HMI Touch Screens - ORMEC Systems Corp. - #1

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HMI Touch Screens ORMEC’s MMI-8000 flat panel touch screens provide a variety of sizes and functionality for human-machine interfaces. MMI-8000 units are available in six, seven, ten, twelve and fifteen inch screen sizes (diagonal), with TFT color displays. The MMI-8000 touch screen is designed to provide the operator an effective way to control machine operation. The operator can easily be alerted to machine alarms and status conditions. Different panels can be quickly selected to present different sets of machine functions typically found for setup, maintenance, changing product runs and fault conditions. Operator control functionality can be built into the MMI-8000 representing a typical factory operator panel, without the bulky hardware, I/O modules and wiring needed to build it. Each individual panel can be designed and built in minutes using the “drag and drop” graphical objects found in the EasyBuilder 8000 application development utility. EasyBuilder 8000 includes a library of standard shapes to select from, as well as the ability to use bitmap images, when creating various panel objects. When upgrading a machine, the “look and feel” of an existing physical panel can be maintained to reduce operator retraining. After the design and installation of an MMI-8000 is complete, its flexibility allows the designer to easily add and change control functions without having to physically add switches, legend plates, I/O modules and their associated wiring. MMI-8000 touch screens include built-in recipe management, allowing for easy storage and retrieval of machine setup parameters. Having this powerful capability in the HMI eliminates the need for developing recipe management in the machine control application program, saving software development time and simplifying the system design. Each MMI-8000 unit is shipped with the latest revision of the EasyBuilder 8000 development software and an Ethernet crossover cable. All development communications are performed via Ethernet. The latest version of the EasyBuilder 8000 software is always available on the ORMEC web site. Projects created with the previous version of EasyBuilder for ORMEC’s MMI-320/640 HMI series can be converted to EasyBuilder 8000 format using a conversion utility. Operation Communications with an SMLC controller can be through either a serial connection using Modbus RTU, or Ethernet using Modbus/TCP. Screen objects are tagged to input and output registers that are mapped to input and output variables in the CoDeSys application program running ORMEC's touch screen operator interfaces provide a fully graphical, easy to use human-machine interface. HMI Touch screens - 1 - ORMEC