Hello, thank you for joining us today. This session is IE86, What's New and
What's Next in Visualization software and hardware. My name is Sharon Billi-Duran.
I'm the business manager for visualization software, I'm joined here with
Sue Burtch, who is the marketing manager for visualization software and Al Letourneau
who is the marketing manager for visualization hardware.
In this session, we have a full agenda for you today, where we'll be giving
you an overview of our business portfolio and highlight some of our most recent
releases for our future and existing customers of ASEM6300, PanelView 5000,
PanelView Plus, and FactoryTalk View. Thank you very much, we'll let you know what
new features you can take advantage of in your applications. If FactoryTalk
Optix is peaking your interest, we will give you a brief overview and highlight
the key differentiators of that offering. We have less than an hour with you today
so we hope to give you enough of a taste of what's been going on to help you figure
out where you want to get more information.
To start off,
I'll give you an overview of our guiding principles. Hardware and software
go together, kind of like bread and butter -- you can eat them individually
but they're much better together. Our goal is to offer modern HMI platforms
So our goal is to offer modern HMI platforms
from closed terminal options for any application to flexible industrial, PC
options for any architecture.
We have comprehensive software choices with the ability to scale systems from
the edge to large process systems with PlantPAx and
HMI software features that are optimized for industry needs.
Those two combined hardware and software components -- like bread and butter --
enable an effective operator.
The goal of an HMI solution is to provide operators
wwith information and tools that they need to make decisions quickly, regardless of
where the data is coming from.
We're going to be talking about products today
and here is an overview of how our portfolio fits together
looking left to right, we have Machine level HMI which is our closed
operator panels that offer reliable, durable, and precise
touch screen controls often in challenging environmental conditions.
In the middle, we have our scalable HMI options which is open HMI software
that runs on a PC and can scale from that single PC to a large
distributed application. In this category is FactoryTalk View, which
is the basis of our PlantPAx solution. On the far
right, we have system components that extend beyond an HMI and create that full
system experience. So while not HMI products, they are still part of that
overall solution for a comprehensive scalable solutions. There's a lot here.
Great, which one do I use? Which option is right for
your application? From left to right,
ranging from simple to flexible, we have a solution for every type of user
and every type of application. PanelView 5000, a single-panel closed solution
with tight ControlLogix integration. PanelView Plus, that tried and true solution
and is by
far our largest install base, thank you very much for that. FactoryTalk
View is feature-rich and scalable from a single station to a large distributed
architecture. And finally FactoryTalk Optix, a brand new addition to our
portfolio that offers new capabilities to help us meet needs that we couldn't meet
before. So get familiar with this graphic.
We are going to be using it to map our journey through this presentation, and we
will cover each of these sections in more detail. So, without further delay, I will
hand
it over to my colleague, Al to introduce you to PanelView 5000.
Thanks, Sharon. Panelview
5000 is a very interesting and strategic platform for us because it really offers
customers a premier integration with a ControlLogix architecture. The design time
environment, View Designer, comes with Studio 5000 free of charge.
And as I mentioned it really supports integration with ControlLogix architectures
in the
form of Automatic Diagnostics and controller-based alarming.
The family is made up of two offerings. The
5310, which is the smaller of the two, up to 100 screens, screen sizes, from 6
inches up to 12 inches. And then there's the 5510, which has physically larger screen
sizes, ranging from from 7 to 19 inches. There's also a keypad option with the 5510.
It's got two ethernet ports as opposed to one on the 5310, and can do
400 screens as opposed to 100. The 5510 has additional environmental
certifications as well. The real thrust of the PanelView 5000
product line is the ControlLogix integration and no matter which of these solutions is
best
for you from the continuum of solutions that Sharon showed you. What we try to do
regardless of the solution is to boost your engineering productivity as best as we can
based on our ability to predict what sorts of things you're doing. So for example, in a
ControlLogix architecture where you're going to be using your controllers to do your
alarming and diagnostic functions. We know you're going to do that because
that's how ControlLogix handles alarming and when you connect a PanelVoew5000 to a Logix
controller, your work is done, the alarming functions are directly connected
to alarming in the controller and the alarms just show up on the
screen. You couldn't program them even if you wanted to.
