April 20, 1998 New Products OAenterprise 98 ObjectAutomation (Santa Ana, Calif.; www.oa.com ) has introduced its OAenterprise 98 software family designed to be a universal, object-based control system, serving discrete, process, batch, motion control, numerical control, and building automation applications. OAenterprise 98 includes four tightly integrated modules: OA2control, OA2view, OA2alarms and OA2history. OA2control is a control engine/editor combination that integrates fully into the OA object model, facilitating rapid development and deployment of control systems. Engine options include Windows NT-based soft control, VenturCom's deterministic RTX-based hard control, and highly distributed embedded control. OA2view is a human-machine interface that provides a way to configure an entire control strategy, with drag-and-drop, connect-the-points-and-run graphical tools. OA2alarms is a server-based alarm manager and client-side display agent. Every OAenterprise object can have any of its attributes tagged as an alarm generator. These alarms travel with the object and the system assures notification gets to the right places at the right time anywhere in the OAenterprise. OA2history is a distributed historian that offers a way to move data from repository to repository, even to offline storage locations, all automatically. With multiple, distributed vaults and an abstract "get history" request, gaps in data from one vault can be seamlessly and transparently filled with data from another, even if the storage formats are different. The Manufacturing Report © Copyright 1997, 1998 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. E-mail Editorial Dept: tmr-editorial@lionhrtpub.com Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 2555 Cumberland Parkway, Suite 299, Atlanta, GA 30339 USA Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-6969 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com Web Design by Premier Web Designs E-mail: lionwebmaster@preweb.com