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Read the online version if links don't work in this HMI & Operator Interfaces Update. | | | June 2009 | Sponsor: Longwatch | Longwatch Video System Version 5.0 
Longwatch Video System Version 5.0 combines distributed system architecture with video management functions and integrates it into your HMI. The results are lower costs, faster response and better information for your operators. Give your operator better tools with Longwatch: The Longwatch Video Historian automatically links your HMI alarms and data trends with video for better analysis, documentation and regulatory compliance. Click here for more information | Sponsor: Pro-face America | How Do You Choose the Right HMI Vendor? 
Connectivity, data capability, remote monitoring, system maintenance and product migration are key considerations that impact your operation costs. Address these critical needs and find the right HMI vendor for your business today! Download this helpful white paper, "Selecting the Right HMI Vendor." | Visit our Automation Portals | Our Automation Portals organize information on various topics and include content published on Automation.com as well as other industry websites. Each portal includes new products, company news, articles, white papers, application stories, training, resources, events, and more. Visit these one-stop sites for all your automation information | | | In this Issue |  | | Featured Articles | Increased Capabilities of HMIs Offer New Benefits To Industrial Facilities
Automation.com, June 2009
By Dafir Lamdaouar, Schneider Electric
Industrial automation today is requiring more connectivity, performance, cost effectiveness and added-value integrated function, areas that have spurred HMI improvement and innovation. While HMIs have made many technological strides in recent years, the evidence suggests it is just the beginning. Handheld OI Grabs Machine Control
Control Design, April 2009
By Philip Burgert
While diagnostics and troubleshooting continue to be a major task for handheld human-machine interface devices, the operator interfaces also are finding wider applications ranging from robotic machine assembly controls in semiconductor and automotive manufacturing to integration of teaching pendants and logistics in distribution centers. Data Acquisition and Logging Gets on Track
Control, April 2009
By Rich Merritt
Modern data acquisition equipment is useful, friendly and inexpensive. You can use it anywhere--even in a race car. As it turns out, someone did just that, and set a world drag racing record using industrial I/O, DAQ and HMI equipment to tune the car. You can use the same techniques for automation and control. Component object-based supervisory systems
What’s New in Process Technology, March 2009
By Steve Garbrecht, Wonderware
There are several fundamental differences between component object-based and traditional tag-based human machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) products. This article explains the differences between the two methodologies and shows that significant savings in development can be achieved with a component object-based SCADA product, and explains how to calculate the savings. Open Systems—Controllers to HMIs
Control Design, March 2009
By Dan Hebert
Virtually any controller can be connected to just about any Windows-based HMI via Ethernet. If the controller has an Ethernet protocol that requires special hardware, it is relatively cheap and easy to buy an adapter card that plugs into the HMI platform. The OPC communication standard also eases communication between controllers and HMIs.
| | Browse more articles and white papers on the HMI & Operator Interfaces portal. | Live News Feed | | | | | Product Announcements | | | Other Product Announcements | Browse more Product Announcements on the HMI & Operator Interfaces portal. Search all Products by keyword, category, manufacturer or release date. | | White Papers | Video Process Monitoring
By Steve Rubin, Longwatch
White paper discusses the newest trend in HMI/SCADA: Embedding video into an HMI screen, so operators can actually see what is happening in a process plant, along an assembly line, or in remote areas. Selecting the Right HMI Vendor
By Gary Labadie, Pro-Face
Scratch the surface of your HMI vendor. HMIs cannot be compared simply by reviewing hardware technical specifications of each product. One has to look at the company, product history and services it offers. Additionally look at ongoing value the company may add to the product after the sales such as drivers, new features, and software advancements. Using Operator Interfaces to Optimize Performance of Industrial Wireless Networks
By Jim Ralston, Prosoft Technology
This article will explore the use of a wireless diagnostic OLE for Process Control (OPC) server technology to embed diagnostic information in human machine interfaces (HMIs), thus optimizing industrial wireless network performance. Meeting NERC Change Control Requirements for HMI/SCADA and Control Systems
By GE Fanuc
NERC’s standards for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) apply to various critical assets, and this paper demonstrates how Change Control principles can help protect two specific asset types: SCADA and control systems. Visibility, Enablement, and Process Innovation for a Mobile Workforce
By Wonderware
In a modern plant, the right time to view information is not when you are standing in front of an operator console. It is when you are in the field, in front of a failing piece of equipment or discussing a problem while on the move. More often than not, the right way to deliver information is by putting it in the hands of a mobile worker.
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| | Resources & Literature | Manufacturing Mobility Guide
By Motorola
Want to reduce costs, increase productivity and enhance profitability? Motorola's proven enterprise mobility solutions enable people, devices and applications to capture, connect, communicate and control information — all while trimming waste across the enterprise. Motorola's manufacturing mobility guide features more than 150 pages that show you how to unleash the full power of mobility across multiple manufacturing segments — from high-tech and consumer packaged goods to automotive, pharmaceuticals and more.
