M&M Software GmbH - FDT 2.0: Advantages, Benefits, Implementation

The FDT-Technology is accessible to about-face from ActiveX and COM to .NET and WPF. Andreas Börngen, Director Sales and Product Marketing at M&M Software illustrates the advantages and accomplishing of the new accepted FDT 2.0 on a columnist appointment on this year’s SPS/IPC/DRIVES fair in Nuremberg.
Comprehensive and economically acknowledged accessory affiliation is based on technology standards, such as FDT, OPC, EDD, FDI o TCI. M&M is the technology accomplice in all affairs accompanying to accessory affiliation in automated automation and is an breath affiliate in all organizations, which advance and administer their corresponding standards, and participates agilely in the added development of these standards. This gives M&M axiological ability and makes the aggregation an abreast adviser and adviser apropos the advantages and possibilities that accessible up with the use of advanced technologies and standards in automated automation. Naturally, this acquired ability will aswell be activated anon and at a actual aboriginal date in the product- and custom-built developments of M&M Software.
FDT is assuredly the a lot of important accepted for the accessory affiliation at this point in time. Besides customized software development, M&M offers a absolute of nine added articles on the base of FDT, which makes this aggregation the sole provider of a complete ambit of products, accoutrement and casework for this technology. This portfolio is topped by an FDT-Hotline, an FDT-Portal and test- and acceptance laboratories in Germany and China.
This new accepted is accordant for accessory vendors and action ascendancy arrangement providers alike. The aphorism states: DTM follows frame, which agency the FDT 2.0-Frames have to be on the bazaar aboriginal for the new DTMs to be able to run. This is aswell one acumen why M&M starts the action by alms upgraded frame-products in the bazaar first.
M&M advises DTM developers to plan the about-face to FDT 2.0 in a appropriate address as new projects are still accepting developed for FDT 1.2.1, but already makes use of .NET technology. Therefore, it is acute that appropriate absorption is accustomed to the DTM architectonics during the architecture and blueprint phase, so that brief to FDT 2.0 involves alone a bordering aggregate of amount and effort.
In the ideal case, absolute DTMs can again be adapted to the new standard, if a accepted „overhaul“ of the DTM is appropriate anyhow. The new accepted promises to be astern accordant and therefore, „old“ DTMs should be able to run aswell in FDT 2.0-systems. The basicDTM barter of M&M Software can be absolutely airy about the addition of the new standard. A basicDTM is a DTM, which is generated automatically with a generator, namely the dtmGENERATOR, based on a accessory description book or DD. As anon as the new accepted is accessible and the architect has been adapted to FDT 2.0, all it takes is a new architect run to ensure FDT 2.0-compatibility of the DTM.
It is aswell absorbing to apprentice who will account from FDT 2.0. The simple acknowledgment is: Everybody, but aboriginal and foremost the end user with his process- or branch automation system. He will apprehension and acquaintance an bigger quality, adherence and interoperability. He will aswell account from an added performance, as able-bodied as from the achievability of broadcast installations on limited machines and systems. Furthermore, he will adore several added improvements, such as standardized, non-proprietary operating concepts.
All these improvements are fabricated accessible mainly through the change of technology from COM and Active-X to the .NET and WPF technology. This includes new architectures and a altered abstracts model. The developers of DTM- and Frame-Applications can attending advanced to the abstruse improvements, abnormally the use of .NET technology throughout the absolute development process. This creates a developer-oriented ambiance and reduces the time and efforts associated with the absolute implementation.
M&M shows its charge as a abstruse baton with the aggressive activity of developing a Product Roadmap for FDT 2.0. The Software aggregation affairs to absolution the aboriginal updates for the M&M Product portfolio alone a few months afterwards the absolution of the new adaptation 2.0 of the FDT-standard next year (scheduled release: Middle of next year). The Frame-Application fdtCONTAINER will be the aboriginal artefact that is FDT 2.0 accordant in the aboriginal bisected of 2011. All added articles will again chase clothing in quick succession. For the DTM-products, an average footfall via .NET is planned. The DTM development kit dtmMANAGER and the advantage for programming in .NET will be upgraded and accessible to use in aboriginal 2010. In this way, all M&M barter with support- and account affairs will account from free-of-charge technology updates.
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M&M Software develops technologically beat applications and articles for automated automation. Our portfolio includes consulting, development, casework and accoutrement for branch and action automation and our amount strengths are in accessory integration, engineering systems, human–machine interfaces and Web applications. Our success derives from about 25 years’ acquaintance in the ambition industries and aberrant abstruse know-how. Strong action acclimatization and trendsetting administration of bookish basic agreement our software solutions are of the accomplished quality. In St. Georgen (Germany) and Suzhou (China) we advance avant-garde and advanced solutions for the all-embracing market. The abiding success of our barter is consistently our capital concern. Products developed by M&M Software are accepting auspiciously activated in the actinic and biologic industries, abyssal ascendancy equipment, the activity area and the automotive industry.
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