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Introducing FactoryLink® 8.0
by Siemens

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  • Tradition of Innovation
  • Comprehensive Functionality
  • High-Performance Architecture

A Tradition of innovation

Year Description
1978 Ignited the market by creating the first user-configurable HMI for the emerging PLC market
1986 First to deliver an HMI/SCADA product with open software architecture and real-time database
1990 First to establish standard relational databases as a single repositiry for all historical information
1994 First to ship a multi-user, n-tier application with symmetric multiprocessing support on Windows NT
1996 First to market with a web-based client allowing secure full-control and view-only functionality over the internet
2000 First to introduce user-configurable application objects that allow modeling of all aspects of real-world devices
2002 First to provide a bidirectional XML interfcace to send and receive real-time values

An Advanced high-performance
Architecture
Real-time computing systems make unique demands on processors, file systems, relational databases, networking and other basic computing subsystems. To meet the demands of overall system performance, speed and responsiveness requires a well-crafted architecture. Real-time computing systems make unique demands on processors, file systems, relational databases, networking and other basic computing subsystems. To meet the demands of overall system performance, speed and responsiveness requires a well-crafted architecture.

At the core of FactoryLink is the open software bus, a design so significant that the U.S. Patent Office awarded patents for this technology. This architecture empowers Siemens and our customers to take advantage of the latest technologies and standards and most importantly delivers speed and performance superior to that of all other designs.

High-speed data transfers
Transferring large amounts of information at the highest possible speed is essential for real-time automation systems. The open software bus provides data transfers optimized for each individual software module. In a single operation, each module accesses only the data it needs regardless of the number of modules supplying the data.


FactoryLink’s unique architecture outperforms the competition,
in some cases by more than 10 times.

Future proof applications
Another advantage of the FactoryLink architecture is the protection it affords you with respect to rapid changes in underlying technologies. The flexible FactoryLink architecture is always implemented on the latest technologies and affords you the opportunity to leverage any specific technology at anytime. The result is that you can move at your own pace and leverage the newest technologies when the time is right for you and your organization. This proven strategy has empowered our customers to bridge over 20 years of technological changes with seamless application compatibility and updates.


FactoryLink’s patented architecture insulates
you fully from rapid technological changes allowing
you to adopt at your own pace


A unique combination of event-driven and exception-based processing techniques maximizes overall system performance.

Event-driven and exception-based processing
Siemens FactoryLink provides the highest possible overall system performance, speed and responsiveness, by combining exception-based and event-driven processing techniques. Event-driven applications are processed only when actions are taken or new data is available, while exception-based systems process only the exceptions or changes to the data rather than every single event. While others may apply one of these techniques to some areas of their software, only FactoryLink applies event and exception processing to all modules.