The FactoryTalk suite is comprised of six common production disciplines that address diverse plant information needs. The applications are scalable and modular, allowing you to optimize your plant's production capabilities to drive tangible results on the bottom line:
- Design and Configuration: Enables an integrated environment for creating, modeling and programming your production processes
- Production Management: Provides real-time coordination across your plant-wide production processes
- Data Management: Helps collect, transform and integrate production information
- Quality and Compliance: Helps ensure operational processes and procedures meet standards or specifications
- Asset Management: Helps optimize maintenance and plant operations to improve your resource availability
- Performance and Visibility: Presents a window into the process so you can make better decisions
Design and Configuration
FactoryTalk Design and Configuration allows you to accelerate time to market and quickly respond to change by using familiar languages, reusable code and common toolsets. It allows you to design and implement discrete, batch, process, motion and safety applications, and seamlessly connect them across the factory or across multiple plants. This integrated approach streamlines the overall planning, development and deployment process, resulting in faster, lower-cost implementation.
Production Management
The Production Management discipline within the FactoryTalk® suite offers solutions that address order sequencing and execution, tracking and genealogy, and interactive manufacturing process control to achieve real time coordination across your plant-wide processes. This lets you seamlessly connect with the enterprise through the full FactoryTalk® suite. Its production management solutions can help you improve coordination of production and business processes -regardless of location
Data Management
FactoryTalk Data Management delivers the tools and methods that let you organize, archive and integrate master, event, process and production data collected by automated and manual systems. With seamless enterprise-wide connectivity throughout the FactoryTalk® suite, the Data Management discipline creates a foundation for contextual information that improves manufacturing flexibility, reduces long-term support costs, and enhances the integration of plant-floor and IT systems.
Asset Management
FactoryTalk Asset Management enhances security, intelligence and predictability of plant resources. It also gives you tighter control over software versions, program changes and automation and control system access. You'll have a foundation for optimizing maintenance and plant operations through risk-mitigation procedures for drives and for discrete and process applications. That means better diagnostics, calibration, real-time monitoring, and auditing of equipment and network health to improve overall resource availability.
Performance and Visibility
FactoryTalk Performance and Visibility delivers windows into the manufacturing process by incorporating performance metrics and a situation-based display of manufacturing information at the machine, line, plant and enterprise level. Reporting and analysis tools, operator interfaces and management dashboards deliver contextual, localized, role-based information for better decision-making.
HMI Software
FactoryTalk View Overview
FactoryTalk View, including FactoryTalk View SE, FactoryTalk View ME and FactoryTalk View Studio, are HMI software products designed with a common look, feel, and navigation to help speed HMI application development and training time. Supporting the Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture, FactoryTalk View is part of the scalable and unified suite of monitoring and control solutions designed to span stand-alone machine-level applications up through supervisory-level HMI applications across a network. This suite offers you a common development environment, application reuse, and architecture so you can increase productivity, reduce operation costs, and improve quality
FactoryTalk View Studio
- Provides a common design environment for FactoryTalk® View SE and FactoryTalk® View ME.
- Supports editing and reusing projects for improved portability between embedded machine and supervisory human-machine interface (HMO systems Enables you to import entire machine-level applications into supervisory-level applications or drag individual components and drop them into supervisory projects .
- Saves development time and reduces engineering and training costs by helping you: -Configure a single operator station or an entire distributed application from one location -Access tags from OPC servers throughout the system via a tag browser that presents direct controller tags and HMI tags in a logical hierarchy.
- Remotely configure RSLinx™ and FactoryTalk® View SE servers.
- Create displays using a full-featured graphics editor.
- Develop systems using pre-engineered screens and faceplates.
- Test-run your application within the software.
FactoryTalk® View Machine Edition (ME)
- Robust features and embedded tools provide
- Graphics editor with powerful editing tools
- Pre-configured operator devices, screens and faceplates
- Animation and global object capabilities
- Library of drag-and-drop graphics
- Powerful recipe system
- Runtime language switching
- Supports both open and embedded operator interface solutions for monitoring and controlling individual machines or small processes
FactoryTalk® View Site Edition (SE)
- Provides supervisory-level monitoring and control for applications that need a distributed and scalable architecture
- Supports distributed server/multi-user applications, giving maximum control of information at any location
- Scalable architecture can be applied to stand-alone/one-server applications, as well as large-scale applications with multiple users or multiple servers
- Eases HMI development and use through:
- Common editor for HMI development
- Built-in failure detection and recovery
- Shareable data and tags with other FacroryTalk-enabled products
- Application within the FactoryTalk® Performance and Visibility production discipline
FactoryTalk® Metrics
- FactoryTalk® Metrics software monitors plant-floor equipment and provides real-time and historical visibility of key performance indicators (KPls), These help manufacturers better understand the real causes of inefficiency, waste, lost capacity and equipment downtime, Users also can create custom events to monitor and track whatever is important for a particular machine, such as downtime analysis, predictive maintenance, intramachine optimization, equipment states and fault calculations.
- FactoryTalk® Metrics software collects a range of data from the control system for calculating overall equipment efficiency (OEE) and other default KPls, including total/good/scrap production counts; availability; ideal and actual cycle times; and failure frequency rates
- In addition, machine event history and performance information can be collected around-the-clock, providing the measurement data needed for overall operational efficiency