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Key Funcionalities

The purpose of the Unified Namespace is to provide a unified and organized data framework, enhancing data understanding by providing context and empowering users to navigate and understand the information they need easily. 

TAT and Real-time Elements  

Tags, Assets and Templates are the core components to the real-time data models and the power of FrameworX. The FrameworX system has a built-in real- time, event driven, in-memory database, that manages the tags, assets and events in the application. 

Assets Tree 

Assets refer to the physical equipment in the production environment, which is related to a group of Tags representing the real-time state of that equipment. The definition of Assets in data model is easily accomplish by creating tags based on the Templates, so they share the that common definition for a set of variables. You can also use folders to further organize the Tags and Assets in the Unified Namespace in a hierarchical representation of your process. 

Unified Namespace editor 

This feature combines Tags, Asset folders, and Data Sources configuration tools into an integrated user interface, making it easier to manage Local Tags and Remote data sources. 

Tags

In the context of this platform, the term "tag" refers to real-time variables and their associated historical data.

Tags are accessible for read, write and subscription by the various Modules. For example, the Devices Module can map the value of the Tag with field equipments , such as PLC registers; or the Datasets Module can connect tags with SQL databases tables and queries;  or the Scripts Module can perform calculation and analytics with the tags. The graphical Operator Displays shows values mapping to the Tags, independently of the data source for its value.

The Tags can be created in the project (Local Tags) or remote tags from other systems can be dynamically accessed using the Tag Provider connectivity. 

Real-time Tag Types  

A typical HMI-SCADA system has only basic tag types, such as numeric and message tagsmessages. As the platform FrameworX also targets IT and MES systems, it goes far beyond basic tag types and supports , supporting real- time entities that match every all the SQL type types and many .NET Framework entities, including images Images and a complete DataTable in a single real-time tag.  

Templates  

Templates are user-defined structures, similar to .NET classes, allowing composition and hierarchy. Besides the built-in basic types, real-time tags can be created based on templates that reflect physical assets, which speed up and simplify the application development.  

Dynamic Arrays and References  

The platform FrameworX was the one and only first, and up to now the only, real-time system with built-in support for threetri-dimensional dynamic arrays, lists , and type-safe reference tags with dynamic assignments. This creates , creating reusable components on displays, symbols, reports, calculations, calculation and in at any part of your project.

Import and Synchronize

Tags and templates can be imported and automatically synchronized from various data sources, including XML and CSV files, OSIsoftTM PI SystemTM and PI AFTM, Rockwell™ ControlLogix program files, and OPC servers.

SQL Databases and .NET

Built-in tag types allow direct mapping to any SQL database or .NET variables. 

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Assets

Enumeration sets  

Enumerations define a series of potential values or ranges of values for a variable, mapping to messages and colors in each state. When connecting with a Tag, the value of the enumeration enhances data interpretation, providing context to the different states the variable can assume. 

ExternalTags

The ExternalTags feature is a tool that allows you to access Data Models definitions from external systems, using those variables and structures in any FrameworX Module directly, without having to create any local definition of Tags inside your Project. 

The ExternalTags feature is available for the following Communication Protocols: 

• AB Rockwell - ControlLogix/CompactLogix Devices. 
• OPC UA  
• MQTT SparkPlugB  (watch the video tutorial) 

Connection with Remote Systems: 

• Tatsoft FrameworX applications  

Integration for data browsing and archiving with Historians: 

• CanaryLabs  
• InfluxDB Tag Provider and Historian Integration 
• OSIsoft PI Systems 
• SQL Databases 

The Tags in the projects can be organized in a tree structure, allowing the grouping of variables that are related in the same folder and creating a hierarchical representation of the process. The term asset also refers also to the physical equipment in the production environment. This equipment will relate with a group of Tags, or a Template, that represents the real-time state of that equipment. 

Assets and Categories

Organize your project with categories and assets. An asset has tags and other application objects connected to your process hierarchy. The platform allows the implementation of ISA 95 modeling specifications, which can be essential in large systems.

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Templates

Templates are user defined data structures, also known as UDTs (User Data Types). 

Typically, the equipment on the field will have various variables for real-time monitoring. Instead of creating one Tag to each variable, it is possible to create a Template with those variables, then create one Tag with that Template type.  

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