SOFTWARE UPDATE NEWS ABOUT DIGITAL MANUFACTURING TOOLS AND SOFTWARE
Building an Infrastructure for Smart Manufacturing and the IIoT
s Manufacturing Engineering: What’s new in HMI soft-
ware from your company? Chirayu Shah: Our software covers any of the HMI
software that runs on our industrial panels, our industrial computers and distributed HMI, which is more of a server- based offering that runs on standard industrial data servers. So our HMI software spans the operator level to supervisory level control, in terms of plant environment. The HMI software obviously plays a very critical role in the new world of manufacturing, as opposed to being an acquired component to confi gure the controller, the way it was previously. When you compare a lot of control and HMI vendors, our software has served as a differentiator for our customers and what tools they choose to use. It goes with- out saying that the HMI becomes a key integral part of the decision-making process.
ME: How does HMI software such as the FactoryTalk suite work with your PLC programming systems? Shah: We do differentiate between an Allen-Bradley PLC
5 or ControlLogix control programs, and how we interface with them and the fi rmware that’s associated with it, versus HMI control software that is more a user interface to a ma- chine. I support the HMI user interface software, as opposed to the design software that interfaces with the controller. ControlLogix is our preferred control platform for large
control systems; to confi gure ControlLogix, we have a software called Studio 5000, which has multiple dimensions
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to it. That software includes Logix Designer, which allows you to write ladder logic or function blocks, or use other editors we offer to confi gure your controller. The Studio 5000 software also includes View Designer software that allows you to build HMI applications for our next-generation platform. Traditionally we had an HMI design tool that was different than the controller design tool, but to create more productivity for our users, we’re combining those editors so you can do things like confi gure a tag in the controller that can be referenced in the HMI without duplicating the same tag in the HMI database. ME: Is this part of an ongoing evolution of Studio 5000? Shah: If you go back even four or fi ve years, we’ve made a very focused attempt at improving Studio 5000 to be more of a productivity tool for our customers. We’ve done a lot of work in trying to simplify the design environment as well as
“FactoryTalk Analytics will allow OEMs to create an out-of-box solution to collect data from machines and visualize performance through a common corridor in the cloud, regardless of where the machines are deployed across the globe.”
integrating with other sources. Last year we created more of an integrated environment with the View Designer launch that supports the new 5500 family of HMI panels. The same prin- ciples are applicable in our current platforms as well. If you use our FactoryTalk View Site Edition HMI platform, you can leverage the same benefi ts. We’re able to extend that same technology to the controller. What we’ve done is taken the strength in the controllers and expanded it. Modern control- lers have a lot more horsepower for dealing with a lot more information, as opposed to the limited footprint capacity that they used to have with earlier controller technology.
Chirayu Shah
Marketing Manager, HMI Software Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee)
www.rockwellautomation.com
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