FactoryTalk View Site Edition:

Implementing FactoryTalk Alarms and Events

Tony Carrara
Product Manager
Rockwell Automation

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FactoryTalk Visualization Products
FactoryTalk View FactoryTalk View
Machine Edition Site Edition
Electronic Operator Interface Scalable PC Based HMI

Industrial and Non-Industrial Computers and

PanelView™ Plus and Compact
Monitors

FactoryTalk ViewPoint
Web-Based HMI

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FactoryTalk View Site Edition

FactoryTalk View SE Station FactoryTalk View SE Distributed

Common development
environment with
FactoryTalk View Studio
Clients

RSLinx
Servers
FactoryTalk
Directory
Server

View SE View Studio

Servers Development
Station

Scalable from a single station up to a distributed client / server architecture

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FactoryTalk Alarms and Events
 Two different types of alarm sources:
• Alarm instructions available in the Logix • Software-based alarm servers poll data tags
family of controllers. for alarm conditions.

• The controller detects alarm conditions and • The Alarm server detects alarm conditions
triggers alarm events and triggers alarm events

• The FactoryTalk Alarms and Events server • The FactoryTalk Alarms and Events server
captures all of the controller events and captures all of the controller events and
sends notification to connected clients sends notification to connected clients

• Information is displayed in the Alarm • Information is displayed in the Alarm

Management components on the clients Management components on the clients

• Supports PLC-5®, SLC™ 500, or any third-

party device through OPC-DA

Device-Based Tag-Based Alarms

Alarms

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FactoryTalk View Site Edition
release date: January 2013

Information Integration
• Enhanced integration with Rockwell Automation Information Software
Products like FactoryTalk VantagePoint and FactoryTalk Historian Machine
Edition and Site Edition

Process Industry Support

• Improved operator effectiveness related to alarm management and run time
HMI navigation
• Expanded System Limits
• Tighter alignment with Alarming Standard ISA 18.2

Usability
• Streamlined Installation Process
• Enhanced design-time capabilities
• Improved run-time graphics

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FactoryTalk View Site Edition

RSTechED Labs

• Configuration and
VZ05 • Implementing
Maintenance Lab • Building FactoryTalk
Applications Alarms and
Lab Events

VZ04 VZ06

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FactoryTalk Alarms and Events
What’s this Lab about?

Remote
Setting up A&E Alarm filtering
Commands

Converting HMI
alarms to tag-
Shelving
based FactoryTalk
alarms

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What’s New in FactoryTalk View SE 7.0?
Supplemental Slides

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FactoryTalk View Site Edition v7.0
Released in January 2013

Information Integration
• Enhanced integration with Rockwell Automation Information Software
Products like FactoryTalk VantagePoint and FactoryTalk Historian Machine
Edition and Site Edition

Process Industry Support

• Improved operator effectiveness related to alarm management and run time
HMI navigation
• Expanded System Limits
• Tighter alignment with Alarming Standard ISA 18.2

Usability
• Streamlined Installation Process
• Enhanced design-time capabilities
• Improved run-time graphics

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 VSE
TrendX Support for Historian ME
Overview

FactoryTalk View Site Edition TrendX now supports

showing historical data being collected by one or
more FactoryTalk Historian ME modules.

Benefits

 FactoryTalk View Site Edition Distributed and

Network Site Edition Station can directly
monitoring data from Historian ME module.
 Data from multiple FactoryTalk Historian ME
modules can be shown on one TrendX.

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 VSE
FactoryTalk VantagePoint Trend

Overview

To gain better access to VantagePoint data, you

can now use the VantagePoint v4.5 Trend ActiveX
with FactoryTalk View Site Edition 7.0

Benefits
 All the power of the FactoryTalk VantagePoint
Trend from a FactoryTalk View SE screen.
 Create new trends at runtime and publish back
into FactoryTalk VantagePoint model.

