The CMX Enterprise Server and EM Clients

The CMX Enterprise Server, CMX Enterprise Manager History and Alarm and Event Clients are the newest additions to the CMX Process Control System family of products.

The CMX Enterprise Server integrates all data history available on one or more CMX Systems into a SQL relational database server that multiple CMX History Clients and Alarm and Event Viewer can access locally, over a shared network, or remotely via Internet VPN connection. Highly versatile and easy to use, the History Client and AE Viewer eliminates the time and effort currently required to acquire data while providing the look and feel of a Windows custom front-end.

CMX Enterprise Servers open database architecture makes all history data available to any ODBC-compliant client software tool. Additionally, long-term data storage is now limited only by your hard drive capacity.

An Enterprise Based Solution

The open architecture of the CMX Enterprise Server provides instant, unlimited data access across the enterprise to those who require it, including the Operations, Production, Maintenance, QA/QC, Product Development, Applications, Marketing, and Accounting departments. The result is a more robust utilization of data to perform a wider range of enterprise activities, such as:

Process data can also be integrated into Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems from BAAN, SAP, and PeopleSoft for:

• Product billing
• Supply chain management
• Demand management

Enterprise Database Server

The CMX Enterprise Server compliments the existing CMX Continuous History, Unit History and Alarm & Function Change History modules which operate locally. These modules will continue to provide the same functionality. However, the CMX Enterprise Server, given its open architecture and engine, supplies additional functionality through data warehousing, data mining and advanced query techniques and tools.

The CMX Enterprise Server is based on the Microsoft Windows Server and MS SQL Server Database Engine, recommended for small to medium scale applications. For larger systems, the MySQL OpenSourse Database Engine or Oracle database engine is recommended for higher performance.

High Data Availability

To ensure high data availability and reliability the CMX Enterprise Database Server is built on industrial strength hardware and software components featuring:

• Hardware-based RAID 5 architecture
• Hardware-based redundant components
• Hot swapping capabilities
• Hot sparing capabilities

High Performance

The multi-tiered architecture of todays and tomorrows hardware platforms running Windows 2003 Server provides high performance (n way servers) and a scalable solution. The CMX Enterprise Server can also utilize clustering platforms to achieve high-performance for large-scale systems when necessary.

Open Access and Product Leveraging

Because it is based on the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine, hundreds of ODBC-Compliant tools can be used to view and query data. Microsoft SQL Server leverages and preserves your existing investment in the Microsoft BackOffice family of products such as Exchange Server for E-Mail and Internet Information Server (IIS) for internet/intranet publishing, as well as SQL replication and distribution services.

Security

Security integrated into the client product by using SQL and Windows security mechanisms.

Easy to Use

The CMX Tag Database is automatically exported to the History SQL Server with all the tag information such as tag name, description, engineering units and range. No manual intervention is necessary. Local tag updates and additions to the CMX Process Control System are automatically updated at the CMX Enterprise Database Server. Queries are based upon the most up to date Tag information.

Highly-Scalable

The CMX Enterprise Server is highly scalable from a end user desktop databases such as Microsoft Access 98 to high-end SQL compliant database systems like MS SQL Server and Oracle 9i. The system can grow to readily accommodate the functional requirements of your organization when it is necessary.

Plant Wide Continuous and Unit Historian

The Plant wide Historian is capable of reading Continuous and Unit data from a number of systems that support the CMX Continuous History Server and CMX Unit History Server.

• Captures Tag Continuous History and Unit History Data for the entire Plant
• Global SQL History Database

Continuous and Unit Data - The C and U History Server provides fast and efficient transfer of Tag PV and Unit Configurable Historical Data from the CMX C and U History Service.

• Robust data collection Architecture
• CMX COMM Service Component Support
• Integrated in CMX Enterprise Server as a Windows Service
• Advanced Communication Recovery Algorithms

Plant Wide Alarm and Event Historian

The Plant wide Event Historian is capable of reading Alarm and Event data from a number of systems that support the CMX Alarms & Events Standard, including the CMX AFC Alarm and Events Server, CMX rMaXx Process Controller, CMX COMM Service and SNMP Servers.

• Captures Alarm and Event Data for the entire Plant
• Global Alarm and Even Database
• Sequence of Events Recorder

Alarm and Event Data - The Alarm and Event History Server provides fast and efficient transfer of Alarm and Event information from the CMX Alarms and Function Change History Service.

• Robust data collection Architecture
• CMX COMM Service Component Support
• Integrated in CMX Enterprise Server as a Windows Service
• Advanced Communication Recovery Algorithms
• Acknowledge Alarm and Events to any or all CMX Servers via Viewer

The CMX Enterprise Events Server Supports every type of event provided by the CMX Alarm and Function Change subsystem. Including:

• Process Alarm
• Operator Changes
• Field Device and Status Changes
• Batch Unit Sequence Messages
• System Wide Messages

Long Term Data Storage

• Store all the Alarm and Function Change Data Long-Term
• Archives event data for secure storage and future analysis. Once archived, you can use the tools built into SQL Server for analysis of the data or you can export the data for use in other applications such as Microsoft Access or Excel.

Enterprise Wide Client/Server Architecture

E-Mail Alert of Alarm and Messages

• High priority Alarm or Messages like Unit Shutdowns
• High Priority Messages like Network Comm. Failure
• Tag Specific Messages

Wireless Paging to GSM Phones ( via e-mail/txt messaging )

Open Industry Standard Based Architecture - The Plant wide Historian integrates the data and stores the information in a single SQL Server database.

Support for High Availability Server including:

• Database Mirroring and Replication - Using database replication, you can have many "slave" servers running off a single "master" server for robustness and speed.
• Failover Clustering
• Backup Log-shipping
• On-Line System Changes
• On-Line Backup and Restore
• Redundant Enterprise Server Support

Cluster Service - Server clusters provide high availability and disaster tolerance for mission-critical database management, file sharing, intranet data sharing, messaging, and general business applications. With Windows Server, cluster service supports up to eight-node clusters for increased flexibility in adding and removing hardware in a geographically dispersed cluster environment. The cluster service also provides improved scaling options for applications.

Windows Server allows server clusters to be deployed in a variety of different configurations, in particular:

• Single cluster configurations with dedicated storage.
• Multiple clusters on a storage area network (SAN), potentially with other Windows-based servers or operating systems.
• Clusters spanning multiple sites (that is, geographically dispersed clusters)

CMX Enterprise History Service Configurator

CMX Enterprise Manager History Clients

The CMX Enterprise Servers Client Interface is the end-users window to all history data. Because it is a tightly integrated front-end into the Enterprise Server, all tag database information is updated automatically and requires no manual database management when a new tag is added.

The History Server comes already equipped with all the analytical tools users need to display real-time and historical data as:

• Tabular reports
• Historical/real time 2D/3D line graphs
• Historical/real time point plots
• Historical/real time 2/3D area graphs

Graphs can be zoomed in and out and scaled. Different classes of history data, like spot values and average values for multiple points can be displayed on one or more windows.

Statistical data can be superimposed with the PV values of averages, min/max. and standard deviation values. Data can be viewed selectively by filtering on the tag database for tag names, tag types and algorithm types.

Interoperability

Data can be queried for in a tabular form. Custom queries can be stored and recalled for repetitive work. Tabular data can also be exported directly to an MS Excel spreadsheet for further analysis.

Custom reports can use Crystal Reports, Quick Reports, Microsoft Query as well as development tools like Visual Basic, Delphi, Power Builder and Visual C++.

Connectivity

The CMX Enterprise Manager can be used on a dedicated network or remotely via VPN Internet connection.

Specifications: