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ME: How much easier is it for users to program HMIs or


control software with these advances? Shah: I’d say we defi nitely made it simpler, so that you’re not duplicating efforts. If you are an engineer designing the screens or content, you’re now able to repurpose a lot of


the work you’ve done on the control side. For example, if you’re designing an alarm in the HMI, now you can reference the defi nition of an alarm directly from the controller, so you don’t have to reconfi gure that alarm in your HMI system. When alarms occur, they’re not only available directly in your HMI without a lot of confi gura- tion, but it’s also more accurate because now the PLC is providing the time stamps and controlling the fl oor’s alarms so they don’t get out of sequence and accuracy is retained. So there are more benefi ts than just design time productivity because again, PLCs have gotten a lot stronger and they’re now able to process a lot more. ME: Is there a lot of crossover between the PLC world and the machine control world, with machine controls like a FANUC or a Siemens?


Shah: FANUC is one of our partners. We’ve brought in their machine profi les into our PLCs so we can interface them natively as a third-party device. Now the industry as a whole has more or less adopted OPC [OLE (Object Link-


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