, a leader in model-based software, has announced version 2.0 of its Pavilion8 software platform. Leveraging a powerful modeling engine at its core, Pavilion8 is the foundation for Pavilion's industry-specific solutions.
With version 2.0, the Pavilion8 platform has new modeling capabilities, enhanced web service integration and a new metadata warehouse.
In addition, two new Pavilion8-based applications, Real-time Environmental Management and Production Performance Management, will now complement the existing process optimisation and control applications.
These Pavilion applications enable manufacturers to improve operational profitability by increasing production capacity, reducing production costs, improving product quality and reducing environmental risk.
First introduced in 2005, Pavilion8 is a modular software platform based on a modern Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and implemented in J2EE. Key new capabilities provided in version 2.0 include:
* Enhancement of the Pavilion8 Model Analytic Engine to define and deploy composite models that aggregate and extend existing empirical, first-principle, arithmetic and rule-based models including those from other vendors. The type and range of applicability of Pavilion8-based solutions is greatly expanded by this capability.
* The addition of a new functional module, the Pavilion8 Metadata Warehouse, that aggregates and stores time-series data within an operational context to a secure database providing a permanent system of record for production and compliance information generated by Pavilion8 applications.
* Enhancement of the Pavilion8 Integration module enabling seamless integration with ERP applications, data warehouses, historians, distributed control systems and other heterogeneous data sources.
The fully J2EE-compliant web services interface provides portability and simplifies deployment throughout the organization with its secure, scalable architecture.
* The Pavilion8 Monitor module has been extended to continuously assess key process and environmental variables based on targets or limits; this module provides instant notification to specified recipients. These alerts may be set against both real-time and predicted variables enabling proactive response to key production, quality and environmental conditions.
The platform's scalability, flexibility and ease of integration with existing business and plant infrastructure provide a lower total cost of ownership than alternative technologies. Pavilion8 is the only platform in the market today that offers a model-based architecture that allows the same process models to be used in control, environmental and production performance management applications.