10 Reasons why You Need Autosave for System Platform.

In complex production and infrastructure environments, a basic principle governs, which is the continuous improvement of the productivity of their operations. To this end, it is essential to deploy programs that increase process automation and have real-time technologies that provide visibility to the process, help comply with industry standards, and allow decisions to be made easily, streamlining and energizing production processes.

System Platform is a complete automation solution that can offer a 40% improvement in efficiency by addressing the constant changes in today’s market, eliminating the need for scripting or customization, and leveraging reusable visualizations.

Its high degree of personalization and scalability allows System Platform to support monitoring, SCADA, MES, and IIoT functions and integrate production processes with the company’s business solutions, in addition to facilitating collaboration between people, processes, and assets.

Its great adaptability has a double benefit:

• On the one hand, it allows you to develop any automation application that adapts to the physical reality of the process and corporate objectives.
• On the other hand, it allows you to adapt to changing situations with refactoring or simple extensions of the initial development. However, continuous development changes do pose a challenge in terms of change management and being able to control what changes have been made, why they have been made, when, by whom, what the changes consisted of, how to undo them quickly, etc.

This is where A4SP (Autosave For System Platform) provides a perfect solution for managing these changes.

Below, we present 10 reasons why you should use it:

1. Monitors activity.

A4SP captures all changes made to the objects in the galaxy by monitoring the GR (Galaxy Repository), whether in single or multi-user environments. The changes are detected and stored automatically as they occur.

2. Undo problematic or erroneous changes.

A4SP adds the ability to undo any change made in one (or more) System Platform Galaxy (template, instance, or graphic). Any change is tracked and stored, giving us the opportunity to recover previous versions of them.

3. Compare objects.

With A4SP we can compare any object with its previous versions or with objects from other Galaxies to show a detailed report of differences.

4. Extended Audit Trail for System Platform.

A4SP traces who, what, when, and from which computer has made a modification to any object in the Galaxy.

5. A4SP facilitates experimentation.

Thanks to the ease of undoing changes and recovering previous versions of the objects in the Galaxy, it facilitates the testing of new ideas during the design and development phases of the applications.

6. Automatic backups.

A4SP adds the ability to perform complete backups of the entire galaxy automatically and on a scheduled basis, in addition to offering a central repository of backups.

7. Does not require additional System Platform licenses.

For System Platform 2020 and higher, A4SP does not require any additional access license to monitor the GR (GR Access license) or development (DevStudio license).

8. Only platform validated by AVEVA.

A4SP is the only automated change management tool that offers object-level control of the AVEVA System Platform Galaxy.

9. Validate changes between development or pre-production and production environments.

Facilitates the identification of changes between the production galaxy and the new version. This fact ensures that only authorized changes will be applied to the production environment.

10. Control and management of changes throughout the life cycle.

11. (EXTRA) Easily extensible for change management of other OT elements.

A4SP can be extended to be able to manage PLC changes from multiple manufacturers, files, configurations, etc. and facilitate the management of backups while detecting if these devices have undergone changes.

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