Seamless integration of multi-vendor systems.Reduce costs using data management.Monitor and control your applications. Anywhere.

Now it’s easy to get all your devices on the same page.

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Monitor the vital signs of your machines and processes. View and Control your system remotely.

Data points logged from devices, machines and processes provide a performance baseline for analysis, and can be used to trigger PLC functions, alarms or notifications when points stray from nominal parameters. These variables can be used as reliable predictors of impending machine failure, monitoring for preventative maintenance, as well as general performance monitoring of distributed processes or discrete production throughput. Reliable data can be used to identify process vulnerabilities, abnormal conditions or wear trending. Logging can be used for real-time monitoring of process activities, product traceability and quality control issues, TPM, downtime, OEE (overall equipment effectiveness), or be used to generate virtually unlimited data sets for statistical analysis and control decisions. With its built-in web server, the Data Station Plus allows you to remotely monitor and control your process with the click of a mouse. Web-enabling your process facilitates remote real-time monitoring, operation, diagnostics and data acquisition from any networked PC, as well as browser equipped PDAs or phones. A complete graphics package, with over 4000 images, can be used to accurately depict your machine or process.The Data Station Plus’ can automatically synchronize its log files via FTP to a remote server for long term storage. Log files may also be retrieved manually or emailed on command. Red Lion’s Data Station Plus is the single-device solution for protocol conversion. The DSP bridges the communication gap between disparate serial, Ethernet and fieldbus devices—unlocking untold information from Industrial plcs, drives, industrial motion controllers, etc., orphaned by incompatible communications standards. Drag and drop register mapping allows a Siemens PLC to talk to an Allen Bradley drive in just seconds. With a growing list of over 130 serial, Ethernet and fieldbus drivers, the DSP allows you to choose the best-in-class automation components, without worrying over whether or not they’ll communicate with one another.
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Know more. Do more.

One Data Station Plus allows a user to quickly set up monitoring of a number of disparate devices in a control application, collect performance data, display it, store it for evaluation, or trigger PLC functions, either live or remotely.The Data Station Plus’ built-in math capability also allows probability calculations to pre-analyze hard point data to provide only relevant information. An integrated OPC server allows easy SCADA connectivity using Red Lion’s OPCWorx.The multiple Data, Alarm, Event and Security loggers in Crimson 2 provide data in “IT ready” CSV (comma separated values) files that can be easily opened with applications such as Microsoft

Faster reaction. Save time. Save money.

. F i eldBus Ser The Data Station Plus’ messaging facilities can be used to send alarms or events using e-mail or SMS text messages to PCs, as well as PDAs and mobile phones. Files can be attached to e-mail so report or logging information arrive directly to the appropriate personnel, facilitating faster intervention or maintenance when problems occur.
Data Station Connectivity Data logging Alarms and Events Logging

Network your existing equipment to avoid risk.

Getting legacy machines onto a common communications backbone used to be largely impossible, sometimes requiring a complete replacement of the automation components. The Data Station Plus allows you convert your old PLC’s and drive’s proprietary protocol into a modern and open standard. By unlocking information hidden in these legacy devices, you save money while avoiding a risky upgrade to equipment that is otherwise working perfectly.
Security Logging

Protocol conversion. Industrial ethernet gateway. IT-ready data logging. It’s all here.

The Data Station Plus is configured with Crimson 2 configuration software, which is not only powerful and easy to use – it’s free. The combination of protocol conversion, web and FTP servers and data logging, with its large library of communication drivers, creates a seamless method to connect all your devices to a secure and easily accessible network, even those stranded by legacy technology. The Data Station Plus is simply the most economical, easiest to integrate, data logging, monitoring and control system ever developed.
® Excel. No software plug-ins are required to access your application data. And a built-in CompactFlash

OEMS—Add Ethernet and OPC connectivity to all of your machines.

Add a Data Station Plus to your equipment, and you can offer your customers out-of-box connectivity to their SCADA systems, while providing yourself the means to remotely support the machine. The DSP’s ability to support four Ethernet protocols simultaneously, while offering OPC compatibility, means you don’t have to worry about how the system will be integrated at the user’s facility. And that’s just the beginning. The “port sharing” facility allows the Data Station Plus to act as a remote serial port to your PC, meaning you can reprogram any connected serial device from virtually anywhere in the world.
Set up for one data log in Crimson 2.0 ® card slot provides unlimited data storage as well as secure and immediate retrieval of the DSP’s configuration.All the requirements for quality traceability, production tracking or maintenance are now embedded into one platform. The ability to monitor your process can be set up in just minutes with the DSP’s connectivity and logging tools.
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