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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Industrial Automation |
| Founded | Perth, Australia, 1997 |
| Headquarters | Balcatta, Perth, Australia |
Key people | Doug Bester, Apolon Ivankovic, Paul Thornberry, Chris Schleising, Vicky Mannering |
| Products | MacroviewSCADA MacroviewSCADA Reports Plant Vantage StradaX Web scraper |
| Owner | Sentient Computing |
Number of employees | 9 in 2009 |
| Website | www.sencom.com.au |
MacroView
editMacroView is a SCADA/HMI system that has a loyal client following and has been in the Australian market since the early nineties. Due to its longevity, the system is used in many industry sectors across Australia, South East Asia and USA including mining, oil & gas, pipelines, power, transport and manufacturing.
History
editSentient Computing acquired the rights to the MacroView SCADA/HMI system for use in the coal, oil, gas, mining, prorudction and power industries in 1997.
The largest MacroView installation is at Wesfarmers CSBP with over 180,000 I/O across X sites. CSBP is the major chemicals and fertilizer manufacturer in WA and uses MacroView as a true supervisory system, sitting on top of several control systems comprising several PLCs and DCS systems.
Products
editMacroViewSCADA
editMacroView is an integrated software solution for the acquisition, presentation and analysis of plant data and events. It is a fully multi-tasking, multi-user system that includes an advanced graphical interface, extensive data logging and reporting facilities and external database interfaces. MacroView runs on Redhat Linux, Solaris, Dec Alpha, Windows and SCO Unix operating systems. When running on Unix servers the system is accessible using standard X terminal software, securely through the standard browsers and dedicated X terminals. Remote access on Windows servers is done through Cytrix, Terminal Servers or any remote windows access software. Standard systems come with the MacroView Navigator, Alarms and event logging, Message manager, history and archiving, a choice of PLC/RTU/DCS drivers and a DDE Server. New development with the product includes a Graphical editor, an enhanced Modbus driver for controllers connected via the PSTN (public switched telephone network) and a fully routable Allen Bradley Ethernet driver.
StradaX
editStradaX is a new software product currently undergoing development. StradaX will be a new breed of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) user interface that uniquely combines traditional SCADA functionality with Internet collaboration technology (Blogs, Instant Messaging, Wikis, Video, Integrated Search, advanced hyperlinks, RIA – Rich Internet Applications ), easy deployment and superior vector graphics presentation capabilities.
Plant Vantage
editPlant Vantage is a Plant Data Analysis tool for Process and Maintenance Engineers. It provides personal access to plant data for analysis and gaining insight to optimise production and maintenance. PlantVantage was born from the needs of the small to mid tier industrial production companies who wanted the functionality of a historian and analysis tools. PlantVantage integrates with the existing control system for data capture and has the features you would expect in an industry standard historian and trending package. This includes user customisable trends, statistical analysis, export to MS Excel and a simple visual interface. It also has some more powerful features to make life easier for production and maintenance people
Excel Add-in
editThe MacroView Excel Add-In leverages the analytical and reporting tools within Microsoft Excel to access Macroview data for production information, plant status, reporting and historical data.
References
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| Developer(s) | Sentient Computing |
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| Stable release | 4.0.0
/ August 2009 |
| Operating system | Windows XP, Solaris OS, SCO, |
| Website | http://www.sencom.com.au/ |
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