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| | Application Stories | Automated Interface Solutions uses PAC for Polypropylene
By Opto 22
A polypropylene manufacturer called on system integrator AIS to help solve control and integration problems involving Measurex, Foxboro and Rockwell hardware. AIS installed an Opto 22 SNAP PAC to replace the Measurex I/O and communicate with the PLC and Wonderware HMI software. Rockwell Automation controls Green Planet Farms food plant
PlantPAx process automation system manages more than 100 batch and continuous process phases. System includes HMI software, instrumentation and wireless equipment. Ontario Clean Water Agency uses Wonderware
South African Instrumentation & Control, April 2009
OCWA work teams and emergency response teams rely on the system for real-time data about pump pressures, power consumption, piping systems, chemical levels and other performance factors. The data is used to respond to immediate needs, but also to compile reports that are required by the Ministry of Environment. Ultimate conductor
InTech, April 2009
By Ellen Fussell Policastro
Norfolk Southern Railway uses Wonderware supervisory HMI software to communicate vital information about its train cars at its Buckeye Hump Yard. The new software has increased the work efficiency of the yardmasters and the trainmasters at Buckeye. Madison Water Utility uses Longwatch Video Surveillance
By Al Larson, Madison Water Utility
The Madison Water Utility uses the Longwatch Video Surveillance system to monitor 32 remote sites, transmit video over low-speed wireless, and display the video on Wonderware HMI/SCADA screens.
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| | Featured Training | Introduction to Longwatch webinar
June 11, 2009 2-3 PM EDT
Webinar provides an update on the Longwatch product family, including the Video Historian. PC-based attendees need Windows 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server or Vista; Macintosh-based attendees need Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) or newer. Longwatch 4.0 System Integrator webinar
June 12, 2009 12-1 PM EDT
Technically oriented sessions contain detailed information on video monitoring systems, created specifically for system integrators. PC-based attendees need Windows 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server or Vista; Macintosh-based attendees need Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) or newer. OPC Training Institute to provide training for Citect
OPCTI has been selected by Citect as its OPC training provider. Siemens Answers for Industry conference
June 9 – 11, 2009 Long Beach, CA
Free event features seminars, hands-on technology demonstrations networking and best-practice sharing to help attendees answer the toughest questions facing their industries today. Introduction to HMI for Industrial Automation
October 6-9, 2009 Houston, Texas
This course will provide an introduction to the primary aspects of HMI configuration: best practices in information presentation for process equipment, text, numbers, historical trends, and alarm information. Presentation of related on-demand information, including reports and links out to other documents will be covered. A basic overview of best practices in scripting will also be provided. Price: $1,310.
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| | Company & Organizational News | Telvent integrates with Longwatch video surveillance system
Telvent integrated the Longwatch Surveillance System with its OASyS DNA SCADA system. This lets oil, gas, electric, and water network operators monitor video via an OASyS SCADA system. Kepware to supply CE communications software to Iconics
Kepware will deliver Windows CE communications solutions for use with ICONICS embedded SCADA and visualization products for machine builders and Panel OEMs. ABB Q1 revenues steady despite economic challenges
ABB’s first-quarter 2009 revenues rose 3 percent to $7.2 billion while orders decreased by 3 percent to $9.2 billion. Beckhoff increases turnover to 278 Million Euros in 2008
Beckhoff Automation closed the 2008 business year successfully with robust turnover growth of 20 percent. Canary Labs appoints Jack Wilkins Director of Sales
Wilkins was previously responsible for worldwide sales and global marketing strategies for GE Fanuc's Proficy Historian, Real-Time Information Portal and Shop Floor SPC software.
| Browse more company and organizational news on the HMI & Operator Interfaces portal. | | Project News | ABB to supply System 800xA for new power station in New York
The order includes operator consoles, AC800M Controllers, System 800xA and S800 I/O with HART. Yokogawa to supply power plant control systems to Egyptian electricity company
Yokogawa will supply five control systems, plus transmitters and analyzers, for the construction and upgrade of power plants in Egypt. ABB to supply System 800xA for power plant in the Netherlands
ABB will supply a complete process control system based on System 800xA Extended Automation and Profibus to E.ON Benelux for a new high-efficiency power plant. IPS upgrades automation at Waha Oil in Libya
IPS will deliver its InFusion enterprise control system technology to replace existing SCADA systems for five remote-area operating centers and one main control room at the Waha oil field. Emerson to automate six gas turbine units in the UK and France
Equipment includes Ovation expert control systems with HART communications, Scenario simulator, safety systems, and AMS Suite predictive maintenance software.
| Browse more project news on the HMI & Operator Interfaces portal. | | Featured Events | Sensors Expo & Conference
June 8-10, 2009 Rosemont, IL
The 2009 Conference Program will offer 18 tracks with an expanded focus on data acquisition, data analysis, wireless, M-2-M and communications. Honeywell User Group Meeting
June 14-18, 2009 Phoenix, AZ
The Users Group agenda is largely developed by customers, for customers. Characterized by excellent user presentations, industry-specific sessions, topical roundtable discussions, and an extensive demonstration area, the event provides you with the opportunity for extensive networking and knowledge sharing. Honeywell Users' Group has earned recognition as being the automation industry’s premier technical conference. PTA-St. Petersburg
June 24-26, 2009 St Petersburg, Russia
Exhibit of equipment and technologies for process automation and embedded control systems. Hannover Messe Middle East
February 9-11, 2010 Dubai
Deutsche Messe Hannover will be staging CeMAT Middle East, Industrial Automation (IA) Middle East, and Motion, Drive & Automation (MDA) Middle East together.
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