SCADA/HMI


Eighteen enhancements made to asset management package.

July 2000 SCADA/HMI

Wonderware, represented exclusively here in South Africa by Futuristix, is offering Avantis.XA 2.0. The new version includes 18 significant functional improvements designed to provide users with improved maintenance scheduling, inventory, requisitioning, purchasing and invoicing capabilities.

Avantis.XA is Wonderware's powerful suite of AS/400 asset management solutions that enable enterprises to greatly enhance their maintenance and procurement operations. Avantis.XA applications are easy to use and completely integrated, resulting in a more efficient enterprise-wide solution that can be quickly implemented in multiple industries to manage production assets, vehicles and facilities.

"This enhanced version of Avantis.XA incorporates the important features and new functional improvements our customer base has asked for," said Ian Huntly, Business Development Manager at Futuristix. "Avantis.XA 2.0 provides integration enhancements with the graphical user interface to Microsoft desktop applications as well as enhancements in the requisitioning area to completely automate the procurement process, providing a truly paperless solution."

"We are absolutely committed to the continuing development of Avantis.XA," said Mike le Plastrier, Managing Director of Futuristix. "We have a strong customer base of IBM AS/400 users spread across a wide variety of industries and Avantis.XA is the ideal asset management software solution for these businesses."





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