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Add-ons for Wonderware System Platform

from Wonderware Finland (Klinkmann)

Oskars Bruns Manager, Development and Technical Support

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Alarm Gateway Alarm Converter and Alarm Archiver GSM-Control SMS Gateway Device Integration Other

13 June 2014 Add-ons for Wonderware System Platform 2

Wonderware Finland solutions for alarm/event management

Have you ever encountered a problem when standard options of Wonderware System Platform alarming system is not enough for you? If so, then Alarm Extension Pack from Wonderware Finland might help you.

Wonderware Finland solutions for alarm/event management extend the Wonderware Alarm System with new functions, features and capabilities. Improved handling of alarms and events greatly increases the performance, capabilities and reliability of data processing for applications running in Wonderware System Platform environment.

Wonderware Finland solutions for alarm/event management are built to extend the today existing Wonderware standard alarm functionality with new features, still using the standard Wonderware Alarm System.


Wonderware Finland solutions for alarm/event management

Wonderware Finland solutions for alarm/event management are provided as Alarm Extension Pack package, including the following components - Application Objects for use in Wonderware Application Server, developed by using ArchestrA Object Toolkit and Wonderware Distributed Alarm Toolkit: • Alarm Gateway Object • Alarm Converter Object • Alarm Archiver Object • Alarm DB Logger Object


Alarm Gateway Object

Alarm Gateway Object is the basic component of Alarm Extension Pack, providing Wonderware Alarm Provider / Alarm Consumer functionality for processing alarms/events coming from/to Wonderware Application Server and/or other Alarm Providers and Alarm Consumers compatible with Wonderware Alarm System:


Alarm Gateway Object works with all incoming “flow” of alarms/events received at Alarm Gateway Alarm Consumer side, then this “flow” is filtered and processed according to rules configured in Alarm Gateway and then at Alarm Gateway Alarm Provider side provided to Alarm Consumers.

Alarm Gateway Object – basic features

The Alarm Gateway Object basic features are following: - Alarm/event filtering - Custom attributes and additional alarm properties for changing the

alarm/event priority and user defined fields - Alternative storage of alarms in CSV files - Support for multiple distributed Alarm Gateways, to avoid system overload - Redundant Alarm Gateway configuration, to support Application Server

redundancy - “Custom Acked alarm comment fields” for acknowledged alarms, useful in

case alarm descriptions are used - “Mimic” functionality, e.g. for opening specific InTouch windows that are

tied with specific alarms - Connection with UReason WAM™ (Web-enabled Alarm Management)

product suite - “Exposed Alarm Field arrays” to expose specific alarm information (fields) as

object attributes for use in Application Server scripting - More


Alarm Gateway Object – configuration and filtering

Alarm Gateway Object configuration is done via “Consumer”, “Provider”, “UReason”, “Diagnostic logs” and “Object Information” tabs:


For example, by changing the “To Priority” setting in “Consumer” tab to 998, the alarms/events only with priorities from 1 to 998 will be provided to Alarm Consumers.

Alarm Gateway Object – additional Alarm properties

Alarm Gateway Object supports additional set of Alarm properties (Extendable Attributes), and any Alarm property can be changed at run-time:


Alarm Gateway Object – changing alarm/event custom attributes

By using custom attributes, it is possible to change the “Priority”, “User1”, “User2” and “User3” alarm data fields in Wonderware Alarm System. Custom attributes can be set from Application Server scripts, for example, the following command sets the alarm user defined field User3 to «Test 1» for “Generator_001.Analog_001.Lo” alarm: AlarmGateway_001.setWW_User3 = Me.Tagname + ".Analog_001.Lo=Test 1";


Alarm Gateway Object – advanced alarm filtering

Advanced alarm filtering allows to filter out alarms by Alarm Type (e.g. Comm, OPR - operator modified tag value using the Value Input, etc.) and by Alarm Group (Area) of deployment on specific node. In configuration below, the Comm and OPR alarms will not be provided to Alarm Consumer, and only alarms from Area_001 and Area_006 will be provided to Alarm Consumer:


Alarm Gateway Object – alternative storage of alarms

Additionally to providing alarms to Alarm Consumers, alarms can be stored not only in WWALMDB, but also in CSV files:


Alarm Gateway Object – redundancy

Alarm Gateway Object supports the Application Server redundancy:


Alarm Gateway Object – removing Ack comment prefix

Alarm Gateway Object supports the «Removing Ack Comment Prefix (Std ACK)» feature, allowing to overcome the hard-coded standard Ack prefix:


Wonderware Alarm Client, connected directly to Galaxy Alarm Provider:

Wonderware Alarm Client, connected to Alarm Gateway:

Alarm Gateway Object – custom Ack comment field

Default behaviour (custom Ack comment field disabled) - WAS object attribute description is not stored in WWALMDB:


Alarm Gateway Object – custom Ack comment field, continued

Custom Ack comment field enabled as User3 - WAS object attribute description is stored in WWALMDB on Ack alarms:


Alarm Gateway Object – connection with UReason WAM

Alarm Gateway Object provides functionality to send/receive alarms between Wonderware alarming system and UReason WAM™ (Web-enabled Alarm Management) product suite http://www.ureason.com/alarm-management/alarm-management-site-survey . The following functionality is supported:


Send new and acknowledged alarms to UReason alarm system

Receive UReason alarms in Wonderware

UReason functionality to show mimic InTouch windows (opening specific InTouch windows that are tied with specific alarms)

Acknowledge Wonderware alarms from UReason alarm system

http://www.ureason.com/alarm-management/alarm-management-site-survey









Alarm Gateway Object – connection with UReason WAM, continued

Wonderware alarms now are available in UReason – for example, here UReason alarm browser shows the AnalogAlarm1 and DiscreteAlarm1, which are Wonderware alarms provided by Alarm Gateway:


Alarm Gateway Object – exposed alarm fields

Exposed Alarm field arrays can be used to expose the specific Alarm information (fields) as object attributes that can be used in WAS scripting:


Alarm Gateway Object – peformance and licensing

General information about Alarm Gateway Object current version performance: about 2500 alarm state changes per minute can be processed without CPU load issues - CPU load is about 10-30 % on Hyper-V virtual machine; CPU: Intel Xeon E5620 (2,4 GHz) with 1 CPU core for Virtual Machine where Alarm Gateway is running. Objects included in Alarm Extension Pack support two types of licenses: - The demo license is for free and provides an unlimited functionality, but it is valid only for a limited time period (usually one month). - The Software Key enables the Alarm Gateway Object unlimited full time running without any restrictions, one Software Key is valid for all objects deployed on same node.


Alarm Converter and Alarm Archiver


Alarm Converter Object can be used used for storing to custom SQL database the alarms/events coming from Wonderware Application Server and/or other Alarm Providers compatible with Wonderware Alarm System:

Alarm Archiver Object provides the functionality for long-term storage in archiving station the very large custom alarm databases created by Alarm Converter Object (millions of alarm records can be stored in single database):

The Alarm Converter Object together with Alarm Archiver Object can be used to create the system for long-term storage of Wonderware alarm/event data. The data in the final storage can be split into several databases to increase the performance and keep the optimal size of databases:


Alarm Converter and Alarm Archiver, continued

CL Server/Client application (CLServer) alows to get alarms/events with their exact PLC timestamps from Siemens, Allen-Bradley, Modicon and Omron PLCs.


Alarm timestamps from PLCs –

CL Server/Client application

The following DAServers are supported by CLServer: DASSIDIRECT, DASABCIP, DASMBTCP and Klinkmann DASOmronEth. CLServer requires the appropriate additions/modifications must be done in PLC program.

Alarm Converter, features


Alarm Converter supports built-in alarm source redundancy:

Alarm Converter, features


Alarm Converter supports configurable database structure – only needed alarm data are stored, allowing to increased performance and reduce the storage space used:

Alarm DB Logger Object

Alarm DB Logger Object can be used for storing to separate Wonderware alarm/event database the alarms/events coming from Wonderware Application Server and/or other Alarm Providers compatible with Wonderware Alarm System:


Several Alarm DB Logger Object instances can be deployed on same computer, so allowing to have several separate Wonderware alarm/event databases on same computer

Alarm Extension Pack Demo


GSM-Control SMS Gateway


SMS

SMS

LAN,

web, etc.

Control

devices

SCADA/HMI/DBs/...

DDE / OPC / SQL / LMX

GSM-

Control

DDE/OPC

Server

- GSM-Control SMS Gateway software is used for 2-way remote monitoring/control in automation and other

applications using GSM-modems, phones, PLCs and other SMS-capable devices

- GSM-Control works as a gateway between GSM environment at one side (interfacing with GSM environment by

sending/receiving SMS-messages) and MS Windows environment at another side

- GSM-Control Object is Wonderware Application Server domain object created by using the Archestra Object

Toolkit, allowing other Application Server objects to access to SMS data via GSM-Control Object attributes.

- GSM-Control standalone supports DDE, OPC, SQL and MxAccess (Lmx) interfaces

mobile

phones

GSM-Controller

PC with GSM-modem

GTBox

GSM-Control s/w

SCADA/HMI/DBs/...

Wonderware Application

Server Objects

GSM-Control Object

GSM-Control standalone

GSM-Control Object

PC,

laptop,

etc.

