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What’s new in GENESIS64 V10.5

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Re our earlier blog; GENESIS64 V10.5 Release Candidate is now available for registered Beta users.

Below is a high level summary of the new features that have been added to GENESIS64 V10.5

  • Enhanced documentation of the API and Help
  • Designed for Windows 7 Certification
  • Native support for Windows 7 Multi-Touch
  • Silverlight – support for cross-browser and cross-platform visualization
  • New GENESIS64 Redundancy
  • New Runtime Workbench mode with Runtime ribbon with Card Flow Navigation
  • Native BACnet Communication
  • Native SNMP Support with SNMP Traps
  • Multimedia Alarming
  • GraphWorX64 Card Flow Navigation
  • Greatly enhanced GenDemo
  • Enhanced security across products
  • Significant performance optimizations
  • New MonitorWorX64
  • Pack and Go Tools
  • Robust and optimized Hyper Historian
  • 3D Collada support
  • 3D Collision detection
  • GraphWorX64 display caching and support for display compression
  • New EarthWorX64 integrated with GraphWorX64
  • EarthWorX64 support for Bing Maps
  • New TrendWorX64 plots and many enhancements
  • New Multimedia Alarming
  • Software licensing
  • and much more…

What’s new in GENESIS32 V9.2

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Re our earlier post; GENESIS32 V9.2 Release Candidate is available to registered Beta Users.

Below is a high-level summary of the new features that we have added to GENESIS32 V9.2

  • New WorkBench32 – Centralized web-based environment for GENESIS32 system configuration and monitoring.
  • Pack & Go for rapid deployment of many of the configurators from the Workbench32 environment.
  • Web-Based Remote Configuration for:
  • New “Navigator” Unified Configuration and Runtime environment
  • New support for Alarm Templates in the AlarmWorX32 Server. AlarmWorX32 Server Configurator, and the Navigator Configurator
  • New support for tag import for Alarms and Trends
  • New BACnet communications integration
  • New Recipe Upload
  • DataWorX32 Professional Redundancy improvements
  • SNMP Connector Improvements
  • New TrendWorX32 SQL Query Engine
  • Updated AlarmWorX32 Logger with improved Alarm Archiving performance
  • Updated AlarmWorX32 Server
  • Updated ScriptWorX32 and ScriptWorX2010 (formerly ScriptWorX2006)
  • Updated GraphWorX32
  • Updated ProjectWorX32
  • New “one-click” installation for GENESIS32 that includes the installation of WebHMI, Licensing, and the new WorkBench32 application
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    • AlarmWorX32 Server
    • AlarmWorX32 Logger
    • BACnet Connectivity
    • DataWorX32
    • DBOPC Server        
    • Global Aliasing
    • ICONICS Modbus Serial OPC Server
    • Language Aliasing
    • ScheduleWorX32
    • SNMP Connectivity
    • TrendWorX32 Logger
    • Unified Data Manager
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    • Configure Data, Alarms, and Trends in one unified environment
    • Allows configuration and monitoring of the system within the same environment
    • Includes a new integrated configuration and runtime tree control
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    • New BACnet Connector provides built-in BACnet connectivity to BACnet devices
    • NO need to configure a BACnet OPC Server
    • Browse for BACnet devices and their objects and properties using the Unified Data Browser
    • Browsed tags can be added directly into GraphWorX32 and other ICONICS applications
    • New BACnet configurator for adding non-browse-able BACnet Device properties
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    • New Redundancy state engine for better performance
    • Enhanced watchdog timeout implementation enabling the detection of failures and subsequent failovers in the range of milliseconds
    • Improved Store-and-Forward Logic in the Alarm Logger and Trend Logger
    • Enhanced the AlarmWorX32 Logger Archive function to provide significantly better performance
    • New TrendWorX32 Logger logging logic that logs data to separate Primary and Secondary tables, ensuring good quality data can get logged even when there is a network disconnection or failure
    • Enhanced the redundancy support for redundant OPC DA Servers to take into account the health of the OPC Servers (not just on whether or not the OPC Server is running).  Users can now specify an OPC DA Tag for each OPC DA Server, a tag indicating the health of the server.   If the tag indicates bad health for a particular OPC DA server, the GENESIS32 clients will be automatically switched to the backup OPC DA Server (if the backup’s health is OK).
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    • SNMP Version (V1 or V2) configurable on a per device basis
    • New SNMP Trap AE server
    • New Heartbeat tag
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    • OLEDB Provider for TrendWorX32
    • Powerful SQL Query Interface includes support for
      • SELECT, TOP, ORDER BY
      • GROUP BY, HAVING, IN
      • Aggregate Functions (MIN, MAX, AVG, SUM, COUNT)
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    • New support for an optional Alarm “Clear” state
    • New option to track the Time in Alarm
    • Added support for the including the previous value attribute for TLA alarms
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    • Updated Microsoft VBA to latest version 6.5

What’s new in BizViz V9.2?

