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Advanced design tool for automation solutions
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Deliver your automation projects faster and re-use your know how!
Unity Application Generator (UAG) is an advanced design and generation software
tool that integrates multiple PLCs and HMI/SCADA systems to provide an
automation solution similar to a distributed control system. Using an approach based
upon reusable objects (application libraries) and automatic application generation,
UAG ensures consistent design and implementation of user-defined standards and
specifications. Featuring change tracking and automatic documentation functions,
UAG supports standards such as ISA-88 and GAMP.
Business advantage
UAG provides significant business advantages in terms of cost reduction, quality and
performance improvement.
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Cost
v
Savings in system implementation cost
v
Improved time-to-market for the end user by allowing the project
v
Quicker return on investment
b
Quality
v
Improved software quality,
v
Improved maintainability
v
Reduced risk and improved project schedules
b
Performance
v
Standardized design and systematic improvement
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Capture and re-use of your best practices
v
Integrated automation system design in your plant engineering workflow
Working efficiently
UAG provides the key features for an advanced automation solution to increase
efficiency and share and re-use your know-how.
Structured project design
-
bridge from the process engineer to the control/
automation designer (from the PID to the automation system).
It is possible to capture and re-use the customer’s best practices within
application
specific libraries
which reduces the dependency on experts, allows standardization
and increases software robustness.
Single database
entry avoids duplicate effort and resulting errors.
Automatic application generation
,
including the
automatic configuration of
networks
in multi device systems increases efficiency, improves software quality
and shortens setup times while simultaneously
reducing project risk
.
Integrated
change tracking
and
automatic documentation generation
reduces engineering
effort and enables system validation.
Advanced automation platform
UAG integrates best in class products from Schneider Electric and leading partners
into an advanced automation platform based on standards, including: ISA-88, GAMP
and IEC 61131-3.
Single data point entry and management integrates the process control, monitoring
and supervision and ensures data consistency and integrated communication
between all devices.
Applications
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Methodology
:
UAG allows you to capture and re-use your know-how. Through
automatic generation, the project information is propagated to all applications
consistently, easily and quickly.
b
Creating user libraries
:
libraries are based on re-usable control devices –
S
mart
C
ontrol
D
evices (SCoDs).
b
High level objects (template types) consisting of multiple SCoDs
:
template
types allow you to pre-define complex objects, e.g. a PID or a sequence, which
consist of multiple SCoDs. A common graphic symbol can also be defined. This
makes instantiation more efficient as the number of individual steps can be reduced
by using the type definition.
b
Structuring your project
:
a structured project design provides a bridge from the
process engineer to the control automation designer (from the PID to the automation
system) based on the ISA-88 standard. The PID drawing is mapped to the physical
model in UAG.
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For more technical information, please consult our website
www.schneider-electric.com.
Standards
Working efficiently
UnityPro
VijeoCitect
XML
UAG
Process design
(
PID, Excel,
XML, CAD, …)
Business advantage
Engineering project
Conventional Project
Basic design
Basic design
System
design
Detailed
design
Procurement &
Commissioning
Reduced schedule
Detailed design Procurement & Commissioning
UAG
Presentation
Software
Unity software
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