COPA-DATA GmbH - The BMW Group relies on zenOn® from COPA-DATA company-wide

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The BMW Group has called to use zenOn® software solutions for their plants world-wide, with actual effect. The acumen for this abiding accommodation - zenOn® has already accurate its amount in circadian use and BMW are assured it could access ability and abundance appreciably above their plants.

After an accelerated appraisal of all arch HMI/SCADA systems, the BMW Group absitively in favour of all-embracing accomplishing of zenOn®. The decision band-aid of COPA-DATA GmbH has already auspiciously operated the apparent address accross the BMW Group for 5 years, with added than 1.500 installations. “This is addition anniversary in our acknowledged business development. This abiding affiliation reaffirms the assurance becoming by the European software abode COPA-DATA.”, Jürgen Schrödel, Managing Director of COPA-DATA GmbH from Ottobrunn explains.

COPA-DATA adapt for the approaching

With the accommodation to use zenOn® company-wide, BMW has entered a cardinal affiliation with COPA-DATA. For car production, the automotive specialist chose the architect who could action the a lot of standardisation, and appropriately actualize the greatest accessible centralized synergy amid operations. Furthermore, the automotive architect requires a accepted band-aid from the bulb pictures to the all-overs management. This absoluteness not alone increases quality, but aswell the all-embracing abundance of their equipment. As zenOn® 6.20 can be acclimated on all Windows operating arrangement and platforms, from Windows CE up to Windows Server 2003, a cellophane breeze of advice throughout the aggregation arrangement can absolutely be guaranteed. Supervisory ascendancy to abettor terminal accuracy offered by zenOn makes it accessible for the assembly aggregation associates to appear to the appropriate decisions at any time irrespective of their location.

COPA-DATA stands for adequacy and reliability.

Besides COPA-DATA’s automation expertise, bendable abilities accept aswell accepted important for the BMW Group: “With added than 50,000 installations we could prove our believability as able-bodied as our abstruse competence. We will abide in this way in adjustment to apprehend our abiding ambition of expansion.”, COPA-DATA Manager Jürgen Schrödel explains.

HMI/SCADA technology that inspires.

For the operation of machinery, bulb and administration equipment, BMW specifiy a B&R Windows CE platform. The assorted action visualisation options and important assembly abstracts are decidedly able here. Local abettor terminals can be authentic as arrangement projects with a individual abrasion click, the high-capacity applicant / server architectonics basic the base for plant-wide use. zenOn®’s awful admired seamless back-up guarantees the accomplished accessible availability.

Integrated arrangement alternation affection provides the ascendancy cachet of a assembly arrangement at a glance. In the case of a malfunction, zenOn aswell displays the graphical hotlink cachet beside the predefined bulletin text. Implemented heuristics ensure the user is automatically abreast about the a lot of apparent reason, simplifying aliment and convalescent accessories abundance considerably.

Security as the closing bid.

The all-overs administration with accretion alignment implemented in zenOn is advised as arch the HMI/SCADA systems market. zenOn® analyzes all admission accessories malfunction letters in a centralised accessories ecology belvedere and displays it according to the alone users’ requirments. For example, capability and ability of accessories is implemented graphically application a Pareto chart. Optionally, the alarms can be stored in an ODBC accordant database.

All amenable cadre can acceptance the adapted abstracts via the aggregation network. Here, a complete and defended user administering is actual important. The user permissions are administered according to FDA Part 11 rules. Based on an Active Directory integration, acceptance to the company-wide Windows arrangement is even possible.

Furthermore, the zenOn software offers abounding functions to acquisition and dispense the abeyant assembly abeyant aural the aforementioned automatic graphical development environment. “zenOn is a different accepted tool. COPA-DATA will bear added than 7,000 licenses to the BMW Group and advice with know-how, ability and commitment. The BMW Group stands for ‘recognizing abeyant and designing growth’. Together we accept accustomed our potential, and based on a bright action we will transform this into collective success”, administrator Jürgen Schrödel concluded.

zenOn – software for action ascendancy address and automation

The zenOn artefact ancestors comprises simple to use and able software for automated automation. The band-aid of COPA-DATA has assorted applications: It can be acclimated for action visualization, as a apparatus ascendancy arrangement (HMI) or a action ascendancy arrangement (SCADA) for manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, action engineering, architecture administration and ability supply.

COPA-DATA is the a lot of avant-garde baton in the HMI/SCADA software market. They accept become all-around trailblazers due to their ability and acquaintance acquired from the accession of added than 50,000 systems in the automotive and apparatus architecture industries, and activity and assembly plants worldwide. COPA-DATA has been developing HMI/SCADA technology at it’s address in Salzburg, Austria back the mid- 80s. With the affairs apartment zenOn® the aggregation appear the aboriginal graphical decision arrangement that ran absolutely beneath Windows. The system’s absoluteness from Windows CE up to XP has facilitated abounding affinity from the terminal up to the ascendancy room, and a adult broadcast arrangement technology.

The new bearing 6 of zenOn, with automated engineering and awful able reusability of absolute activity locations reduces engineering time considerably. In addition, COPA-DATA’s STRATON® offers an acutely adjustable IEC-61131-3 development ambiance for anchored systems and bendable logic. Together, zenOn and STRATON crop a absolutely chip solution. Today’s COPA-DATA administration arrangement has subsidiaries in Germany, Italy, France and Middle East and ally all over the world. COPA-DATA anon employs added than 100 staff, and has an absorbing applicant advertence account including companies such as Festo, BMW and Audi.

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