Enhanced plant availability

WatchDog pro increases plant availability while simultaneously delivering savings in setting up, commissioning, maintaining and expanding systems.
The system is able to recognize errors in advance and report them in a targeted fashion. Thus helping prevent expensive downtimes.

Intelligent maintenance management

WatchDog pro is a flexible modular monitoring system for process, manufacturing and building automation. Such plant and system data as operating hours, start-ups and statuses producing greater wear on components may be captured. Such data may then be used as the basis for economic maintenance management.

Targeted data records

WatchDog pro doesn’t produce any unnecessary floods of data. Users decide whether they require the recorded information on a daily or hourly basis or only in the event of malfunctions. Which means that errors and their causes can be quickly recognized and remedied.

Reconstruction of malfunctions

When failures occur, too many error messages make troubleshooting difficult. By recording error chains, WatchDog pro makes localizing the fault simple, which means that costs are saved through shorter downtimes.

Suitable for frequency converters

WatchDog pro monitors currents, voltages and power directly at converter-fed machines even in difficult electrical conditions. And delivers precise results in those areas where measuring equipment usually fails due to PWM voltages.

Autonomous functioning of plant components

WatchDog pro handles monitoring and control tasks directly at the process and delivers a selection of processed data to the control level. These tasks are also safely fulfilled in the event of isolated running, i.e. when communications to the control level fail.

Greater process transparency

In order to limit the flood of process and system data in extensive plants without, however, losing important information, WatchDog pro handles control and data-processing tasks close to the process. Which relieves the burden on the overall communications and control infrastructure.

Modular design

WatchDog pro´s modular design saves space – and thus costs – in switch cabinets. The individual system is compiled to suit the demands of the individual application so that spaceand cost-intensive units are no longer required.

Minimum training effort

The programming environment is so simply and comprehensibly structured that time- and cost-intensive training is not required to program WatchDog pro.

Intuitive programming interface

WatchDog pro´s programming interface allows all procedures to be simulated offline and to be monitored online during operations. Which permits rapid commissioning. Measured values may also be forced using the programming environment in order to overrule the actually measured value for test purposes.

Cost savings through direct measurements

The direct measuring of electric values, e.g. voltage, phase sequence, power and active power, at field levels means that with WatchDog pro expensive converters and measuring transducers are no longer required to create standard signals. And the safe isolation of the measuring modules also means that costs for buffer amplifiers may be avoided.

Manufacturer-independent communications

Modern automation systems demand components with a variety of interfaces. WatchDog pro supports the field buses most widely used in communications to the factory level so that it may integrated on a manufacturer-independent basis into the control level.

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