Rockwell Automation has introduced a scaleable and unified suite of monitoring and control solutions for the manufacturing enterprise. Products, platforms and software are integrated from machine-level operator interfaces to supervisory-level HM1.
The ViewAnyWhere strategy combines Allen-Bradley electronic operator interface and industrialised PC hardware and Rockwell Software's supervisory control software with interoperability and a common development environment across platforms.
Solutions support an operator interface that closely matches the application; offer integration capabilities for lower cost and better performance and act as a single source of accountability for hardware, software and networking portions of the application.
The suite's common development environment is provided through RSView Studio. "The RSView enterprise Series of integrated software products includes a full suite of new machine-level and distributed supervisory-level design and runtime software components," says Lee Preston, UK product manager for Rockwell software.
ViewAnyWare, together with Logix for control and NetLinx Open Architecture for communication, make up Rockwell Automation's Integrated Architecture strategy.