COMOS Operations provides integrated plant engineering and operations software for efficient plant management. It allows for consistent data sharing between engineering and operations teams through an integrated database. This eliminates redundant information and improves communication. The software provides transparency down to individual components and ensures all teams have access to the latest consistent data across the entire lifecycle of the plant.
The COMOS Platform provides:
1) A basis for effective plant management across the entire lifecycle through consistent data management on a single platform.
2) Innovative and service-oriented technologies to optimize all aspects of plant management from engineering to operation.
3) A basis for worldwide collaboration and data exchange across locations of all employees involved in engineering and operating plants.
RFEM is a powerful 3D FEA program helping structural engineers to meet requirements in modern civil engineering. Intuitive handling, user friendliness and efficient data input make working with RFEM easy.
The RFEM program family is based on a modular system. The main program RFEM is used to define structures, materials and loads for planar and spatial structural systems consisting of plates, walls, shells and members. Creating combined structures as well as modeling solid and contact elements is also possible. RFEM provides deformations, internal and support forces as well as soil contact stresses. Add-on modules facilitate the data input by creating structures as well as connections automatically and perform further analyses and designs. The modular approach allows you to combine all programs individually according to your needs. Upgrades at a later time are always possible. RFEM offering numerous interfaces represents the perfect tool for a smooth interaction between CAD and structural analysis in Building Information Modeling (BIM).
The EMC Engineering, Plant, and Facilities Management (EPFM) solution helps organizations address challenges in plant operation, maintenance, and environmental, health, and safety compliance. It provides secure access to engineering drawings and content across the project lifecycle from feasibility to decommissioning. The solution is based on EMC Documentum and follows industry standards, configurations over customization, and interoperability to integrate applications and lower costs. It offers capabilities like role-based security, document lifecycles, and metadata population to manage content across the energy industry.
A Robust Industrial Ethernet Infrastructure Consisting of Environmentally Hardened Network Cabling, Connectivity, and Active Components Is Essential to Long-Term Performance and Reliability
- Outsourcing IT infrastructure to the cloud can significantly reduce capital costs (up to 50%) and operating costs (up to 40%) for organizations compared to owning an on-site data center. This is especially beneficial for organizations where technology is not central to their core mission.
- Cloud computing offers various service models like SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS that allow organizations to outsource different aspects of their IT needs to cloud providers and reduce costs.
- Transitioning to cloud computing can free up resources that can be reallocated to an organization's core mission rather than spending on physical IT infrastructure and support.
The real time publisher subscriber inter-process communication model for dist...yancha1973
1) The document proposes a real-time publisher/subscriber model for inter-process communication in distributed real-time systems.
2) In the model, processes publish and subscribe to messages using logical handles called distribution tags, without knowledge of senders/receivers.
3) An application programming interface is presented that allows processes to create/destroy tags, publish/receive messages, and query senders/receivers.
4) The model is fault-tolerant, supporting applications like clock synchronization across nodes and allowing processes to be upgraded online.
Cloud computing: new challenge to the entire computer industryStudying
This document discusses cloud computing and its architecture. It defines cloud computing as using internet and remote servers to maintain data and applications, allowing more efficient computing through centralized resources. The document outlines the three layers of cloud computing: Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure. Applications are software delivered as a service. Platforms provide computing platforms and tools without managing underlying hardware. Infrastructure provides virtualized computer systems and resources as a utility service.
Deerns Data Center Chameleon 20110913 V1.1euroamerican
The Chameleon Data Center was designed to dynamically adapt to meet changing business needs in terms of IT space, cooling, power and reliability tiers, while maintaining energy efficiency. It utilizes a unique combination of centralized and decentralized systems to deliver flexible IT power and cooling across a range of power densities, reliability tiers and capacities from the same infrastructure. This reduces upfront investment costs and allows customers to decide how to configure the data center space until equipment installation. The design achieves flexibility without additional costs through a modular infrastructure that can be easily adapted.
The COMOS Platform provides:
1) A basis for effective plant management across the entire lifecycle through consistent data management on a single platform.
2) Innovative and service-oriented technologies to optimize all aspects of plant management from engineering to operation.
3) A basis for worldwide collaboration and data exchange across locations of all employees involved in engineering and operating plants.
RFEM is a powerful 3D FEA program helping structural engineers to meet requirements in modern civil engineering. Intuitive handling, user friendliness and efficient data input make working with RFEM easy.
The RFEM program family is based on a modular system. The main program RFEM is used to define structures, materials and loads for planar and spatial structural systems consisting of plates, walls, shells and members. Creating combined structures as well as modeling solid and contact elements is also possible. RFEM provides deformations, internal and support forces as well as soil contact stresses. Add-on modules facilitate the data input by creating structures as well as connections automatically and perform further analyses and designs. The modular approach allows you to combine all programs individually according to your needs. Upgrades at a later time are always possible. RFEM offering numerous interfaces represents the perfect tool for a smooth interaction between CAD and structural analysis in Building Information Modeling (BIM).
The EMC Engineering, Plant, and Facilities Management (EPFM) solution helps organizations address challenges in plant operation, maintenance, and environmental, health, and safety compliance. It provides secure access to engineering drawings and content across the project lifecycle from feasibility to decommissioning. The solution is based on EMC Documentum and follows industry standards, configurations over customization, and interoperability to integrate applications and lower costs. It offers capabilities like role-based security, document lifecycles, and metadata population to manage content across the energy industry.
A Robust Industrial Ethernet Infrastructure Consisting of Environmentally Hardened Network Cabling, Connectivity, and Active Components Is Essential to Long-Term Performance and Reliability
- Outsourcing IT infrastructure to the cloud can significantly reduce capital costs (up to 50%) and operating costs (up to 40%) for organizations compared to owning an on-site data center. This is especially beneficial for organizations where technology is not central to their core mission.
