive manufacturing operations performance improvements.

Approximately 1,000 automation and information projects at more than 700 locations have been successfully delivered by the extensive network of Wonderware-certified system integrators. These solutions use the latest ArchestrA technology and extend across supervisory control, distributed SCADA, production management and performance management.

Wonderware has experienced significant success with manufacturing operations that span multiple plant rollouts.  Customers benefit from a flexible software approach to solving overall production and performance management requirements in a scalable and repeatable fashion, leveraging a plant model that evolves as new manufacturing challenges arise. 

“Wonderware is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and has a longstanding history of success in addressing broad manufacturing challenges using Microsoft technology," said Don Richardson, Microsoft’s director of manufacturing for GISV Strategy.

The integrated solutions operate with customers’ existing plant and business system investments by leveraging the open ArchestrA software architecture as well as Microsoft .NET, Windows Server, SQL Server, BizTalk and SharePoint. 

“Software solutions built on ArchestrA technology are enabling customers to manage manufacturing operations in real time to resolve issues rapidly and cost-effectively, resulting in improved productivity," said Mark Davidson, Invensys’ vice president of Wonderware global marketing.