Operations Viewer Features
Operations Viewer software is designed to provide data to different functional people such as operators, engineers, supervisors and managers, in a fast and meaningful way. The simple to use display structure provides a fast and intuitive HMI and consists of a pre-engineered Wonderware InTouch client application.

Alarm banner – permanent view of the last two alarms and any alarm group with a current alarm.
Clicking on the alarm group will bring up the summary for that plant area.

The operator view is based on a defined screen format of three areas containing:

Current display – displays current mimic and pop up windows with operator fascias, engineering point pages and on-line help

Soft function button selection – provides one click selection to:

Overview – direct access to a defined display page.

Process Cell – fast access to display pages defined as process cell overview pages

Operator Pages – each operator can build group of tag fascia pages from a common tag browser.

Point Page – select engineering point pages with additional pop windows including help and tag edit functionality.

Alarms History – displays all alarms and events with buttons to
limit view. All alarms are stored directly into a relational database which can be viewed and queried on-line.

Trends – access to real-time and historic trends. Operator can configure up to 8 points per trend group. All data can be trended and viewed. Optionally, with Information Manager, trend data is available with a Microsoft SQLServer™ relational database.

Security login – user login restricts access to displays and tag writes. Supports autologout.

Display navigation Previous, Next Up, Down, Last, Mimic menu to page through user mimics.

Mimics – all features of Wonderware InTouch and additional special icon wizards.

Operations Server Features Operations Viewer/Server structure is a client/server architecture with specialized interfaces to provide fast and efficient alarm and real-time data transfer from control nodes to HMI screens. Operations Server provides direct connection to the control network supporting Ethernet TCP/IP stack, ARCnet and serial connections. Control network protocol support include Eurotherm LIN and Modbus.

High Performance I/O server Access to all control data is available via FactorySuite 2000 SuiteLink I/O server. Optionally data is also available via OPC and DDE. All tag block data is accessible with software license limiting the maximum number of blocks accessible at one time to 75, 150, 300, 1000 or 2000.

Alarm Provider An alarm provider controls the distribution of all block alarms to provide alarm banner and summary displays, alarm printing and alarm history. Support for master/backup server functionality is available. Diagnostic displays are in-built.

Configuration – all configuration and system data is defined within the project database removing the need for any duplication of configuration at the HMI nodes

Data integrity – with access to data quality and server watchdog indication, automatic data failure is displayed at the operations viewer screen

Data security – all write access to control data is handled at the server which uses the defined security access to authorize allowed access

Computer configuration – easy to configure multiple computer node systems by defining computer names and function (client or server)

System control – utilities to startup and shutdown complete application. Deploy and synchronization techniques allow remote nodes to be controlled

LINOPC Controls all client access to control network and includes OPC server functionality allowing access from any third-party OPC client

Project Database And Namespace
The complete system definition is defined and built within a project namespace and stored in a Project Relational Database. By distributing this database to each Operations Viewer and Server node, a simple and easy way of configuring a multi-node system is achieved.

This integrated development environment provides:

Project Namespace (Environment) – windows explorer structure with defined files and folders. Allows more than one person to work on a project. The Operations Server runs defined active project.

Single Point of Entry – use of configuration tools provides update automatically into the central relational database

Centralized Tag list and browser – list of all tags and associated data fields available in a number of different views – all tags, network, plant model and alarm groups.

Plant model analysis and definition – S88 based structured view of cells/units/control modules and tags.

Security configurator – security definition of groups and users.

I/O Allocator – assigns tags to 2500 I/O bases.

Comprehensive Reports – configured from SQL queries and forms.

New Project – create different project shells. Plant Solutions project provides complete Wonderware InTouch application including display mimics and tag definitions.

Display navigation – defines screen navigation

Alarm Groups – browse tags and plant units to define alarm groups.

Wonderware FactorySuite2000 Compatibility
Operations Server is a fully engineered and working Wonderware InTouch application that provides additional features and functionality as detailed in this specification. As standard Wonderware InTouch is supplied, the Operations Server system will seamlessly integrate with any other FactorySuite2000 application in the normal documented way. This connection is achieved using an ACCESS name and a list of tag names (file TAGNAME.X)