Reporting software suits industrial automation

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Nov 16, 2007

Dream Report software has been customised for Eurotherm to provide a specific communications layer to extract data from Eurotherm's graphic recorder devices.

Eurotherm is partnering with Ocean Data Systems (ODS) to supply Dream Report software, the first integrated reporting solution for industrial automation.

Dream Report software is designed to be the simplest solution for extracting data from almost any data source.

At the same time, it is capable of automatically generating reports at any location for whoever requests them.

In a joint statement Karen Rigby, Marketing Management at Eurotherm and Dominique Dias, Executive Manager at Ocean Data Systems said, "Dream Report software has been customised for Eurotherm to provide a specific communications layer to extract data from Eurotherm's graphic recorder devices".

"Existing drivers will also allow access via OPC to data within other Eurotherm products and so can provide key analysis and statistical data about automation devices and the processes they are managing".

"Most importantly the output can be shared with everybody providing a highly effective, low-cost solution".

Based on a configurable end user interface, Dream Report software is a real-time reporting generator solution that fits perfectly in both continuous and batch process applications throughout all the process industries.

Dream Report software now incorporates a Eurotherm Review driver and report template, enabling historical data to be obtained from Eurotherm Review databases.

Additionally, a robust communications kernel is installed, enabling collection of data and alarms from multiple real-time and historical sources - using OPC, OLE and ODBC standards to ensure a common interface between sources from different suppliers.

Dream Report software has its own internal historian which logs all statistics but also data and alarms from OPC Servers such as Eurotherm Linopc or EuroMBUS.

It can also be connected to other data sources via ODBC, allowing open access to databases such as oracle, MySql, Access or Eurotherm's Information Manager.

Dream Report software integrates a user-friendly object library.

Dream Report studio integrates a graphical editor to create and save reports as templates.

Dream Report software enables both manual and automatic report generation.