As systems grow with the operations, modern SCADA software needs to meet more requirements while still remains user-friendly. Ethernet Direct offers software solutions for SCADA, HMI and distributed data acquisition.
PcVue - SCADA
WebVue - Internet based access
DataVue - Data reporting
PlantVue - The HMI for Machine and Factory Floor Supervision
PcVUE - SCADA
PcVue is a new generation of 32 bit SCADA software characterised by its modern and powerful ergonomics. Developed by Arc Informatique using the latest software technology (Visual C++, MFC, OLE2, ActiveX), it incorporates user interface standards developed by Microsoft and the security of Windows NT and 2000. PcVue has been developed with ARC's considerable experience in the industrial automation sector and conceived using the recommendations of Integrators, OEMs and End-users.
PcVue is more than simple software for graphic animation; it is a product able to meet industrial standards of reliability and performance while still maintaining the user-friendliness of an office application.
PcVue is a flexible solution intended for the supervision of industrial processes, utilities and infrastructures.
PcVue meets the requirements of both straightforward single-user applications and of complex client-server applications with redundant capability.
WebVue - Internet based access
WebVue is client-server application designed to display mimics from PcVue on a Web Browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape etc.). WebVue is composed of a thin client (known as the WebVue Client) that runs under a Java virtual machine in a Web Browser and a server (known as the WebVue Server) that is a component of PcVue. The client and server communicate using IP (Internet Protocol) over an Intranet, Internet or RAS connection.
Using an ordinary Web browser, WebVue provides remote display and control of your processes using an Internet or Intranet connection.
Architecture
WebVue has two components : an applet that is held on the Web clients, and a server that provides the mimics and data from a dedicated PcVue application.
Technical overview
PcVue's dedicated HTTP server provides the Web browser on the client station with:
An HTML start-up page
All of the basic JAVA classes for the WebVue client applet.
As soon as it is loaded, the WebVue applet:
Connects to the server via a TCP/IP connection
Authenticates the user
Downloads the required mimic
Updates graphic elements of the mimic dynamically from the PcVue server
Supports navigation among the application's mimics
Authorizes acknowledgement of alarms, the issuing of remote commands and remote logging within the users' rights
DataVue - Data Reporting
DataVue is a tool for the extraction of historic, trend, log and report data generated by PcVue. It supports PcVue proprietary file formats as well as standard database formats such as Access, Oracle version 8 and SQL Server. DataVue offers many pre-defined functions and configures extraction or report requests, which may be launched via DDE from other applications such as PcVue.
Technical overview DataVue allows the selection of historical data files and saves them in Microsoft Access format.
DataVue extracts the historical data using a set of properties defined by the user (data, event type, value, variable property, etc.). A filter generator enables you to save specific queries for later use.
Using pre-defined queries, DataVue can automatically export the history of a number of variables to Excel.
DataVue can run statistical calculations on extracted data (minimum, maximum, average, etc).
DataVue synchronizes data from different variables using time based sampling of historic data. The results can be exported in ASCII, Windows Clip Board or Excel formats.
Exported data may be formatted for presentation as a report, graphic or pie chart using an Excel macro or pre-defined function in DataVue.
PlantVue - The HMI for Machine and Factory Floor Supervision
PlantVue is a stand-alone, soft HMI (Human Machine Interface) designed to offer a simple, flexible and powerful solution in the Windows environment. Real time data may be collected using OPC servers provided by the equipment manufacturers and build in serial and Ethernet drivers that cover the major products on the market.
Who should use PlantVue?
With features designed to meet the needs of the manufacturing industry, PlantVue is the perfect solution for OEM's, machine builders, independent supervision of production coordinated using an MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) and continuous production lines.