And in keeping with that premier integration, you can browse your Logix program directly to
connect to not only the tags themselves but the metadata and extended properties of those
tags. If you deploy to two different devices, different panels of different sizes,
the scalable vector graphics will auto-scale those screens, regardless of, which end
device you are going to deploy to. And you can emulate the product on the PC
including connecting directly to a processor
or an emulated processor to get a feeling for how it's
going to run. And lastly in a case where you want to have a remote user viewing what's
happening on the screen, you could use that virtual network computing (VNC) function
so you can actually view the system as the operator.
So in the case where you're in a ControlLogix environment, the PanelView 5000 is a great
choice and we can do a lot for you. In terms of automated functions to boost your
engineering productivity, we're really excited about version 9, which
is just starting to ship now. Two of the things that people have been waiting for that
are in
version 9 - one of them is an import export utility, which allows you to take the View
Designer file and either create a new file by importing a formatted set of texts or
create a file with an export based on your View Designer program. This has enabled a
conversion utility which I'll talk about in a moment but it's very exciting for us. And
something people have been waiting for. Also, we have network based security.
Often times when people have a heterogeneous environment or environment where they have a
converged plant network where they've got not only multiple controllers
but also connections to their active directory
system for user security. They like to connect those devices, like
the PanelView terminals, directly to that active directory server and use it for user
authentication. And now we can support that. Just to expand on
that conversion utility, essentially the way this works is you go into your FactoryTalk
View Machine Edition software, which you might be using either on a PC or potentially
on a PanelView Plus type product. You can export that to a text file. You can then run
that through a conversion tool, which is basically a text to text converter that will
convert most of the screen content. It's output is a file that can then be imported
into the View Designer software and then deployed to a PanelView 5000 product.
Keep in mind, of course, that this is focused primarily on screen content,
whereas things like alarms, for example, function very differently in FactoryTalk View
ME
versus View Designer, so some of that would have to be modified or redeveloped. This
will be available from our PCDC Download Center in late calendar 2023.
Now, I'll go on to talk a little bit about the PanelView Plus products, which run the
FactoryTalk View ME software, which I mentioned a moment ago.
PanelView Plus products have been on the market for quite a while. Now,
we continue to invest in that platform in ways that I'll talk about in just a moment
and that product is really kind of the de facto
standard for HMI terminals in at least in the Western Hemisphere. So
you may be aware that the PanelView Plus 7 Performance product went to series B
about 15 months ago and as a part of that transition
series B, we had some functional differences between the earlier
series. We've been making major improvements to that,
all of those functions and more have now, been incorporated into the series B
platform. So again, that's a very well accepted very widely applied
operator interface terminal, very very common and popular, especially in the Western
Hemisphere. One thing you're going to see for this year is an expanded set of stainless
steel PanelViews, both in the PanelView 5000
and in the PanelView Plus line of products, which I mentioned a moment ago.
Stainless steel operator terminals are extremely
popular for hygienic environments. Like you might see in a food and beverage application
or possibly in life sciences environments, where you
would want to be able to spray that terminal with a
with a cleaning agent, that would ensure that there were no harboring points of growing
bacteria or any kind of contaminants that might be able to grow in such an environment.
Of course, in food and bev and life sciences applications, it's essential
that the whole area be kept clean. The problem with that when you deploy a
normal operator terminal, whether it be a Rockwell
terminal or some other provider is that with the caustic agents that they use in the
higher temperatures and the high pressure spray,
you can often have reliability problems unless you move to a stainless steel product.
And so, Rockwell over the years, has invested pretty heavily in this space. And we've got
the biggest selection of hygienic environment products. These also by the way,
offer a field replaceable food-grade gasket. So if they're in there for a number of years
and you see some degradation with that gasket, you can repair it in the field
without having
to send it in. And now I'm going to hand it off to Sue Burtch
to talk about FactoryTalk View Site Edition. Here we go, Sue. All right, thank you, Al.
What I'm going to cover here is
what's new in FactoryTalk View SE version 14 as Sharon mentioned in the beginning.
FactoryTalk View SE is a very configurable product that you can use on a
single station HMI application, all the way up to a fully distributed multiple server
multiple client with redundancies. So, let's take a look at
what's in version 14.