GSM-Control Object, features

The “General” tab contains the GSM-modem default settings and some common settings:


The “Users” tab contains information about all configured Users:

GSM-Control Object, features

The “Send/Receive” tab contains information about all configured Send/Receive message pairs: both “Receive message” (SMS message received by GSM-Control) and “Send message” (SMS message sent from GSM-Control) can contain the values of configured IO items. The placeholders of IO items values can be entered as IO Item Index or IO Item Name and enclosed in figure brackets {}:


GSM-Control Object, features The “Alarms” tab contains information about all configured Alarm Messages. The Alarm Message will be sent to configured User(s) when Alarm Item (Galaxy Boolean attribute name, used to provide the alarm state) will change to True. The Alarm Message can contain the values of configured IO items, the placeholders of IO items values can be entered as IO Item Index or IO Item Name and enclosed in figure brackets {}. The Ack Message contains exact characters, which should be sent back to GSM-Control to acknowledge the alarm. IO Items are not supported in Ack Message.


GSM-Control Object Demo (simulation mode)


The Klinkmann OMRON Ethernet

Direct DAServer (OmronEth DAServer)

acts as OMRON FINS messages

communications protocol server and

allows other Windows application

programs access to data directly from

OMRON PLCs via the OMRON

Ethernet FA (Factory Automation)

network.

Supported PLCs are: CS1/CJ1/CJ2, CV-

series and C200HX/C200HG/C200HE

PLCs (directly from Ethernet network or

inter-networked from other OMRON FA

networks), as well as C-series and

CQM1 PLCs (only inter-networked from

other OMRON FA networks).

The Klinkmann OMRON Ethernet Direct Device Integration (DI) Object represents the device

and network hierarchy when connecting Omron PLCs to Wonderware Application Server, allowing

very easy to integrate OMRON Ethernet Direct DAServer into the ArchestrA environment.

Device Integration, OMRON

Ethernet Direct DAServer and DI Object

The Omron CIP Ethernet/IP Communication Server (OmronCIP

Server) is a communication protocol server and allows other

Windows programs to access data from Omron SYSMAC NJ-

series Controllers using the Ethernet/IP CIP (Common Industrial

Protocol) Message Communications (Ethernet/IP explicit

messaging).

OmronCIP Server uses Connection based Explicit Messages to

read and write NJ-series Controller Global Variables, without

adding any special programming to the Controller program.

Message type - CIP class 3 connection messages

(Large_Forward_Open Service). The Global Variables definition

file exported from Omron Sysmac Studio programming software

is used by OmronCIP Server to validate the item names and their

properties.

More information: http://www.wonderware.fi/htm/omroncipww.html

Device Integration,

Omron CIP Ethernet/IP IO Server

http://www.wonderware.fi/htm/omroncipww.html

Summary

• Remote Data Manager DAServer (RDM DAServer or DASRDM) is intended to process and transfer the remote data produced by different kind of remote equipment into a standard data flux readable by Wonderware Application Server and Historian.

Key Features

• Pre-Processing Module for

collecting raw data

• OPC/SuiteLink interface used

for providing data within

configured time range

• “Old” data provided

via Historian Normal

Load files


Device Integration, Remote Data Manager DAServer

Add-ons for Wonderware System Platform 35

Remote Data Manager

Application Server Historian

Too Old Data

Data within configured time range

that will be processed thru

Application Server, can also utilize

the new buffered data types

Data transfered via files:

Can be compressed.

Can be via FTP, GPRS...

Remote Data sources/devices

Can be distributed over the

world

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Device Integration, Remote Data Manager DAServer

Other - FTP Client Object The purpose of FTP Client Object is to download and upload files from/to FTP server. Additional set of Extendable Attributes is available for FTP configuration and operation.


The main purpose of OPC Array Extractor application is to provide values of single

elements of OPC arrays and single OPC items for DDE, FastDDE or SuiteLink clients.

The OPC Array Extractor application may be used with any Microsoft Windows

program capable of acting as a DDE, FastDDE or SuiteLink client.

Other - OPC Array Extractor

Summary

Since 1993 Wonderware Finland (Klinkmann) has developed automation software for great variety of communication protocols and devices, including communication IO Servers and drivers for MS Windows environment, software for operator interface graphic panels and other industrial devices, software for GSM/SMS/GPRS/3G wireless solutions and additional modules for Wonderware software. Links where to get information and download demo and trial versions of Wonderware Finland (Klinkmann) software: Communication software, products and prices: http://www.klinkmann.com/automation/klinkmann-software-products/ Wireless software, products and prices: http://www.klinkmann.com/automation/klinkmann-software-products/wireless-software/


http://www.klinkmann.com/automation/klinkmann-software-products/wireless-software/












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