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Expanded FactoryTalk View Site Edition
Station Capabilities VSE
Overview

Network View SE Station is a new application type

selection for FactoryTalk View Site Edition 7.0.
Network View SE Station expands the capability
of single HMI stations for security and data
access.

No new catalog numbers – same Station

license can be used.

Network Scope FT
Benefits
 Enables FactoryTalk View SE Station to access
Network Scope products like FactoryTalk
Historian ME and SE and FactoryTalk Batch.
Historian SE
 Supports off-box RSLinx Enterprise Data
Server that can be configured for redundancy.

View SE Distributed View SE Station

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 VME
Simplified Installation Process VSE
Overview

Brand new installation workflow that streamlines

and simplifies the process of installing FactoryTalk
View Site Edition systems.

Benefits
 Allows user to pick main role of the target
computer.
 Automates IIS installation, when required, on
newer operating systems
 Once all information is entered, steps through
the required order of installation automatically.

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 VSE
Answering the Call for Larger Systems
Redundant FT View SE Redundant FTAE Server
FactoryTalk A&E Clients
Server Pairs Pairs

50 10 10
2.5x 2x 5x
5
20
2
V6.1 V7.0 V6.1 V7.0 V6.1 V7.0
Overview Benefits

To meet the growing demand for larger systems,  Synchronizes architecture limits to simplify
decision making.
FactoryTalk View Site Edition 7.0 has expanded
past server and client limits allowed in one  Expands the number of clients and servers
using FactoryTalk Alarms and Events.
application.
 Removes architecture barriers to FactoryTalk
Alarms and Events adoption.
10 Redundant Pairs / 50 Clients

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 VSE
Improved Alarm Management
Overview
New Shelve buttons
available on Alarm To align with ISA Standard 18.2, FactoryTalk
Summary Alarms and Events 2.60 will support the Shelved
State.

Benefits
 Shelving an alarm is similar to suppressing an
Enter shelve time alarm but with an expiration time.
duration and  ISA 18.2 aligns suppress as a programmatic
comments command that should not be exposed to an
operator.

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 VSE
Broadening our Alarming Capabilities
Overview
Issue alarm commands from
Alarm Summary and Device Faceplates
FactoryTalk Alarms and Events 2.60 (CPR 9 SR 6)
Tag Based Alarms allows HMI Faceplates to issue
alarm commands without forcing the user to go to
the alarm summary.

Benefits
FTAE Tag Based  Further empowers PlantPAx faceplate
Server capabilities for all Tag Based Alarm
Commands.
 New commands supported: Shelve, Unshelve,
Enable, Disable, Suppress, Unsuppress

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 VSE
Improving Operator Effectiveness
Overview

To improve operator effectiveness, we introduce a

new navigation button and commands that
function in a similar fashion to a web browsers
back, forward, and history buttons.

Benefits
 Removes need for VBA scripting to track
screens.
 Simplifies navigation strategies so users can
quickly get to the screen they need.
 Offers flexibility for choosing the screens you
want to track and enter a user friendly name for
display in history.

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 VME
Increasing Design Time Productivity VSE
Overview

FactoryTalk View Studio in 7.0 adds Find and

Replace capabilities for Displays and Global
Objects and a Cross Reference for finding tags
throughout the system.

Benefits
 Find and Replace searches for Tags and
Strings located in objects on Displays and
Global Objects.
 Cross Reference can find tags and strings in
the Tag Database, Displays, Global Objects,
Parameter files, Macros, and Data Logs.

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 VME
Enhanced Graphic Look and Feel VSE
Overview

FactoryTalk View Site Edition 7.0 enables users to

create better, more appealing graphics while still
maintaining operator effectiveness with the new
Gradient Shading capability and support for PNG
graphic types.

Benefits

 Improve the look and feel of native FactoryTalk

View Site Edition shapes, buttons,
backgrounds, and more.
 Add gradient shading in ways that enhances
HMI Screens but not to distract operator from
tasks
 PNG Graphic types better support background
transparency to make buttons stand out.

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