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The use of str aton as an open pl atform For 25 years COPA-DATA has been developing HMI/SCADA solutions with the same goal: to provide software that is independent from hardware and provides all the functionality required as built-in features. The straton software is an important piece in this strategy and extends the functionality of the HMI/SCADA solution to many other integrated features for industrial control. Th e i nte g r ate d so lu ti o n : s tr ato n a n d z e n o n What does this mean? The aim of the integrated solution is to provide end users and system integrators with a tool that gives them the ability to create a complete automation project using a single engineering environment. As a result, the development time and the commissioning time of a project will shorten. How is this done? First, there is a common database where the variables are declared once for both the SCADA and the PLC application. This avoids the possibility of error while importing or declaring variables in two tools. The project is stored in a unique place with concurrent access and version control, guaranteeing the compatibility of the developed application and providing an easy way to make archives of the complete project. The parameterization of the communication is an integral part of the solution: the straton protocol provides a powerful event-based communication with full support for redundancy, quality information and time stamping. Additionally, some utility protocols such as IEC 61850 and IEC 60870 have been fully integrated, and these can be used to define the communication between straton and zenon.
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Th e b ui lt- i n so lu ti o n : s tr ato n o n PLC s Hardware manufacturers have seen the benefit in offering open platform solutions with minimum firmware, allowing software companies to create built-in solutions. Siemens S7 Mec EC31 and Mitsubishi Q-Series C Controller are such platforms where a straton Runtime is available. The straton Runtime supports the local Inputs/Outputs configuration, the IEC 61131-3 programming and the built-in protocol implementation for IEC 61850, IEC 60870, EtherNet/IP, MODBUS, and PROFINET. s tr ato n a n d z e n o n Lo g i c zenon Logic is the PC-based version of straton. zenon Logic serves as an integrated PLC System. The zenon Logic Runtime can act as a Soft-PLC on a Windows based system or can provide SCADA Logic functionality, like data pre-processing or mathematical calculations.
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Lea rn m ore a bout straton at: w w w.copalp.com .