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Following many months of research, development, testing, and a very successful beta test program involving current and prospective customers, NovaTech is pleased to announce the initial commercial shipment of the OrionLX Automation Platform.
The fourth generation in the NovaTech Orion Automation Platform product family, the OrionLX continues our tradition of market-leading innovation and ease-of-use. An updated version of NovaTech Communications Director (NCD) software has also been released to accommodate the prevailing trends in substation automation, distribution automation, and SCADA RTU applications.
New features of the OrionLX and updated NCD include:
• Comprehensive security suite to address evolving NERC CIP compliance requirements.
• The ability to integrate over 100 IEDs, including up to 96 Ethernetconnected IEDs, into a single secure substation gateway.
• Intuitive web-based GUI with the industry’s best diagnostic tools.
• Point aliasing to allow viewing of diagnostic and Orion Webserver Alarm information in ‘plain text’ instead of default IED point names.
• Additional tools to configure applications across multiple Orions within a single offline configuration tool (NCD).
Prior to commercial release, OrionLX and enhanced NCD have been beta tested by several existing and prospective customers in a lab environment to rave reviews. Comments from beta testers regarding their experience include the following:
“In general things are going very well with the new units. We have tested the DNP Slave port with [a] test set and found no issues. We have finally gotten several…relays from our Relay group and hooked them up yesterday and everyone came up with no issues. This is a fantastic product and I can’t wait to show it off to everyone.”
“I have played with the OrionLX and really like it. It looks like you folks did an outstanding job, but of course, I would not have expected anything less. I like the security features, I like the interface, I like that you have kept it simple, yet much more powerful. I like the physical layout of the front of the unit as well as the well laid out hardware on the inside. It really looks like you folks have hit another home run.”
OrionLX is currently available with most features previously available on Orion5 and Orion5r. Contact your NovaTech sales representative for inquiries.