Rohnert Park, CA‚— Parker‚’s Electromechanical AutomationDivision announces the release of InteractX‚â„¢ version 3.0 of its award-winning, Windows‚®-based software. This latest version of InteractX is a supervisory HMI solution with full-featured
historical trending tools that aggregate data from multiple machines or work
cells, as well as third-party PLCs and HMI panels. When supervising machines
running Interact Xpress‚â„¢, InteractX cuts development time and cost by importing
screens and data directly from Xpress applications.
Parker-CTC designed InteractX to take full advantage of the ‚“distributed HMI‚â€
architecture used by the company‚’s Xpress HMI software, which allows
applications to be developed, edited, published and run in an HMI that acts
as a web server. InteractX leverages existing Xpress screens and data so that
it can be pushed directly to the supervisory level without having to recreate
applications or input tags. This provides a seamless transition to
supervision and monitoring of data trends from multiple sources. Complemented
by a new recipe-management tool and intuitive design features, InteractX
makes it easy to manage and monitor machine-level activities from a central
Parker-CTC PowerStation or third-party workstation.
InteractX offers unlimited tags with no preset limits on pens or logs. The
software also features fully rendered and scalable graphics; intuitive,
object-style development tools; 60+ standard communications drivers; real-
time data acquisition; complete tag editing; recipe management; integrated
VBA and Active X tools; multi-language support and E-Sigs for FDA 21CFR11
compliance. According to Balderson, ‚“InteractX provides customers with the
full functionality needed to create a robust supervisory HMI application and
is scalable to a whole range applications.‚â€
InteractX runs on Windows/2000/XP operating systems and is installed/licensed
on Parker-CTC HPX and EPX PowerStations. These workstations run InteractX and
other fully-functioning Windows applications, on their standard CompactFlash
drives, potentially making a hard drive unnecessary. HPX and EPX
PowerStations offer a bundled solution for users who want higher Windows
functionality along with a choice of 10‚â€, 12‚â€, 15‚†or 17‚†high-resolution
touchscreen displays. Unique among Windows HMI developers, Parker-CTC offers
InteractX bundled into hardware/software solutions, specifically engineered
for industrial applications.
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