Connectivity is a key FactoryStudio feature. We include a wide variety of industry standard protocols, and we enable built-in communications with PLCs, historians, databases, and other devices. New drivers are continuously being added, and our SDK makes it easy to add any additional drivers that may not already be included. See the List of Available Drivers in the Appendix to the User Manual.
OPC Client and Server Support
FactoryStudio is in full compliance with the OPC Server and Client specifications. For any protocol not included with the product, the OPC client provides all the necessary integration.
Remote Data Servers
Drivers, native or OPC, and data acquisition can run on remote computers to do things like retrieving data from RS-232 devices or eliminating the requirement for DCOM OPC configuration.
OPC Data Server FactoryStudio Station
FactoryStudio can be deployed as a stand-alone OPC Data Server that uses native protocols and provides data to other systems though its OPC Server interface.
Automatic Synchronization
A Tag Import Wizard and automatic definition synchronization is provided for OPC Servers, Rockwell ControlLogix L5K files, CSV files, Beckhoff TwinCAT, OSIsoftTM PI System, and PI AFTM; new wizards are continuously being added.
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Process Isolation and Multi-threading
Data communication runs in its own .NET domain, with a WCF layer to isolate the drivers from the main real-time database. Multiple threads are created to each protocol and device node for maximum performance.
Diagnostics Tools
Complete set of testing, deployment and diagnostics tools provides fast and reliable application development and installation.
Built-in Performance Monitoring
Statistics on system messages, success and error messages, dynamic blocks created, cycle time and execution time on each block are generated to allow the fine tuning of high performance applications.
Dynamic Addressing
Everything in the driver configuration, from the station node IP to the address and tag mapping can be changed online using the project script itself. Create standard applications capable of having the runtime setup to the specific conditions where it is being deployed.
