What’s New in System Platform 2014 R2 – Part 1GCS Connect EMEA 2015

April 13, 2015

Eric Enet

Sr. Manager, Wonderware Technical Training Strategy

What you’ll take away:1. How to use the Attributes tab.2. How to use IO Binding.3. What are Alarm Severities.4. What is Alarm Shelving and Alarm Plant Modes.5. Using the Historian to log alarms and events.

Brand & Industries or Technology:Wonderware

• All disciplines

WW TRN1What’s New in System Platform 2014 R2 – Part 1Eric Enet

Focus of presentation:This session provides explanations and demonstrations of the main new features in System Platform 2014 and 2014 R2. In Part 1 we will cover the unified attribute name space (the new Attributes tab), IO binding, and alarm enhancements.

Agenda

> The Unified Attribute Name Space

> Auto References with IO Binding

> Alarm enhancements

Requirements and Expectations

> Proficient in Application Server

> Proficient in InTouch and ArchestrA Graphics

Unified Name SpaceThe new Attributes tab

The Attributes Tab

Combines the capabilities of:• User-Defined Attributes• Extensions• Field Attributes

It is available in all automation objects in the Galaxy.

An analog attribute configured in the new Attributes tab

The Power of One… Attribute

Capability UDA + Extension Field Attribute Attribute

Available All objects $UserDefined object All objects

Data Types BooleanInteger, Float, DoubleStringElapse TimeTimeInternationalized String

BooleanInteger, Float, Double

BooleanInteger, Float, DoubleStringElapse TimeTimeInternationalized String

Description No Yes Yes

Category / Writeability 1 CalculatedCalculated RetentiveObject WriteableUser Writeable

--Object WriteableUser Writeable

CalculatedCalculated RetentiveObject WriteableUser Writeable

Arrays Yes 2 No Yes 2

1 The InternationalizedString data type is writeable on configuration time only2 Not applicable to the InternationalizedString data type

The Power of One… Attribute (cont.)

Capability UDA + Extension Field Attribute Attribute

I/O Yes 1 Yes Yes 1

Scaling No Yes Yes

Statistics No Yes BooleanAnalog

Historization Yes 1, 2 Yes Yes 1, 2

Alarming Boolean Yes BooleanAnalog

Log / Event change No Yes BooleanAnalog

1 Not applicable to the InternationalizedString data type2 Not applicable to the Time data type

Attribute Features

Data Type I/OHisto

ryState alarm

Limit alarm

ROC alarm

Deviation

alarm

Bad value alarm

Statistics

Log chang

e

Boolean

IntegerFloatDouble

String

Elapse Time

Time

Internationalized String

IO BindingAutomatic attribute references

Automatic I/O Reference Binding

New IO Devices and IO Device Mapping views allow automatic configuration of I/O references.

Based on naming conventions for objects and attributes names.

Allows overriding references.

The IO Devices and IO Devices Mapping views show automatically generated IO references

From the PLC to the Attribute

PLCAddress Space

Item

DIO.Topic1.Mixer100.Level.PV Mixer100.Level.PV

DIO.Topic1.Mixer100.Level.PV Mixer100.Level.PV , 30001 30001

Alias List

(csv)

DAS

Topic

DIO

Topic

Object

Attribute

Alarm EnhancementsAlarm Severities, Alarm Plant State, Alarm Shelving, Security and Alarm Logging

Alarm Severities

Provides a mechanism to categorize alarms in four distinct groups based on the criticality (priority) of the alarm.

Severities can be aggregated from the attributes all the way up to the Area.

Display capabilities in the form of Alarm Border and Alarm Severity Symbol. The Alarms and Events Configuration dialog box

Alarm Severities Aggregation

Attribute

Alarm Severity aggregated counts:• AlarmCntsBySeverity » Integer[4]

Most Urgent Alarm information:• AlarmMostUrgentSeverity » Integer• AlarmMostUrgentInAlarm » Boolean • AlarmMostUrgentAcked » Boolean• AlarmMostUrgentMode » Enum• AlarmMostUrgentShelved » Boolean

All attributes are read-only.

Alarm Plant State

Provides context when setting the Alarm Mode (Enable, Disable, Silence) for an area.

Plant State attributes:• PlantState » String

R/W• PlantStateAlarmMode » Enum

R-O

Attributes at the Area object only.

The Alarms and Events Configuration dialog box

Alarm Shelving

Provides a mechanism to suppress reporting alarms to Alarm Clients for a specified period of time.

Shelving attributes:• AlarmShelveCmd » StringR/W

• AlarmShelved » Boolean R-O

• AlarmShelveNode » String R-O

• AlarmShelveReason » String R-O

• AlarmShelveStartTime » Time R-O

• AlarmShelveEndTime » Time R-O

• AlarmShelveUser » String R-O

The Alarms and Events Configuration dialog box

Logging alarms with Historian Server.

Alarm States

TriggerAlarm

ConditionView

Log

Inhibited Disabled Silenced Shelved

Logging alarms with Alarm DB Logger.

TriggerAlarm

ConditionView

Log

Inhibited Disabled Silenced Shelved

Alarm Permissions

New security permissions for new and existing alarm management capabilities.

Operational permissions:• Can Acknowledge Alarms• Can Shelve Alarms• Can Modify Alarm Modes• Can Modify Plant States

The Security configuration dialog box

Alarm and Event Logging

Alarm and Events from Application Server logged by Historian Server.

Log to:• Traditional SQL Server database

(A2ALMDB), or• History Blocks

The Configurator utility

Alarm and Event Logging

Alarm logging by severity.

Event logging by type.

Alarm DB Logger is still an option.

The Alarms and Events Configuration dialog box

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