The human-machine-interface supervisory control and data- acquisition (HMI/SCADA) software iFIX 4.5 provides comprehensive monitoring, control and data management. This new version addresses a wide range of customer-identified needs, advanced reliability to improved ease of use, while adding more power and flexibility. In producing this update, designers focused on making infrastructure improvements and customer-requested usability updates. The iFIX 4.5 supports operation on the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.

Having passed Achilles Level 1 Certification Testing, the DeltaV controller and firewall system meets the cyber-security needs of industrial automation controllers by protecting the implementation of common protocols such as Ethernet, ARP, IP, ICMP and UPD. Separating control systems from non-control systems, DeltaV operates as a private network and features both anti-virus protection and role-based user security.

The Model-Free Adaptive (MFA) Control Toolbox for MATLAB solves very complex control problems in process-control, building-control and equipment-control applications. It enables users to simulate, test and evaluate MFA controllers on sophisticated process models built in the MATLAB/ Simulink environment. The MFA Control Toolbox includes a set of embedded MFA controller S-functions that work as control function blocks in the Simulink environment.

Mathematica 6 is said to take computing to a new level thanks primarily to its “instant interactivity” feature, which takes models, simulations, computations and many other concepts, and turns them into fully interactive applications. Demonstrations of the quick transformation of ideas to results are available at demonstrations.wolfram.com. Mathematica 6 also features the integrated development environment (IDE). Together with the software’s advanced programming language, the IDE makes Mathematica 6 ideal for infrastructure development.

The Intergraph Standard Database (SDB) for SmartPlant Reference Data is a centralized means of efficient managing of catalogs and specifications for multiple design systems and materials management. Its initial release is configured to support 90 metallic piping component definitions according to various U.S. standards, such as ASME/ANSI and API. The content for metallic piping includes more than 10,000 commodity codes and more than 1 million individual parts with full dimensional data for 3D modeling and weights.

Designed to simulate unsteady incompressible fluid flows in the presence of free surfaces, such as those encountered in multiphase flows, the 2DynaFS/3DynaFS is a suite of boundary-element-method based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes. They are capable of handling the dynamics of single or multiple bubbles near solid boundaries or free surfaces. The codes can also process bubble dynamics near a submerged object and deformation in a non-union fluid flow, the dynamics of free surface waves, and the generation of surface waves by a floating or submerged body motion.

Designed to provide users with easy result and calibration data transfer to a PC, LabX direct Density and Refractometry gives operators a choice of parameters to transfer. Featuring simple installation and setup, its method of operations are intuitive and its performance is fast. This software interface supports the downloading of both the entire results data memory and partial downloads from Refracto and Densito portable meters. This way, the user can customize the output or choose a whole day’s worth of field data work to be downloaded when returned to home base.

Designed for the bioprocessing market, the i-ControlXL platform offers industrial power, reliability and expandability using standard programmable logic controllers (PLC) and distributed control systems (DCS). The platform addresses critical issues, such as high-throughput screening, scaling up and down, and the requirements of the FDA’s process analytical technology (PAT) initiative.

Updates to CISPro Global and CISPro Live enhance the user’s ability to track biological and radiological materials in inventory. A new function permits sorting by user-defined properties. For biological materials, such as bacteria and purified plasma, six attributes are built into the new tracking function. These include reference number, user-defined type, species variety, genes of interest, transgenic filing and research notes.

Designed for use in quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) applications, the recently released Testream/CS 7.0 features the data-reporting tool ReportWriter. Employing an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, Report-Writer enables users to combine different data elements, such as spreadsheets, graphs, control charts, Word documents, into one report.