- June 06, 2007
- Schneider Electric
PALATINE, Ill. — June 6, 2007 — Schneider Electric enhances its HMI/SCADA software offering with the introduction of Vijeo™ Citect®, the new supervision software developed in collaboration with Citect Pty Ltd, a Schneider Electric company. Vijeo Citect software is one of the most innovative, high-performing HMI/SCADA products on the market, enabling Schneider Electric to provide its customers with automation solutions that are completely integrated. The unification of Vijeo Citect software in architectures preferred by Schneider Electric guarantees customers high productivity at all stages of system life, from development to maintenance.“Vijeo Citect software is a scalable, flexible and reliable solution for industrial automation monitoring and control,” said Donna Smalls, HMI/SCADA product manager, Schneider Electric North America. “Its introduction allows Schneider Electric customers to take advantage of solutions that are completely coherent with our entire automation offer, including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), HMIs and more.”Vijeo Citect software responds to all types of production automation, infrastructure or electrical distribution solutions requiring HMI/SCADA. In addition, it meets the requirements of stand-alone control stations as well as redundant supervision systems. The software gives users a permanent and upgradable investment since its unique scalable architecture allows a system to develop over time without the risk of becoming outdated. Users can resize their system up or down without having to modify existing system hardware or software, thus reducing costs.Reactive and flexible, Vijeo Citect software offers trouble-free development and implementation with turnkey migration services. The software also provides unrivaled redundancy through its task-based architecture and its Distributed Control System (DCS)-type redundancy. The redundancy features are integrated and easy to configure, with the LAN redundancy requiring no setup, and task redundancy setup configured in a few seconds using a simple wizard.“With its native redundancy function, Vijeo Citect HMI/SCADA software is the ideal partner for Modicon ‘Hot Standby’ programmable controllers,” said Smalls.The software delivers superior performance by enabling users to utilize the power of multiple central processing units (CPUs) or hyper-threaded machines. At start-up, Vijeo Citect software automatically creates separate components across multiple CPUs, resulting in improved performance and stability. The software’s Runtime Manager provides visibility and control over each component process, allowing each one to be restarted individually. Furthermore, if any of the components stop for any reason, they will automatically restart.Vijeo Citect software can handle advanced functions specific to Telemecanique programmable controllers with its automatic installation of OFS, Schneider Electric's OPC Factory Server. In addition, the software provides Unity FastLinx for the dynamic management of Unity Pro software links, and synchronization of Vijeo Citect and Unity Pro databases. Vijeo Citect software is well-suited for small, medium or large applications in any industrial automation setting, including food and beverage, water and wastewater, oil and gas, material handling and automotive. The development software is available for evaluation at no cost. Contact a local Schneider Electric sales representative for more details.Headquartered in Palatine, Ill., the North American Operating Division of Schneider Electric had sales of $3.7 billion (U.S.) in 2006. The North American Operating Division is one of four operating divisions of Schneider Electric, headquartered in Paris, France, and markets the Square D, Telemecanique and Merlin Gerin brand products to customers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In the United States, Schneider Electric is best known by its flagship Square D brand, with Telemecanique becoming increasingly known in the industrial control and automation markets and supported by many Square D distributors. For more than 100 years, Square D has been a market-leading brand of electrical distribution and industrial control products, systems and services. Schneider Electric is a global electrical industry leader with 2006 sales of approximately $17.2 billion (U.S.).
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