ЖУРНАЛ СТА №3/1998

94 3/98 CTA 3.98 Table of Contents REVIEW HARDWARE 6 Panel Personal Computers of Advantech by Sergey Sorokin and Victor Garsia A new class of computers for use as MMI (man-machine interface) in automation systems is described. 14 PCI Bus in Special Applications by Sergey Sorokin Various issues of using PCI bus in embedded and industrial applica- tions are considered. SYSTEM INTEGRATION FOOD INDUSTRY 28 From Experience of Alcohol Manufacturing by Igor Barabash and Sergey Lukinsky In the article one of practical applications of Trace Mode SCADA and MFK technological controller is described. PORTRAIT OF THE COMPANY 34 Firm Siemens in the World of Automation by Vladimir Detsouk SOFTWARE MODELING 38 Development of Simulators and Project Debugging of the Automated Process Control Systems on the Basis of MMI/SCADA Packages by Rais Akhmetsafin, Rimma Akhmetsafina and Yuri Kursov The informational interaction of MMI/SCADA packages and visual modeling systems is considered by development of simulators of the operative personnel and modeling of automated process control sys- tems, the criterion of evaluation of an examinee’s behavior is entered. SOFTWARE TOOLS 44 What a SCADA systemmust know by Alexander Lokotkov 48 Introducing RTWin by Konstantin Makariev Till recently there existed an opinion that the Russian market of the integrated automation packages is empty. The article considers some aspects of choosing the base software by solving manufacturing automation tasks. A software package for creation of the distributed monitoring and control systems in QNX operating systems is intro- duced. 56 New Version of TRACE MODE for Windows NT by Lev Anzimirov, Vladimir Aizin and Anatoly Fridlyand The article describes features of SCADA-system TRACE MODE 5 for Windows NT that allows creating of the distributed automated process control systems. 62 GENIE 3.0: Harmony of Simplicity and Efficiency by Alexander Lokotkov The article describes functional capabilities of GENIE 3.0, a software tool for developing the upper level of automated process control sys- tems in a part of data visualization and operative supervisory control. 72 GENESIS32: Something Greater than just a SCADA-System by Alexander Lokotkov The article contains general information about GENESIS32 – a com- plete software tool set of firm ICONICS for developing the upper level of automated process control systems, which is based on OPC (OLE for Process Control), the newest open standard of interaction of the equipment and software supplied by different manufacturers. ENGINEER’S NOTEBOOK Q&A 84 Some issues of radiation hardened DC/DC coverters of Interpoint NEWS 26, 30, 53, 92 SHOWROOM 90