Unified Namespace and Tags Tools

Key Functionalities

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. 

Real-time Tag Types  

A typical HMI-SCADA system has only basic tag types, such as numeric and messages. As FrameworX also targets IT and MES systems, it goes far beyond, supporting real- time entities that match all the SQL types and many .NET Framework entities, including 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  

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

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 Solution. This functionality is available for the following:

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