Monday, May 23, 2011

Product brief....

Iconics
SCADA stands for supervisory control and data acquisition. It is kinda of centralized systems which monitor and control entire sites, normally widely using in manufacturing, production, power generation, water treatment , oil and gas etc.

Genesis32 is a package suite which is most common in Iconics, it has Alarmworx, trendworx, graphworx as main components itself.
Graphworx - GUI editor module
Alarmworx - Alarm & events module
Trendworx - Dara logging/collection, reporting, trend & charting module.

BizViz is a manufacturing solutions which consist ReportWorX , PortalWorX , MobileHMI, Productivity Analytics, Alarm Analytics in one package. BizViz compiles data from multiple processes into visual summaries.

Iconics is a fully microsoft windows based software & compatible with the latest windows version.

DCOM(Something like API, a communication protocal to remote access over web)
SOAP(XML based protocol & data exchange by Web services)
GenClient / GenBroke (Communication module develop by Iconics to overcome tradisional DCOM TCP difficulities)

Why Genbroker better? High speed, secure, easy-to-configure, connect directly with all opc server !!!
DCOM - complex setting, not working in domain server, slow, hard to pass through firewall,time out problem!!!

Delphin
Delphin, as a stand alone high end data acquisition device(DAQ),
provide complete software and hardware solutions for DATA monitoring application, such as testing technology and process engineering.
Origins from Germany - Germany quality!

Strength of this product: High sampling rate, high analog rezolution, Mean time between failures (MTBF) = zero down time, no programming involved.

Basically this product has 3 series: Top Message, Log Message & Expert key
Top message - I/O can be expand, higher flexibility, 1GB internal memory
Log Message - I/O fix, 1Gb internal memory
Expert key - cost effective model, no internal memory

Log message & expert key comes with ProfiSignal GO, which is the most basic sotfware.
It inclusive of alarm management, real time trend (trace back by zoom in/out), export to csv file format.

Profisignal Basic - Report generating automaticaly
Profisignal Klicks - write programming & input recipe

Expand - Links to Scada by OPC server, or lAbview
, links to GSM modem/PLC by serial com port

Friday, May 20, 2011

Product certification...

What is Ex Certificate?
It means an equipment can be safely operated in a potentially explosive athmosphere created by the presence of flammable gas, vapour, mist or clouds of combustibe dust.
An Ex Certificate is a statement of an independent Certification Body declaring that a product, process, or service meets the requirement of the European Directive (94/9/EC) concerning equipment intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres (ATEX Directive).

What is CE Marking?
It means that the manufacturer has verified that the product complies with all relevant “essential requirements” (e.g. safety, health, environmental protection requirements) of the applicable directive

What is UL cert?
UL develops standards and test procedures for products, materials, components, assemblies, tools and equipment, chiefly dealing with product safety.

What is (FDA)?
Food and Drug Administration. Responsible for approving food and drugs for widespread use. they decide every thing about the food/drugs that are consumed by the general population.

喃喃自语的晚上。。。

DCOM
- inability to work well across NT domains
- Its complex settings often make its configuration ineffective when the client is remote.
- It is not easy to configure to pass through firewalls.

GenBroker
- uses TCP/IP and SOAP/XML channels to achieve real-time and secure communications between Web browser clients and WebHMI™ servers
- Unlike DCOM, GenBroker™ can communicate over the Internet.

SOAP
- originally defined as Simple Object Access Protocol, is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks. It relies on Extensible Markup Language (XML) for its message format

平时不烧香, these all are basic of product knowledge but I just explore it tonight, as a 1 year + 3 months Sales Engineer!!!! Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............