Tyler Sieving Software 3.0 records, prints, and saves data for laboratory sieve analysis. Its user-friendly spreadsheet interface can be personalized for each sieve test. The software requires the technician to choose a sieve series for testing, as well as the sample weight retained on each sieve following the test run. The software then performs the rest of the calculations, creating statistical and graphical displays for analysis.

Longwatch Version 5.0 features the Video Historian application, which supports Wonderware’s ActiveFactory trend chart object, allowing users to automatically link plant video directly with graphical data trend charts. The Longwatch Video Engine application collects video from multiple cameras throughout the plant using standard information technology (IT), industrial networks, or wireless and cellular links. The Video Historian lets users retrieve collected video based on the context (i.e., when it was taken), such as process alarms, workflow steps, batch phases, and intruder alarms.

IntegratedMDM (meter data management) supports the installation, operation and management of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) systems and the data they generate. It is fully compatible with the manufacturer’s Galaxy AMI platform. Typical water utility systems encounter poor interfaces between the reading and existing utility applications. Larger water utilities that manage several ongoing daily applications, such as work orders, billing and meter inventory, find this type of program can control each activity in an efficient manner.

Multiphysics Version 4.0 features a totally revamped, easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) for building and running simulations. The user-defined desktop appearance includes Main Menu, Model Builder, Help Desk, Settings, Messages, and Graphics windows. Right-clicking on the model builder allows the user to adjust settings for meshing, material properties, solving and plotting, as well as to import CAD files from other programs.

Enterprise Security uses the company’s NiagaraAX Framework to provide a security solution that can be used globally in a wide range of applications, from single doors to multiple facilities. It offers interoperability within traditional security environments, as well as for environmental controls, lighting, energy management, fire protection, and video surveillance systems. Its Internet Protocol (IP)-based platform allows access from any standard web browser at any time. The software is open, with open architecture, open framework, and support for open protocols.

Barracuda v14 performs simulation of fluidized beds with full thermodynamics and chemical kinetics, providing 3-D modeling of chemical, thermal, and flow dynamics in gas-solid and liquid-solid systems. It operates at lab scale, pilot scale and full production scale. This release includes: the Chemistry Module, which models homogenous and heterogeneous chemical reactions inside fluidized bed reactors; the Liquid Injection Module, which simulates liquid spray coating of particles; and the Wear Model, which allows wall wear to be reported on an annualized basis.

This fully integrated logistics software system helps companies to optimize routing and scheduling. Compared with manual planning and optimization, the program has been shown to reduce distribution costs by 15%. The software improves operational ef?ciency, reduces planning time, improves customer service, and supports a company’s strategic business-growth objectives.

An add-on for CADWorx Design Review (which provides 3-D illustrations of plant design models for collaboration among designers, project managers, facility owners, and others involved in the modi?cation and approval of designs prior to fabrication or construction), CADWorx Design Create publishes date-limited and password-protected review models that can be read by CADWorx Design Review and CADWorx Design Viewer. The free CADWorx Design Viewer allows others to see the models, including animations and intelligent information such as markups and annotations.

The Simatic WinCC V7 SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system features expanded support for the Simatic WinCC/Downtime Monitor and the Simatic WinCC/DataMonitor, which are used for visualizing production processes, as well as capturing, analyzing and distributing production data. This release provides Gantt diagrams of the machine status that allow the user to quickly zoom in on details for any selected time(s). The software can be set to automatically adjust to the alternate ?lling of small and large containers or the cutting of short and long work pieces.

InBatch Version 9.0 offers a high level of flexibility in managing very complex batching processes, performing operations on top of existing systems. The software complies with the International Society for Automation (ISA) S88 flexible batching standard, and provides users with equipment history, material genealogy, stringent security, Web-based reporting, and the ability to facilitate the design and implementation of systems that meet U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 21 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 11 regulations.