Automation.com Looks at Tatsoft and FactoryStudio
Automation.com Looks at Tatsoft and FactoryStudio
In the current issue of Automation.com, manufacturing journalist, Thomas R. Cutler, profiled how Engineering Automation Teams Look at Cloud Computing. Cutler described the largest steel producer in South America needed to upgrade its automated systems; the challenge was to coordinate people, resources and technology responsible for producing nearly ten million metric tons of steel every year, at a value of over $1 billion dollars.
To accomplish this task required:
" 50 automation applications
" >100,000 data tags
" 5+ networks of PLCs and production machinery
" integration with existing hardware and software developed over an extended period of time
" a completely robust operation
Tatsoft is a leading developer of software tools, products and cloud engineering services for intelligent business-user interfaces, industrial automation, and real-time dashboards. Tatsoft's FactoryStudio provides a development and runtime environment for Process Information Management applications, including traditional SCADA and HMI applications, as well as advanced historian, optimization, and dashboard functionality.
The legacy applications were no longer performing satisfactorily; this was due to changes in the underlying infrastructure and the age of the programs themselves. Tatsoft CEO, Marcos Taccolini said, "We worked with the customer to perform rapid migration of all fifty applications using FactoryStudio as both a development platform and runtime environment. Results included increased stability and reliability of the application suite, faster time-to-development and time-to revision of new applications and better user experience. All of this provided the customer with a cost effective way to improve operating efficiency and visibility over its manufacturing assets."
The steel manufacturer now has technology that provides engineering teams with reliable, scalable, secure and efficient capabilities to design, test, build, reconfigure and monitor physical systems. The technology utilizes years of experience running HMI, SCADA and other factory automation projects.
It is a fact that Industrial solutions require a long term of operation in order to reduce the T.C.O (Total Cost of Ownership) - reducing costs is not enough. Companies must also receive the maximum from the current process and have the flexibility to implement modifications and enhancements; 20-year old platforms and technology do not provide this flexibility.
During the last decade, a massive evolution occurred in computer hardware and programming languages, Cloud Computing, Internet and distributed tools, .Net framework, User-Oriented-Production lines, and dozens of new technologies and business models. FactoryStudio incorporates all of these advances.
FactoryStudio was built entirely in .NET framework, using 100% managed code for improved operational stability, Windows Presentation Foundation for more powerful graphics and data display, and a validation system that identifies potential errors prior to deployment.
FactoryStudio represents the third generation of HMI/SCADA software built by Tatsoft's development leads. Previous generations of software built by the team are in place in some of the world's leading producers of automated equipment, manufacturers, utilities, and other users of automated systems.
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