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Multiple users can work on the same project simultaneously.
FactoryStudio projects are stored in an embedded-encrypted SQL database file, a SQL engine is included with FactoryStudio at no additional cost. That provides much more security and easier maintenance and deployment, when compared with legacy systems where configuration files are spread across multiple folders and files.
Providing flexibility to meet your design and execution requirements, FactoryStudio can be configured to store and run projects from a USB stick, local hard-drive, Network Server or from a Cloud server.
You can copy/paste any configuration table with Excel directly. Configuration from RockwellTM PLC’s, OSIsoftTM PI Systems, CSV files, XML files, DLL .NET assemblies can be easily mapped into projects with easy synchronization tools.
Never again will you need to manage virtual machines or different computers with different versions of development software. FactoryStudio automatically enables the engineering environment that matches the version last used to edit a project. That prevents you from building something into the project that is not supported by the runtime environment, which can still be from a previous product version.
Tags and all application objects are presented to the user as you type, with full context validation. That makes the configuration process much faster and more reliable.
Multiple project versions are easily managed thanks to the metadata information and the built-in management tools. FactoryStudio automatically tracks configuration changes, builds and project releases.
Tags, Assets and Templates are not only the start of Tatsoft company name, they are also the core components to the real-time data models and the power of FactoryStudio. The FactoryStudio system has a built-in real- time, event driven, in-memory database, that manages the tags, assets and events in the application.
A typical HMI-SCADA system has only basic tag types, such as numeric and messages. As FactoryStudio also targets IT and MES systems, it goes far beyond, supporting real- time entities that match all the SQL types and many .NET Framework entities, including Images and a complete DataTable in a single real-time tag.
Organize your project with categories and assets. An asset is composed of tags and other application objects connected to your process hierarchy. FactoryStudio allows implementation of ISA 95 modeling specifications, which can be essential in large systems.
Templates are user-defined structures, similar to .NET classes, allowing composition and hierarchy. Besides the built-in basic types, real-time tags can be created based on templates that reflect physical assets, which speed up and simplify the application development.
FactoryStudio is the first complete product where all of the configuration and execution tools are pure Windows Presentation Foundation, the latest graphical technology from Microsoft. WPF uses the full potential of the current graphics cards and computers, providing superior quality and performance.
Connect real-time tags to control properties in 3D models created with 3DMax or other systems that supports the .3DS extension.
Smart Symbols are asset and template based reusable graphical components, with runtime dynamics or static binding and centralized management. The symbols can keep a live link with the library, so you can modify the symbol only once and automatically apply to all displays.
Develop code behind, using C# or VB.NET, or HTML5/Javascript, expressions on dynamic animations and client-side event-driven scripts, providing flexible customization.
Customizable on-screen keyboard, multi- touch support, momentary buttons and other features deliver rich touch panel systems.
Unique new dynamics, such as opacity, shine and skew, combined with move, scale, color change, rotate, and others, applied to any object, provide the most comprehensive set of animations. No more difficult laborious workarounds dealing with drawing tools created on top of legacy graphics systems.
Images are added to the project database for centralized management, low and hi resolution versions of the image are automatically created, optimizing the project. Transparency, alpha color, image brushes, all designer tools are there.
All Windows controls are included, as well web browser, child-displays, doc viewer and many others. Add WPF controls to extended functionality, such as scheduler controls, Gantt or live video cameras. Legacy Active-X controls can also be used for compatibility.