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Movicon Technology

Movicon™ 11 is the software standard for all those operating in industrial automation, in remote control and building automation, a universal Scada/HMI platform adaptable and deployable anywhere with maximum independence from hardware.
Movicon™ in fact offers an all-in-one platform deployable at all levels whether being HMI operator panels and/or mobile devices based on WinCE, or Personal Computers in big industrial plant systems with client/server redundancy architecture, with connectivity to any PLC, network and industrial or civil fieldbus types.
 
Intelligent Editor
It is not easy to combine power with simplicity.  Systems that are too easy to use tend to be very restricted in what they can do.  On the other hand, systems that are very powerful are just too complex to use.  This is where Movicon™ takes over, the only Scada/HMI platform put under severe usability and ergonomic tests (involving university computer science research departments) and passed with top grades.  Movicon™ has been designed intelligently to fit user needs allowing them to become more productive in less time and effort without restricting potentiality but with maximum deployment flexibility.



The Movicon workspace is transparent, pleasant and intuitive.  All the tools are at easy reach and ready-to-use and configuring is completely done by using the vast range of object libraries and resources, fully customizable through the properties window.  This window can be moved and positioned as pleased and provide all the properties organized in logical areas and divided and subdivided in groups.  The many configuration properties saves you from having to endlessly write code (scripts) in your projects, with an-all-round time saved not just in planning but in project debugging and maintenance as well.


The main Movicon™ 11  “Intelligent Editor features are:

  • One built-in Editor extremely simple and easy-to-use.  The one same Editor can be uses with Windows™ Vista/XP or Windows™ CE or Web Client.   No need to install additional components for creating your applications.
  • Configurable Workspace, floating or conventional windows.  Quick (shortcut) commands and speedier configuration pop-up windows.
  • Configuring in Easy-mode by displaying only the most common properties to further simplify system use.
  • Refactoring, tools for automatically correcting wrongly assigned tags to objects and missing text strings.
  • Enhanced Cross Reference, built-in and interactive.
  • Auto-create projects using wizards with project templates.
  • Projects based on XML and open.  “XML code” window for displaying and modifying objects directly in XML text.  Option to create macros, internally and externally, for auto-creating projects or parts of projects in custom mode. Projects can be crypted whenever required.
  • Object Programming Environment with powerful vector graphics.
  • Symbol and Template libraries. Power Templates© technology for managing complex object libraries with integrated VBA code.  Template management also provided for Alarms, Data Loggers, Events and Schedulers.
  • Distributed design made possible with the “Child Project” technology, which consent dynamic decentralized project linking and embedding, whether local or in network.
  • Ms Visual Source Safe™ fully integrated and native, the best solution for distributed planning with security and project modification traceability.
  • Expressely designed with built-on support to the FDA CFR21 Part 11 normative
  • Native and integrated I/O driver library, with automatic Tag importing from PLC with direct link to device.  I/O Driver library included and for free, can be added to and customized with SDK.
  • Powerful Debugger On Line, with functions to analyse and simulate projects both local and in remote.
  • Built-in SoftLogic IEC-61131-3.
  • “On Line”  project modifications, local or remote. 

 "Captivating" Visualization.
The mission to visualize the production process is paramount to any supervision system.  The more transparent process visualization means more efficient plant floor management.  Unlike a decade ago, users now explicitly demand that their plant and process be represented as near to reality as possible.  The immediate look, feel and touch experience unleashes extra sensory perception.  The being there but not being there, virtual reality is the key factor and this is where graphics play a major role.  Most project development time is spent in creating the real thing on screen and Movicon™ 11 is supreme in this field.  By using the vast range of the most powerful Movicon™ 11 graphics ever, won’t take you long at all to achieve the real thing on screen.

Alarms: Under complete control.
The powerful Movicon™ 11 alarm management guarantees maximum precision in managing events and provides users with a rich source of information consenting continuous and immediate knowledge on how the plant is running, enabling them to improve on reducing production standstills and improve efficiency.  The Alarms are managed for default according to the ISA S-18 normative, but they are completely customizable, by being managed as objects with numerous properties adaptable to every need.  The activation/interval thresholds, fixed or changeable, determine alarm activation by managing four standard operating statuses (ON, OFF, ACK and RST), and consequently displayed in object orientated Active Alarm windows with numerous filter options (by time, area, priority, period, etc.) with the option to combine dynamic help and guidelines in external files (CHM, HTML, PDF).

