Third-Party Products :: Siemens FactoryLink™

FactoryLink 8.0 is now available! Take a look at the details of the new features in FactoryLink 8.0 by clicking here.

ToolWorx is a Tier One Partner (TOP) for Siemens FactoryLink in the Midwest and is a Certified Integration Partner (CIP) for FactoryLink worldwide. We offer the following FactoryLink-related services:

•    FactoryLink integration with external systems
•    Version upgrades
•    CSS agreement renewals
•    In house technical support
•    Data base conversion and upgrade
•    Training

FactoryLink monitors, supervises, and controls industrial processes enabling customers to perfect their processes and products. Built on an advanced open architecture, FactoryLink delivers the highest performance and flexibility to customers building vertical applications in a wide range of industries.

Highly scaleable, FactoryLink can be used to build virtually any size application, from the simplest Human-Machine Interface (HMI) systems to the most complex and demanding Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. This flexibility is demonstrated by the more than 80,000 systems that have been installed worldwide in dozens of diverse industries.

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FactoryLink also interfaces with enterprise applications via XML communication but, in the process, can perform functions like determining the genealogy of products. Tracking which component from which lot and vendor went into what finished product lets the manufacturer - if a flawed component prompts a product recall - limit the recall to product containing components from just the flawed lot which is much less costly. FactoryLink is integrated with ToolWorx's TWLot™ traceability system that extends FactoryLink's reach to the mobile wireless world.

FactoryLink excels at very large-scale implementations with many I/O points from which operators can monitor and track data. Other vendors' systems use "scanning" to cyclically take readings from all I/O points for all operators. The problem with that approach is that the more points that are added, the longer the scan cycle, which can slow data transmission to operators. FactoryLink uses a publish/subscribe method to get these readings. All the data propagation within system architecture itself happens according to who has the data and who needs the data, and all of the clients who need the data subscribe to the service. Operators indicate what data nodes they want readings from and data is conveyed to them only when it changes, not according to a fixed cycle, and therefore is propagated in real time. So FactoryLink provides better response than scanning-based systems.

For more information on FactoryLink, visit the Siemens website.

A PDF summary of Factory Link™ may be downloaded by clicking here.

A full color PDF brochure on Factory Link™ may be downloaded by clicking here.

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