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, Reports, Web Server, Symbol factory, Online/Offline Simulation for Rapid application development.
- 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
- Reports, Web Server and Ethernet camera to be available soon