We're expecting this release to come out late November 2023.
We're super excited about this. It's really a feature packed
release. The focus of this release is on a lot of
user experience improvements with new capabilities.
We also have some data management features with introduction of a new datalog tool,
that is integrated with Influx DB. So
let's dive into some of the features that are coming in version 14!
So, first up, v14 introduces an upgraded display client rendering and scaling engine.
What that means is you're going to get significant improvements in the general
clarity and quality of the graphics on your screens. Some of the examples of the graphics
with the new rendering engine versus the old one are displayed here. You can see
the much more crisp clear graphics on the runtime displays.
Speaking about the new rendering and scaling engine, this also provides dynamic scaling,
based on
your window size -- scaling factors of
faceplates pop-up screens now intelligently resize based on the
DPI settings of your monitor. There's no more need for manually adjusting
the size of those pop-ups, or those faceplates.
This enhancement also makes it much easier to adapt to take an application
and use it on different size monitors, giving a consistent user experience, which
provides much better support for 2K and 4K monitors.
There's also a new runtime navigation menu. This new runtime navigation menu simplifies
development of navigation within the HMI and it provides tools
like automatic navigation history with buttons that let you move back and
forth in your navigation history. There is access to runtime search and
alarm notification built right into the navigation bar. On the design side,
this new navigation menu can be really quickly
built into your application and it simplifies the need to configure those
navigation buttons individually
in the design time environment. So speaking about that new
navigation bar and the runtime search,
this tool, the search tool, lets an operator or a maintenance user
really quickly navigate to a display. So say, they want to repair a device
and maybe they don't know where it is on the display or in the application.
They might not be familiar with the process but they know what the tag is. Or
maybe they know what the display name is that they're looking for,
they can go right up to the runtime operator screen, they can enter that tag or display
name in the navigation search bar and the navigation bar will take them
right to that display where the tag is referenced.
There is cross-referencing, so you'll see all the instances of where that
tag is used and it's a really, really nice new addition.
to the navigation of FactoryTalk View SE applications.
Next up is an addition to our data grid object, from earlier versions
of FactoryTalk View SE. The last couple versions had data grid functionality
available that was limited to connections to SQL databases and the built-in
FactoryTalk View SE data log. With v14 we're expanding that to
support additional data sources for the data grid.
Including now FactoryTalk Historian ME,
Historian SE, and Pi server. So data from any of those historical data
sources can now be displayed in a tabular format in our
grid object. This new capability makes
really easy for developers to create screens in the HMI that lets
them visualize historical data for the operator.
v14 also introduces a redesigned tag browser. The new tag
browser now includes Logix extended tag properties and it allows you to expand
integers down to the bit level. This is a significant improvement in the
user experience when you're trying to browse tags and add them to your
application. It allows developers to be much more efficient when they're designing
applications. Perhaps the feature that we're most
excited about is a new edge historian capability that's built on Influx DB. This
new capability is called Data Log Pro. This new tool boosts performance
by making it easier to configure tags or groups of tags for logging.
Data can be viewed in either Trend Pro or the data log data grid
object, and because data is logged to an influx DB repository rather than a
proprietary
database, it's also accessible to third-party reporting and analysis tools. This
feature we're really excited about it because it significantly improves the
built-in data logging capabilities of FactoryTalk View SE and gives you a high
performance data logger that that may even help to balance the cost of purchasing and
using a true historian solution. So really a great new capability
we're very excited to offer. And finally, I wanted to talk a little bit about a new tool
that brings ThinManager, Logix, and FactoryTalk View SE closer
together. The integration of these products makes it possible for the
ThinManager team to create a new tool called ThinManager Logix Pin Point.
