Alarms And Alerts

Advanced Real-Time Alarms & Notifications - Flexible, Powerful, Robust

Flexible and Scalable Industrial Alarms and Alerts

Real-time Alarm Processing at the Core Level

The Alarm element is an integral component of FX’s core real-time engine. FrameworX and FactoryStudio’s alarms engine have built-in multithreading and exception control for maximum performance and reliability. Unlimited alarm conditions at the tag level available to create the exact alarm and notification system you need for your application.

FrameworX & FactoryStudio Alarm and Alerts Features

Real-Time Alarm Processing

Audit Trail Anything

OSISoft Event Frames

Storage and Replication

Visualize and Acknowledge

Notification Subscription

Language Localization

Email, Text on Alarm

Scripts to Enable Alerts

“Other key factors leading to our decision to use FactoryStudio HMI were the wide range of options for displaying graphics, built-in .NET scripting for special requirements, communication flexibility, and competitive pricing”.

- Water and Wastewater Industries

Complete Set of Alarm Conditions

We support all the alarm standards and give you the full control to customize to your alarm application needs:

  • HiHi to LoLo, Rate of Change, and Deviation
  • Conditional Comparison
  • Alarm on change of value

Unlimited number of alarm conditions and configurations down to the tag level.

Powerful Alarm Visualization and Notification Subscription

Visualize, Acknowledge, and get Notifications anywhere via your desktop, web browser, or iPad. Use our built-in Alarm Window and modify to your specification or create a user defined display in the format you need.

Acknowledge alarms using:

  • Graphic Objects on your Displays
  • Tag Properties like Acknowledge All or Acknowledge highest priority
  • Alarm Groups or the Alarm item in runtime properties

Subscribe to Notifications of Alarm Conditions:

  • Use custom Scripts on alarms and events
  • Sends Text or email messages
  • Unlimited flexibility with access to the Alarm Namespace

Audit Trail Anything in an Encrypted Database

One-click configuration to enable audit trail on

  • Alarms and Events
  • Operator Actions
  • Database and Reports Events
  • User logon and logoff
  • System events
  • Any project configuration at the object level

Easy reporting as Data is archived in SQL tables with project defined encryption.

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Visualize, Get Notified and Respond to Alarms on your Mobile Device

Use the same complete Graphic Designer to build your mobile alarming applications for any mobile device or specific development for your iOS Device. See and respond to alarm notifications by utilizing the flexibility of FS designer to create advanced mobile alarming applications. FS you can create pure web HTML5 or native iOS applications to run natively inside any major web browser.

Alarms Stored Securely

By default we store Alarm History to our Built-In encrypted SQL database, or you can choose the SQL database of your choice. The Alarm Module automatically creates the tables in the alarm logging database. You can create flexible alarm reports with any alarm statistics that are relevant to your application.

Robust Store and Forward when using remote databases. A local cache is created and automatically forwards the data when the database connection is reestablished.

FDA, NERC, and More Regulated Applications

FactoryStudio has been through dozens of rigorous audits in regulated businesses including Pharmaceutical, Oil& Gas, and Nuclear power plants.

  • Many of our security features were designed following NERC CIP-007-1-Cyber-System Security  Management.
  • Together with FS Alarm, Audit, Security, and Event features, we also provide all the tools necessary to create FDA-CFR Part 21 compliant applications.

Integrate to OSISoft Event Frames or Any Alarm Archive or System

FS can seamlessly integrate to other Alarm Systems and Alarm History. A good example is our, SDK level, connectivity with OSISoft Pis Event Frames for data presentation, charts and custom data management. Some of the capabilities that can be applied are:

  • Complete Alarm system with acknowledgement control, hierarchical groups and event notification.
  • Powerful trend objects with multiple annotation capabilities: alarm events overlay, annotation by asset or by tag, time-range events, vertical and XY charts
  • Easily combine PI or any Historian and SQL in dynamic real-time displays, dashboards to SCADA like displays.
  • Directly access via C# or VB.NET scripting PI tags

Alarms and Events Features

Real-Time Alarm Processor

Multi-threaded alarming, log to SQL, scripts subscribe to events.

