Status Vision Designer - Technology Preview

This release is for preview purposes. A Beta will be released in a few weeks. Please report all bugs you encounter to support@mobiform.com

Mobiform’s Status Vision Designer is a powerful HMI design product with built-in connectivity to real-time OPC data. Status uses XAML as its native file format for HMI screens, allowing data binding and control animations to be done with just a few clicks instead of writing hundreds of lines of code. Status Vision Designer resources include hundreds of XAML-based industrial clip-art and over 70 pre-defined manufacturing control styles including Tanks, Gauges, Buttons, Indicators, Pipes, Fans, Motors, Rotary, LEDs, Keypads and Input. Trending of data can display an infinitely variable number of values using two different graph types: Line and OPCItemsListView. The complete Status Vision Designer package creates a new, feature-rich environment that is far more accessible, flexible and streamlined than standard HMI development.

Status Vision Designer allows binding of OPC XML DA and OPC DA real-time data to any property of any WPF control regardless of whether it is one of the 70 WPF controls, 70+ Status controls, or a third-party WPF control. The binding engine provides the necessary connection and data subscription information to be embedded exclusively with an XAML layout definition. All this is accomplished without the need for coding the OPC interface or underlying bindings to a dependency property of the element.

HMI Applications can be large and are generally produced a with main screen and a hierarchy of sub screens. In Status Web Applications, each screen in the project is an XAML Page. One of the advantages of using a Web Application for an HMI system is that the ‘links’ to content in the XAML Pages can be linked to content other than XAML. For example they could be to support technical documentation in PDF format, video, audio,
or to other web sites.

HMI projects can have many dozens of screens; traditional HMI projects can have 100 or more screens in a single project that makes it difficult to manage. With web applications, individual blocks of functionality can exist as a single manageable web application with each of these blocks providing a discrete view and a limited number of screens. By having one web application linking to another, applications can be infinitely scalable and can exist in different geographical locations.

Utilizing the power of WPF, Status can create either standalone Windows applications or web applications (which are full-blown WPF applications running through a web browser). Status will soon support the Silverlight platform which will allow Mac and Linux users to become web clients. Using Mobiform’s Status Vision Designer and the latest technologies by Microsoft, HMI integrators can now create web applications as compelling as those on the desktop with performance to match.

Status Trend controls capture values over time and depict them so the changes in those values are readily accessible and easily compared. Standard controls display a current value in a variety of formats whereas the Trend controls display a history of values in a like- format (i.e.OPCItemsListView and Line Chart). Trend controls’ functionality includes variable visible segments, variable value history, dynamic update, ability to clear data values, in addition to many more options.

Contact sales@mobiform.com with questions regarding Status Vision Designer.

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OPC Foundation Self-Tested for Compliance logo indicates that this product has been tested by the manufacturer to be compliant with the following OPC Specifications:

Data Access 3.00

Additional information about compliance testing, logo program and a summary of test results for Status Vision Designer can be found at www.opcfoundation.org.