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MicroScan is a complete Windows based
Supervisory Control
and Data
Aquisition software product, meeting the demands of
both the industrial and research environments.
By customer acclaim, MicroScan is the price-performance leader
for SCADA packages. Operating on the most popular
multi-tasking platform ensures flexibility and conformity to
industry standards to serve your current needs, while being ready to
expand when you are.
Developed around a multi-tasking modular concept you can choose
the exact system to meet your needs, then add new modules as your
process grows.
MicroScan is known to be the best feature packed
Recorder module for gathering valuable data, while
the powerful Mimic module provides screens (MMIs)
which give the operator direct plant control.
Continuous development places MicroScan in the leading position
as a bench mark upon which other packages are measured.
MicroScan opens a whole new world of power and innovation
previously unavailable to industrial users. Like a window into your
plant, MicroScan is a proven money saver and money earner, as all
the plant problems are discovered and solved, which greatly
increases your efficiency.
Recorder
The recorder module is a vital component to any
SCADA system as it represents the data acquisition
component. The visual displays can switch between the data
(spreadsheet) format and the line (trend graph) format to group and
display information instantaneously and historically with on screen
viewing as far back as you want to go.
The features include comprehensive alarming,
totalising, printouts, report generation and an operator notepad
with time and date stamping. The recorder also supports linking to
other software modules to further extend the reporting and control
capabilities.
Mimic
The Mimic module is the software equivalent to a
hard-wired control panel offering comprehensive operator interfacing
to your process control requirements.
The Mimic has 50 screens, each of which can be set up
as a pictorial depiction of a section of the factory, to display
objects showing process variables and the operating status of the
plant equiptment. Now we add command buttons and switches to control
set points and operate your equipment.
You can start to see the potential of the Mimic
Package when communicating to PLCs with screen update times
configurable up to half a second (now that is fast!). This must be
the most effective way to interface and control your process.
When you add all this to the Recipe
features and DDE support, this makes for total
process control at your fingertips.
Networking
The sharing of data between the active and passive computer nodes
running MicroScan 2100, is supported on both the Novell file server
styled network, and the Windows multiple independant server
network.
For Sites with more than one active computer node, data can be
shared between active computer nodes. Also passive computer nodes
have access to data from any active computer node.
Passive computer nodes can be run continuously or simply started
when required to provide the latest run time data or view historical
information. Security is provided to regulate the sharing of
data.
DDE - Dynamic Data Exchange
The MicroScan 2100 supports Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) and
Dynamic Link Library (DLL) communication for customised user
applications. The INDDE module allows tailor-made report generation
modules or specialised controller modules to be written in either
Visual Basic, Visual C++, Excel or Lotus, and then run alongside the
SCADA to perform specialised tasks created to meet your exact
requirements.
These features add to the scope of your process monitoring needs
and is the ideal development tool for truly innovative management
solutions. This software can link you to the heart of your process,
and now with your imagination, the sky is the limit.
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