Saftronics releases its latest service/product: The launch of SafSource
Launch of Saftonrincs latest service and product - Safsource.
Safsource is a web based system which is aimed at a multitude of industry
sectors such as utilities, distilleries, manufacturers, nuclear, environmental,
oil and gas.
[UKPRwire, Mon Jun 19 2006] Saftronics, market leading suppliers to the utilities sector and specialists in
design, manufacture and installation of Low Voltage Switchboards, Motor Control
Centres, PLC based Control and SCADA systems, announced today the launch of
their latest innovative product/service 'SafSource'; a web based system that
allows companies to archive, track, audit and better manage software changes
- ensuring they can easily access relevant control codes and application
changes safely, securely and remotely - the product is currently available
within the UK and Europe.
Research showed that field service engineers could deployed more productively by
embracing web based data archives because these engineers spent a lot of time
travelling to and from sites. Therefore SafSource was developed as a web based
data archive tool that provides a number of benefits to clients around the
world including utilising engineers' time more productively.
Safsource can be supplied as an 'off-the-shelf' product or can be a bespoke
application and tailored to the clients needs.
Geoff Puckett, MD, Saftronics said: "We are really excited about our new product
- we can demonstrate how it can greatly improve the security of organisations
control systems. Over the past 5 years we have worked closely with operations
and maintenance staff from a variety of industries, this has allowed us to
witness first hand the full range of data archive and storage practices used by
organisations staff. The practices employed range from a central PC located in
a site-based office to random collection of disks on a shelf in the site
managers' office and even no backups of the code. This unstructured approach
exposes clients to increased costs, increased downtime, potential plant failure
and for some clients potential prosecution.
The SafSource system was designed by software engineering experts; it gives the
client total control and imposes accountability, helping cut costs and reach
targets. The product is suitable for a range of organisations, from utilities
to food processing, building to medical services. High-profile companies are
choosing SafSource to measure performance, increase accountability and reduce
risk. Safe, effective and highly flexible, SafSource is the ideal way to
control and monitor every individual change made to the PLC, HMI and SCADA
data. Freeing staff to work remotely anywhere in the world, data can be
downloaded via any computer or PDA.
SafSource facilitates downloading of an application code from any web-enabled
location and can eliminate the need to travel between depots to collect backup
disks, thus saving numerous man hours travelling to and from the centralised
offices. It also facilitates true remote working enabling ICA technicians to
be based at home.
SafSource can reduce Capital Expenditure by helping to preventing the further
loss or degradation of the code or the 'code annotation'. The clever box of
tricks also instigates true version control and accountability by tracking
reasons for software being checked out of the central archive and by tracking
the activities of users - it can provide regular or ad-hoc reports about the
activities of each user, each asset or each site, therefore making it easy to
pinpoint which sites are problematic, which person visits which site and how
frequently, and which part of a plant is taking up a disproportionate amount of
technician time.
Ends
About Saftronics
Yorkshire based Saftronics, market leaders in systems integration, panel
manufacturing, maintain an excellent history within the utilities market since
1979. Saftronics operates from a modern, purpose built 33,000 sq. feet factory
in Leeds. The organisation are specialists in fields that include the design,
manufacture and installation of Low Voltage Switchboards, Motor Control
Centres, PLC based Control and SCADA systems. Their products and services are
supplied to a range of industries worldwide.
For further information please see:
www.safsource.co.uk
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