- Cloud computing offers various service models like SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS that allow organizations to outsource different aspects of their IT needs to cloud providers and reduce costs.
- Transitioning to cloud computing can free up resources that can be reallocated to an organization's core mission rather than spending on physical IT infrastructure and support.
The real time publisher subscriber inter-process communication model for dist...yancha1973
1) The document proposes a real-time publisher/subscriber model for inter-process communication in distributed real-time systems.
2) In the model, processes publish and subscribe to messages using logical handles called distribution tags, without knowledge of senders/receivers.
3) An application programming interface is presented that allows processes to create/destroy tags, publish/receive messages, and query senders/receivers.
4) The model is fault-tolerant, supporting applications like clock synchronization across nodes and allowing processes to be upgraded online.
Cloud computing: new challenge to the entire computer industryStudying
This document discusses cloud computing and its architecture. It defines cloud computing as using internet and remote servers to maintain data and applications, allowing more efficient computing through centralized resources. The document outlines the three layers of cloud computing: Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure. Applications are software delivered as a service. Platforms provide computing platforms and tools without managing underlying hardware. Infrastructure provides virtualized computer systems and resources as a utility service.
Deerns Data Center Chameleon 20110913 V1.1euroamerican
The Chameleon Data Center was designed to dynamically adapt to meet changing business needs in terms of IT space, cooling, power and reliability tiers, while maintaining energy efficiency. It utilizes a unique combination of centralized and decentralized systems to deliver flexible IT power and cooling across a range of power densities, reliability tiers and capacities from the same infrastructure. This reduces upfront investment costs and allows customers to decide how to configure the data center space until equipment installation. The design achieves flexibility without additional costs through a modular infrastructure that can be easily adapted.
En esta presentación analizamos varias herramientas de administración disponibles en Microsoft para mejorar nuestra infraestructura.
Ing. Eduardo Castro Martinez, PhD
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
http://mswindowscr.org
http://comunidadwindows.org
EPSS 500 provides contextual, just-in-time, electronic performance support to users of applications such as SAP, Oracle ERP, IFS, Infor, Epicor, and other ERP products as well to users of the widest range of other application software – both packaged and internally custom developed.
A Cost-Effective Integrated Solution for Backup and Disaster Recoveryxmeteorite
This document discusses a cost-effective integrated solution for backup and disaster recovery provided by InMage Systems. The solution combines application and data recovery into a single platform that can be used for disaster recovery, local backup and restore, and automated application failover and recovery. It leverages continuous data protection and replication technologies to minimize data loss and recovery times. The solution supports applications like Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Oracle, and SAP in a heterogeneous environment.
The document discusses major design issues in cloud computing operating systems and techniques to mitigate them. It outlines issues like providing sufficient APIs, security, trust, confidentiality and privacy. To address these, a cloud OS needs to design abstract interfaces following open standards for interoperability. It also needs mechanisms like trusted third parties to establish trust dynamically between systems. The OS must allow for multitenancy while preventing confidentiality breaches through techniques like limiting residual data.
This document proposes a technical approach to building decentralized computer systems. It suggests distributing functions as independent "servers" that abstract data through high-level operations and communicate with "requestors" via standard message protocols. This requestor-server model has advantages over traditional distributed databases by allowing for modularity and performance improvements. It argues this approach is better suited for decentralized organizations by giving autonomy over function and data to individual parts of the system, while still allowing integration through common messaging standards.
This document discusses physical infrastructure designs to support logical network architectures in data centers. It examines Top of Rack (ToR) and End of Row (EoR) access models. ToR uses an access switch in each cabinet, requiring connections for each server. EoR uses chassis switches in the row middle, connecting cabinets within cable length limits. Designs must map logical networks to physical cable routing and manage connectivity growth.
Software performance simulation strategies for high-level embedded system designMr. Chanuwan
This document discusses software performance simulation strategies for high-level embedded system design. It introduces instruction set simulators (ISSs), which are accurate but slow. It also discusses binary-level simulation (BLS) and source-level simulation (SLS), which are faster approaches based on native execution. The document proposes a new approach called intermediate source code instrumentation based simulation (iSciSim) that aims to achieve high accuracy, speed, and low complexity for system-level design space exploration.
This document discusses usability engineering and its activities. It defines usability engineering as a user-centered process that ensures systems are effective, efficient, and safe. The key activities discussed are:
1) Domain analysis to understand users and tasks
2) Expert evaluation where usability experts evaluate designs against guidelines
3) Formative usability evaluation where representative users perform tasks while being observed to identify usability problems
This document summarizes AvePoint's SharePoint-centric solutions. AvePoint is a leading provider of SharePoint backup, founded in 2001. It has over 240 in-house developers and global locations. AvePoint offers comprehensive solutions for SharePoint infrastructure management including backup and recovery, high availability, administration, compliance, and migration tools. Its flagship DocAve product is an integrated solution for data protection, administration, discovery and more.
Michigan Consolidated Gas Company implemented a mobile computing solution to improve productivity and customer service for its 1,000 field workers spread across a large geographic area. The solution included mobile computers, a wireless data network, and work management software. This allowed schedules and work updates to be shared in real-time between field workers and dispatchers. As a result, MichCon saw improved customer response times and greater flexibility in assigning workers. The project was successful due to commitment from employees and leadership across the company.
An embedded system is an electronic system designed to perform specific functions. It contains both hardware and software. Examples include electronic toys, mobile phones, home appliances, automotive systems, and medical devices. Embedded systems are unique, specialized systems designed for specific applications. They have customized hardware and software optimized for the intended functions.
