Software, services enhance hardware in Houston

The biggest players in control and automation gathered with the biggest names in software at ISA Expo/98 on Oct. 19-22 to showcase thousands of innovations to help manufacturers in the eternal quest to do more with less.

Fresh from its parent’s initial moves to buy Elsag Bailey Process Automation N.V., ABB (Rochester, N.Y.) showed a portfolio led by its Advant OCS (open control system). This productivity solution includes ABB’s Advant Enterprise Historian, which incorporates a distributed architecture for retrieving data from different systems, plants, and regions worldwide. The display component allows historical data viewing with web-based tools.

ABB also demonstrated: SattLine, its object-oriented, Microsoft Windows NT-based control system for smaller continuous and batch processes; SattCon 200, a modular, PLC-based control system with distributed I/O capabilities; AdvaBatch, a scalable, NT-based batch processor; and Advant Intelligent Enterprise Manager, which uses a graphical, object-oriented environment and intelligent agents to automate plant tasks and features one standard procedure for developing training models.

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