SCADA - Vijeo Citect

Vijeo Citect is a SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) system, generally used in industrial plant/processes, buildings and infrastructure. It sits at the centre of the acquisition and exchange of process data, from intelligent devices (on the plant floor) to and from all other upstream business systems.

Vijeo Citect is Schneider’s new SCADA supervision software developed in collaboration with Citect. This new offer enables Schneider to propose to its customers integrated automation solutions totally coherent with its complete automation offer (programmable controllers, human/machine dialogue terminals, speed drives …).

Vijeo Citect optimises your business by providing easy access to real-time process data, which makes for rapid and accurate decision making on aspects such as scheduling & manufacturing execution, quality assurance and maintenance.Vijeo Citect enables customers to increase return on assets by delivering a highly scalable, reliable control and monitoring system for the entire manufacturing process. Easy-to-use configuration tools and powerful features enable you to quickly develop and deploy solutions for any size application.

Vijeo Citect Customer Benefits

Free development software:

Vijeo Citect development software is free of charge. Only run-time site licensing is required, which means that new customers can evaluate and trial the full functionality of the software with no upfront investment.To request a FREE Vijeo Citect development CD simply call 0870 608 8 608 and quote reference number TE6115

Integrated Solution

Vijeo Citect includes several key added value components that simplify and enhance the integration of a Schneider Electric automation environment. These include:
Speedlinx - Synchronisation between SCADA and Unity PLC symbols databases
OFS – Schneider’s OPC Factory Server, which manages advanced functions specific to Telemecanique PLCs and real-time automatic consistency checking
Built in support contract for first 12 months, guaranteeing customers easy access to technical support and updates on their SCADA installation.

Scalability

from low-cost standalone (Vijeo Citect Lite) system to multi-client/multi-server architectures, with easy upgrading options.

Performance

Vijeo Citect’s support for Hyper-threading allows for optimising performance and spreading application load across multiple PCs with minimal re-engineering effort. The SCADA application tasks can easily be allocated to different CPUS either distributed over multiple PCs, or multi-processors on a single PC.
ReliablePowerful native DCS (Distributed Control System) type redundancy.

Open

Support for 100+ third party manufacturers, with most drivers included free of charge, provides assurance of total compatibility with existing automation systems and makes Vijeo Citect the partner of choice for your future applications.With complementary offer Vijeo Historian, an SQL portal to the IT world, Vijeo offers you the opening to production management applications (Manufacturing Execution System).

Future-proofing

Schneider Electric will invest further in order to integrate Citect’s software suite as a core component of its industrial automation offer and to provide existing customers with easy migration to the new platform.


More information/downloads

For more info download the Vijeo Citect Sales brochure (0.3Mb)

For more info download the Vijeo Citect technical overview (2Mb)

For more info download the Vijeo Historian brochure (0.5Mb)

For more info download the Human Machine Interface Sept'07 Catalogue (4Mb)