These are replaced by thin client devices which make a connection to the RDS server to run a session of InTouch (for example) and now serves as the plant floor HMI station. In an RDS environment, maintaining PCs on the plant floor is no longer a necessary burden.
This means that applications like InTouch are installed only once and made available to users in this multi-session environment. Remote Desktop Services is built into Windows Server Operating Systems and enables multiple users to run private application sessions on a single server OS. If you are managing PCs on the plant floor, Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and thin client hardware may help in a lot of ways. The list goes on, but I’ll leave it there for now.Ĭonsider how you are managing your edge applications like your HMIs and other components. Virtualization also employs automated fault tolerant schemes to keep your system uptime within tolerance for your end users. You no longer need to be afraid of making changes to your system because you can easily “roll back” to a previous version of that virtual image if the change creates problems. This is a tried and true technology which brings many benefits for end users and administrators.įor example, system reliability greatly increases with virtualization since spinning up the backup version of a “virtual machine” is fast and easy. It is estimated that over 50% of InSource customers use virtualized servers for most of their server based components. If your architecture includes software server components like a Historian, a Galaxy Repository, a Remote Desktop Server (more on that below) or many others, virtualization makes a lot of sense. There are many benefits from this technology as compared to the “traditional” installation of software on dedicated and standalone hardware.
Have you considered virtualizing your new system and reaping benefits from using that modern technology? AVEVA/Wonderware technology fully supports virtualization technologies from VMWare and Microsoft.
Industrial Graphics from AVEVA/Wonderware.Here are 3 considerations for your new and improved system: The right tools for the right job, as we always say. There can be an upside to upgrading since there is ample opportunity to improve your overall plant floor operations systems in terms of reliability, flexibility and cost of ownership.Ĭonsider the many improvements for the system’s end users as well system administrators/engineers as you plan for your upgrade that will make everyone involved more effective at their job. Upgrading software and moving to new hardware is not the most pleasant of propositions for some as it represents change and possibly some disruption.
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