This document proposes a solution called CloudVision to help cloud providers troubleshoot problems reported by users. CloudVision would automatically track configuration changes to virtual machine instances and store this information in a database. When users report problems, CloudVision analyzes the configuration history to identify potential causes. It then takes predefined actions to check and solve problems by interacting with the configuration of VM instances. The goal is to help providers address user problems more quickly through automated problem reasoning and interactive troubleshooting based on visibility into VM configuration events and lifecycles.
The document discusses Metsä Tissue's Maintenance Improvement Project (MIP) which aims to implement a new Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). It provides timelines showing the CMMS being rolled out first in Sweden in 2011, then other regions through 2013. Evaluation criteria for potential CMMS systems are presented, comparing IBM Maximo, Competitor 1, and Competitor 2. The document also outlines desired process improvements, including failure coding, work order prioritization, scheduling, reporting, and mobile access.
This document summarizes research on domain-specific considerations for cloud computing performance. It discusses key contributions in computational power, performance provisioning, load balancing, and service level agreements. It also analyzes the characteristics of public, private and hybrid cloud models in terms of scalability, security, reliability, cost, data integration, management and other factors. The study reveals that considering domain-specific factors is important for designing effective cloud-based applications and environments.
The document discusses several computerized tree management systems that have been developed over the last two decades to help organizations effectively manage their resources. It provides details on a few specific systems currently available, including Arb Pro software designed for tree contractors, ezytreev software which offers online and desktop versions and additional modules, and Eye-TREE software which maintains tree inspection and work details for estates and organizations. The systems aim to help users monitor, control and manage all aspects of their tree-related businesses.
This document provides an overview of grid computing. It discusses that grid computing enables sharing, selection, and aggregation of distributed resources like supercomputers, storage, and data sources. Grid computing allows for these resources to be used as a unified virtual machine. The document then discusses the services offered by grids including computational, data, application, information, and knowledge services. It also discusses the types of grids like computational grids, data grids, and scavenging grids. Finally, it discusses some of the key advantages of grid computing like making better use of available hardware and idle computing resources.
This document discusses precision cooling systems for mission-critical facilities housing sensitive electronics. Standard HVAC systems cannot provide the stable temperature and humidity control required. Precision cooling systems like the Liebert DS can maintain the narrow temperature and humidity ranges needed for optimal equipment performance. The document outlines Liebert's experience and reliability in meeting the specific cooling needs of different critical spaces like data centers, computer rooms, and labs.
This document discusses the key benefits that eMA provides to service providers in managing their service delivery and reporting to customers. eMA combines real-time monitoring and analytical reporting into a single tool. It allows integration with various third-party monitoring tools and data sources. eMA also provides configurable dashboards and reports that give users customizable views of key performance indicators and service level agreements on a per-customer basis. This helps service providers optimize service delivery and proactively manage customer SLA compliance.
This document summarizes a study of DRAM memory errors in a large fleet of servers at Google over 2.5 years. The study found memory error rates orders of magnitude higher than previously reported, with 25,000 to 70,000 errors per billion device hours per Mbit. More than 8% of DIMMs were affected by errors per year. The study also found that memory errors are dominated by hard errors rather than soft errors as previously thought. Temperature had surprisingly little effect on error rates when accounting for other factors. Newer DIMM generations did not show worse error behavior unlike expectations.
COMOS Automation is an integrated software solution that allows for efficient engineering from EI&C planning through to automation technology. It provides a single system for electrical, instrumentation, control, fluidics, function planning, and automation. This facilitates consistent bidirectional data flow between disciplines and improves quality, lowers costs, and increases productivity. COMOS uses an object-oriented approach to store all plant information in a central database, allowing all teams to access the same up-to-date data.
COMOS Automation is an integrated software solution that allows for efficient engineering from EI&C planning through to automation technology. It provides a single system for electrical, instrumentation, control, fluidics, function planning, and automation. This facilitates consistent bidirectional data flow between disciplines and improves quality, lowers costs, and increases productivity. COMOS uses an object-oriented approach to store all plant information in a central database, allowing all teams to access the same up-to-date data.
The COMOS Platform provides:
1) A basis for effective plant management across the entire lifecycle through consistent data management on a single platform.
2) Innovative and service-oriented technologies for optimizing all aspects of plant management from engineering to operation.
3) A basis for worldwide collaboration and data exchange across locations of all employees involved in engineering and operating plants.
En esta presentación analizamos varias herramientas de administración disponibles en Microsoft para mejorar nuestra infraestructura.
Ing. Eduardo Castro Martinez, PhD
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
http://mswindowscr.org
http://comunidadwindows.org
EPSS 500 provides contextual, just-in-time, electronic performance support to users of applications such as SAP, Oracle ERP, IFS, Infor, Epicor, and other ERP products as well to users of the widest range of other application software – both packaged and internally custom developed.
A Cost-Effective Integrated Solution for Backup and Disaster Recoveryxmeteorite
This document discusses a cost-effective integrated solution for backup and disaster recovery provided by InMage Systems. The solution combines application and data recovery into a single platform that can be used for disaster recovery, local backup and restore, and automated application failover and recovery. It leverages continuous data protection and replication technologies to minimize data loss and recovery times. The solution supports applications like Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Oracle, and SAP in a heterogeneous environment.
The document discusses major design issues in cloud computing operating systems and techniques to mitigate them. It outlines issues like providing sufficient APIs, security, trust, confidentiality and privacy. To address these, a cloud OS needs to design abstract interfaces following open standards for interoperability. It also needs mechanisms like trusted third parties to establish trust dynamically between systems. The OS must allow for multitenancy while preventing confidentiality breaches through techniques like limiting residual data.