Secure Data Always.
All acquired process data from a supervision system is usually recorded and filed for further analysing.  This data guarantees production managers all the information they need on the process in order to carry out the necessary analysis to improve their productivity, pinpoint and isolate anomalous behaviour.  The Scada’s mission is to consent data aggregation in the simplest way possible and allow recording and file management modalities to be defined and setup in the most appropriate way suited.
This important job is thoroughly done by Movicon™ based on the concepts of simplicity, reliability and openness. Movicon™ has three recording engines, based on a ODBC Manager model to guarantee maximum performance in data precision and openness in choosing the most suited data format at the same time.  Movicon™ supports all relational DBs via ODBC but will automatically uses the Microsoft SQL Server™ for default, if not specified otherwise.  One recording engine has been designated the task of recording process data using the Data Logger resource, another engine has been designated to the Event Log and the last one designated to the powerful and sophisticated variable Tracing management (ie. the Audit Trail).
As an alternative to using the ODBC recording engines, Movicon™ also provide you with the IMDB manager (In Memory DB), which permits you to record data (Data Loggers, Events or any other data) on simple text format files (.DAT o .XML), which then can be encrypted to allow recorded data to be only viewed exclusively through the Movicon™ controlled access modalities.  The historical log management in IMDB can also be activated in part, which is particularly intended for Embedded systems, which require crypted data.



Connectivity with no limits.
Communicating in the fast lane safely at top speed is essential for any automation system.  The supervision systems are meeting points of all process data. The crossroads of non-stop production information flow of business enterprise systems.  The communication’s strategic role is deeply rooted in Movicon™, where you will find all the tools you will ever need integrated to make information flow in the most quickest, smoothest and transparent way possible.  Movicon™ 11 provides you with a rich library of I/O Drivers, native, integrated and included free in the product.  Communication with control systems (PLC, CNC, Instrumentation, Fieldbus) has never been so quick to configure and never been so quick performing.  Very helpful Wizards are at hand to automatically import and configure project variables directly form the PLC, helping you beat configuring times and reduce the risk of making errors.  The I/O Driver library supports all PLCs and systems found on the market today, and can be added to by third parties using an appropriate SDK.

System access with maximum security, according to the strictest normatives.
The Movicon™ 11 applications guarantee maximum security and reliability.  The User and Password management, complete and robust, has been explicitly designed to guarantee that projects are realized with simplicity and integration in conformance to the CFR21 part 11 specifications issued by the American FDA agency (Food & Drug Administration).
Movicon™ 11 ensures maximum data and system access protection, by applying protection criteria involving 1024 User levels and 16 access levels.  Project users can be shared with the Window™ Domain, allowing the option to integrate and centralize user profiles.    All the security criteria have been fully integrated and can be configured with a few mouse clicks, these include the Electronic Signature management, unauthorized access attempts control, password expiries, automatic log-off and the Audit Trail management.  Movicon™ also lets you define protection levels and traceability directly in each single Tag, independently from the commands they have been associated with.   Furthermore, Movicon™ supports the Windows™ Vista/XP Services and consents total or partial access block to the Windows™ desktop.   Data is recorded on safe relational database  (ie. SQL Server or Oracle) and in 128 bit encryption ownership format.

Integrated Languages.
Object orientated programming may not always cover all the more complex needs of out-of-the-norm requirements.  Even though the Scada platform’s task is to refrain from or reduce the use of code and script to a minimum, this may not always be the case.  You may find that using code and script is indispensable for performing calculations, functions or for customizing rather complex functionalities, such as those used for accessing databases, managing ActiveX or OCX, or managing special peripherals, algorithms, calculation functions, and other.
Whatever you need to do, you can do it with Movicon™ 11 using the built-in languages, which offer the best and unmatched solutions to all your needs:
- VBA and VB.Net languages
- Expression Generatore
- Instruction List (PLC-like language)
- Synapsis Language

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