cpmPlus Smart ClientThe seamless information display for System 800xA

IndustrialIT for cpmPlusCollaborative Production Management

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cpmPlus Smart Client

Transforming raw data into usable information.

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The cpmPlus Smart Client utilizes the extended automation capabilities of System 800xA technology to provide intelligentdata access and viewing functions to assist all levels of personnelin making quick, informed decisions, taking the appropriateaction, and thereby improving performance. Smart Client provides a true browser-based thin client that seamlessly retrievesdata from System 800xA and connected third-party systems.

Smart Client is comprised of a core system that includes Graphics, Trends and SPC. There are a number extensions that are designed with user friendliness, flexibility and accessibility in mind, including:

• Desktop Clients• Excel® Interface Clients • Alarms and Events

Information is a key asset for all businesses. The problem is thatmany businesses are looking at data, not information. To achieve asustainable competitive advantage, it must be possible to identify andreact quickly to issues when they arise. Reducing the time to decisionand action requires the timely collection of data, transformation toinformation, and distribution to the right people in a timely fashion.

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Lowering your total cost of ownershipwhile bringing business value to yourdesktop

• Ensure accurate information by using the com-mon context established in the 800xA informationmodel

• Eliminate duplicate engineering by using the exist-ing data definitions

• Simplified display configuration that requires noprogramming

• No additional costs based on tag count

• Displays are available anywhere where you canconnect to the network using a standard Internetbrowser

• Reduce training costs by presenting information infamiliar office format

Extending the power of System 800xA

cpmPlus Smart Client enhances the power ofSystem 800xA by seamlessly integrating real-timeand historical data in a simple, consistent user inter-face. The thin client displays contain the same highresolution data available in System 800xA OperatorWorkplace. By tightly integrating Smart Client withthe automation system, the value of System 800xAis enhanced.

• cpmPlus Smart Client enhances the power ofSystem 800xA by seamlessly integrating real-timeand historical data in a simple, consistent userinterface. The thin client displays contain the samehigh resolution data available in System 800xAOperator Workplace. By tightly integrating SmartClient with the automation system, the value ofSystem 800xA is enhanced.

• Trend data is stored inside of System 800xA, elim-inating the need to maintain separate databases forDCS and information systems.

• There is only one point of configuration for attrib-utes of properties such as ranges or alarm limits.Any change in System 800xA is automaticallyupdated on Smart Client server, creating a truesingle point of engineering.

• Using the log and security features of the 800xA,data are held and protected in a secure data environment, enhancing and simplifying systemsecurity.

• Using the security and reliability features ofSystem 800xA, data is held and protected in asecure data environment, enhancing and simplify-ing system security.

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cpmPlus Smart Client allows users to immediatelystart accessing information. Using Smart Client,information from System 800xA or connectedthird-party data sources is readily available on users’PCs and can be easily customized to allow access tothe precise data they need to make better decisions.

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Turning the desktop into Production Information Portals

cpmPlus Smart Client Desktop

Smart Client Desktop provides a role based userinterface for the system. It lets a user create, moni-tor and manage production and process informationon the desktop. The appropriate access rights are allthat is needed to access any real-time or historicalprocess information from one or more System800xA networks.

Once launched, Smart Client Desktop accesses theServer, which manages the requests for real-timedata.

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Smart Client graphics

Building displays is easy, with no programmingrequired. Using the System 800xA Property Browserand the Smart Client Graphics Palette, users selectthe information they want to add and drag it to agraphical element for display.

Total information accessUsers can access all real-time and historical processinformation, key performance indicators as well asalarm and event information in easily customizeddisplays.

Trending data points, including current and histori-cal values, is as simple as right clicking the datapoint.

Real-time designWhen designing or modifying screens, users see real-time process data, minimizing the time needed todesign and verify screens. This also allows ad hocdisplay creation, to quickly analyze problems.

Users can select data using the powerful System800xA Property Browser. This provides a commondata structure between Smart Client and System800xA. The 800xA Property Browser includes a drilldown, search, filtering features to make finding datapoints efficient.

Drag and drop designOnce a data point is selected, adding it to a displayis as easy as dragging and dropping it on the page.Display elements are selected from the ControlToolbox. Smart Client comes with a set of com-monly used, preconfigured display elements.Additionally, it is possible to create custom designedelements. Any display elements can be easily placedusing the drag and drop feature.

Once a display element is dropped into a screen itcan be resized, aligned, grouped or ungrouped.While in design mode, users have full control overdisplay properties such as shape, color and text.

System administrationConsistent with a true thin client design, all designinformation is stored on the server. Based on theuser login, and the role assigned to the user, the lat-est version of the appropriate displays are served upto Smart Client. This eases system administrationand maintenance functions like distribution andbackups.

Access to applications, displays and data is depend-ent on user access rights as determined by System800xA. This means there is no need for redundantsecurity systems, with a single place to manageaccess.

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cpmPlus Smart Client Trends and SPC

Analysis of real-time and historical data.

Improving quality is not just gathering data or con-trolling loops. It’s also having flexible tools thatenable people to find and fix abnormal situationsquickly. Using Statistical Process Control (SPC)charts and trends, operators or engineers can swiftlydiscover the root cause of problems and make thenecessary corrections to the process.