This document proposes a technical approach to building decentralized computer systems. It suggests distributing functions as independent "servers" that abstract data through high-level operations and communicate with "requestors" via standard message protocols. This requestor-server model has advantages over traditional distributed databases by allowing for modularity and performance improvements. It argues this approach is better suited for decentralized organizations by giving autonomy over function and data to individual parts of the system, while still allowing integration through common messaging standards.
This document discusses physical infrastructure designs to support logical network architectures in data centers. It examines Top of Rack (ToR) and End of Row (EoR) access models. ToR uses an access switch in each cabinet, requiring connections for each server. EoR uses chassis switches in the row middle, connecting cabinets within cable length limits. Designs must map logical networks to physical cable routing and manage connectivity growth.
Software performance simulation strategies for high-level embedded system designMr. Chanuwan
This document discusses software performance simulation strategies for high-level embedded system design. It introduces instruction set simulators (ISSs), which are accurate but slow. It also discusses binary-level simulation (BLS) and source-level simulation (SLS), which are faster approaches based on native execution. The document proposes a new approach called intermediate source code instrumentation based simulation (iSciSim) that aims to achieve high accuracy, speed, and low complexity for system-level design space exploration.
This document discusses usability engineering and its activities. It defines usability engineering as a user-centered process that ensures systems are effective, efficient, and safe. The key activities discussed are:
1) Domain analysis to understand users and tasks
2) Expert evaluation where usability experts evaluate designs against guidelines
3) Formative usability evaluation where representative users perform tasks while being observed to identify usability problems
This document summarizes AvePoint's SharePoint-centric solutions. AvePoint is a leading provider of SharePoint backup, founded in 2001. It has over 240 in-house developers and global locations. AvePoint offers comprehensive solutions for SharePoint infrastructure management including backup and recovery, high availability, administration, compliance, and migration tools. Its flagship DocAve product is an integrated solution for data protection, administration, discovery and more.
Michigan Consolidated Gas Company implemented a mobile computing solution to improve productivity and customer service for its 1,000 field workers spread across a large geographic area. The solution included mobile computers, a wireless data network, and work management software. This allowed schedules and work updates to be shared in real-time between field workers and dispatchers. As a result, MichCon saw improved customer response times and greater flexibility in assigning workers. The project was successful due to commitment from employees and leadership across the company.
An embedded system is an electronic system designed to perform specific functions. It contains both hardware and software. Examples include electronic toys, mobile phones, home appliances, automotive systems, and medical devices. Embedded systems are unique, specialized systems designed for specific applications. They have customized hardware and software optimized for the intended functions.
This document proposes a solution called CloudVision to help cloud providers troubleshoot problems reported by users. CloudVision would automatically track configuration changes to virtual machine instances and store this information in a database. When users report problems, CloudVision analyzes the configuration history to identify potential causes. It then takes predefined actions to check and solve problems by interacting with the configuration of VM instances. The goal is to help providers address user problems more quickly through automated problem reasoning and interactive troubleshooting based on visibility into VM configuration events and lifecycles.
The document discusses Metsä Tissue's Maintenance Improvement Project (MIP) which aims to implement a new Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). It provides timelines showing the CMMS being rolled out first in Sweden in 2011, then other regions through 2013. Evaluation criteria for potential CMMS systems are presented, comparing IBM Maximo, Competitor 1, and Competitor 2. The document also outlines desired process improvements, including failure coding, work order prioritization, scheduling, reporting, and mobile access.
This document summarizes research on domain-specific considerations for cloud computing performance. It discusses key contributions in computational power, performance provisioning, load balancing, and service level agreements. It also analyzes the characteristics of public, private and hybrid cloud models in terms of scalability, security, reliability, cost, data integration, management and other factors. The study reveals that considering domain-specific factors is important for designing effective cloud-based applications and environments.
The document discusses several computerized tree management systems that have been developed over the last two decades to help organizations effectively manage their resources. It provides details on a few specific systems currently available, including Arb Pro software designed for tree contractors, ezytreev software which offers online and desktop versions and additional modules, and Eye-TREE software which maintains tree inspection and work details for estates and organizations. The systems aim to help users monitor, control and manage all aspects of their tree-related businesses.
This document provides an overview of grid computing. It discusses that grid computing enables sharing, selection, and aggregation of distributed resources like supercomputers, storage, and data sources. Grid computing allows for these resources to be used as a unified virtual machine. The document then discusses the services offered by grids including computational, data, application, information, and knowledge services. It also discusses the types of grids like computational grids, data grids, and scavenging grids. Finally, it discusses some of the key advantages of grid computing like making better use of available hardware and idle computing resources.
This document discusses precision cooling systems for mission-critical facilities housing sensitive electronics. Standard HVAC systems cannot provide the stable temperature and humidity control required. Precision cooling systems like the Liebert DS can maintain the narrow temperature and humidity ranges needed for optimal equipment performance. The document outlines Liebert's experience and reliability in meeting the specific cooling needs of different critical spaces like data centers, computer rooms, and labs.
This document discusses the key benefits that eMA provides to service providers in managing their service delivery and reporting to customers. eMA combines real-time monitoring and analytical reporting into a single tool. It allows integration with various third-party monitoring tools and data sources. eMA also provides configurable dashboards and reports that give users customizable views of key performance indicators and service level agreements on a per-customer basis. This helps service providers optimize service delivery and proactively manage customer SLA compliance.
