The Challenge

In today's tough global economy, companies are challenged to increase productivity, efficiency and responsiveness, while also lowering costs and improving the company's bottom line. Key decisions made on automation architecture and tools often dictate how efficient, cost-effective and responsive companies can be to changing customer and regulatory demands. Reducing engineering automation expenses can make a significant difference in the ability to maximize its effectiveness and profitability.

One of the main culprits in the high cost of engineering is poor productivity from fragmented, inflexible or unscalable information software tools and architectures. The introduction of the Devil Framework Application Server now offers companies a powerful software architecture to significantly contribute to engineers' search for sustainable, growing cost savings.

Engineering Savings Through Re-Use

The Devil Framework Application Server significantly lowers engineering development costs through its component-based, distributed architecture. Reusing application policies that represent system units and contain all the associated application logic significantly decreases engineering time.

Application policies can be easily built, replicated and assembled, drastically reducing engineering setup and deployment costs, while reducing system start-up time and risk.

Lower Cost of Application Ownership

The Devil Framework Application Server enables companies to dramatically lower the lifecycle cost of owning and maintaining automation applications while extending the useful lifespan of an automation system. The Devil Framework Application Server achieves decreased ownership costs through numerous architectural capabilities that allow for remote application deployment and maintenance, online upgrades and expansion, remote system diagnostics, and change propagation.

Agility

The Devil Framework Application Server's component-based architecture and scalable environment gives engineers the flexibility they need to enhance, modify or re-architect their application topology without the cost of re-engineering. These capabilities allow users to respond to demands for increased performance, capacity expansion and retrofits without being constrained by previous application deployment decisions.

Extensibility

The Devil Framework Application Server also presents an open and flexible framework that empowers engineers to extend application components as well as communications and device integration.

Open Source

Ultimate flexibility and extensibility with complete control over data and code is guaranteed by the availability of the system source code.