Enhancing Operator Effectiveness with Symbol Factory

John Weber, presidentSoftware Toolbox

Agenda

• Why do symbols matter? • What is Symbol Factory?• Demonstrations• Choosing the Right Tool• Licensing, Pricing, and Purchasing Symbol

Factory• Other products from Software Toolbox• Q&A

Why Symbols?

• What do your operators require to be effective?

Data Only with maybe simple line diagrams?

Why Symbols?

• What do your operators require to be effective?

Engaging process equipment oriented displays with data?

Why Symbols?

• Is standardization important for your training, operations, and safety requirements?

• Are you an integrator making displays for many clients?

• Is re-use important for engineering efficiency?

What is Symbol Factory?

• The common name for a family of 3 products

• Library of over 4,000 professionally created symbols

• Optimized for rapid on-screen rendering and conservative memory usage

• Flexible usage options

Symbol Factory Classic

• Library Application• Select, preview,

recolor, resize symbols

• Copy/Paste• Export• Import• Symbols work on

any platform

Symbol Factory ActiveX & Symbol Factory .NET

• Uses same vector images as Symbol Factory Classic

• Live component for richer animation choices

• One component, place and pick symbol through property pages

Symbol Factory ActiveX & Symbol Factory .NET

• Change appearance through property pages

• Or set properties at runtime

Symbol Factory ActiveX& Symbol Factory .NET

• Change appearance @ runtime based on process values

• Animation Support– Fill color– Blink speed– Blink color

• Animate based on analog or digital values

Symbol Factory Demonstration

Lets Have

a Look in

Action!

Choosing the Right ToolFeatures Symbol Factory

ClassicSymbol Factory

ActiveXSymbol Factory

.NET4000+ Symbols

Resize, flip, recolor of symbols

Export to WMF, VML, SVG formats

Export to BMP, PNG raster formats

Import user created symbols Via SF Classic w/Vendor support

Windows Desktop & Server OS Supported

Windows Embedded Support

Windows CE Supported

Color change, visibility & blink animations based on live process data

Using Indusoft Symbol Objects

Using AnalogValue, DiscreteValue Props

Using AnalogValue, DiscreteValue Props

# of bands of animation color change Using Indusoft Symbol Objects

5 50

Use with Visual Studio.NET/VB WinForms Applications

Use with Visual Studio WebForms

Choosing the Right Tool

Deploying to Indusoft CEView, Embedded View, and/or Indusoft Web Studio?

• Copy/Paste• Symbols Into WebStudio

Designer• Animate as Indusoft

Symbols

Choosing the Right Tool

Deploying to Indusoft Thin Clients on Windows CE only?

• Copy/Paste or import Symbols Into Web Studio Designer

• Animate as Indusoft Symbols

Choosing the Right Tool

Deploying to Indusoft Thin Clients running regular Windows?

• Link Indusoft Tag data to Symbols to change appearance automatically based on process state

• Up to 5 bands of state change!

• Link Indusoft Tag data to Symbols to change appearance automatically based on process state

• Up to 50 bands of state change!

Choosing the Right Tool

• Deploying to EmbeddedView and Indusoft Web Studio?

• Link Indusoft Tag data to Symbols to change appearance automatically based on process state

• Up to 50 bands of state change!• Latest .NET technology

• Link Indusoft Tag data to Symbols to change appearance automatically based on process state

• Up to 5 bands of state change!

Choosing the Right Tool

• Deploying to Indusoft Web Studio only?

• Link Indusoft Tag data to Symbols to change appearance automatically based on process state

• Up to 5 bands of state change!

• Link Indusoft Tag data to Symbols to change appearance automatically based on process state

• Up to 50 bands of state change!

Licensing & Pricing

• Licenses needed for each developer workstation• Licenses are not restricted to be used only with Indusoft applications• No licenses needed for runtime deployments – aka “runtime free”

– As an SI, no licenses needed for deploying multiple client projects – Just need a license for each developer workstation– If your end user has a development workstation on site

• Using SF Classic: he’ll need a license if he wants to add more symbols only• Using SF ActiveX or SF.NET: he’ll need a license if he wants to access our property

pages at design time and made changes.

• Developer workstation licenses– Symbol Factory Classic - $500– Symbol Factory ActiveX - $795– Symbol Factory .NET - $795

• Bundles & volume developer options possible

Purchasing Symbol Factory

• Go to www.indusoft.com• Click Products• Click 3rd Party Store• Email info@indusoft.com for any special requirements

Symbol Factory FREE TRIALS

Other OfferingsTOP Server

• TOP Server OPC Server– 100’s of drivers– Single interface– OPC Certified

• Learn more on February 13, 2013 at an Indusoft Webinar

• Or Visit www.toolboxopc.com for details & free trial

Other OfferingsOmniServer

Linear Scalesi.e. Mitutoyo,

Digimatic

Bar Code Scanners

i.e. Intermec, Symbol, Z-Tron

Measuring Systems

Message Displays &

Scoreboards

Barcode Printers

Gas analyzers

Mass Spectrometers

Combustion Analyzers

Gas Chromatographs

Laser MarkingSystems

Weigh Scales

OmniServer Brings It All Together

FactoryKPIs

• KPIServer collects real time data from any OPC data source including Indusoft Web Studio• Mobile devices get data from the KPIServer• VPN/Firewall/Cloud friendly• Click through to any web page for details behind the metrics including Indusoft Web Studio

pages• Email metric values from the mobile device with one tap• Receive push notifications when metrics exceed your configured limits• Free trial available now on the iTunes AppStore – search “FactoryKPIs”

Q&A

• Q&A Time• For questions afterwards please

email– John Weber –

john.weber@softwaretoolbox.com

• For product support– support@softwaretoolbox.com– 1-888-665-3678 (US/Canada Toll

Free)– +1 704 849 2773 (Global)