This document summarizes a study of DRAM memory errors in a large fleet of servers at Google over 2.5 years. The study found memory error rates orders of magnitude higher than previously reported, with 25,000 to 70,000 errors per billion device hours per Mbit. More than 8% of DIMMs were affected by errors per year. The study also found that memory errors are dominated by hard errors rather than soft errors as previously thought. Temperature had surprisingly little effect on error rates when accounting for other factors. Newer DIMM generations did not show worse error behavior unlike expectations.
COMOS Automation is an integrated software solution that allows for efficient engineering from EI&C planning through to automation technology. It provides a single system for electrical, instrumentation, control, fluidics, function planning, and automation. This facilitates consistent bidirectional data flow between disciplines and improves quality, lowers costs, and increases productivity. COMOS uses an object-oriented approach to store all plant information in a central database, allowing all teams to access the same up-to-date data.
COMOS Automation is an integrated software solution that allows for efficient engineering from EI&C planning through to automation technology. It provides a single system for electrical, instrumentation, control, fluidics, function planning, and automation. This facilitates consistent bidirectional data flow between disciplines and improves quality, lowers costs, and increases productivity. COMOS uses an object-oriented approach to store all plant information in a central database, allowing all teams to access the same up-to-date data.
The COMOS Platform provides:
1) A basis for effective plant management across the entire lifecycle through consistent data management on a single platform.
2) Innovative and service-oriented technologies for optimizing all aspects of plant management from engineering to operation.
3) A basis for worldwide collaboration and data exchange across locations of all employees involved in engineering and operating plants.
This document summarizes COMOS software solutions for efficiently engineering and managing pharmaceutical plants. COMOS provides a single data platform to integrate engineering information across the plant lifecycle. It ensures consistent documentation, improves productivity and quality, and facilitates compliance with regulations. COMOS maximizes efficiency through standardized processes and reusing existing information to shorten development timelines.
This document discusses ensuring high availability and data security with Datacore software. It notes that companies' data is their most important asset and infrastructures have become more dynamic with server virtualization. As a result, storage systems and networks must also adapt quickly. Datacore provides a future-proof and flexible solution to ensure 24/7 availability even during operations, maintenance, extensions or migrations. It allows for central management and virtualization of storage resources across systems and locations for high performance, security and simplicity.
Many customers have deployed end-to-end workloads that span their enterprise or midsize organization. Multitier computing has taken hold, leveraging components of end-to-end workloads that span the computing systems of many departments and divisions in large enterprises and midsize businesses. Although the applications have "grown up" on separate servers — large and small — the overall business would benefit if they could be brought closer together.
Computer engineering and consulting company Diginaut uses a model driven environment called ZORA to automatically generate middleware objects and user interfaces without programming. ZORA is a multi-tier .NET system that generates server and client objects based on a given meta-model designed in UML. It allows different user interfaces to access and create the same database objects depending on the user group and context. Diginaut develops solutions for electric utilities using standards like IEC 61970 and 61968 for data interoperability and a single COM interface to access meta-model classes.
This document discusses different integration architectures: point-to-point, hub-and-spoke, distributed, and service-oriented. It notes the advantages and disadvantages of each. Hub-and-spoke was an early formal integration technology but does not scale well. Distributed integration addresses scalability by distributing work across multiple agents. Service-oriented architecture uses loosely coupled web services. The document discusses how enterprise service buses have become the standard for creating service-oriented architectures, noting their core features and benefits like scalability, ease of expansion, and support for incremental adoption.
The document discusses how cloud implementation can maximize ROI for laboratories. It explains that adopting a thin-client architecture hosted on the cloud provides benefits like high storage capacity, cost effectiveness, strong data security, and the ability for multiple simultaneous users. The cloud's pay-as-you-go model allows laboratories to access laboratory informatics software without large upfront hardware costs. Overall, the cloud enables laboratories to streamline operations while minimizing total cost of ownership.
Una plataforma de software para control de procesos en el sector agroindustrialSergio Mancera
This document discusses a software framework for process control in agroindustrial applications. It proposes using the Internet Communications Engine (ICE) middleware to meet requirements such as flexibility, adaptability, and timely information sharing. The framework is intended to support growing system complexity and heterogeneity. A prototype application has been implemented based on this framework to test its effectiveness for agroindustrial process control.
This document discusses a fault tolerant environment for distributed web crawlers. It proposes using hardware failure detection and a roll-forward recovery approach. Key aspects include periodically taking checkpoints of process states and messages, detecting hardware failures on nodes, and using forced checkpoints and roll-forward recovery to minimize the impact of failures while ensuring consistency. When roll-forward recovery is not possible, it suggests using a microreboot approach to restore only failed components rather than the entire system.
Communicating Virtualization to Non-IT AudiencesAkweli Parker
Virtualization brings numerous benefits including cost savings, reduced carbon footprint and potentially reduced IT workload. Implementing it successfully requires adaptation that some employees may find challenging. This paper explores those challenges and explains how to cultivate broad-based support for your virtualization project.
This document describes Siemens' COMOS software solution for integrated data management across all phases of an industrial plant's lifecycle. COMOS provides a common database that allows engineers and operators to access up-to-date project data from any location. It ensures seamless information flow through engineering, operations, modernization and dismantling. Key COMOS platforms discussed include the COMOS Enterprise Server, which enables global collaboration through a service-oriented architecture, and COMOS View, which provides a secure information portal for accessing plant data.
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The document discusses transforming a data center from a cost center to a business enabler using Cisco's Domain Ten framework. This framework identifies ten essential domains to consider for successful transformation: Facilities and Infrastructure, Virtualization and Abstraction, Automation and Orchestration, User Portal, Service Catalog and Management, and Service Financial Management. Understanding and addressing all ten domains allows for accelerated data center transformation, whether toward virtualization, cloud-based models, or more efficient operations.
