Brainchild Configuration & editing Software Panel Studio
Description
Powerful and user friendly Panel Studio editing software supports many PLC drivers. Good features include Fine components, Trends, Alarms, bar-graphs, Recipes, Multilingual. Scripts, Data logging, Remote Viewer Vector graphics, Symbol factory, Online/Offline Simulation for Rapid application development.
Features
· Free, powerful and friendly HMI editing software
· 2-editing styles in both GUI wizard and Property grid
· Lots of fine-made objects of Meters, Sliders, Digital LED, Check boxes, Combo boxes, Number Up/Down, etc.
· 112 basic symbols, high-resolution, vector format, some in 6 colors, flipped and rotatable in 4 directions in design time
· Basic symbols support moving and 32 band run-time animation on background color, visibility, flip, rotation
· Optional Symbol Factory with symbols over 4K, flipping, rotating in 4 directions, changing color in design time
· Symbol Factory control allows 50 band run-time animation, each band in different colors or blinking
· Picture box to import pictures in bmp, wmf, jpg, gif & png formats
· Drawing tools like rectangle, ellipse, etc., maximum 32 bands, each band with visible control, filling color & blinking
· Drawing tools like rectangle, ellipse, etc., with run-time animation like filling, moving & sizing
· Many PLC drivers supported on both Serial & Ethernet ports via OPC server
· Data exchange between two different PLCs as a gateway
· Diagnostic tools for drivers like OPC server & OPC client to test communication between PC and PLC directly
· IO poll groups, different scan rates for PLC tags, possible to scan tags always or only tags on active page
· Retentive and non-retentive internal variables available for mathematical calculation
· 3 types of screens in Page, Template and Pop-up
· The Scheduler to trigger actions at specific time or time intervals
· Recipe management to create data elements and data records in design time
· Recipe viewer to edit data records and transfer setpoints from HMI to PLC and vice versa in run-time
· Real-time alarms in 7 types, historical alarms and alarm management in maximum 9 groups
· Alarm banner to display the latest alarm in single line
· Real-time trends and historical trends, with maximum 24 pens for each component
· Bit-wise alarms for integer tag received from PLC
· Data stored in internal memory or optional SD card
· Data logging by 4 methods, 2 types and 10 rates
· Data acquisition software Historical Viewer to view historical data and alarms on PC
· Security management used for maximum 100 users divided by 9-authority levels
· Script/Macro programmed in C language for mathematical and logical calculation
· Run-time user administration done by user-view component
· Software in multilingual, easy for local application engineers
· Multilingual on the display, easy for users, maximum 30 languages
· Online simulation to test application program quickly by simulating it on PC while connecting with PLC
· Offline simulation to test application program by simulating it on PC without connecting with PLC
· Copy screens between projects to save developing time
· Copy/paste animation for drawing tools like rectangle, ellipse etc., to save developing time
· Project compiler to verify the application under developing before downloading to HMI
· Message libraries via Word Lamp with animations to display various messages based on different values
· Advanced buttons with animation in 3 kinds of actions namely clicked, pressed and released with timing
· Bit-wise animation used with bit lamp for integer tag to show status of integer tag received from PLC
· Multiple sessions to open projects in design time on PC
· Handy components for tables to quickly draw rows and columns
· Project explorer and Tool box to quickly view hierarchy of all objects in software
· Flexible to call many system functions from buttons, events, schedulers, scripts, etc.
·To download application program efficiently from PC to HMI via Ethernet port, or via USB stick