Built-In Drivers

Major PLC, OPC UA, MQTT drivers included.

Dashboard Builder

Build Alarm dashboards using Alarm window or custom symbols.

Built-In SQL Alarming

Log Alarms to our embedded SQL or integrate to any SQL

Unlimited Alarm Clients

Flexible Alarm Analysis

Build the Alarm Analysis reports you need, open and flexible.

Intrinsically Secure

Implemented at the core of the platform, stable and secure.

Audit Trail Anything

Log Alarms and events, you choose events and reports.

Smart Symbols

Tag, asset, template based, reusable components.

Robust and Fast

Scripting on Alarm

Custom actions based on Alarm and Events using VB.NET, C#, HTML5/ Javascript and Python.

Universal Connectivity

Complete & Multi Platform

Scalable HMI I/O Pricing

Buy what you need

Redundancy

Server, device communications easily configured for redundancy.

FAQ

What Alarm functionality is included in FrameworX?

All real-time Alarm functionality is included with all Tatsoft software. Our Alarm module is created on pure .NET managed code with multi-threading and exception control. Subscribe to Alarm events to implement any action, notification, or calculation.

What is FrameworX and FactoryStudio?
FrameworX is the name of software platform, FactoryStudio is our flagship product built on FrameworX. Our FrameworX products are all based on the same platform and are scalable as Unlimited or scaled by I/O points and Clients.  Complete software framework to fit your application and budget. Call us to discuss your exact needs at +1 (855) 828-7638
What does Complete mean in terms of included functionality?
Complete means we include all of the core functionality you would expect so you don’t have to buy a bunch of “modules”. We have a built-in SQL database, OPC UA, MQTT, 40+ plc drivers, and much more.
What PLCs do you interface to?
We have many built-in communication drivers that support PLCs and industry standard protocols. This includes Rockwell, Siemens, Omron and many more, as well as, full support for OPC, OPC UA/DA, and MQTT. We also have an open toolkit for development of custom drivers.
Do you have unlimited clients, unlimited I/O points and unlimited developers licensing?

Yes, and unlimited means unlimited. (We also have pricing options for small I/O counts, such as an OEM might want.) Our flexible licensing options make us affordable for a wide variety of industrial applications.

Do you support SQL Databases?
FactoryStudio includes a full featured SQL database. It also provides seamless integration with any database including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, Microsoft Azure SQL and NoSQL data sources including OSISoft’s PI and Rockwell. There are no limits to connectivity!
What programming or scripting languages do you support?
We support C# (C Sharp), VB.NET, Python and JavaScript.
When you say .NET to the core and IntelliSense what do you mean?

All project elements: tags, datasets, alarms, and status of communications are available via Intellisense. They are all native .NET objects, no temporary tags or function calls required. Move tags to .NET objects and external data-tables with a single commend.

What functionality do you have around real-time Alarms and Events?
  • The Alarm Module was created with multithreading and exception control, for performance and reliability.
  • One-Click configuration enables Audit Trail on operator actions.
  • Project scripts can subscribe to alarm events to implement custom actions such as notification or calculations methods.
Do you support redundancy and high availability?

Yes, we have reliable and easily configurable redundancy for seamless failover. Realtime tags, devices, alarms, historical data, scripts, clients, and all modules were designed to meet redundancy and hot-swapping requirements.

Can I embed my custom analytics into FactoryStudio?

Yes, FactoryStudio is a fully open and extensible application platform. All user displays, real-time calculations, storage and analytics integrations are open and customizable. We have both developed analytics and partnered with many vertical solution providers to embed their custom data analysis, predictive analytics, and Artificial Intelligence applications into FactoryStudio projects.