Hi, I'm Nicole Bulanda from Rockwell Automation. Thanks for joining us for the
on-demand experience. We're here in the technology and services showcase and now
we're talking about hardware and software and I'm joined by Sharon Billi Durant to talk a
little bit more detail about this. Tell us about the factorytalk Optics platform.
Absolutely Nicole. Thank you so much. So factorytalk Optics is a new
Communications and visualization platform that we introduced earlier this year.
It provides amazing flexabiity to our customers and we're super excited about it.
Some of the options that we provide is a design experience that can be enabled from
the cloud a user can design their application using
nothing more than a web browser. It provides a scalable applications.
I can scale an application from a very small Edge application a
Communications application with no visualization at all all the way up to a
standard HDMI or
application because of that scalability
I can also deploy it to compute surfaces that are very small
to a server based PC. There are
responsive Graphics lots of graphical options and probably the most powerful
feature is that it is based 100% OPC
UA it is completely extensible with scripting
and our customers can customize and create
their own. Library of objects and maintain them with
change management version management. We are
very excited about the opportunities that this provides for our customers.
So let's talk a little bit as well about Hardware because in addition to this
software, there's also a hardware component. How do these two work together? Absolutely.
So the Optics portfolio is a combination of
hardware and software so you can install the software on any
computer any industrial PC, but we also have embedded
Hardware options. So Oh, it is a closed compute surface.
So Optics panel comes in two panels... Optics panel compact
Optics panel standard, and we also have an
edge compute module. That is the module that fits in the chassis.
So think of it like a headless Optics panel and you can see the
Optics panels behind me really excited about these solutions that our
customers can take advantage of and I understand we have a new launch coming
out soon Factory talk view. Can you share a little bit?
About that. I would love to so factorytalk view version 14 will be due out any day now
and it is one of our biggest releases yet. So factorytalk view 14 offers customers
the ability to configure runtime navigation runtime search. We have
completely overhauled the rendering engine of the client. So we have scalable Graphics.
We've improved the multi-touch capabilities and probably one thing that we're most
excited about About is a new brand new Edge historian that is built into factorytalk view
using influx DB and the performance of that is amazing. And we
really are excited about the opportunities that our customers can take advantage of
where maybe a full-blown historian was too much and the existing data logs were
not enough. So it kind of is in that middle sweet spot. So very excited about that.
Thank you so much Sharon a lot of interesting stuff coming
this has been a great year for us and we're excited.
Thank you.