Powerful software tools and automated engineering reduce programming time

The RTU32 is programmed using the STRATON Industrial workbench which is multilingual in two ways. On one hand it is available in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. On the other, it supports all IEC61131-3 languages (FBD, LD, ST, IL and SFC), which can be used in any combination. STRATON fully supports OLE drag and drop and includes a fast compiler STRATON offers complete SoftPLC functionality.

No configuration

Easy configuration means no configuration. The communication parameters for the zenOn Runtime system are automatically detected.

STRATON online tools

Powerful tools are provided for online debugging and simulating the application. Step by step debugging includes the option of placing breakpoints in the source code of the application. The Watch Window is a monitoring tool that allows the user to spy on the application variables during run time. It is possible to create animated graphical pictures during simulation or on-line testing to display real time values of project variables.

Auto-documentation Event driven data traffic

Event driven data traffic between the RTU and SCADA system minimises the communication load and increases performance. With only a mouse click, the wizard automatically generates documentation in HTML pages with cross references via hyperlinks, which can be saved, printed or converted to CHM.

RTU online diagnosis in SCADA system

An integrated system also offers diagnosis opportunities of the RTU in the SCADA system. The current status of the RTU code is diplayed online in a zenOn picture. It is even possible to change variables.

Distributed applications

It is easy to link several STRATON projects with the Binding protocol (fast event based TCP/IP), which allows different applications on different target systems to exchange real time data. Global management of several nodes/RTUs as well as updating all projects at once is easy with the Global Binding Editor.

Distributed engineering

Today, projects requiring thousands of lines of code are becoming very common which requires a multi- disciplined development team as well as a multi-user development environment.STRATON allows a project to be broken down into a number of modules or subprojects so that they can be developed independently from each other.Likewise, a zenOn project can also be broken down into a number of subprojects and each subproject can be stored in a server so that it can be accessed by any member of the development team. However, the automatic access control ensures that once the subproject is checked-out, no other team members can access it until the subproject is checked back into the server.

Integrated HMI using zenOn® SCADA just by adding a screen and keyboard

Significant savings can be achieved due to the outstanding integration of STRATON into the zenOn SCADA system by reducing the cost of developing, implementing, maintaining, and expanding a control system. zenOn/STRATON is a truly fully integrated solution in that variables or data structures created in zenOn will automatically be available to STRATON and vice versa• Less development time • No typing/configuration errors • No importing of datapoint lists• Up-to-date variable list • Minimised project effort • Maximum security and user friendliness • High performance • Multi-project functionality and control