NAPCON PRODUCT RELEASE 8.7
Release 8.7 new features and updates to the existing ones
NAPCON Understand
NAPCON INFORMER - SPEED AND RELIABILITY
HIGHLIGHTS
- History pre-aggregation
- It is now possible to aggregate history data beforehand to the history database and then fetch the already aggregated data. This approach can boost performance a lot since less data needs to be read from the database and no aggregation needs to be done when requesting the data.
- Read the latest pre-aggregated value from the current value of the pre-aggregation node.
- Prevented slow history operations from blocking other OPC UA operations.
- Information Manager improvements
- Improved error handling. Views now show error message and status code if operation fails
- Several improvements for increased stability
- Installer support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
NAPCON ANALYTICS UI – EASILY CONFIGURABLE VISUALIZATIONS
HIGHLIGHTS
- Time selector panel
- Panel for loading dashboards with precalculated time ranges
- Buttons for time ranges, dropdowns for precalculated months/quarters/years
- Generic table
- Bar indicator, column sorting, stretch table options, logging to CE when manual inputs are changed
- NAPCON gauge
- Show connection error status, support for custom unit
- UI layer upgraded to Grafana 8.3.1.
CALCULATION ENGINE – ADVANCED CALCULATIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL USE CASES
HIGHLIGHTS
- Pre-calculate data at scheduled times for dashboards for different time ranges
- Data heavy dashboards load significantly faster with pre-calculated data.
- Database API for tag query panel’s tag groups
- Generic table python module
- Support for pre-aggregated history search
NAPCON Improve
NAPCON CONTROLLER AND OPTIMIZER
HIGHLIGHTS
- Minor improvements in NAPCON Controller’s optimization algorithm
- NAPCON Controller and NAPCON Optimizer benefit from all improvements of NAPCON Informer, as NAPCON Informer is the OPC UA server for all NAPCON Controller and NAPCON Optimizer applications
NAPCON Modeller
HIGHLIGHTS
The process model identification tool, NAPCON Modeller, has been completely renewed.
- NAPCON Modeller workspace can be exported/imported as a single file and easily shared with others
- Modelling workflow has been enhanced
- A new measure for model quality (adjusted R 2 )
- Model estimation status information in model editor window
- Easy-to-understand parameter selection in model editor window
- Improved memory use of modelling process
- Enabling/disabling tiny prediction plot of models
- Importing previously created models
- Several data pre-processing features have been added (several filtering and detrending opinions)
- More view options have been added to prediction plots
- Cooperation with NAPCON Configurator has been improved
- Zoom in/out feature has been added to the control matrix view
- User manual has been renewed extensively
- Several other usability improvements
- Several bug fixes
NAPCON Configurator
HIGHLIGHTS
- Improved cooperation with NAPCON Modeller: Bi-directional model import/export with NAPCON Modeller
NAPCON Windows Service Manager
HIGHLIGHTS
- A number of improvements have been made to the NAPCON Windows Service Manager user-interface to bring clarity and enhance its usability.
- Modernized NAPCON look and feel
- The Watchdog functionality has been renewed
- Robustness improvements
- Concurrency improvements
- Bug fixes
NAPCON Train
NAPCON SIMULATOR
HIGHLIGHTS
- Checkpoint and backtrack feature allowing returning to a specified point of time in the simulator exercise
- Cloud OTS production ready
- NAPCON Simulator generic training simulator directly available as Cloud OTS delivery
- NAPCON Simulator detail training simulator available as Cloud OTS delivery (delivery time depends on the detail level and customization needs for the process and automation models)
- Training Performance Management enhanced with intelligent feedback and trainer configurable reporting parameters
- Field Operator Training Simulator with real-time connectivity to NAPCON Simulator
- Simulator health check dashboard allowing instant remote maintenance of simulator installations
TRAINER DASHBOARD
HIGHLIGHTS
- Enhanced reporting capabilities
- Improved stability and robustness of the trainer dashboard environment
- Improved usability and user experience of the trainer dashboard environment
OPERATOR USER INTERFACE
- NAPCON Display Studio released allowing rapid machine learning based creation and updating of new operator displays
- Improvements and enhancements available with the following user interfaces providing better usability and training experience