The Proficy Plant Applications Version 4.4 upgrade includes several new features that are designed to help streamline a company’s problem-solving capabilities. The software’s model configuration tools expand its event detection and modeling subsystem. Its ability to correctly distribute information has been enhanced with improved run-time displays and reporting functions. This release supports VMware virtualization, Citrix remote desktop architectures, and Microsoft Server Clustering.

ProSafe-RS version R2.01.00 offers improved security and smoothly integrates with the manufacturer’s Centum VP production control system. This distributed control system helps to achieve stable and efficient plant operations, which is important for performing controlled emergency shutdowns. ProSafe-RS restricts communications by controlling access to folders and the registry, preventing unauthorized access to the system. It is rated as meeting Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL3) requirements.

Isentris 3.2 enables users to explore, compare and report on information spanning multiple experiments captured in electronic notebooks, the manufacturer’s lab execution and analysis (LEA) software suite, and laboratory information management systems (LIMS). It allows LEA researchers to easily aggregate data from multiple information sources in a single view and to report on chemical structures, images, chromatograms, spectra, and XY datasets, all within the familiar Microsoft Excel environment.

ChromQuest 5.0 updates the previous Chromatography Data System (CDS) program with a new user interface, and data acquisition, processing and reporting methods that are designed to work with sampling and measurement instrumentation. This software can perform multi-level calibrations, graphic method editing, conditional sequence actions and automated LIMS (laboratory information management systems) export. It provides digital control for system components, such as pumps and detectors.

Symbion-LX Version 2.0 preserves all of the advanced features of Version 1.3, and adds significantly expanded instrument-control and spectroscopic-data-processing capabilities. The result is a universal spectroscopic-data system designed for use in laboratory information management systems. Its standardized platform can control a wide range of spectrometers and other analytical instruments, and provides comprehensive data-manipulation and application-development capabilities.

The Experion C300 controllers have been certified by Mu Security’s Mu-400 security analyzer as meeting industry-defined security standards. The Experion system prevents IP-based process controllers from being compromised, as well as and the problems normally associated with a security breach, including safety issues, regulatory requirement violations and loss of confidential information. The system integrates with safety measures dispersed throughout a manufacturing facility to reduce risk to employees and plant assets.

 Carefully leading the way to a wireless manufacturing environment, this company has introduced In-plant Smart Wireless solutions. Extensions of the company’s PlantWeb digital plant architecture, these solutions combine wireless network technology and gateways with wireless-enabled measurement transmitters and wireless predictive maintenance software, and seamlessly integrate them with automation systems, or legacy hosts. Incremental information gained from the use of Smart Wireless solutions helps customers understand their processes and identify opportunities for improvement.

I/A Series distributed control systems take advantage of both the latest Enhanced Electronic Device Description Language (Enhanced EDDL) and Field Device Tools (FDT) technologies. This combination provides comprehensive lifecycle support to configure, calibrate, commission, diagnose and optimize the performance of any vendors’ Foundation fieldbus device.

Designed for Malvern Bohlin rheometers, version 6.40 of this control and analysis software incorporates new features, including more-flexible data analysis setup and automation, and a completely new test type. The new multi-wave test mode involves the application of multiple frequencies for faster testing and is useful for studying rapidly changing systems, such as thermosetting resins or the gelation of foodstuffs. Featuring a new template wizard, set-up and storage of analysis routines is easy, and operators can add multiple analyses to the menus for easy re-use.

Business FLEX200 is an updated version of this company’s manufacturing execution system (MES) software. Designed to help facilities link process automation and production schedules, the software supports international versions of Windows and provides tools to translate user interfaces into local languages. The supplier says the software can boost production by 3–6% and lower costs by 2–3%.