Features
- Establish continuous or On-Demand connection to any equipment
- View online data - trends / values
- Alarms and events alerts
- Preventive maintenance reminders
- Historical data view – trends / values
- Export / print historical data
- Alarms history view / print
- Data analysis and management reports
- Integration with ERP solutions
- Comprehensive 'Site Admin' tool to manage devices, parameters, users...etc.
- 100% remote configurable DAS
- User authentication and access control. Access control is password based as well as IP based
Components
PlantConnect has 2 components –
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Data Acquisition Server (DAS)
DAS is installed on each site. It connects to devices using any protocol supported by the device and polls for parameter data. DAS sends this data to PlantConnect server continuously or periodically depending on the deployment. DAS is 100% remote configurable. So user can perform all operations like add devices, manage parameters remotely through the browser.
So you need to visit the site only for initial installation and physical connections etc. After that manage each site remotely from anywhere, anytime!
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PlantConnect Server
PlantConnect server is a web-based server. Both DAS and users (using web browsers) connect to this server. The server acts as a hub for all data flowing through the system and manages it in real time. PlantConnect server has loosely coupled components and hence features / modules can be easily added / removed from any installation resulting in a truly optimized system!
Deployment
PlantConnect allows great flexibility in deployment so that you get a system 'just right' for your needs and what's more important, the system can grow as per your needs keeping pace with your progress.
Irrespective of the deployment PlantConnect always provides you real time monitoring capabilities. Let it be remote monitoring or central monitoring, you always get the data using a standard browser. Thus PlantConnect becomes an important part in your industrial automation endeavor.
