Performance & Visibility
FactoryTalk View
FactoryTalk View Machine Edition
FactoryTalk® View Machine Edition (ME) is a machine-level HMI that supports both open and embedded operator interface solutions for monitoring and controlling individual machines or small processes. FactoryTalk View Machine Edition allows for a consistent operator interface across multiple platforms, including Microsoft® Windows® CE and Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and XP solutions. Components of this HMI are a PC-based development tool called FactoryTalk View Studio and a separate runtime system called FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Station. FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Station runs projects developed with FactoryTalk View Studio. Flexible runtime choices include Allen-Bradley PanelView Plus and PanelView Plus CE terminals in display sizes from 4 to 15 inches and Windows 2000 and XP platforms.
FactoryTalk View Machine Edition offers you:
- Component-based Architecture
FactoryTalk View Machine Edition is one of the two components of the FactoryTalk View — the other is FactoryTalk View Site Edition. FactoryTalk View bridges the gap between machine-level and supervisory-level systems to give users a more efficient, productive, and cost-efficient solution at all levels of the enterprise. Designed for scalability and integration between machine and supervisory levels, Enterprise products are designed with a common look, feel, and navigation to speed development and training time while reducing your total cost of ownership.
- Single-Tag Creation
FactoryTalk View Machine Edition lets you take advantage of seamless interoperability among Rockwell Automation products with FactoryTalk® framework. FactoryTalk provides the infrastructure FactoryTalk View Machine Edition needs to access information directly from the local FactoryTalk servers, like ControlLogix® and Allen-Bradley PLCs, as well as standard third-party OPC servers. So, with FactoryTalk, you define your tags only once. FactoryTalk View Machine Edition uses the tags you create in your logic programs, eliminating the need to recreate them within your FactoryTalk View Machine Edition application. Changes to tags in your data server are inherited by your HMI application.
- Connectivity
Offering preferred connectivity to Rockwell Automation products, FactoryTalk View Machine Edition is the ideal product to connect to devices such as ControlLogix®, MicroLogix™, PLC-5®, and SLC™ controllers. Networks supported include Ethernet, ControlNet, DeviceNet, DH+, DF1, and DH-485. All FactoryTalk View Machine Edition runtime platforms also include Kepserver Enterprise to support a wide variety of third-party programmable controllers and devices.
- Extensive List of Product Features
- Full-featured Graphics Editor with powerful editing tools, drawing objects, pre-configured operator devices, and animation capabilities
- Quick Test Run, which simulates individual displays or entire projects
- Data Logging to log tag values that can be displayed in the historical trend object
- Preferred connectivity with Rockwell Automation products
- Alarming to quickly alert operators to conditions requiring immediate action
- Security to restrict operator access to specific displays
- Expressions to perform mathematical or logical calculations
- Support for both ActiveX® and OPC technologies
- RecipePlus for machine or process recipe management
- Runtime language switching
- Multiple-version support to support different versions of the runtime platforms with the latest version of FactoryTalk View Studio
- Graphics library with hundreds of graphic objects to drag and drop into your displays
- RSLogix 5000 process faceplates
- Global objects
- Object Explorer to view quickly the hierarchy of objects on a display
- Property panel to edit the attributes of single or multiple objects easily
- Full complement of operator devices, including push buttons, selectors, numeric and string entry devices, diagnostic indicators, message displays, numeric and string displays, bar graphs, gauges, and much more
- Graphics XML import and export to allow the export of graphic display information from FactoryTalk View as an XML file