Tatsoft and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Manufacturing is more important than ever
Solutions for compliance and FDA are just the tip of the iceberg – good trends and reports are essencial for understanding your data and gaining insights, and redundancy is the best way to guarantee there won’t be any data loss. Not to mention modernizing current processes to make it less labor intense, easier to manage, and to allow companies to scale up as they continue to grow.
“FrameworX was the perfect SCADA platform to meet our sterile Environment Monitoring system requirements. Its built-in features, allow for full CFR Part 11 compliance out of the box. From the low-cost remote clients, integrated data historian, redundancy, and ease of customization, are key value adds, with no hardware vendor lock-in.”
- Sam Khodak, Pharmaceutical Data Integrity Specialist
Why you should choose FactoryStudio
- Built in historian (Tatsoft Canary Historian from Canary Labs)
- FDA 21 CFR Part 11 features (LDAP, E-signature, custom audit trails)
- Open environment and .Net scripting language
- Enhanced Trending functions
- Client-Server model for allowing economical access for unlimited remote users.
- Redundancy included in base system
- Works with multiple data sources for trending and alarms.
- Pricing – Low base system cost, Low remote client cost, free 500 tag historian
- No vendor lock in – can work with mostly all major PLCs and sensor vendors via native drivers.
Reporting and Dashboards
Built-In Report Designer
Everything you need in one install, built-in drivers, SQL, redundancy, reporting, and more.
Audit Trail Reports
Logged to secure SQL for easy reporting.
Real-Time Dashboard Builder
Responsive Dashboard builder, use our symbols, import or build.
Save in Any Format
Save and Distribute in Text, HTML5 and PDF.
Runtime Display Snapshots
Easy save runtime displays to file.
Dynamic Graphic Symbols
Use your symbols in reports as well as Trend and Bar Charts.
Open Data Access
Create custom reporting or use Excel VBA and JavaScript apps.
Email to Distribute Reports
Email reports or notifications with links on time or event.
Scripts to Enable Alerts
All project elements are .NET objects, Open and Powerful.
Easy Access your Data – History and Real-Time
Built-In tools for easy access to your Real-Time, SQL, and NoSQL data sources, use FrameworX as your Industrial Data Hub. With over 60 real-time drivers included and support of communications standards like OPC UA and MQTT as well as a complete .NET Data Access library and web services you can access data from the machine level to the enterprise. Unlimited connections and unlimited reporting, web, or desktop clients come with FrameworX Unlimited.
FactoryStudio for sterile environmental monitoring
The FDA requires a validated system for monitoring, alarming, trending and reporting of environmental sensors in sterile environments. These systems are also subject to FDA 21 CFR Part 11 requirements which includes audit trails, password rotation and strength policies, and electronic record verification with e-signatures.
Learn how we helped Hikma with these requirements.
FAQ
Yes, the Report Builder is included with FrameworX Unlimited, FactoryStudio and Edge HMI. We also give you a built-In Responsive Dashboard Builder in our Graphics Designer. Also, a complete .NET Data Access library, SQL Server support as well as open APIs. Trigger and send reports based on events.
Yes, and unlimited means unlimited. (We also have pricing options for small I/O counts, such as an OEM might want.) Our flexible licensing options make us affordable for a wide variety of industrial applications.
All project elements: tags, datasets, alarms, and status of communications are available via Intellisense. They are all native .NET objects, no temporary tags or function calls required. Move tags to .NET objects and external data-tables with a single commend.
- The Alarm Module was created with multithreading and exception control, for performance and reliability.
- One-Click configuration enables Audit Trail on operator actions.
- Project scripts can subscribe to alarm events to implement custom actions such as notification or calculations methods.
Yes, we have reliable and easily configurable redundancy for seamless failover. Realtime tags, devices, alarms, historical data, scripts, clients, and all modules were designed to meet redundancy and hot-swapping requirements.
Yes, FactoryStudio is a fully open and extensible application platform. All user displays, real-time calculations, storage and analytics integrations are open and customizable. We have both developed analytics and partnered with many vertical solution providers to embed their custom data analysis, predictive analytics, and Artificial Intelligence applications into FactoryStudio projects.