Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Status HMI/SCADA Solution new version 5.0


STATUS VISION DESIGNER will improve data monitoring and controlling with a new release of the Status Solution (5.0) offered by B-Scada.


Crystal River, FL – B-SCADA, Inc., (OTCBB:MOBS) (the "Company" or "B-SCADA") specializes in the compelling visualization of real-time and historic data. B-Scada has produced exceptional data visualization solutions that are easy to read and produce results for manufacturing, power & utilities, automation, energy management, waste water management, and other fields of business making use of HMI (Human Machine Interface) and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) software products.

B-Scada is proud to announce the release of Status Vision v5.0. Status is a powerful HMI/SCADA system comprised of a powerful graphic designer coupled with alarming, charting, trending, historical, batch and calculation services to deliver real-time industrial and process data to the desktop. Web applications can also be developed for Silverlight compatible web browsers, web applications allow for remote monitoring and controlling. Status communicates directly with OPC data sources including OPC UA, OPC DA (OPC lab certified) as well as other data sources such as ODBC and SQL, and can easily be extended to communicate with other types of data.

B-Scada will be conducting webinars showing how to use Status for those interested in learning more about the solution. Some key features that have been added into v5.0 include Status Server redundancy, several new charting controls, enhanced historical capabilities and designer improvements which will all be discussed in the upcoming webinars.

In addition to providing world class HMI/SCADA solutions, B-Scada also provides screen design, OPC Classic and OPC UA servers, custom OPC UA Server development, industrial tablets, 3D design and custom development services for .NET, HTML 5 and Silverlight.

Contact

B-SCADA, Inc.
Patrick Barker
Business Development Manager
1255 N. Vantage Point Drive Suite A
Crystal River, FL 34429
Tel: +1.352.564.9610                                                                                                              

Mobiform Changes Name to B-Scada Inc

Mobiform will now be formally know as B-Scada Inc.

With the approval of all required government agencies as of October 19th, 2012, we have changed our company name to B-Scada, Inc. ("B-Scada") from "Mobiform Software, Inc". Our new domain is www.b-scada.com.   The ownership, management and business location all remain unchanged.

Even though we are changing our name, we want to stress that B-Scada's service, support, and long term commitment towards customers will remain unchanged. We will continue our efforts to offer our customers a full range of product, solution and service driven by their needs, to fulfill our mission and vision of becoming a global technology leader.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Status and KPIs


First off, what are KPIs?

KPIs are key performance indicators that basically tell you that A: you are doing well or B: you are doing badly.

Next on the agenda: what is visual management?

Visual Management is displaying important information to workers. Why is this important you may ask? Well if you can’t see the information you don’t know what to fix.
So the goal here is to marry these two options. We need a way to easily display our KPIs and have this information delivered effectively across our place of business. Visualizing data is nothing new, especially in the manufacturing and automation world; but the way we see that data and the way we collect that data has definitely changed.

Back in the day you had a person in charge of monitoring and timing the number of widgets being produced. They would then take that number and write in on a chalkboard for the employees to see. Obviously this was not in real time and often this number would fluctuate between readings. But it all started here. People realized that they needed to see the information no matter how delayed it was in order to start making changes to increase productivity.

Well the time has changed and now gathering that information can be made easy. Using technology such as OPC (open connectivity via open standards) you can now take data from numerous vendors and bring it together. This is a big step in helping companies realize that they have the flexibility to choose the right equipment for the job and avoids being locked down to specific vendors.  With a data visualization solution such as Status you can take information from a number of sources, OPC, SQL, and ODBC and display this information across the plant or work place in real time. This will bring your KPIs to the forefront of your business and allow your employees to make changes in order to increase productivity. What can be better than increasing productivity? And with the web solution Status offers you can now reach more employees faster and further than before. 

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Confidently entering the New Year 2012 with the Status Vision Designer HMI Solution!

This New Year will bring new customers and new improvements to the Status Vision Designer software packages.

The New Year is already shaping up to be a busy one. We have recently signed agreements with three Fortune 500 companies. Two of those will be embedding the technology into their product while the other, a major electricity producer in the United States is using Status for data visualization. Status is truly a product that can be used in virtually any market. To start the New Year we have licensed the Status Solution to an injection molding plant in Canada, to an online gaming company, a general hospital and a large food manufacture, where there is data, you can use Status!

Mobiform began the New Year with a new version of the Status Solution. We are now on version 4.1. We have come a long way since the initial release in 2009.  Mobiform in now lab certified in OPC DA, and is on the way of becoming lab certified in OPC UA, OPCs newest protocol for industrial communication. Some of the new features that have been added into our HMI solution a new batch/recipe server, dynamic binding (which allows you to easily switch data bindings at runtime), new controls, function key navigation (which allows the user to map to the function keys on the keyboard for navigation), and enhancements made to the Status Client (the windows runtime client) to allow for local users and a “lock-out” feature which will keep the Status Client the top application.

We look forward to another wonderful year filled with new verticals for Status to enter, and new customers to please. If you are interested in seeing more information about our HMI Solution please visit www.statusvision.com