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IndustrialIT System 800xA
Information Management
Overview
Features and Benefits
■ Intuitive Presentation: Desktop
displays give managers concise
information in familiar office
formats. Operator displays provide
historical information in the control
system environment.
■ Automated actions: Versatile sched-
uling options provide
automatic triggers for key actions
■ Flexible report generation and
distribution: A wide variety of
reporting requirements are supported
in familiar formats.
■ Sophisticated data transforma-
tion: User defined data structures
and calculations provide powerful, Integrating Information for improved
reusable algorithms in addition to visibility
external application data support.
■ Secure historic data storage and
Information is a key asset of all businesses. To achieve a
access: Fault tolerant and distributed
data configurations provide increased petitive advantage, manufacturing and process
data availability. User access is businesses must be able to adapt quickly to change. Reduced
restricted and offline storage is time to decision and action is critical for improving quality and
available to protect the integrity of productivity. This makes the timely collection, transformation
the information. and distribution of reliable information a significant issue. In
today's business environment, one of the barriers to increased
■ Integrated administration and
configuration: The embedded productivity is aggregating data from a myriad of disparate
historian uses inherent system sources, transforming it into meaningful information, and
configuration and administration presenting it to operations, maintenance, engineering, and
providing for a single information management in the context most meaningful to them.
repository for plete system.
This provides single point change Information Management functions are inherent to ABB's
management and eliminates d