• Project oriented development environment
• Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• Designed to configure any system size – from a single node to
  multi-node, multi-network systems
• Ability to create and maintain multiple projects on a single
  platform
• Wizards for simplified system configuration
• Auto generation of configuration files
• Substantial reduction in engineering effort
• Object oriented configuration tools
• Import/export of tag lists

The Project Developer provides a project oriented development environment allowing for simpler system management and configuration through the use of ‘wizards’. It offers an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) which gives increased integrated functionality and is designed to reduce project development costs.

The Project Developer can configure a single node to multinode, multi-network systems. Multiple projects can be created and maintained on a single PC platform.

Use of a project namespace allows any application file type to be included. This allows the management of all elements associated with a project (i.e. user requirement specification, functional design specification, drawings, etc). Various valid operations can be performed on each object in the Project Developer by using either the content menu or the file menu.

The physical plant model, tags, I/O assignment, alarm groups, display and data security can all be defined with Project Developer. Information is entered via a series of user-friendly and intuitive displays and then carried onto the project database based on Microsoft Access™. The Auto-generation facility of Project Developer facilitates the automatic creation of all configuration files from data stored in the project database and any defined special logic (i.e. interlocks, sequencing, etc.).

Import of tag definitions from spreadsheets, text files or other databases prevents data transcription errors and speeds project set-up.

Contains:
• LINtools 2000
• iTools
• LINOPC
• ENROMBUS
• OPC Scope
• CONfed
• Review
• Network Explorer
• User Screen Editor
• Setpoint Program Editor

• Common tool set for the ALIN product range
• Powerful online commissioning features
• Automatic documentation
• Graphical configuration
• Extensive library of control modules

LINtools are a comprehensive set of configuration, test, documentation and commissioning tools for ALIN instruments. LINtools includes graphical configuration for continuous control and sequencing control. The on-line monitoring facility allows users to observe databases and SFCs for commissioning and fault finding purposes.

Documentation and file utilities allow both strategy and graphics to be fully documented and transferred across the network. LINtools follows the IEC1131-3 standard.

Continuous strategies are configured graphically using ‘block structured’ technologies provided by the Eurotherm ALIN Database Editor which supports a comprehensive library of function blocks.

Sequences are configured graphically using Sequential Function Charts (SFCs) following the IEC1131-3 standards. Steps initiate Actions which may be Structured Text statements (ST), or nested SFCs, transitions determine when control passes from one step to another.

Sequences can be configured as generic or specific. Generic sequences enable users to configure and test the sequence once and then replicate it many times. Generic SFCs are constructed using generic name variables. The powerful sequence configurator allows the creation of a generic sequence from a specific one.

The on-line monitor facility of LINtools enables users to view and interact with control and sequence strategies running in remote ALIN instruments. With the database monitor and the necessary security clearance, remote ALIN instrument databases can be accessed and blocks can be modified on screen. The database monitor allows a combination of blocks from multiple nodes to be observed simultaneously.

With a sequence monitor and the necessary security clearance, remote sequences can be observed and controlled, active steps can be tracked, transitions can be forced or held, and SFC objects can be inspected. In addition to its extensive library of function blocks, LINtools offers a comprehensive library of standard control modules which provide a set of building blocks. This enables plant devices and equipment to be represented by dedicated objects in the control system with standard displays at workstation level. This simplifies implementation, improves clarity of documentation and aids operator navigation. The standard control module library includes an extensive range of valves, motors and signal conditioners.