- The document proposes a new paradigm called Optumis Concerto for integrated IT systems management.
- Current IT systems management tools are siloed and fail to deliver promised value due to lack of integration between tools.
- Optumis Concerto applies techniques like abstraction and declarative frameworks to provide a coherent, integrated approach for managing complex IT infrastructure and applications.
- By abstracting management data and using a common framework, Optumis Concerto aims to improve coordination between management functions and tools.
The document discusses optimizing data transfer in service-oriented architectures. It proposes an approach called Promulgate that uses a hybrid orchestration and choreography model. Promulgate introduces proxy services that invoke actual web services on behalf of a centralized workflow engine. The proxies can cache and transfer data between each other to optimize transmission between services. The document evaluates Promulgate's use of data caching techniques like dynamic proxy deployment and SOAP compression to reduce redundant data transfer compared to a pure orchestration model. It describes the Promulgate architecture and actors, web service implementation using .NET and Axis, and SOAP compression using zipped SOAP. Experimental setup and configurations are also outlined to test Promulgate's performance over different network
The document describes a plant information management system called DataMAX that provides comprehensive real-time and historical analysis of plant data. It offers enterprise-wide visibility of operations to enhance collaboration and decision-making. DataMAX provides a complete data management solution on a robust and versatile architecture to manage all plant floor data through a user-friendly interface. It redefines the role of a high-performance real-time historian and aims to align business and technical processes.
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many individual pieces of information.
in a central database. As a result, all disci
The result is an optimally functioning
plines and departments involved in the
over ll system.
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engineering and operating phases always
access the same data for a given object. Open architecture – customizable
Changes to objects or documents are thus software
available to every user directly within the The open system architecture of COMOS
relevant engineering document. enables optimal integration of third-party
systems. COMOS can be adapted to exactly
Related data sheets, lists, and other docu
meet company-specific requirements and
ments are linked to the corresponding
can be integrated seamlessly into existing
objects. Easy navigation between the dif
EDP (Electronic Data Processing) land
ferent document types and the individual
scapes. As a result, COMOS contributes
objects is provided. All plant components
significantly to reducing the number of
are perfectly matched, which makes proj
software applications a company needs to
ect work much faster and easier.
support.
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4. Complete management, engineering as well as organization of operation and maintenance
COMOS MRO – targeted
service and maintenance
management
Tremendous reduction of time spent While a plant is running, all devices and The intuitive application of COMOS MRO
on secondary tasks with COMOS MRO machines have to operate without prob makes for comprehensive, clear and redun
due to intelligent maintenance of all lems to avoid expensive production down dancy-free processing. The time spent on
plant data in one system.
times or even personal injuries. COMOS secondary tasks, which take up more than
MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul) half of the entire working time, is drasti
encompasses the complete management, c lly reduced, making it possible to focus
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engineering and organization of operation more on the important main tasks. COMOS
and maintenance, including plant docu MRO increases your plant operating times
mentation, all in one system. You always while lowering costs at the same time.
have access to the latest engineering data
in COMOS. This means that any changes to
the plant due to service and maintenance
processes are immediately available in the
engineering data.
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5. Planning and implementing spots and provide important information
adminis rative tasks
t for goal and strategy planning on the
As a CMMS system (Computerized Main management level. The integration of
tenance Management System), COMOS ERP applications (ERP = Enterprise
MRO supports the structured filing and Resource Planning) makes use of func
management of all maintenance-related tions in COMOS MRO for optimum moni
data. In this way, plant data, plant struc toring and control of resources, such as
ture and plant history, as well as informa demand indications, availability checks,
tion about plant personnel and business inventory management and many more.
partners, can be clearly represented and
Flexible implementation of
managed.
maintenance measures
Using an intuitive graphical display, you For optimum maintenance, the individual Clear structuring and systematiza
can easily assign qualifications and roles components can undergo a risk analysis tion of different maintenance mea
to personnel, ensuring the assignment of in COMOS and be evaluated according to sures with Risk Based Maintenance.
jobs in a reliable manner. The coopera different criteria. The results can then be
tion of the individual disciplines and used to draw specific conclusions on
departments, combined with a clear which maintenance method should be
management of the different areas of used. A clear structuring and systemization
responsibility, helps optimize workflows of preventive and condition-based mainte
and reduce costs. nance measures will then take place.
Risk-based maintenance will be carried
All processes and workflows can be ana
out based on regular audits of safety
lyzed and automatically summarized in
aspects, legal guidelines, etc.
reports with COMOS MRO. The results of
the analyses can be used to update work
processes and further improve the work
flows. They enable the analysis of weak
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6. Your benefits with
COMOS MRO
- omplete system integration for
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better planning accuracy
- eduction of unproductive
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times to a minimum
- high degree of automation
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reduces administrative effort
- ptimized planning reduces the
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need for stock of materials
- mproved identification of weak
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points reduces the failure rate
- ndividual modification of mea-
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sures lowers maintenance costs
- igh efficiency leads to a
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shorter amortization period
Conflation of all necessary information for service and maintenance in COMOS
Maintenance packages individually Thus plant and production downtime is
tailored to the company’s needs reduced to a minimum. Condition-based
improve efficiency and profitability. maintenance, on the other hand, takes
well-timed measures based on the
equipment´s condition. It responds to
error messages or specific events. The
occurring problem is first analyzed and
then remedied immediately, if possible.
With COMOS, you can locate the cause
easily thanks to completely traceable
chains of events and then have specialists
determine the cause.
Resources can be economically managed
and used, because the maintenance
package is optimally matched to the
re pective plant.
