Re: [foxboro] client server

Re: New System

InFusion is not a new DCS. It is something different we call and ECS
(Enterprise Control System).

The I/A Series is still our DCS, but you do gain some more options
thanks to InFusion. For example, you have a choice of HMI - InFusion
View (InTouch) or FoxView. Lots of folks have InTouch already and
love/like it and we have been crazy not to offer this before.

As we progress InFusion, you'll gain a choice of historians for use with
FoxView - InFusion Historian (InSQL) or AIM*Historian.

The InFusion Engineering Environment is our mainline configuration tool
going forward.

SMDH is replaced with SystemManager which looks a lot better, but does
much the same thing, i.e., represent System Monitor messages and
equipment states.


InFusion ECS is really something beyond a DCS. It's intended to augment
any control system. Something like this:

InFusion ECS =3D CS + ArchestrA tech/apps + Industry Solutions

Where:
CS =3D DCS | SIS | SCADA | PLC | whatever
ArchestrA Apps =3D InFusion View, InFusion Historian, InFusion Engineering
Env, =

                 InFusion Application Environment
Industry Solutions =3D packages of products and services that work
independently of the CS and are - generally - deployed using the
InFusion Application Environment.

Admittedly, we have to demonstrate this to everyone's satisfaction, but
we are working on it.

Re: I would love to be able to get a report on a "tag" (whatever that
means to the new system) that shows everywhere it is used, if it is
historized, and what displays it is on.  =


Got it.


Re: Marketing materials
There is lots of XML in InFusion (or more accurately in some InFusion
applications), but it is not the core communication mechanism. I don't
see anything in the material your copied (thanks) that says it is.



Regards,

Alex Johnson
Invensys Systems, Inc.
10900 Equity Drive
Houston, TX 77041
713.329.8472 (voice)
713.329.1700 (fax)
713.329.1600 (switchboard)
alex.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Perhaps my understanding is lacking.  It wouldn't
be the first time.    Also keep in mind that most
of us on this list are coming at this from the
current C:B.P , DM or FoxView frame of reference
and we might not have adequate understanding of
the new system to know what we would like.  I
would love to be able to get a report on a "tag"
(whatever that means to the new system) that
shows everywhere it is used, if it is historized,
and what displays it is on.  If the tool is SQL
or XML doesn't matter much to me.  ASCII is going
to be cumbersome for maintaining that kind of information.


Seems Archestra and XML are frequently mentioned
in the same breath in press releases.  And there
are a lot of easy ways to import XML into existing products like excel.


Here are a few of the top hits when I google Archestra and XML.
-----------------------------------
 From Wonderware's Website:
http://us.wonderware.com/products/ppm/archestra.htm

Production and Performance Management Software Solutions
ArchestrA Technology

Visit ArchestrA.biz for more info! Wonderware is
the only vendor offering a complete range of
production operations management and performance
management capabilities built on, and integrated
utilizing a single open and scalable software
architecture. This powerful common environment is
the ArchestrA=3DAE industrial automation and information software=3D
 architecture.

Built on the latest Microsoft .NET XML/Web
Services and Windows Server technologies, the
ArchestrA software architecture is key to
Wonderware's Production and Performance
Management Solutions because it facilitates
easier integration and maintenance of production
systems. All of Wonderware's latest products leverage ArchestrA
technology.

ArchestrA technology saves Wonderware customers
significant amounts of money because it
facilitates the rapid assembly of reusable
applications rather than the traditional
time-consuming approach to application creation,
which involves laborious engineering and
time-consuming re-coding to create each new application.

-----------------
http://content.wonderware.com/us/aboutus/news/press+releases/Wonderware+
Anno=3D
unces+New+Enterprise+Application+Integration+Using+ArchestrA+Technology+
+ISA=3D
+S95+XML.htm

Wonderware Announces New Enterprise Application
Integration Using ArchestrA Technology & ISA S95 XML Standards

LAKE FOREST, Calif., Oct. 8, 2004 -- Wonderware,
a business unit of Invensys Systems, Inc., today
announced the release of new enterprise
application integration capabilities leveraging
the ISA S95 XML standard.  The new offering for
advanced manufacturing applications combines ISA
S95 XML with the open ArchestrA plant automation
and information software architecture.

---------------------
 From the Archestra Website.
http://www.archestra.biz/news/articles_display.aspx?newsid=3D3D2
Generally, the new integration architectures also
support eXtensible markup language (XML) and Web
services. Under the Web services concept,
self-describing chunks of software, leveraging
XML and other Internet standards and protocols,
are used to facilitate the sharing of data between disparate systems.


Regards,
David



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