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Rockwell Automation announced the launch of its FactoryTalk Optix portfolio, which is designed to help enable industrial organizations to build more versatile human machine interface (HMI) solutions that help to meet more diverse customer requirements and adapt better to evolving needs and technologies.
Industrial organizations can utilize components designed for the development and programming of more intuitive, easier-to-use industrial applications. The FactoryTalk Optix portfolio provides an open architecture along with options for design, deployment, connectivity and extensibility that help empower users to create more innovative applications.
The FactoryTalk Optix portfolio includes Rockwell Automation’s HMI platform and remote access software, as well as Embedded Edge Compute Modules and a wider range of deployment options. FactoryTalk Optix software provides greater flexibility and efficiencies with object-oriented design, wizard-based workflows and pre-built libraries.
The FactoryTalk Optix portfolio allows users to choose their own technology mix. For the first time, Rockwell Automation customers can use visualization software to design HMI applications that can natively work with both Rockwell Automation and third-party controllers and run it on their choice of hardware. Users can connect to a variety of third-party software, devices or systems using software designed for interoperability and OPC UA support. Users also only pay for the features they need, helping to reduce unnecessary spending on unused features.
The FactoryTalk Optix portfolio includes five core solutions:
FactoryTalk Optix Software
FactoryTalk Optix software is an HMI visualization platform that users can access from their browser or download to their computer. It delivers additional flexibility, scalability and interoperability and helps to enable users to design and deploy an HMI that can better meet their needs. This new platform includes features such as multi-user collaboration, web-based design and test and integrated version control.
OptixPanel
OptixPanel graphic terminals are sealed HMI appliances that come pre-loaded with FactoryTalk Optix and FactoryTalk Remote Access software licenses. This means that the device can be used as an all-in-one solution that could be ready to run at first power-up. The pre-installed, closed OS helps to reduce risk in implementation and maintenance.
FactoryTalk Remote Access Solutions
FactoryTalk Remote Access provides more secure remote connectivity, so users can view, assist, manage and troubleshoot from any remote location. This helps to enable teams to respond to needs faster and more rapidly resolve production issues. FactoryTalk Remote Access can more quickly connect domain experts to critical issues regadless of the physical location of either, helping to increase responsiveness and reduce the costs associated with travel and asset downtime.
ASEM 6300 Industrial PC
ASEM 6300 Industrial PCs are available in box and panel form and allow for greater customization. FactoryTalk Optix software enables seamless deployment of HMI solutions to the ASEM 6300 device that best fits customer applications.
Embedded Edge Compute Module
The Embedded Edge Compute Module provides a packaged solution for users to process visual data locally and remotely while maintaining the capability to grow and scale system as their needs change.
FactoryTalk Optix software V1.2 is now available with over 50 new capabilities, and it is available in English, Italian, French, Spanish and Chinese.
Craig Resnick, ARC Advisory Group, commented, “Cloud infrastructure and software-as-a-service offerings are unlocking tremendous value in nearly every corner of the business world, and manufacturing is no different. Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Optix portfolio provides this value by helping to unlock new possibilities in the world of HMI through the cloud and on-premises. The portfolio is designed to help enable users to create more innovative designs and scale through seamless access to physically distant sites while also offering more flexible deployment choices, including dedicated graphic terminals and industrial PCs to support a wide array of applications.”