Topic 1.1.3: Components of System Platform

  • The ArchestrA Framework consists of server-side configuration and deployment related components. In System Platform, these components include a centralized object repository called Galaxy Repository, an integrated development environment, a data repository, and a Web server for Internet visualization and content management.
  • Wonderware Development Studio is your development environment to build applications. It includes the ArchestrA IDE and InTouch HMI. Both products include graphic tools, an extensive set of industrial symbols, and functions that can be included in application scripts.
  • Wonderware Historian is a time-series data optimized plant data historian. It stores plant data from Wonderware I/O Servers, DAServers, and industrial HMI applications. The Historian also contains event, summary, configuration, and system monitoring information. The Historian is tightly coupled to a Microsoft SQL Server database.
  • Wonderware Information Server is a Web content server to factory information. Wonderware Information Server shows plant floor information from HMI applications, I/O Servers, and Wonderware Historian. Wonderware Information Server delivers interactive HTML pages by converting existing InTouch graphic windows and associated animation to XML, applying an XSL (Extensible Style Language) translation and dynamically rendering VML (Vector Mark-up Language) graphics on the client computer.
  • InTouch for System Platform is the visualization client that shows Human Machine Interface (HMI) applications developed with InTouch.
  • I/O Server acts as a communication protocol server providing data from PLC’s and other factory devices to HMI applications. An I/O Server can be used with any Microsoft Windows program or supervisory application capable of acting as a DDE, FastDDE, OPC, or SuiteLink client. 
  • DAServer acts as a communication protocol server providing data from a specific vendor’s PLC’s and other factory devices. Wonderware offers an extensive family of DAServers for a wide variety of PLC manufacturers.

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