Pin Point provides a way for ThinManager managed systems to simplify troubleshooting
quite a lot by tying alarms that appear in the HMI directly to the code in the
the Logix program. So when an alarm occurs in the HMI
with Pin Point in place, you are able to navigate from the HMI alarm
notification directly to that
point in the Logix code where that alarm has been generated
or where the alarm is triggered. So this can
direct an operator that has little to no knowledge of the
overall logic right to the source of the
problem and they don't need to scroll through ladder logic or
several lines of code to try to figure out where that alarm is coming from
so they can fix the problem. You can see Pin Point live if you're at Automation Fair
on the Expo show floor in the visualization area. I also want
to highlight that not only does Pin Point work with FactoryTalk View SE, it also can be
used with FactoryTalk Optix, which leads me to Sharon who will tell us about
the recent addition to our portfolio FactoryTalk Optix. Now over to Sharon.
Excellent. Thank you, Sue. I am going to introduce and talk about
FactoryTalk Optix. So we did talk about FactoryTalk Optix
last year at Automation Fair. We've since released the product and actually have
released a couple updates to it. So for those that are unaware, I will give an introduction
but
then also talk about some of the key differented features. FactoryTalk
Optix, as Sue mentioned, is a new addition to our portfolio. It
is a scalable platform
that has tons of options. So design options, deployment options, graphic options,
and is highly extensible. I will talk a little bit about each of
these four things. First of all, back to our trusty graphic to
show you where Optix fits in our portfolio.
It does offer new capabilities that we didn't have before
and it is, as such, an addition to our portfolio. So you
can see that it is side-by-side with our existing products.
It offers new capabilities such as a cloud-enabled design environment,
native third party and MQTT connectivity.
It offers OPC/UA support at the core and has an option for web
clients and remote access and management. So let's talk a
little bit about that first point, the FactoryTalk Optix design options.
Very similar to FactoryTalk View or PanelView 5000, you have a studio environment
where you create your screens and you deploy them to the HMI or the end device.
We have two options for the design environment. The first option
is FactoryTalk Optix Studio Standard.
That's the environment that you install locally on your PC, just like you would
today, it is local design of your applications
and you can deploy it to a local machine sitting next to you.
And guess what? It's free. There's no cost to it. It does not require an
activation and anybody can download it.
We also have an option, FactoryTalk Optix Studio Pro.
This is web-based and it is available through our FactoryTalk Hub. This is a
subscription, although we invite you to try it out for free for 90 days,
this studio environment is web-based.
Because it's web-based, we can enable multi-user collaboration.
You can save your applications to remote or local repositories.
We offer project and library version
control and you can actually deploy these applications to local HMI devices from the
cloud.
It's extremely powerful and we are super excited about this brand new
functionality. And again, go to FactoryTalk Hub and try it out for free, you
have nothing to lose.
So, if we talk about the highlights of the FactoryTalk Optix software,
we'll go left to right -- starting with
design options again. Being able to design and test your HMI projects directly in the
web browser
enables collaborative work flows that allow multiple people
to work on the same project. Version management that tracks changes.
Keep track of who did what, when, and where.
And one special feature of FactoryTalk Optix is
that as you build a project and deploy,
it is modular which that allows us to be extremely scalable.
So basically, whatever you can figure in an application,
that's the only thing that gets deployed to the the runtime platform.
So we're able to offer flexible options on the runtime side.
flexible hardware for panel and station, with all supporting web clients.
Because we're so scalable, we also offer a scalable licensing model. So I will talk
a little bit about that in more detail but it really is pay for only what you need. Due
being so scalable, responsive graphics are a must, as are built-in style sheets, multiple
languages
and low level reporting dashboarding -- which is about being able to generate
a PDF periodically or
a dashboard to show what's going on.
And about that extensiblity -- I mentioned earlier
OPC UA at the core. We have full support of OPC UA and OPC
UA companion specs. In addition to that,
third-party drivers are built in, as is IOT connectivity via MQTT.
Everything in a project is available via scripting
and library management. All of that
contributes to being a very extensible, very flexible platform. And so, just to
highlight some of these features, specifically flexible and
secure connectivity to non Rockwell devices, we call them third-party devices, but they
are controllers that are not Rockwell controllers. You see the list
of built-in drivers that are here on the screen
in addition to that IOT connectivity via MQTT.
We offer secure https protocols
native OPC UA, companion specs,
all of its included.
Because Optix has OPC UA at the core,
It is true object-oriented design.
We do support machine-to-machine communications
which are defined by OPC companion specs. If you are bringing in an application
that has the companion specs defined, you can be sure machine-to-machine
communications will just work.
