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Index:
• Editor's Notes
• Press
Release
• Events
• Product
Highligths
• Article/Success
Story
• Third
Party Products
• Tips
of the day
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Editor's Notes
Time flies and this is already April 2009. Despite the economic
turmoils around us, we must not forget that business opportunities remain. In
these times we have a good chance to reflect on our companies systems and processes
to come up with solutions to improve and upgrade our facilities and services.
When we take those necessary steps we’ll be working together towards shortening
the crisis and we’ll be ever more ready for the rebound. To lead the way PcVue will also improve its customer services soon.
Beside this quarterly Newsletter rendez-vous we will open in the coming
months a PcVue user forum where users will be able to exchange tips
and ideas on PcVue projects and finally we will propose monthly, Web
Trainings on specific subjects directly from our website..
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Press Release
Kepware Technologies, the leader in
Communications for Automation, announced that it has been selected by ARC
Informatique, the maker of PcVue and PlantVue, as their primary provider of
connectivity to field devices. As a “Connected with Kepware” partner, ARC
Informatique will deliver and support Kepware Certified OPC products.
Kepware will work closely with ARC Informatique, branding and integrating
KEPServer for use with their HMI/SCADA solution.
Read
more...
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Malaysia Office
PcVue (Malaysia)
Sdn Bhd
Unit 1007, Block E,
Phileo Damansara 1
46350 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Tel: +603 7957 5187
Fax: +603 7958 8760
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Singapore Office
PcVue SEA Pte.
Ltd.
371 Beach Road,
#02-12 Keypoint
199597 Singapore
Tel : +65 6396 9186
Fax : +65 6296 0943
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China
Office
PcVue (China)
369 Jiangsu Road,
ZhaoFeng Building 17-A
2000050 Shanghai, P R China
Tel : +86 21 5240 0280
Fax : +86 21 5240 0082
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Events
• JULY 2009
Industrial Automation Exhibition,
Kuala Lumpur.
PcVue SEA will participate in the Industrial Automation,
Manufacturing Process, Control and Measurement Equipment & Technology
from 15 to 18 July 2009 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC).
Read more...
• AUGUST 2009
Indonesian Packaging Exhibition,
Jakarta.
PcVue SEA will participate in
the Indonesian Packaging Exhibition 2009, Jakarta from 12th to 15th August
2009 at the Jakarta International Expo (JIExpo).
Read
more...
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Products Highlights
The
Scheduler included in PcVue allows you to automatically send commands and
recipes, and to execute programs on schedule. One or more fully configurable
tasks may be assigned to a certain time on a certain day while exception
periods for special days and other calendar events can be taken into account.
Tasks may also appear in a recurrent scheme. Depending on the user-rights the
parameters of a task may be altered during runtime.
The
WebScheduler for PcVue now not only extends the functionality of the existing
Scheduler by the possibility to plan process-cycles, recipes and program
routines over the Inter-/Intranet, moreover, it allows you to integrate
completely new, even more dynamic scheduling scenarios. Action groups may
consist of a number of absolute or relative value assignments, just like
recipes do, and being available in an object-oriented environment they can be
instantiated as often as necessary. Following the same principle exception
periods are independent objects that may be linked to recurrent tasks or
globally override all existing tasks and take control over the system for a
certain time-span (e.g. during maintenance periods in production environments
or during holidays in building automation).
By using
the calendar view you have direct access to all the tasks and events stored
in the system… from every device that is able to run a
web-browser. By the way, the WebScheduler can also be included in every mimic
of PcVue by using the web browser ActiveX®. Over a sophisticated system of
URI arguments it is possible to display only these dialogs to the operator
that are necessary to only create, to only edit or to only schedule the
existing task templates (inclusively the linked exception periods) and so
on...
The access
rights of the WebScheduler are linked to the user-rights management of the
PcVue SCADA. No further configuration effort needs to be done. Optically, the
WebScheduler comes in a modern-style ergonomic web interface which allows the
user to quickly feel comfortable by using an intuitive input system.
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Article/Success Story
Energy
Saving Solutions in Taiwan
Chung Gang
University Campus (Taipei) and Evergreen
hotel Taipei, are using PcVue software as part of an Energy Saving
Solution for the Chiller Plants
Control. The system designed by Energy Saving Ressources Technology ,using PcVue combined with a clever load repartition
concept of Chiller pumps and variable
speed motors algorithm renders a 30%
cost saving for the total Air Conditioning bill of the facilities.
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Third Party Products
BoxVue
e BoxVue is a rugged and stylish barebones system suitable for
embedded applications that stand alone or are rackmounted. Its effective
ventilation is achieved by the mesh design of the front panel. No actual
tool is needed to release the top cover of chassis, simplifying integration
and field service. This barebone system includes a 180-watt power supply,
3.5" 40GB hard drive for Data archiving and one PCI expansion slot.
Loaded with PcVue HMI and Webserver it is ideal for providing web remote
access to multiple sites scattered geographically.
FEATURES
• Tool-free
mechanism to open the top cover
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Rugged and stylish design
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Dual DDR2 Memory DIMM 1GB
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LonWorks PCI interface card
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Built-in VGA/LAN/USB/COM ports
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Two side-by-side units to form two systems in 2U
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Rackmount form factor
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XPE OS and preloaded HMI PcVue software license and MS SQL Express.
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BoxVue TS
BoxVue TS, is powerful and robust panel PC based on Intel®
CoreTM 2 Duo platform with Intel® Q965 chipset. It features high computing
power, high brightness and also provides expansion slots for PCI add-on
card. The aluminum front panels, the rugged design of BoxVue TS can withstand tough industrial environments. It
meets most requirements of interactive client like HMI, Automation.
FEATURES
• High Brightness
and long MTBF 15" Industrial grade panel
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Dual DDR2 Memory DIMM 1GB
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One expansion slot for PCI add-on card available
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Easy Installation and Maintenance
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Aluminum front panel meet with IP65 Certification
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XPE OS and preloaded HMI PcVue software license and MS SQL Express.
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For full
specifications refer to www.pcvue-sea.com
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Tips of the day
Object
When the mimic size is too big to fit in the Web browser the user has to use
the Virtual Workspace tool to navigate in the mimic. This is not really
useful.
Solution
The best way is to have scrollbars in the Web browser.
For example the PCVUE project is designed in a computer having the resolution
1280 * 1024.
We assume the workspace is in full screen mode.
Now, the user is using a Web browser on a computer having the resolution 1024
* 768.
When he will display the application the mimics will be “cut”.
To add scrollbars in the Web browser you have to edit the file <Project
Path>\Web\Index.html
This page is the one displayed in the Web browser when a user connects to
WebVue. This is a basic html page inserting only our Java Applet.
The code to insert this applet starts by this line:
document.write("<EMBED width=100% height=100%
align=baseline\n".....
You can remark that this instruction will embed the Java Applet using 100% of
the Web browser dimensions. But you can force the Web browser to embed the
Java Applet with strict dimensions.
So, in our case you have only to change this line by:
document.write("<EMBED width=1280px height=1024px
align=baseline\n"......
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