Industrial

WebPort solutions for the Industrial marketplace, deliver enterprise connectivity systems as well as providing remote connectivity to PLC or process control systems, to gather critical data from several processes and feed MES or ERP systems with that data, or even to monitor, from anywhere in the world, manufacturing processes spread over different sites and/or factories.

The WebPort product line has been designed to address the specific needs of the Industrial market:

• The connection to devices such as PLCs, process control equipment, or equipment such as pump controllers, scales for remote control/maintenance or eSCADA.

• The conversion of industrial serial protocols to Ethernet protocols.

• The real-time data collection to feed MES applications or ERP systems.

• The real-time alarm management of any industrial equipment with data logging possibilities.

Machine Builder

WebPort solutions for the Machine Builder market enable troubleshooting or maintenance engineers to access and monitor devices or equipment remotely, in a completely secured environment. Typical machine manufacturer operations such as equipment maintenance programs, configuration changes or PLC programming can be handled directly from their business premises. Therefore, they can avoid expensive on-site visit costs (and their related travel expenses) and they achieve a more cost-effective maintenance program contracts.

WebPort provides some concrete benefits in the Machine Builder market.

• Send alarms in the event of faults, performance loss or malfunctions with detailed information inside the alarm message.

• Perform a local data logging, for diagnostics or offer remote HMI access (SCADA like) to improvement diagnostics.

• The ability to program the machine’s PLC remotely.

•  Use the Internet infrastructure to establish the connection with the remote installation within a secured tunnel (VPN) and with the right telecom technology (ADSL, GPRS, PSTN), allowing you to use the local telecom infrastructure or network.

When your enterprise management systems need to be connected to all of your physical and information assets to support day-to-day production and control, you want to rely on proven connectivity solutions and infrastructure so that the information can be reached globally and successfully anytime anywhere. When this information is gathered from the field or from industrial plants, you want to be sure that these connectivity solutions will fully comply with the requirements of industrial environment. Our WebPort connectivity solutions for the Infrastructure & M2M (Machine-to-Machine) market are designed to meet these requirements, providing interoperability and continuity between machines and systems.

WebPort products support the Infrastructure and M2M market and are divided in four solutions.

• TCP/IP industrial routers including PSTN, ADSL and GPRS/EDGE connectivity.

• Industrial Extranet build using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Layer and secured with SSL technology.

• Remote Metering with data logging for data retrieval through FTP, SNMP or SMTP protocols.

• Remote Access and Management features for PLCs, SCADA applications over TCP/IP.