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PRODUCT SCAN enhancements strengthen its usability and overall compliance and quality management capabilities. Among the new features are the ability to add workgroups in the master table, a warning to reduce multiple records, the ability to add a comment to an attachment to automatically activate an action or to void an action, and the addition of global equipment change utility including a reminder for document review. The software works with Microsoft SQL 2005 and Oracle 10g databases. www.managingautomation.com/Pilgrim to regulations or improvements. More specifically, it allows clients to keep the cost of ownership down by enabling them to carry out their own upgrades. HighJump said the product suite also is capable of supporting global supply chain operations. www.managingautomation.com/Highjump4 SAGE SOFTWARE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT ERP he latest ERP application from Sage Software is Sage MAS 500 7.2, a new version of the company’s business management solution for mid-market and small enterprise businesses. The product includes a new browser-based dashboard, integration tools, and workflow enhancements. According to Sage, MAS 500 is well-suited for manufacturing, distribution, and companies with heavy accounting requirements. www.managingautomation.com/Sage T HONEYWELL WIRELESS MULTIPLEXERS H HIGHJUMP SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTION H ighJump Software has added HighJump Supply Chain Advantage Suite version 10.0 to its supply chain execution line. The product’s features include extended functionality and increased versatility for better management of material and business processes, which are subject to change due oneywell’s new XYR wireless multiplexers, the latest additions to the company’s OneWireless portfolio, target increased plant safety, equipment reliability, and process efficiency. The multiplexers support many different legacy protocols and can be used in safety showers, tank level monitoring, remote pump control, video monitoring, gas detection system connections, and off-the-shelf sensors. ABB COLLABORATIVE SMART CLIENT A www.managingautomation.com/Honeywell BB has unveiled the IndustrialIT cpmPlus Smart Client in its Collaborative Production Management suite. The product enables users to access their automation systems from an Internet browser from any location. Smart Client features trending, statistical process control, alarm and event reporting, and a Microsoft Excel interface. ABB said the Smart Client is most popular automation platforms 6. Emerson Process Management’s DeltaV digital automation system, a component of the company’s PlantWeb architecture, designed to fully integrate “smart plant” capabilities, including HART, FOUNDATION Fieldbus, and OLE 7. Siemens Energy & Automation SIMATIC PCS 7 distributed control system, which integrates process, batch, discrete, and safety systems, as well as field devices, instrumentation, analytics, motors, drives, and safety 8. Rockwell Automation’s Integrated Architecture system, which addresses a range of control and information needs for discrete, motion, process and batch control, drive control, and safety applications, plant or enterprise performance 9. Q Series, by Mitsubishi Electric Automation, which combines sequence, motion, process, and PC-based control into a single scalable platform, for applications from machine control to entire plants 10. InFusion, by Invensys, which combines capabilities from across the company with advanced enterprise information and integration technologies from both Microsoft and SAP, used to integrate existing automation and enterprise systems A look at the 10 most often compared Automation Platforms in ManagingAutomation.com’s TechMATCH directory database (4/1/08 - 6/30/08): 1. Honeywell’s Experion Process Knowledge System, an automation system that focuses on extracting value from plant personnel knowledge and unifying people with process variables, business requirements, and asset management 2. The Invensys Foxboro I/A Series Distributed Control System, designed to meet the intelligent automation needs of complex integrated systems that control critical or hazardous operations and require non-stop operation and state-of-the-art security 3. Schneider Electric’s Transparent Ready products, which feature an Ethernet connection and embedded Web server, designed to organize valuable information for easy access from any PC on your network, using just a standard Web browser 4. ABB’s System 800xA Extended Automation, which includes all automation functions in a single operations and engineering environment, while providing only required information in the required context 5. GE Fanuc’s Proficy Process System, a scalable, fully integrated system for process automation and control in continuous or hybrid environments ma 44 2008 August http://www.managingautomation.com/Highjump4 http://www.managingautomation.com/Sage http://www.managingautomation.com/Pilgrim http://www.managingautomation.com/Honeywell

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