FactoryTalk View SE

Overview

Before you can optimize production, you need to understand where efficiencies can be gained in your plant. To do this, you need a clear view across entire lines and production processes. FactoryTalk® View Site Edition (SE) is a supervisory-level HMI software for monitoring and controlling distributed-server/multi-user applications. It provides a comprehensive and accurate picture of operations, meeting the demands of multiple stakeholders including engineering, maintenance, operations, and production Information Technology (IT).

FactoryTalk View SE provides robust and reliable functionality in a single software package that scales from a stand-alone HMI system to a distributed visualization solution. As our customers have experienced over the past few years, FactoryTalk View SE enables you to take advantage of mobility, virtualization, and other new technologies, meeting HMI challenges in process, batch and discrete applications and delivering critical visibility when and where you need it.

Features

• Native recipe management using FactoryTalk ViewSE RecipePro+
• Extend your HMI to mobile clients using FactoryTalk ViewPoint
• Define tags and graphic objects and displays once and reference them throughout a distributed system
• Streamlined development with a common editor for FactoryTalk View ME and SE
• Share data and integrate seamlessly with other FactoryTalk enabled products. The FactoryTalk Services Platform provides common services such as security, alarming and diagnostics across products
• Maximize productivity by directly accessing tag information in the controller, eliminating the need to create HMI tags
• Multiple users can simultaneously manage the application from anywhere on the network and easily make online changes to a running system without taking down the HMI application
• Scalable Architecture from single station HMI to multi-client/multi-server system
• Maximize system availability with built-in software redundancy for automatic failure detection and switchover without losing client connectivity
• Robust client side scripting to extend applications for your specific needs
• Real-time and historical trending with built-in connectivity to FactoryTalk Historian
• Audit trail of operator actions and alarm events in a centralized database or automatically to FactoryTalk AssetCentre
• Built-in library of over 5000 pre-designed graphical symbols
• Expanded topology allows for up to 10 redundant servers and 50 clients
• Remote commands provides improved PlantPAx faceplate interaction

The computer hardware you choose to install and operate your FactoryTalk® View SE System should be adequately sized for the demands of each component, and meet the following system requirements.

Typically, application servers such as FactoryTalk View SE Server, FactoryTalk Alarms and Events, and RSLinx® Enterprise will need to be sized with faster CPUs and more RAM than operator or engineering workstations. The greater the demand, the more powerful a system you need.

You should also specify a hard drive with enough disk space to provide virtual memory that is at least twice the size of the physical RAM.