Catalyst SDP™
Catalyst SDP™ – System Development Platform
Catalyst SDP™ is a system development platform that dramatically simplifies software and system development for manufacturers, system integrators and OEMs / ISVs. It allows users to quickly and easily assemble software solutions from reusable components in a visual development environment.
Comprised of two applications, a graphical integrated development environment and an application server (runtime environment), Catalyst SDP™ combines three powerful concepts into one software product:
- Composite application development framework
- Unifying service architecture
- Distributed execution capability
Catalyst SDP™ is the platform that powers all of our products. It implements and runs core functionality and enables end-user extensibility and customization.
Catalyst SDP™ Gives Manufacturers the Ability to:
- Automate to Improve Efficiency – Move beyond visibility into sources of waste and eliminate them with integration and automation solutions.
- Enable Significant Operational Agility – Implement controlled reconfiguration and extensions of systems in response to changing conditions.
- Improve Developer Productivity – Allow the reuse of software functionality and promote the retention of corporate knowledge. Also, make teams more efficient and allow domain expert participation in development efforts.
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Catalyst SDP™ Standard Agent Library
Catalyst SDP™ comes with a rich and growing library of prebuilt agents and provides wizards and templates for MS Visual Studio that allow users to easily develop their own agents using standard .NET tools and languages.
Extended Agent Libraries
- SECS/GEM Agent Library
- .NET Service Bus Agent Library (Windows Azure)
- B2MML Transaction Agent Library
- SAP MII Agent Library
- Tibco Agent Library
Open Connectivity
Catalyst SDP™ provides open connectivity to a wide variety of equipment, devices, systems, databases, communications and messaging protocols such as: OPC, Serial, TCP/UDP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IM, SECS/GEM, application APIs, flat files, Oracle, SQL, OleDb, Tibco, MSMQ, MQ, JMS, WCF, SOAP/WS, XML/RPC, DDS, SAP MII, MS Azure (.NET Service Bus), B2MML.
Equipment Service Bus™
The Equipment Service Bus™ is an extendible, standardized service architecture implemented at the equipment level to provide bidirectional, many-to-one connectivity for manufacturing operations management systems to the plant floor. The Equipment Service Bus™ provides a highly flexible abstraction layer between the plant floor and the enterprise, much like an enterprise service bus, that dramatically simplifies integration efforts and increases flexibility.
The Equipment Service Bus™ is comprised of:
- Connectivity solutions to equipment,
- State, data, control, production and consumption models to contextualize information and events, and
- An agent-based service implementation.
Designed to integrate existing equipment and systems with open connectivity to a wide variety of equipment, devices, databases and communications and messaging protocols, the Equipment Service Bus™ leverages reusable software components to decrease development efforts during implementation.