We are Advancing Wonderware News for this 2020

The Wonderware Ignite 2020 partner event served as a presentation of all the new features that Wonderware has launched on the market for this 2020.

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On April 30 and May 1, Wonderware Iberia attended the virtual event Ignite 2020, the global meeting of Wonderware, an enriching digital experience to internally share all the Wonderware news for this 2020.

We detail all these novelties in this post, but not before giving some brushstrokes of the strategic approach that serves as context to the new solutions and products.

What is our Edge to Enterprise Strategy?

The novelties that we launched this 2020 are a manifestation of our Edge-to-Enterprise strategy. This strategy is not based on individual products, but on the value and all the potential of our portfolio, a broad vision that will allow us to position ourselves in a new level of connected operations for decision making and real-time optimization.

Edge to Enterprise is the first industrial strategy to launch a “portfolio of solutions as a service” to the market. Currently we are the only industrial software provider capable of offering these Edge to Enterprise operations. We propose a new approach in an area where customers need flexibility to combine our solutions into a highly personalized and scalable system.

This unparalleled level of flexibility and personalization is possible through our Wonderware Flex subscription service, where any customer, of any size, with all the depth and breadth of the Wonderware portfolio, can configure their annual subscription.

The new MQTT connectivity, the potential of the cloud and the experiences of mobile users allow a seamless end-to-end workflow, achieving hybrid IIoT projects (on-premise and in the cloud). Our Wonderware Connect solution has been expanded to support cloud development and visualization, and as a novelty in 2020: cloud storage of Industrial Graphics for all our HMI SCADA solutions. In this way, Wonderware is committed to business standardization and operational efficiency through sites that use multiple Wonderware visualization products.

Application Server Intouch OMI 2020

Wonderware 2020 News

1. Wonderware Flex Licensing.

Now you can choose between a perpetual license model and the new Flex license subscription option for Application Server. Flex licenses are based on AppEngine allocations, rather than having to calculate I/O counts and other system parameters.

2. 64-Bit OS.

For all products from version 2020 onwards, 64-bit OS is mandatory.

3. Application Server and Intouch OMI 2020.

Improved Performance

Propagation time of template changes to instances. Deployment times for InTouchViewApp instances.

Support for .NET Controls in Intouch OMI Applications

InTouch OMI now allows you to import, configure, and use .NET WinForm controls in a ViewApp (NET WPF controls were already supported)

Responsive Layouts for Intouch OMI ViewApps

The Layout Editor has a new option to create “responsive” layouts. This allows the ViewApp to dynamically move and resize content based on the size of the screen on which it is being viewed.
Scripts in Layouts using the same base as the scripts for Industrial Graphics. A new “MyContent” namespace is available to address content within a single ViewApp, in addition to the global MyViewApp namespace.
In addition, event-based scripts can be added to Intouch OMI layouts when the layout includes Apps that expose public properties.

New App: PLC Logic viewer. To visualize logics in Ladder of PLC Rockwell. Improvement of the Content Presenter App

The ContentPresenter App displays graphics from one or more selected nodes from a ViewApp navigation model.
The panel on which the ContentPresenter App has been placed displays a set of graphic thumbnails that match the filter criteria of the ContentPresenter App. The graphics displayed by the ContentPresenter App can be filtered by content type, name, and location within the ViewApp’s navigation model.

System Platform is Now an OPC UA Server

Which allows you to access the namespace in a deployed galaxy and connect, subscribe, and read data from galaxies, without the need for a gateway or other protocol translation mechanism.

Visualization of Alarms Detected Externally (in PLC for Example).

Alarm conditions that have been detected within a PLC can now be visualized in the Historical Trends App or the Alarms App. To achieve this, the ability to configure a boolean attribute within the object editor as an alarm input for a State Alarm has been added. This allows trending tools (such as Historian Web Client / or Insight Local) to correctly visualize alarms that have been detected externally.

Access to Industrial Graphics Shared in the Wonderware Connect.

Intouch OMI News

3. Intouch HMI

New Application Manager

Integration with Industrial Graphics from Wonderware Connect.

HTML5 Carrousel Widget

For Web client and for Window Viewer

Stand Alone Applications Support Industrial Graphics

You can create application windows and “frames”, drag and drop graphics into the window and view them in WindowViewer.
It has no dependency on a GR and can be used without the IDE installed.
StandAlone applications can be viewed in the Web Client.
Wiondws can be published to the web client but have to be converted to Industrial Graphic.

It is possible to configure an Intouch Historice tag in Historian from the tag itself (configured from the Window Maker).

4. Intouch Web Client

Improvements in the security, availability and performance of the web server.
Web Client now supports writes. In this version, a new license has been introduced that supports read / write operations (FLEX ONLY AVAILABLE).
Alarms can now be acknowledged in the ALARM Client built into the web client.
Web Client now displays Windows with multiple symbols.
The Web Client now supports Windows controls such as Checkbox, combobox, etc.
New license that allows unlimited sessions to read and write data from the web client.
Mobile application for the Web Client.

5. Historian

Improvements in the Excel Add-In

Support for tag selection via search, tag metadata in headers, wide / narrow output format, flexible column selection and native formats for numbers / dates.

The Historian Client Web (Insight Local) Supports White Labeling for OEMs.

Historian Client Web Allows Sharing Entire Dashboards by URL.

6. Insight

Introduction of the BI-Gateway

Allows to perform Intelligence models in Insight, with Insight data source.

Introduction of the Application Composer (Available During 2020)

It will allow to use Industrial Graphics from Wonderware connect and build visual applications graphically.

7. Intouch Edge

Support for Industrial Graphics.
Change of development interface (improvement and modernization).
Support for Spark Plug B has been added in the MQTT driver.
Possibility to manage Edge devices automatically from the cloud with Docker technology from Wonderware Connect with the new Wonderware Edge Management.