And I had mentioned earlier about the open interfaces with scripting, there is an open
API that is available to pretty much everything inside of a project so your
project is highly extensible with C sharp scripting. You can create application logic
to do pretty much everything. You can automatically generate parts of the project
at design time. And runtime, you can customize the graphics to allow,
especially our machine builder partners, to really create a very customized
application, and is highly extensible for those that want to do their own
thing.
And I mentioned the scalable licensing,
so because applications can range from very small to
larger applications, our runtime licensing is not
one-size-fits-all. It is sold in packages.
And so, from an application size, extra small, all the way
up to Unlimited. The runtime license that that is
needed is based on what your application is doing.
Feature examples that affect the scaling of an application could be the number of
controllers you're talking to, the number of web clients you want to have
connected, whether or not you're using alarming, whether or not you're using recipes
etc. And so what that means is we're not
not restricting you to a single runtime license,
you can really configure whatever you need and only pay for what you use.
There is a runtime sizing tool. When you go to FactoryTalk Hub and check out
Optix, you can also look at the run time sizing tool to get
an idea,
based on what you want to do, which runtime license you might need.
The other thing we're excited about with Factort Talk Optix is our
ability for frequent releases.
We initially released FactoryTalk Optix last December.
I mentioned that we talked about it last Automation Fair, but it wasn't quite
available yet. We released FactoryTalk Optix in December of 2022. Since then,
we've had additional releases on a quarterly release cycle.
FactoryTalk Optix is available in FactoryTalk Hub. The design environment is
cloud-based. Every time you go to FactoryTalk Hub, you get the latest version. If you
download it, you can download the latest version. And so as we as we
plan forward, as we plan our program releases, we are planning to continue
quarterly
releases. Moving forward, our program priorities are core
HMI capabilities, our ability to expand architectures to
larger more distributed architectures.
We are focusing on the digital design experience, so that experience in the
cloud and then our data connectivity -- so that connectivity platform including IOT
connectivity, that is becoming so
important.
Like, bread and butter, the FactoryTalk Optix
portfolio, combines
software and hardware. Let's look at
how they're better together, I'm going to hand it over to Al to give you
an introduction into the hardware side of FactoryTalk Optix.
Thanks. Well I was watching Sharon's presentation and looking at the graphics of
the various end devices that were pictured on the screen. And it's worth noting that by
looking at that you really can't tell if it's an ASEM 6300 panel
PC computer, or if it's an OptixPanel and in fact, there's really no way of knowing
that because the front face of those is literally identical. If you buy a 12 inch
panel PC, for example, or a 12-inch OptixPanel, the components used to construct
front faces of those two
products are literally the same exact components. And so what we've got
really is a continuum of deployment options
from sealed terminal appliances in the form of the
OptixPanel products up to and including larger more powerful,
open platform ASEM 6300 industrial PCs.
Here you see a kind of an overview of the ASEM 6300 industrial PC line.
And the reason we call them that is because those came into Rockwell's enterprise, as a
part of a acquisition that we made several years ago, now, of a
well respected high quality industrial PC manufacturer in Italy known as ASEM. They've
got a very good market presence and Italy and other parts of Europe.
And we've since then we've been bringing their products into the Rockwell Automation
global portfolio
and offering them through our authorized distributor channel, both here in North
America and throughout the world. You have the box PCs on the
left that's a modular iClass box PC, we have the subminiature box PCs that are
like half the size of a paperback book. Panel PC that go
from 12 inches all the way up to 21.5 inches and then that wall mount box PC, which is
really kind of the Workhorse that those are available up to an i7
CPU. We've also got a lot of new product releases.
we're going to be showing at Automation Fair new ASEM 6300M industrial monitors.
We've got a new ThinManager-ready BIOS. Oftentimes we're asked are we going to ever
have ThinManager-compliant or ThinManager-ready
thin client hardware that has an embedded screen. Meaning like a thin client
with the screen built-in. And in fact at this point any
ASEM 6300 PC that you either will buy or have bought can be enabled to run within a
ThinManager system by just either buying a new one, where it's
pre-installed or downloading that ThinManager-ready BIOS
from our PCDC site and loading it on that device in the field.
