Platform
Overview
A high-level overview of our platform's robust capabilities and benefits.
Built for You
With a long-standing history in the OEM space and experience working with and as Systems Integrators, we designed a platform to address the problems we encountered, removing barriers with unmatched, unlimited flexibility. Our platform provides a range of tools and features to help engineers, developers, and OEMs create powerful custom solutions for industrial automation, supervisory process control, and building automation applications, including common applications for SCADA, HMI, MES, and IIoT.
Software Highlights
- Performance - Flexible - Open - Powerful
- Free 2-Hour Resettable Run Time!
- Solution Designer is Free!
- Completely Integrated Tools
- Truly Unlimited, Server Based - Web Data/ Web Services
- Connect to Any Device and Any Data Source (70+ protocols included)
- SQL Queries Editor and tools
- JSON, XML, HTML editors and WebServices tools
- Data Modeling and the Unified Namespace
- Multiple Code Language Support
- Built in Code Editor for C#, VB.NET, Python and JavaScript.
- Intellisense Scripting
- Portable Displays - HTML5 and WPF with the same configuration
- Extensive Historian Data Providers
- Modern UI/Solution Designer and Display Designer
- Data Explorer with MQTT, OPC AND PLC Data
- Easily manage project life cycle with Execution Profiles
- Security at the Core
- White Label OEM Ready!
Robust Platform w/ Real-Time Performance.
A single engineering environment with a real-time, event-driven, in-memory database. Visualize and run scripts based on data changes or operator actions. Built-in support for C#, VB.NET, Python, and JavaScript for code-behind HTML5 displays, with an underlying .NET object model optimized for real-time applications, .NET API, and web services.
Connect, Collect, Visualize, and Analyze → All in One Platform!
Our platform was designed to handle basic to advanced SCADA but built for an expansive list of applications, making it one of the most expansive and versatile platforms on the market.
Build better, faster, stronger applications.
Up and running within an hour, for beginner to advanced users, our platform allows users to configure pre-built templates or leverage advanced code editors to code from scratch.
Completely Open Platform with Built-In Drivers and Connectivity Features
Connectivity is a key feature of our platform. We include native drivers for a variety of industry-standard protocols and provide a driver toolkit for developing custom drivers.
Featuring
- OPC UA and MQTT – Client and Server Support
- Remote Data Servers
- Native SQL Connectivity and Editor
- Process-Isolation and Multi-threading
- Diagnostics and Performance Monitoring
- Extensions and APIs, including WebAccess REST API
- Dynamic Addressing
.NET Framework
Unmatched Stability with Integrated Script Editor, Powerful Debugging Tools, and 100% Managed Code.
Featuring
- Includes C# and VB.NET multi-threaded
- One click to translate your code between C# and VB.NET
- Python is easy to add and fully supported, and integrated with .NET scripts.
- All Solution elements are .NET Objects
- Accessible via Intellisense
- Tags, Datasets, Devices, Alarms, Reports, Scripts, Layouts, Historian, Displays, Clients are all objects
- Create Tasks, .NET Classes and Function Libraries
Advanced Graphics
The same display configuration can run both on Windows Desktop, using WPF graphics, or on web browsers in HTML5.
WebAssembly offers high-performance web graphics, matching any other system, delivering dynamic content swiftly while ensuring smart symbol usage and robust capabilities. You can use the extensive library of symbols and components, ranging from basic to intricate, or create your own, seamlessly integrating third-party controls for enhanced functionality.
Featuring
- Real-time web pages powered by WebAssembly and .NET code behind.
- Drawing tool for Responsive Dashboards and Process Screens.
- Ability to do Self-aware Displays, dynamically created according the data found.
- Includes around 2.000 Smart Symbols and dozens of advanced graphical components.
- Gantt, PDFViewers, highly customizable TrendChart and DataGrid. and various others.
- Create Custom Smart Symbols, Components and Plug-Ins, Integrate third-party controls.
- Share or protect your Custom Applications.
- Incorporate Dynamic 3D Models.
- Unique and extensive set of Dynamic Animations.
- Twelve build-in Designer and Runtime Themes, with Dark/Light and High-Contrast options.
- Language Localization and metric system Internationalization to each operator connected.
- Code Behind in C#, VB.NET or JavaScripts, with access to Python libraries.
Dive Deeper → Advanced Graphics
Integrated Historian
The system comes with built-in integration with Canary Historian from CanaryLabs, as well as a SQL Historian Engine.
In addition to these default systems, any other external historian system can be added to the solution for archiving or retrieving data, including OSIsoft PI, GE Historian, InfluxDB, and others.
Advanced Alarming and Alert Applications
The Alarm module was created using pure .NET managed code, with multithreading and exception control, for maximum performance and reliability.
Featuring
- Scripts that can subscribe to alarm events to implement custom actions.
- Audit trail with everything archived in Secure SQL.
- Redundant alarm synchronization.
- An unlimited number of alarm conditions for each tag.
- Notifications via SMS, email, or custom connections.
Embedded SQL and MQTT Tools
From SQL to MQTT, and other modules, a very set of auxiliary tools are included.
Every system includes a full-featured embedded SQL engine. We also provide seamless integration with any SQL Database like Microsoft SQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL.
Featuring for SQL
- Advanced DataGrid Object.
- SQL Query Builder.
- ODBC, OLE-DB, and ADO.NET support.
- Secure Data Gateway Built-In.
Featuring for MQTT
- BuiltIn Broker.
- MQTT SparkPlug B Simulator.
- Data Explorer Client.
- Secure Data Gateway Built-In.
Process Flow
Product Options - One Platform One Dev Environment
- FrameworX Unlimited: unlimited functionality, unlimited Clients, I/O and development, server based, complete toolset.
- FX FactoryStudio: scalable, by the number of I/O & clients
- FX Edge HMI: OEM Bundle Pack. Powerful HMI.
- FX Edge / Gateway: OEM Bundle Pack. Embedded device communications and processing at the edge. Also, a flexible secure gateway.
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