DNA and RNA combine to make information integration a reality
The Microsoft Windows DNA for Manufacturing framework is based on a series of core technologies that, when implemented properly, provide tight integration and interoperability between the myriad of software applications necessary to effectively run your enterprise.
"The challenge for manufacturing solution providers is bringing several types of software together to form a complete automation solution," said John McDermott, Senior Vice President of Rockwell Automation's Motion and Information Group. "The application of Windows DNA technologies by an experienced automation supplier like Rockwell Automation will help lower our customers' total cost of ownership, increasing flexibility and improving productivity."
Windows DNA is a technology infrastructure that enables independent software vendors and organizations to solve industry-specific challenges, while lowering costs associated with deploying and managing information technology systems. Representing a unified and integrated approach for building distributed, scalable, multi-tier applications, the Windows DNA framework allows organizations to focus on producing and implementing value-added business solutions rather than systems integration.
Rockwell distributed InterNet Applications (RNA) is Rockwell Automation's implementation of the Windows DNA architecture. Using core Microsoft DNA technologies, Rockwell Software employs RNA, a platform for interoperability, for use among our own suite of Rockwell Software industrial software and Allen-Bradley automation control products.
Rockwell Software products use the core enabling Windows DNA technologies and provide a number of the key elements within the Windows DNA framework as they apply to manufacturing. These elements include Line Of Business applications like SCADA, HMI, batch, MES and ERP Interfaces, PC-based control and communications. Some of the product offerings that fit into this category include RSView32, RSBatch, ProcessPak, ControlPak, and RSSql to name a few. Within these offerings, the company actively deploys the technologies that provide the glue between Rockwell Software products and other applications. This deployment goes beyond operating system platform compatibility to include all of the technologies critical to successful DNA implementation.
The number one objective of manufacturing information technology has long been identifying a seamless, cost-effective, scalable, and future-proof way to bring information up from the factory floor and distribute it throughout the enterprise. Microsoft Windows Distributed interNet Applications for Manufacturing (Windows DNA for Manufacturing) architecture combined with Rockwell Automation's experience in plant floor control and information management will help make plant-floor to enterprise-level integration a reality.