We've also moved towards a configure-to-order model for our box PCs. So we now have just
short of five
million variants of box PCs available which enables you really to buy the exact
unit that you need to meet your specific requirements and not have to pound a square
peg into a round hole. We've got thin clients with dual displays.
Then clients with Class 1, Division 2 hazardous location certs, new on-machine
industrial PCs which you can see over there on the right side. The 6300 PA,
those are available up to a 24 inch screen, either in portrait mode, or in landscape
mode, they've got a configurable button bar at the
bottom. So, if you want to have hardware devices or USB devices, like a USB
connection or possibly RF tag ID reader, those are available and we're offering 71
different variants of that product. Now that just went available for order entry here in
the last couple of weeks. By the end of this year, we'll also be
offering a monitor version. That on-machine 6300MA will have
that same kind of packaging and the same kind of same kind of
front-end aspect ratios but it'll be just a monitor or not an entire full-blown PC.
Coming back
to the OptixPanels, now what you see on the screen there is the smallest of the
OptixPanels, that's a 4 inch. And so oftentimes you see little tiny
HMI terminals on very small machines. We have two different versions
of the OptixPanel: the OptixPanel compact, which is available in the 4 inch
size that you see in the picture. There is also a 7 inch size. It was just slightly
larger.
We also have the OptixPanel standard, which is available in a seven inch up to a 21.5
inch size. They're available with a variety of
different bezel types, different touch screen technologies, different aspect ratios.
All told we've got a little over 50 different versions of the OptixPanel that became
available when when the whole product line went live.
So these come with a
runtime version of both FactoryTalk Optix and also FactoryTalk Remote.
Access, which we'll be talking about momentarily in a future slide,
but it's a really cost effective, really nice sealed, appliance that eliminates the need
for a lot of the administration that you'd see if you were using an open-ended PC.
So, speaking of open-ended PCs, what are the advantage of the
advantages of an OptixPanel as compared to open platform PC? Well,
size is definitely one because they go down to a 4 inch size and our panel PCS, don't go
down quite that far. If you buy these, they're basically a sealed
appliance installation. So they're tuned to run at high performing speeds and especially
if you use that particular advantage of that modular
deployment strategy that Sharon mentioned where you only have to deploy the specific
functions that you need. What you'll find is when you're deploying
only a subset of the total code base that you get much better performance out of a
lighter-weight box. Since they are a
all-in-one solution they're quicker to set up and quicker to
download to. They hit a much more attractive price than
you might see if you were using an industrial PC and they're locked down since they are
fixed appliances. The operating system is not available to the user and so there's no need
for anti-virus software. A lot of the cyber security concerns that you might have with an
open platform are very much remediated by the fact that it's a sealed appliance. There
you see the compact over on the left again, 4.3 inch and 7 inch sizes comes with
a small runtime license, the eight tokens that you can basically allocate. As
you see, you're free to enable whichever functions you need for that specific
application. And it also comes with Remote Access Basic,
as I mentioned. Down below you can see the processor specs,
screen sizes, that are available. Both with resistive touch, which is single touch or
PCAP, which supports multi-touch gestures like pinch, zoom, swipe and so on.
Over on the right is the larger version. It's the OptixPanel Standard and that comes with
a medium license, 11 tokens that you can allocate however you see fit to enable your
specific application requirements. It also comes with the FactoryTalk Remote Access Pro
runtime. And so, with Remote Access Runtime Pro, you
can actually use that OptixPanel as a gateway,
connect to it over a VPN link, which we'll be talking about momentarily, and then go to
other devices that are on that local sub-network. So, if you need to
download a new version of a controller program or change a parameter a drive, you
can basically use that OptixPanel standard as a gateway to your local sub-network. And
again it's also available in a variety of screen sizes,
and with either resistive or PCAP multi-touch screens. This is a product you're
going to see it Automation Fair if you're able to attend in person and it's the
Embedded Edge Compute module. You can think of this as a little tiny OptixPanel inside
the package. That's about the same shape and size as a ControlLogix processor or a
1756 input output card. It sits directly on the backplane and communicate to one or
more ControlLogix officers and exchange data with that ControlLogix at backplane speeds.
