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21PLUS! – SYSTEM OVERVIEW

Operator Interfaces 21Plus!

TM

Measurement and Control Platform

The newest release of 21Plus! ™, is the very latest technology offered to the continuous web gauging market. This is the latest, significantly enhanced release of Thermo Electron Corporation’s widely installed 21Plus! A variety of available operator interface configurations range from simple desktop based interfaces to environmentally hardened LC450 console enclosures and wireless tablet based portable interfaces. System computing power is generated by the latest PC workstations with DVD_R+ backup and Virtual Private Networking (VPN) for remote access or support. Large high-resolution touch screen monitors provide a user-friendly operator interface where operators can control all aspects of the production line. Measurement and Control platform. It takes all the proven features of 21Plus! and enhances them to include improved operating features and data security features, while maintaining the safety and security of proven operational experience. 21Plus! offers more than thirty fully tested application packages with measurement and control features that deliver high customer return on investment, while at the same time providing extremely flexible customization capability. 21Plus!

Communication Capabilities

21Plus! provides powerful communication capabilities with Industry-accepted OPC standards, allowing the sharing of product and process data with popular software packages for data acquisition, database building, and quality analysis. WonderWare’s Intouch provides the means to easily communicate with the outside world through hundreds of standard I/O Server links to most third party devices. Intouch also allows 21Plus! offers an innovative approach to minimize risks associated with electronics and software obsolescence in the fast changing electronics world by introducing iBox
TM – an innovative data processing solution, and Investment Assurance
TM SM – an innovative software refreshment program to keep customers safe from the traditional risks of software obsolescence and from fast evolving networked data security risks. 21Plus! to be expanded by integrating other products from it’s ever growing list of powerful productivity tools such as Industrial SQL server, SCADAlarm, etc. Other advanced software options include RQMS, a powerful roll genealogy and disposition package that provides three- dimensional graphics for added process and quality analysis. These and other tools can be used to monitor the entire production process to identify potential quality issues before they seriously affect quality or production. 21Plus! utilizes a fully distributed architecture for reliability and security. Communications are Peer-Peer between components and it can be made fully redundant, with no single point of potential failure. Measurement and Control are performed in the scanning frames, not in a central PC, so system performance and security are dramatically enhanced versus PC based gauging systems 21Plus! combines Thermo’s highly specialized measurement and control strategies with proven industry-standard hardware and software to provide continuous web manufacturers with a high performance measurement and control system that is powerful, yet easy to use and support. This combination of specialized technologies with mainstream implementation provides 21Plus! is modular and scalable from a basic single sensor measure-only system, up to a comprehensive enterprise-wide integrated solution covering several line-wide systems with multiple sensors (up to 15); scanning frames (up to 6); multiple, simultaneous operator interfaces, local or remote; advanced controls tailored to specific process applications, and now, Ethernet based I/O. users with unparalleled product quality and production throughput. 21Plus! is installed and supported by the industry’s largest dedicated gauging service organization.

Investment Protection

21Plus!‘s unique fundamental design takes advantage of industry standard hardware and software technologies, to avoid technological obsolescence. This innovative and elegant approach allows Thermo and it’s customers to take advantage of Thermo’s continuous advancements. 21Plus! systems can stay current in the ever changing word of technology without requiring expensive periodic “upgrades”. The Investment Assurance
TM program is available only to 21Plus! owners.

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