OAenterprise

OAenterprise is a powerful, scaleable, distributed, Object-Based Control software system for manufacturing and industrial process control that is used for systems requiring one or more of the following:

• SCADA
• Real time process control
• Supervisory control
• Historisation
• Intelligent alarming.

Built upon a totally open and distributed object framework, OAenterprise is a secure, robust industrial software environment where Control, Human-Machine Interface, History, Alarms and third-party applications “plug-in” and interoperate across a distributed PC network, or domain as a single application.

OAenterprise features powerful reuse technologies. User defined templates (classes & objects) closely represent physical devices or equipment in your control system. ZeroProgramming dramatically slashes development costs, offering easy maintenance and upgrades.

The object based approach provides the same advantages that the developers of low level languages such as C and java obtain namely:

• Rapid development due the use of templates or classes for all objects in the system.
• Simpler understanding of the system due to the compartmentalised type approach that objects provide.
• Easier and faster expansion of the system due to the ability to simply propagate templates or classes
• Easier maintenance due to the ability to monitor the object without monitoring or having to understand a single large monolithic program listing.
• A more natural and easier to understand software system.

In addition OAenterprise provides many other benefits including the ability to distribute the application over as many PCs as desired to suit the site and application in terms of performance, geography, redundancy levels and availability of the system.

As far as the control algorithms that are used to control the plant are concerned OAenterprise uses the IEC61131 languages which are well known to all control systems people.

OAenterprise has unparalleled connectivity options to both plant level devices for data collection and to the business systems for complete integration into the plant IT hierarchy.

The OAenterprise technology makes it possible to use one system for plant control rather than combinations of PLC, PC based operator display systems, DCS and SCADA type technology. This considerably simplifies maintenance, support and plant expansion.