So you can pull data across the backplane, you can then pre-process it.
You can go out either of the two front ports on there to connect either to
other local devices on your local network, or to connect up to the cloud and pass data
using MQTT. It can function as a web server so it can
run multiple live HTML server sessions that can be viewed by
browsers, wherever you happen to be connected either over a hard wire connection or over
Wi-Fi. And like the other OptixPanels, it comes
with the Optix runtime built-in and also, FactoryTalk Remote Access Pro.
So you can use it as a gateway to the local network. You can deploy whichever functions
that you want to use in that Optix Runtime extra-small license.
You can pull the data as I mentioned at the edge across the back, plane at high speeds,
you can pre-process it, get it ready to move up to a higher level device and by doing so
you can reduce your storage cost reduce your network bandwidth requirements.
It's got all the access requirements that you be used to seeing
inside of a regular OptixPanel for user authentication
and it really gives you a great option for saving that prime real estate that you might
have down at the machine level. You don't need any panel space, you can basically do
what's going on there, with a tablet or or a PC without the need for any kind of a
monitor. And with that it's back to you, Sharon
Excellent, thank you Al. So I'm happy to to mention FactoryTalk
Remote Access. I talked about it a little bit before when I talked about extending our
portfolio. FactoryTalk Remote Access extends our portfolio by offering
centralized remote access and management of PCs and devices using
secure VPN and remote desktop connections.
FactoryTalk Remote Access endpoint software is included on OptixPanels
and the Edge Compute modules that Al mentioned.
You can also install it on any PC,
ASEM 6300 or otherwise. FactoryTalk Remote Access
Manager - that's the graphic that's in the middle on the computer monitor -
is available in FactoryTalk Hub, and we invite you to check it out with a free
trial. So like FactoryTalk Optix, there is a free trial, nothing to lose by just checking
it
out. So with that we
gave you a lot of information and I'd like to just summarize. We covered a lot
in the past 45 minutes or so, and we hope you come away from this presentation
with an understanding of the newest features in our portfolio and the products that will
enable your visualization solution.
No doubt FactoryTalk Optix is getting a lot of attention for its new capabilities.
If you are looking at our website or you're
looking at Automation Fair, FactoryTalk Optix is in a lot of places.
You just may not be there yet, you may be users of our existing
portfolio and we love that! All of our systems exist somewhere on the
spectrum from simplicity to flexibility.
You will be able to find a solution within our comprehensive portfolio.
So, again on the simple side the PanelView 5000 terminal with premier Logix
integration, then moving left to right, we have PanelView Plus, a tried and true
solution
for machine level EOI. FactoryTalk View SE feature-rich
is also mature and very reliable and able to build large,
very distributed HMI systems. And on the right side, the flexibility
of the FactoryTalk Optix solution, highly extensible
multi-user cloud-based design environment
that allows our machine builder partners, and really anyone, to differentiate their system
with custom intellectual property.
And for those that are using our visualization portfolio,
we want you to know, it doesn't have to be just one or the other. FactoryTalk Optix is
new, it brings a lot of capabilities to our portfolio, but it doesn't
have to be just one or the other. Existing FactoryTalk View users can take advantage of
FactoryTalk Optix, as well. They can take advantage of FactoryTalk Remote Access as
well. For the functionality that Optix has but FactoryTalk View doesn't,
things like dashboarding, basic reports, OPC UA connectivity -
Optix can run in parallel with FactoryTalk View. And we
want our users to know that whatever solution they pick, we want them to be comfortable
knowing we will support them. We will
be able to bring those solutions together in a comprehensive package.
Visualization is very
popular at Automation Fair this year, I won't complain. This list is
a list of our sessions that are related to visualization and our portfolio
of products. If you happen to be at the show, please check these
sessions out. Otherwise you can download the session material
from the app. You can see here that some are also recorded just like this one,
you can watch them. We really hope that this presentation has given you an
overview of what's new with visualization and helps you figure out where you want to
dig in and find out a little bit more.
And so, with that on behalf of myself, Al, and Sue, we'd like to thank you for your
time and really appreciate
your attention. Thank you.