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7. Processing all tasks of a plant shutdown in one system
COMOS Shutdown – efficient
planning and safe execution of
plant shutdowns
For some industries, large-scale mainte If operation and maintenance of the plant Planning, executing and analyzing
nance of the plant or several components takes place in different systems, communi the entire shutdown in one system.
is necessary in a very short and limited cation is extremely difficult and time-con
period of time. The plant is usually shut suming. With COMOS Shutdown, the plant
down completely for a short time so that operation and maintenance functions all
the units in the plant can be checked and reside on one system. This means all phases
serviced. Such a process requires detailed of the plant shutdown are processed in one
and comprehensive planning. All eventuali system. It ensures everyone involved in
ties must be taken into consideration, these activities always has access to the
because each day without production is latest data.
expensive; deviations from the plan are
virtually impossible and the process has to
run very smoothly. This requires a lot of
coordination between all disciplines and
departments involved in the process.
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8. Your benefits with
COMOS Shutdown
- omplete shutdown cycle in one
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system
- uniform database enables
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improved communication
- ptimized planning for effec-
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tively used resources
- ntegration with other COMOS
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solutions increases efficiency
- etailed evaluation of prior
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events helps optimize future
shutdowns
Safe, precise and efficient shutdown Based on COMOS MRO, COMOS Shutdown
planning and execution due to uni supports the critical shutdown planning
form data platform. phase with numerous functions. The
scope of COMOS Shutdown includes
estimating, scheduling, coordination,
progress assessment, and reporting; all
executing on one system. This approach
enables optimal communication and
allows shutdown planning to take place
precisely and safely.
COMOS Shutdown also makes analysis
and post-processing of the shutdown
very simple. Empirical values such as
duration, problems during execution etc.
can be integrated into planning of the
next shutdown phase to make it safer
and more efficient.
Detailed evaluation of previous shut
downs can be used to optimize the shut
down procedure.
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9. Your benefits with
COMOS Portable Direct
- mproved efficiency during
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maintenance due to optimal
information management
- irect entry reduces error
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potential
- ser-friendly interface
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simplifies work
COMOS Portable Direct –
direct feedback on-site
The shutdown and all of the maintenance work associated employee anywhere and at any time. This makes it un-
with it are supported by COMOS Portable Direct. This necessary for users to copy down the tasks and it allows
optimized application for feedback of maintenance data them to work untethered. Using an RFID chip, the equip
makes messages regarding the immediate status of main ment is scanned and identified on-site with the portable
tenance tasks available to planners. This means that the device. Once maintenance is complete, the steps are en-
planners always have a good overview of the entire situa tered into the handheld device. There are no additional
tion and can respond to any difficulties quickly and in an steps, which makes the feedback process from the field
appropriate manner. COMOS Portable enables easy input easier and more secure.
using a mobile device. COMOS Direct is available on a
COMOS Direct – central feedback on the touch screen
terminal station in the plant. Feedback is entered directly
COMOS Direct is designed for central feedback in the
into the system. This approach drastically reduces the risk
workshop or in the field. Each technician is equipped with
of errors as well as the expenditure of time and workload
a card reader and a barcode scanner for uncomplicated
compared to a paper-based method.
login and identification. Due to the exact assignment of
COMOS Portable – the mobile feedback the maintenance object to the respective technician, the
COMOS Portable is the ideal solution for maintenance terminal interface displays only the current task to be pro
work on the plant premises. Maintenance orders can be cessed. Entries regarding time, material and maintenance
conveniently downloaded to the handheld device, such as can be made directly using the touch screen.
a PDA or smartphone, and are available to the respective
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10. Your benefits with
COMOS Inspection
- omplete integration into the
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COMOS system
- More efficiency due to interac-
tion with other applications
- ata collected in the field can
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be integrated into COMOS
- utomatic status calculation of
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components reduces workload
Processing of all relevant COMOS information directly from the plant
COMOS Inspection – simple,
non-destructive material testing
Regular inspection of devices and machines in a plant is The measured values are fed directly into the COMOS sys
the prerequisite for efficient production as well as high tem by the mobile measuring devices via an interface.
safety and quality standards.
The complete data is automatically analyzed in COMOS,
COMOS Inspection enables simple, non-destructive mate but measurements of individual inspection points can also
rial testing in perfect interaction with other COMOS appli be combined and compared. Based on the analysis done
cations. You can use COMOS Inspection to precisely deter on prior inspections, COMOS projects component condi
mine and specify the inspection points for the scheduled tions. This provides a detailed overview of the service life
measurements with the help of COMOS Isometrics. These of the individual components and gives you an idea of
inspection points can be scheduled to be inspected at the when a certain component may have to be replaced.
same intervals as used by COMOS MRO, which makes for
This data can be integrated into all applications and repre
an optimized inspection process. This prevents covering
sented in the different document types in COMOS.
unnecessary distances and means that measurements are
implemented in a timely manner.
The measurements may be made on-site with mobile
ul rasound or x-ray devices and the components are
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inspected at the specified inspection points for erosion,
corrosion and condition of the welding seams.
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11. Structured document management
COMOS PQM –
structured project and
plant documentation
The operation of a plant requires numer Nevertheless, structured and simple man COMOS PQM enables the complete
ous documents which are very important age ent of the documents is required in
m mapping of technical plant docu
for information brokering, tracking and order to be able to access external docu mentation due to simple manage
ment of external documents.
quality control. Apart from the documents ments quickly.
created by COMOS, you also need certain
COMOS PQM (Project Quality Manage
external documents, such as device speci
ment) enables complete technical mapping
fications from the manufacturer, commu
of the plant in one database. External
nication with customers, old inventory
documents including metadata are at-
documents of other software suppliers,
tached to the objects on the basis of object
etc. There is no need, however, to fully
orientation.
integrate these documents, as they do not
have to be edited in the COMOS appli
cations.