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Statistical Process Control capabilities

SPC is a method of monitoring, controlling andimproving a process by using statistical analysis. TheSmart Client Trends and SPC function make creat-ing charts and trends as simple as dragging an objectto a trend and selecting the control chart you wantto use.

SPC charts

• Distribution chart

• X-Y plot

• X range chart

• X sigma chart

• Moving average (EWMA) chart

• Moving average X moving average range chart

• Moving average X moving average sigma chart

Trending capabilities

Trends are easily configured, using the drag anddrop capability. Any System 800xA data point canbe selected and trended.

• Standard trend functions:- Change time scope and zoom- Multiple rulers- Data filter for low pass and moving or subgroup

average- Value markers and display attributes

• Advance trend functions- Configurable trend information area- Data filter for value within or out of range- Numeric display of trend data in table format- Setting of targets and off spec limits- Integrated statistic functions such as min, max,

mean, standard deviation- Time shift of trend curve

• Drag and drop of trend data into Microsoft Excel

• Export and import of data to and from datasetfiles.

• Integrated SPC analysis.

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Smart Client Alarms and Events provides access toall System 800xA events, including system eventssuch as node or network up or down, process eventssuch as a property going in and out of an alarmstate or an operator action such as a set-pointchange. The Alarm and Event analysis can be usedto find and eliminate the cause of a production dis-turbance by analyzing a sequence of events. It alsoimproves the operator work environment by findingand eliminating unnecessary operator actions oranalyzing the frequency of an occurrence of events.

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View and analyze alarms, events and operator actions.

Alarm and Event capabilities

• Tightly integrated with System 800xA event mes-sage server.

• Predefined event views for process event, systemevent and operator log.

• Display of Top Alarms

• Combined event list to show a list of alarm, eventsand operator orders

• Millions of alarms, events and operator orders arestored on-line.

• Configurable event view based on a user definedfilter on properties such as time, priority, objectname or message

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cpmPlus Smart Client Excel Interface

Creating personalized live report in theMicrosoftExcel environment.

The cpmPlus Smart Client Excel® Interface, extendsSystem 800xA into the Microsoft® Office® environ-ment. Users can drag and drop data from the 800xAsystem into Microsoft Excel.

Using this application, personalized ad hoc reportscan be created with live process data. MicrosoftExcel functions such as calculations, charting, etc.can be used to transform or analyze the processdata.

Smart Client Excel InterfaceCapabilities

• Values, real-time or historical, can be read once, orcontinuously updated

• Start or stop live update

• Save and call up previously configured spread-sheets

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Designed to respond to our customers’ need to getmore out of their existing assets, System 800xAextended the reach of the traditional automationsystem beyond process control. It enables enterprisewide information availability, browsing, and naviga-tion in a unified way so that information residing inan integrated environment can be configurable forvarious user categories, such as operators, engineers,maintenance and management personnel.

Smart Client harnesses the extended automationcapabilities of System 800xA technology to providea true thin client environment optimized for thedisplay of manufacturing information.

System wide administration

Security settings, user authority definitions, statusmonitoring and back up functions are system-wideand integral to the 800xA system. No additionalclient log-on is required because system security isintegrated with Windows security.

The 800xA Extended Automation Advantages

Harnessing the extended automation capabilities of System 800xA.

System 800xA Information Manager (800xA IM) isABB’s optional long-term history application. Whilethe System 800xA can keep all data for short peri-ods of time, ABB’s System 800xA IM extends theperiod of time that data can be saved.

Transparent Data Integration

System 800xA tightly integrates process data andhistorical data in one place, making it seamlesslyavailable to System 800xA and Smart Client users.

Information is more than process data

Alarm and event messages are also collected andstored, along with process data. This simplifies datamanagement and reduces the total cost of owner-ship by creating a single repository for all processand production data in a safe, secure and integratedenvironment.

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Architecture

For information to be viewed, analyzed and actedupon, its source has to be reliable and secure.System 800xA provides secure storage configura-tions for standard or specialty data structures. Userscan be confident that their decisions are based onreliable information.

• Security setting, user authority definitions, statusmonitoring and back-up functions are system-widefunctions integral to System 800xA.

• Consolidated data storage functions collect datafrom multiple history servers and store it in a sin-gle location. This provides a common repositoryfor viewing and reporting of multi-system infor-mation.

• Data archiving functions support copying datato archive media for extended data storage andsecurity.

• High data availability is achieved using fault tol-erant and distributed configurations. A RAID 5configuration insures high system reliability andavailability.

When data integrity is important.• A single point of engineering for system mainte-

nance ensures that there is no risk of inconsisten-cies between multiple databases and no need toduplicate engineering effort. Changes to propertiesmade in the control system databases, such asranges, alarm limits are automatically reproducedthroughout System 800xA.

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ABB’s Collaborative Production Management Suite

Smart Client is a core component of ABB’s Collaborative Production Management suite of applications, cpmPlus. As part of the IndustrialIT family, cpmPlus provides process and production management, advanced optimization for the process industries, connectivity toother shop floor systems and a bridge to enterprise systems. The capabilities of cpmPlus helpcompanies realize the potential of transparency of information, not just at the manufacturinglevel, but as a key component of the overall supply chain.

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