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Rockwell Automation released its VantagePoint EMI v6.0 software with new embedded capabilities that enables the use of many digital devices to access optimized performance metrics and data analytics from plant floors and machines. This announcement, along with many others, was made at the company's 2014 Automation Fair event in Anaheim, California (see below for more information on the Fair).
The VantagePoint v6.0 software now includes VantagePoint mobile, a component that enables users to create displays and interact with data across HTML5-compliant browsers and mobile platforms, such as iOS and Android. Users can now log in to the VantagePoint system and view Web-based KPI content that is responsive to the device they are using, ranging from smartphones to tablets to PCs. This is an alternative from the conventional approaches that enable desktop or mobile access to manufacturing data. User-specific configurations created by network administrators or IT staff are not required, enabling manufacturers to more quickly on-board more users to help increase productivity.
Another new capability is the "composer" feature, which allows VantagePoint v6.0 users to browse through data and customize content based on individual roles, priorities and viewing preferences. Using the software's drag-and-drop interactive tools, users can create personalized displays to find the information that is important to them. The "favorites" capability also allows users to configure KPI data in the visual formats they prefer, from bar graphs to gauges to plant maps. They can then save the data or share it with a group using the VantagePoint mobile component.
For OEMs, this connectivity provides the framework for delivering a more information-enabled machine. Plus, they gain the ability to visualize data, minimizing the need for custom development.
For system administrators and integrators, more improved diagnostics built into the VantagePoint v6.0 software on the server side, as well as more application-centric data sources, allow them to view and display the overall health of the system and specific applications. The VantagePoint v6.0 software also includes more improved tag-provider templates to allow persons initially building the model and applications, ranging from system administrator to customer, to help accelerate design and deployment time.
Users can receive and apply the VantagePoint software updates without having to uninstall, re-install and, in some cases, re-validate their current application.
Keywords: Manufacturers, Performance Metrics, Data Analytics, Plant Floors, Mobile, Smartphones, Tablets, ARC Advisory Group.