Industrial Automation Magazine India

Centralised Factory-Level User Management

Published on : Wednesday 13-01-2021

B&R simplifies user management with mapp Technology.

B&R has made centralised, factory-level user management substantially easier. With the new software component mapp UserX, it is now possible to use services based on LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) to implement centralised management of users and user groups, for example using Active Directory from Microsoft.        

With mapp UserX, the administrator can easily create users and grant them access to multiple servers using a single username and password. Rather than having to manage user by user on each individual machine, all the user data is stored on a central server and retrieved from there at every login. 

With mapp UserX and LDAP, user management functions are fully integrated as widgets in the mapp View HMI system. Developers can implement powerful, web-based HMI functionality without having to write a single line of code. That makes it easy to meet the requirements for FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliance. 

Rather than having to manage user by user on each individual machine, all user data is stored and queried on a central server using mapp UserX and LDAP.     

B&R is an innovative automation company with headquarters in Austria and offices all around the world. On July 6, 2017, B&R became a business unit of the ABB Group. As a global leader in industrial automation, B&R combines state-of-the-art technology with advanced engineering to provide customers in virtually every industry with complete solutions for machine and factory automation, motion control, HMI and integrated safety technology. With Industrial IoT communication standards like OPC UA, POWERLINK and openSAFETY as well as the powerful Automation Studio software development environment, B&R is constantly redefining the future of automation engineering. The innovative spirit that keeps B&R at the forefront of industrial automation is driven by a commitment to simplifying processes and exceeding customer expectations.

B&R Industrial Automation Pvt Ltd, Pune. Tel: 020-41478999. Email: [email protected]