The TopView Remote Viewer has been ported to the Windows Mobile platform. Users can remotely monitor tags and alarms, view alarm history, and perform acknowledgement from any Windows Mobile Device including PDAs and Smart Phones. With built-in WI-FI support and extended data networks provided through most cellular carriers, users can now monitor and acknowledge alarms from anywhere wireless or cellular service is available.

HMS will complement its family of interchangeable Anybus communications modules with embedded interfaces for PROFINET with IRT. The PROFINET Real Time communication interface from HMS just passed certification and is among the first certified PROFINET devices worldwide. PROFINET with IRT will be the latest contribution to the Anybus® family.

The X20 and X67 bus controllers can be used as standard I/O components on DeviceNet, Profibus DP, CANopen and ETHERNET Powerlink. The master can be any PLC system from any manufacturer.

The XCSBC is used as a protective interface between the battery and a power supply, making it possible to use a modular DIN rail mounted power supply as a battery charger while it is feeding the load. The battery charger module is also DIN rail mounted and only occupies 1 inch of space on the rail.

GE Fanuc Automation Americas, Inc., a unit of GE Infrastructure, unveiled a detailed roadmap for the Proficy Automation and Production software family - which spans from programming and control to HMI / SCADA to historian and MES to a real-time information portal - at the GE Fanuc Discover Series Users Conference, May 23-26, in New Orleans.

DataNet OPC Professional is a Web-based data presentation and logging application that makes industrial information conveniently accessible to those who need it to make executive decisions.

GENESIS32 V8 is the first HMI software solution to fully support OPC XML-DA 1.0, and is also OPC DA 3.0 compliant.

DataWorX32 is OPC Data Access 1.0 – 3.0 compliant, and acts as a stand-alone product with any HMI/SCADA, MES, or Visual Basic® application.