FactoryTalk View Site Edition
FactoryTalk View® Site Edition (SE) is a supervisory
HMI software package for enterprise solutions. It has a distributed and
scalable architecture that supports distributed-server/multi-user
applications, giving maximum control over information where you want it.
- FactoryTalk View Studio: Configuration software
for developing and testing HMI applications
- FactoryTalk View SE Server: HMI server that
stores HMI project components and serves these components to clients.
- FactoryTalk View SE Client: Client software for
viewing and interacting with supervisory-level applications developed
using FactoryTalk View Studio.
- FactoryTalk View SE Station: Traditional
"stand-alone" HMI solution that packages a server and client for use on
a single computer.
- FactoryTalk ViewPoint: Web-based HMI expands
access to plant-floor applications to users virtually anywhere
With FactoryTalk View Site Edition, you can:
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Create Tags Once
Maximize productivity by directly accessing tag
information in the CompactLogix or ControlLogix controller. Define
tags once and use them multiple times throughout the system without
the need to define HMI tags.
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Take Advantage of Location Transparency
Design and deploy your system without having to
worry about where your tags are coming from. Tags in your
FactoryTalk View Site Edition application are not hard coded to the
PLC's physical location. FactoryTalk Directory maps all of the tags
and their locations to the parts of FactoryTalk View Site Edition
that use them. When a property of a tag changes, FactoryTalk makes
sure that information gets into FactoryTalk View Site Edition. Since
tag names are not associated with specific computers — only with
logical areas — you can duplicate entire HMI projects and logic
programs from entire lines or areas of an application and reuse them
in the same application.
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Control Your Point of View
Since each FactoryTalk View Site Edition Client
can view information from any and all FactoryTalk View Servers, you
get all the information you need. While operators are viewing
information pertinent to their areas of the process, supervisors and
executives are viewing the information they need to make important
decisions. You can customize each of your clients even further
through "display code" or client-side Visual Basic® for Applications
(VBA) for graphics and the exposed graphics object model. Clients
act like Visual Basic (VB) forms, allowing them to execute
client-side VB code locally — independently of other clients.
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Don't Lose Control
Ensure a high level of system availability with
both HMI Server and Data Server redundancy. FactoryTalk View Site
Edition provides enhanced system uptime by ensuring that if the
computer or network associated with the primary HMI server fails, a
backup server continues to provide information to clients.
With RSLinx® and OPC data server redundancy, you won't lose access
to your control information if your RSLinx or OPC data server loses
communication with your HMI. If the computer hosting your data
server fails, another computer can automatically take its place —
each FactoryTalk View Site Edition server continues to receive
control information without having to detect and manage the failover
individually.
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Secure Your Operation
One of the most fundamental elements of any
good automation security solution is the ability to limit system
access to only those who have a legitimate need to use it.
FactoryTalk View Site Edition uses FactoryTalk Security -
centralized security services common to many Rockwell Software
products including FactoryTalk View Site Edition. Integrate with
Windows security or configure users and groups within FactoryTalk
Security, and then grant them rights in FactoryTalk View Site
Edition.
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Have These Features
- Streamline HMI development with a
common editor for FactoryTalk View ME and SE
- Share data and integrate seamlessly
with other FactoryTalk enabled products. The FactoryTalk
Services Platform provides common services such as security,
alarming and diagnostics across products.
- Optimize plant communication with
FactoryTalk Live Data and premier connectivity tRockwell
Automation controllers.
- Maximize productivity by directly
accessing tag information in the controller, eliminating the
need tcreate HMI tags.
- Configure your application from
anywhere on the network and easily make changes to a running
system with remote, multi-user configuration capability.
- Define graphics displays once and
reference them throughout a distributed system.
- Provide an audit trail of operator and
alarm information in a centralized log database.
- Customize the operator experience using
client-side VBA and the exposed graphics object model.
- Maximize the system availability with
built-in failure detection and recovery.