Easier and better management of plant floor information is the goal of the new, more tightly integrated FactorySuite 2000 family of industrial automation software from Wonderware Corp. The Windows NT-based software suite organizes all the data from a variety of factory applications into a single real-time relational database.
Wonderwares IndustrialSQL Server database enables users to capture thousands of real-time plant floor data points simultaneously and provides mix-and-match of real-time and historical information for relating events to time-based data.
"With the unprecedented integration of its application modules in a single powerful real-time relational database, all production data collected on the plant floor is now instantly available to corporate computing applications such as manufacturing or enterprise resource planning, scheduling, and financial applications," says Roy Slavin, president and CEO of the Irvine