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Re our earlier post; BizViz V9.2 Release Candidate is now available to registered Beta users.

Below is a list of some of the new features added to BizViz V9.2. Why not let us know what you think by commenting on this post.

New in Alarm Analytics V9.2

  • Added support for analyzing multiple types of 3rd party Alarm databases within the same template

New in BridgeWorX V9.2

  • NEW Workbench32 for remote, concurrent, web-based configuration
  • NEW Pack & Go support inside the Workbench32 for simple deployment of BridgeWorX applications
  • NEW BridgeWorX HDA block that allows you to read and transform OPC HDA data from any OPC HDA compliant server into a standard relational database
  • Workbench64 Runtime Integration (can browse completed transactions and execute new transactions)
  • Improved performance of loading Transaction Diagrams

New in PortalWorX V9.2

  • Improved support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit SharePoint
  • Added a hyperlink in the PortalWorX Administration Interface to allow users to navigate directly to the SharePoint Central Administration page
  • Added Russian as a new language natively available for selection from the Administration Interface for localizing PortalWorX and its Web Parts
  • Added support for localizing the Site Deployment Utility

New in Productivity Analytics V9.2

  • NEW Pack & Go support inside the Workbench32 for simple deployment of Productivity Analytics applications
  • Added a NEW Asset Comparison Chart for comparing the OEE of multiple assets within the same chart
  • Added a NEW Manual Data Entry object for inputting manually collected data into Productivity Analytics
  • Added a NEW Active Alarm Report object for finding and troubleshooting open-ended alarms
  • Added the ability to copy and paste or duplicate assets for faster configuration
  • Enhanced the Downtime Pareto Chart with the ability to show durations in hours, minutes or seconds
  • Enhanced the Downtime and Quality Audit Reports to expose intelligent filters for narrowing down the results
  • Improved the Scheduling interface to allow fast duplication of shifts, production days or even entire templates
  • Added an option to specify the length of each period within a shift (i.e. hourly periods) for faster configuration of templates
  • Enhanced the Quality Pareto Chart to allow for more granular analysis of Quality reject reasons
  • Enhanced the Ideal vs. Actual Analytics Chart to extrapolate the Ideal line automatically based on existing Performance data
  • Added an option to specify if Charts should be sorted by Duration or by Count
  • Added the ability to view time series data by Shift, by Day, by Week, or by Month, in addition to just by Period
  • Added a Print function to each Chart and Report object for immediate capture of current information
  • Added intelligent handling of Performance or Quality events that come in with bad quality

New in ReportWorX V9.2

  • NEW Workbench32 for remote, concurrent, web-based configuration
  • NEW Pack & Go support inside the Workbench32 for simple deployment of ReportWorX applications
  • Native support for Office 2007 and Office 2010 templates and reports in ReportWorX!
  • Integrated Text File (CSV) Parser, XML Parser, and Trend Export tasks as native data sources in Template Designer
  • Workbench64 Runtime Integration (can browse completed reports and execute new reports)
  • Dynamic Redirector Actions that allow the use of parameters as placeholders for dynamic content
  • New dynamic options for Fixed List parameters
  • Enhanced support for customizing the Report Filename, also for the “Create New Files” option
  • Support for executing multiple reports with automatic parameters from a database
  • Support for specifying credentials for File Copy Redirector for network locations
  • Data sources can now be edited using Advanced mode properties panel
  • Query parser can now detect field names in manual queries even when SELECT * syntax is used
  • Improved the performance of loading reports in the Configurator

New in Unified Web Interface V9.2

  • Integrated the Unified Web Interface into the Workbench (32 and 64) for Runtime operation
  • Made an alias available for the Unified Web Interface URL for easier access (http://MachineName/UWI)
  • Added the ability to open transaction traces in a new tab rather than a new window
  • Added the ability to filter on succeeded/failed transaction status for more refined visualization
  • Added a start menu shortcut for opening the Unified Web Interface
  • Improved overall reliability and performance

New in the Installation for V9.2

  • A new “one-click” installation option to help streamline deployment! All product installations have been condensed into one easy-to-use installation wizard, and you can simply select which BizViz modules you would like to install and then you’re off and running! This new option is accessible directly from the BizViz Installation splash screen, by selecting the “BizViz Suite Installation” option.
  • Introduced a new 30-day temporary license for BizViz products. To activate, launch License Utility and click on Action > Activate License, then click on the “Activate Emergency License” button.

Release Candidates made available to registered Beta users

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

ICONICS is pleased to announce that GENESIS64 V10.5, GENESIS32 V9.2 and BizViz V9.2 Release Candidates have been made available for all registered Beta users. The DVD’s contain pdf’s at the root level stating what has been added to the new versions. We will be exploring this for each product in later blogs. Please refer to the Known Issues section of the DVD Readme prior to any installation or deployment.