FactoryTalk ViewPoint

Overview

On the road, at home or in the office, FactoryTalk® ViewPoint provides a secure interface with FactoryTalk View’s graphics, trending, and alarming applications through a Web browser. FactoryTalk ViewPoint extends the access to FactoryTalk View Site Edition (SE) and Machine Edition (ME) applications to user’s mobile devices for improved real-time decision making.

As an add-on to FactoryTalk® View SE and PanelView™ Plus, FactoryTalk ViewPoint delivers a rich, interactive experience that includes real-time and historical trending. You gain the simplicity of standard browser navigation and new degrees of access to critical FactoryTalk View information all in a web browser. There is no client software to install and maintain, lowering total cost of ownership.

Features

• Quick and secure access to plant floor HMI applications will streamline decision-making time.
• Configure role based security for graphic screens and interaction capabilities
• You decide what FactoryTalk View graphic screens can be accessed
• Connectivity to real-time data via FactoryTalk Live Data and historical data via FactoryTalk Historian and FactoryTalk View Datalogs
• Simplified view-only alarm interface of FactoryTalk Alarms and Events
• Leverage FactoryTalk View configured navigation as well as Web browser capabilities like tabbed screens and favorites
• Supports most FactoryTalk View capabilities like numeric and string displays, global objects, embedded variables, parameters, and docked displays
• Provides an accurate view of data across a wide variety of client devices with various screen sizes and resolutions

• Operating System
  FactoryTalk ViewPoint and FactoryTalk ViewPoint Administration have been tested on the following operating systems:
  • Microsoft ® Windows Server ® 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 Update
  • Windows CE 6 (for PanelView Plus)
• Required server software
  FactoryTalk ViewPoint is an add-on to an existing FactoryTalk View system and requires FactoryTalk View v8.10.00 or later.
  The following technology is also required:
• Microsoft Windows .NET 3.5 SP1
• Internet Information Server (IIS)
• Internet Explorer 11.0
• Google® Chrome™ browser 39.0 or later
• Google Chrome browser on Android™ 4.4
• Safari on IOS® 8
• Web and Mobile Clients
  FactoryTalk ViewPoint has been tested on the following web browsers: