Technical Overview

This chapter provides a technical overview of the FactoryStudio product and a quick start guide to understand the application areas and available configuration tools. The content is organized in the following sections:

•FactoryStudio Platform contains information about:

•What is FactoryStudio,

•Application Areas and

•Network Topology

•System Architecture contains information on key concepts such as:

•Real-time, in-memory database,

•Object Model and Namespaces

•FactoryStudio Projects presents the Project Selection and configuration user interface

•FactoryStudio Modules contains information about the main system modules, including:

• Realtime Tags

•Graphical Displays

•Security and Redundancy

•Trend and Historian

•Devices Communication

•Alarms and Events

•Datasets and SQL

•Scripts and .NET

•Reporting and Data Access

•Testing and Running Projects expose the basic concepts on running and testing an application

•Information and Version Control explains some of features available to manage the project life-cycle.