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News Release from: Raster Products | Subject: Iris Scada and PanelWare
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 10 August 2005
Scada package rises from submarine
disaster
The Iris Scada and panelware package was originally designed for the rescue operation for the Russian submarine Kursk.
The Iris Scada and panelware package was originally designed for the rescue operation for the Russian submarine Kursk After more than 6 man-years of development Iris is now available for every system integrator, machine builder or end user who wants to be reliable and save money on engineering
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 21 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The configuration editor of Iris gives a very clear overview of all components.
The tag database is in XML format and can be imported and exported in XML and comma delimited formats, useful for automatic application generation.
The tag database can entirely be edited on line.
With the screen editor all the graphical pages are made using standard available objects.
Also ActiveX objects can be imported.
The IPL Iris object oriented programming language can be used for many tasks, like programming event handlers.
IPL allows access to all tag data and tag and screen properties.
Iris allows online changes, during runtime.
So for instance data logging and trending are not interrupted during changes in screens or in the tag database.
But also trending, SQL database, reporting etc can be changed online.
This is particularly useful in client/server mode.
Iris has a powerful trend function.
The trend function offers huge amount of graph styles in 2D and 3D, with zoom, scroll and rotation with 3D perspective.
It can be applied with multiple axes.
The alarm and event handler allows single and group alarms, and supports alarm priorities.
The alarms can be configured using colours and blinking, and can be placed on any screen.
A unique and powerful sort and filtering is available for the operator.
The operator can store selected preferences.
Alarms are stored in an historical database for later diagnosis.
Standard communication drivers are available for the most common control systems.
These include: Modbus, Modbus Plus, Ethernet Modbus/TCP, Siemens Ethernet, MPI, Profibus and Allen Bradley drivers.
Thanks to the flexibility of the package other communication drivers can easily be implemented meeting the requirements of your application.
Iris is available in 12 and 15in industrial panels, running under Windows XP embedded, IP65 and without moving parts.
This allows users to run single applications on both Scada and panels, one-time development and online software maintenance for the entire application.
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