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12. AutoVue and other viewers can Integration and view of external Documents can be released with digital
display more than 450 CAD and documents signature using the innovative eSign tech
Office formats. COMOS can be linked with all popular nology. Modifications to PDF documents
Office programs. In this process, add-ins with digital signature are captured and
are integrated into the Office interface stored in history. Responsibilities can be
and can be used to check in documents clearly assigned and documented, which
in COMOS. COMOS automatically saves ensures a legally compliant release and
the information on who checked in which archiving.
document at what time. You can also
Stamps can be integrated into the PDF
bulk import Microsoft Excel or Access
with eStamp technology to indicate the
documents. The respective metadata is
validity or invalidity of the contents of
entered during the import by means of a
documents.
The eSign and eStamp technology form. Here, you can individually define
enables safe and simple marking mandatory and optional information. All documents are automatically archived
and release of revisions. in COMOS. Archiving takes place with ver
COMOS offers an interface to the Oracle
sioning: If a document is edited, a com
AutoVue viewer to view external docu
pletely new version of the document is
ments; the viewer can display 450 CAD
created. All previous versions of the docu
and Office formats. You can also use any
ment are kept and can be accessed at any
external viewer in COMOS via configu
time. No data is lost and you can always
ration.
trace who made which changes to the
Revising, versioning and archiving document at a specific time. If necessary,
Internal and external documents can be old versions can also be recalled and
easily revised. Different users can review declared to be the current version once
a document which is then released in a again. You can individually set the num
final step. The released document is then ber of versions of a document that are
Data will not be lost due to available as Adobe PDF and can no longer saved in the system.
versioning and individual be edited. The history such as author,
archiving options. review steps, person responsible for
release etc. is attached to the respective
object in the form of metadata.
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13. Your benefits with
COMOS PQM
- igher quality of data and docu
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ments
- orking layer technology pro
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vides secure project engineering
- rchiving of previous project
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states simplifies troubleshooting
- nformation exchange with
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external applications through
customized interfaces
- omprehensive technical plant
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documentation reduces project
lead times
Separation of project and plant documentation
Separation of project and plant Flexible structuring for individual Projects can be edited with working
documentation views layer technology without changing
COMOS PQM differentiates plant docu COMOS provides tools that enable you to the plant documentation.
mentation from project documentation. create flexibly structured document dis
Plant documentation includes the latest play, e. g. specific to function, location or
documents and describes the as-built sta documentation. For example, documents
tus of the plant. Project-specific changes are organized and displayed in a docu
can be made without changing the plant ment structure based on DCC (Document
documentation. This is accomplished Classification Code). This is best for ar-
using working layers with different views chiving, because you can search for docu
External documents can be found
of the plant documentation. In this way, ment types. You can work with several quickly and easily with content
you can test and optimize projects in a document structures at the same time. and/or attributive search.
safe environment. Once engineering is
Comprehensive full-text search
complete and the changes accepted, the
COMOS provides the latest full-text
project-specific changes can be inte
search tools for optimal searching docu
grated into the plant documentation. This
ments. The standard document search is
process ensures the documentation of
enhanced by an attributive search. This
the latest as-built status of the plant
means the full-text search in COMOS can
remains intact and still permits projects
be used to search inside documents as
to be executed in a flexible manner.
well as file properties. For the best result,
you can combine attributive and content
full-text search capabilities. The speed of
the search function enables direct access
to the requested results.
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14. Glossary
CMMS Media break
CMMS stands for „Computerized Maintenance Manage In relation to software solutions, a media break is a change
ment System“. Maintenance processes are supported or of applications for information-processing. In the case of a
controlled by the CMMS software. media break, data needs to be transfered from one applica
tion to another and does not only exist once. Possible conse
Data consistency
quences are more work, wasted time and reduced quality.
Data is entered only once and is then available to all stake
holders anytime and anywhere. Stringent inheritance and Object orientation in COMOS
linkage mechanisms provide all stakeholders involved in a Object orientation is the holistic description of an existing
project with access to up-to-date and consistent data from component and its true-to-life graphical representation.
any location and at all times. The graphical and alphanumerical manifestations within
the database constitute a single entity – the object.
DCC
Documents can be classified and sorted according to their RBM (Risk Based Maintenance)
properties with DCC (Document Kind Classification Code). Risk Based Maintenance is a maintenance method for
In this way, they are not only available for the associated plants and technical devices which evaluates risks and
component, but can be called according to their proper consequences in the event of a failure. This evaluation
ties – for example, all TÜV (German technical inspectorate) helps to optimally determine maintenance measures or
documents of the plant. maintenance cycles and considerably minimize the risk
potential.
ERP
ERP stands for „Enterprise Resource Planning“. An ERP sys Working layers
tem is an application software that is responsible for Working layers are overlapping views of an engineering
planning the resources of a company. project in which work can be performed in parallel with
out manipulating the common database. They can be
used to version control projects (unlimited number of ver
sions) and allow access to deeper-lying working layers as
well as creation of objects in the working layer‘s own
layer. Thus, changes can first be tested and then – if
necessary – rejected and deleted.
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15. Talks for new approaches and
new goals
Let’s tackle things together and elaborate on our claim More detailed information is available on our website at:
“From Integrated Engineering to Integrated Operations” www.siemens.com/comos
in a personal dialogue. Get in touch with us – we will be Use the opportunity to move closer to the future!
happy to answer all your queries!
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