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This User Manual will help you to better understand FactoryStudio, its unique technical features, and how to take advantage of everything it can offer your company.

Chapter 1: Managing Projects

The applications you develop with FactoryStudio are organized into projects. This chapter explains projects and describes how to create and manage them.

Chapter 2: Engineering Workspace

The Engineering Workspace is a comprehensive display application that provides the tools and information you need to manage every aspect of FactoryStudio. This chapter explains the workspace and its various components.

Chapter 3: Tags Assets and Templates

This chapter explains how to create, edit, and use tags and templates. It also describes the built-in tag types. 

Chapter 4: Displays and Symbols

Displays are the graphic regions or windows that make up the overall layout of the FactoryStudio user interface. Symbols are the individual elements included in a display. This chapter describes how to work with the user interface.

Chapter 5: Tag Historian and Data Logging

The Tag Historian module performs automated data logging of selected tags to SQL databases as well as other databases. This chapter describes how to configure tag data logging.

Chapter 6: Devices and Interfaces

Devices in FactoryStudio are live real-time data sources. Typically, a device is a PLC, another FactoryStudio project, an OPC server, a PI System, or any other equipment that has a communication protocol. This chapter describes how to work with them.

Chapter 7: Alarms, Events and Audit Trail

Alarms are fundamental elements of a SCADA system because they signal when events occur, allowing the system or the human monitor to take appropriate action. This chapter discusses alarms and how they work within FactoryStudio.

Chapter 8: Datasets and Data Exchange

This chapter explains how to setup your database in FactoryStudio by using the built-in internal database or by connecting to an existing external database. 

Chapter 9: Scripts and .Net Frameworks

All programming in FactoryStudio consists of C# or Visual Basic 100% managed code and is designed to run in the Microsoft .NET framework. Users may use these languages to create scripts that run periodically or run when specified events occur. This chapter describes how to create and work with these scripts.

Chapter 10: Reports and Data Access

This chapter describes how to work with report runtime objects, how to create reports, how to use the report editor, and what the report editor is. 

Chapter 11: Run, Test, and Publish Projects

This chapter discusses how to build and run applications. It also discusses how to run applications for either testing or for production. 

Chapter 12: Deploying Applications


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When you are finished developing and testing your project, you can deploy the runtime application for use by end-user clients. This chapter discusses the various methods for deploying these applications.