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Product Overview

FactoryTalk View

FactoryTalk View provides a suite of HMI software products designed with a common look, feel, and navigation to help speed HMI application development and training time. Supporting the Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture, FactoryTalk View is part of the scalable and unified suite of monitoring and control solutions designed to span stand-alone machine-level applications up through supervisory-level HMI applications across a network. FactoryTalk View includes the PC-based development tool FactoryTalk View Studio as well as FactoryTalk View Machine Edition and FactoryTalk View Site Edition.



Benefits

• Scalable across multiple platforms including PanelView Plus, PanelView Plus CE, and VersaView Industrial Computers, for both machine level and supervisory level HMI.
  
• Streamline HMI development with a common editor for FactoryTalk View ME and FactoryTalk View SE.
  
• Customize the operator experience using client-side VBA and the exposed graphics model.
  
• Migrate PanelView projects to FactoryTalk View Machine Edition.
  
• Maximize productivity by directly accessing tag information in the controller, eliminating the need to create HMI tags.
  
• Maximize the system availability with built-in failure detection and recovery.
  
• Shares data with other Factory-Talk enabled products providing common services such as security, alarming, and diagnostics.
  

Product Design

FactoryTalk View products offer a common development environment, architecture, and application reuse, so that customers can increase productivity, reduce operation costs, and improve quality.

FactoryTalk View Studio provides a common development tool for FactoryTalk View Site Edition and FactoryTalk View Machine Edition, allowing users to create applications in a single design environment. FactoryTalk View Studio supports editing and reusing projects for improved portability between embedded machine and supervisory HMI systems. With FactoryTalk View, all software products in the suite are built on the same integrated, scalable architecture. Application developers can import entire machine-level applications into supervisory-level applications or drag individual components and drop them right into supervisory projects, saving development time and reducing engineering and training costs. Users can import PanelBuilder32 (PanelView) applications into FactoryTalk View Machine Edition and RSView32 applications into FactoryTalk View Site Edition, protecting their current HMI investments.

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 Site Edition (SE) is an HMI for supervisory-level monitoring and control applications. It has a distributed and scalable architecture that supports distributed-server/multi-user applications, giving maximum control over information where you want it. This highly scalable architecture can be applied to a stand-alone one-server/one-user application or to multiple users interfacing with multiple servers. FactoryTalk View Site Edition is targeted at supervisory-level monitoring and control applications that need a distributed and scalable architecture. FactoryTalk View Site Edition includes runtime servers and clients, allowing customers to develop and deploy a multi-server/multi-client application. Such applications are developed with the FactoryTalk View Studio development tool.

Communication

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.