EPAM is designed as an open visualization system for OEM machine builders and can be extended at any time with the customer‘s own functions using Visual Basic macros.
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Simple and efficient project design with EXCEL |
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Import of variables from MXpro |
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Easy positioning |
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Project design with MS Excel
The visualization project is designed in Microsoft Excel. Once EPAM is installed and an add-in is installed in Microsoft-Excel, all the necessary commands and objects are available for designing a visualization system. Button, switch, alphanumeric variable, bargraph, message element, bitmaps etc. The PLC variables can be imported simply from XSoft-CoDeSys-2. The project is designed in a tabular description of the visualization system. The tables are then later interpreted on the target system by the EPAM runtime.
An interpreter is also provided within Excel. This enables functions and the screens to be tested beforehand on the design PC. This test also enables the visualization of process values from the PLC. All the features of Excel are available during the project design phase.
Already existing screens or objects can be reused simply with Copy & Paste. A program expansion with custom Visual Basic macros enables the system to be linked to external data sources.
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WEB-EPAM enables both new and existing EPAM applications to be turned into remote HMI systems via the Intranet/Internet.
Each visualization system created with EPAM is web-enabled automatically. A Java applet is simply loaded on the target system via the integrated web server and generates a 1:1 image of the visualization in any standard Java-compatible browser, enabling the system to be operated remotely with any standard PC without the need to install additional software. Identification is implemented with user passwords so that only authorized persons are allowed access. Die Identifikation erfolgt mit User-Passwort, sodass nur berechtigte Personen Zugriff haben.
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Java-enabled standard browser |
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Picture in picture display with EPAM remote control
EPAM‘s remote control object enables the screen pages of other touch screens to be displayed. The operating states of individual system sections can thus be diagnosed and controlled remotely. A 1:1 copy of the actual image of a XV400 with a 5.7“ display is shown on the visualization page of a XV400 with a 10.4“ display. All touch functions can be carried out locally or remotely via the screen shown in the remote XV400. All this is possible at no extra cost and without any additional engineering requirements or software packages.
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