Introduction to Tool
The versatility of FrameworX arises from its rapid application development tools and a comprehensive suite of integrated tools, designed to cater to diverse industrial applications, ranging from Edge to SCADA HMI and Enterprise systems.
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Included Tools
FrameworX's tools are organized to deliver a simple way to encapsulate all the functionalities required when creating real-time industrial applications.
Unified Namespace And Tags
Create real-time data models, including Tags and Templates. Dynamic tagless on-demand data connectivity with an external system is possible with the Dynamic ExternalTags. Asset modeling enables the creation of a hierarchical view of the data.
Historian and Time-Series Data
Store and retrieve time-series data. The platform has an SQL historian engine with Canary Historian at no extra charge. Seamless integration with other historian tools, such as OSIsoft PI and InfluxDB. Out-of-the-box-store-and-forward functionality.
Security
Manage access control to the project configuration and security model to the user of the running project. User security allows FDA compliance applications, Active Directory integration, LDAP, and more. Easily define which display/objects are accessible based on the user profile and security groups.
Devices
Connect to more than 60 native communication protocol drivers for PLC, transmitters, and field devices. The platform supports OPC UA and DA, server and client execution, and new industry standards like MQTT SparkPlug B.
Alarms
Organize the Tags around Groups and Areas, allowing easy setting for Alarm conditions, Audit-Trail, email or SMS or voice notification, online and historian alarms visualization. Agnostic storage on any selected Database provider.
Datasets
Manage multiple simultaneous connections with SQL database, processes with queries, and tables customized for the values of real-time tags. Manage recipes and data files in ASCII, UNICODE, or XML.
Scripts
Deliver high-performance server-side and client-side scripting capability. Programming languages include C#, VB .NET, Python, and JavaScript. Easily create multi-threading applications with parallel execution for the task and add references to externally developed classes.
Reports
Create Text, PDF, or HTML5 reports without the need of any external tool. You can also leverage the power of web services to interact with external applications or systems, accessing, manipulating, and sharing data through standardized communication protocols like HTTP and RESTful APIs. This enables integration with diverse software systems such as ERP, BI tools, and custom applications, enhancing data sharing and collaboration.
Displays
Create User Interface Displays with our state-of-the-art drawing tool, with an extensive set of fully customizable Symbols and Graphical components. Create a Responsive Dashboard and a traditional Process Diagram or SCADA High-Performance Graphics and deploy the displays in HTML5, or secure .NET SmartClient, to desktop mobile or web clients. Extend the user experience with advanced features, including Language Localization, dynamic conversion of Engineering Units, and Displays' dynamic scheme of Theme colors.
Data Explorer
Perform data mining and monitoring from various data sources, including MQTT Brokers, OPC-UA, PLCs and SQL databases.
Object Model and Namespaces
Object Model
Most systems require creating a Tag or Variable or writing some code with methods to display information about the running objects in the application, like presenting the CPU consumption of the last task executed. In our platform, all execution objects, such as Tags, AlarmGroups, and ScriptTasks, are classes that extend from .NET classes. As such, the project configuration leverages all the properties and methods created by FrameworX and those inherent to the foundational .NET classes.
A simple example is the Tag DateTime. In other systems, there is always code and methods to convert strings to DateTime formats or to find out the day of the week of a specific date. Thanks to the object model, the DateTime Tags is an instance of the .NET class DateTimeh, so the project can access out-of-box all its properties and methods.
Examples
Finding the weekday of date time event: simply access the property Tag.DateTimeExample.Value.DayOfWeek,
Finding the amount of CPU used the last time a calculation was executed: simply access the property Script.Task.Example1.LastCPUTime
Namespaces
All the tools and objects used in a project are organized in accessible namespaces. Some of main name spaces are:
Tags: group of variables of the real-time database
Alarms: provides access to all information about the management of Alarms.
Devices: includes information on all field devices and its communication status.
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