The latest release of the long-running PSI-Plot technical plotting and data processing software, PSI-Plot V. 9, incorporates 30 more features than the previous release, including a new project environment, user-defined macros, real-time plotting, support for Microsoft Access data format, and a Poisson regression function, as well as more than 100 predefined fitting models. With new plot types and axis scales, its plot wizard feature creates user-desired plots in a convenient and intuitive way.

InfoLink Process Historian combines the manufacturer’s Trend Historian and Trend Link software, the Software Toolbox’s symbol library, and optional XLReporter from SyTech to provide a real-time historical view of a process. This software package can retrieve historical data and allow the user to review trends, human-machine-interface (HMI) screens, and reports exactly as they occurred.

The 2009 edition of the COMSOL Conference CD contains more than 275 technical papers, 195 presentations, and 14 downloadable and ready-to-run models in COMSOL Multiphysics software. It also includes 91 animations and movie clips that illustrate multiphysics modeling across all disciplines of science, industrial and space research, engineering, medical research, and education. This resource is free upon request.

Agilent Technologies Inc. and Healex Systems Ltd. have collaborated to make Agilent’s ChemStation chromatography software support Healex’s ChemLaunch remote instrument access and control module. Combined with the OpenLAB laboratory operating system, this configuration provides an integrated software environment for large-scale, distributed analytical labs. It provides a single point of contact that streamlines administration of ChemStation/ChemLaunch operations.

The CADWorx fieldPipe for CloudWorx tool facilitates building intelligent, specification-driven models by bringing point-cloud scan readings from Leica Cloudworx into the CADWorx fieldPipe model. The program calculates the center and diameter of the pipe run by selecting one point on the surface of a pipe cylinder. With all parameters set, the user can accurately place piping components using the point cloud data in the model.

The latest version of ALGOR finite element analysis (FEA) software, V23, significantly upgrades its computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools. It has “smart” bonded contact with multi-point constraints that bond the surfaces of unmatched meshes, which makes hand-built models easier to tie together and computer-aided design (CAD) models easier to mesh. It includes a utility that generates vertices and beams to replace non-essential surfaces to reduce model size for quicker analysis.

Version 5.1 of H1 Interoperability Test Kit (ITK) supports temperature transducer blocks, device description 5.1 functionality, and field diagnostics profiles, enhancing organization and integration of device diagnostics (DD) within the manufacturer’s fieldbus systems. The kit verifies the functionality of an H1 (31.25 kbit/s) device and its conformity with the Foundation Fieldbus function block and transducer block specifications. It troubleshoots and debugs devices, and includes all hardware and software that are required to ensure complete device interoperability.

Release 10 of ECLIPSE Process online analyzer software offers improved control over the detection system and instantaneous user-interface response, as well as configurable analysis and calibration methods (ACM) calculations that can be run simultaneously. Its features include an ACM report generator, automatic light-level adjustment, fault-alarm condition setup, and software-controlled relay activation from each screen. Its diagnostics and reporting routines monitor system performance and trigger rapid action when required.

TetraShell hollow-build software produces reduced-density structural stereolithography (SL) parts. To form a support structure, it uses TetraLattice technology, which was developed by the Milwaukee School of Engineering. This technology allows wall thicknesses to be varied and other support parameters to be adjusted, facilitating the manufacture of a variety of hollow parts. These capabilities reduce the mass of products, which generates savings in material costs.

NiagaraAX is an infrastructure automation and device-to-enterprise integration platform. Its Version 3.4 release adds 64-bit Windows support with a higher capacity AX Supervisor. It also has an option that allows the Framework’s AX Supervisor to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and a driver that supports the MySQL database. It incorporates support for IPv6, the next protocol that is set to replace Internet Protocol (IP) Version 4 (IPv4).