Brainchild HMI Panel Studio

Description

Brainchild HMI Panel Studio powerful and user friendly Panel Studio editing software supports many PLC drivers. Good features include Fine components, Trends, Alarms, bar-graphs, Recipes, Multilingual. Scripts, Data logging, Remote Viewer Vector graphics, Symbol factory.

Brand

Brainchild

BrainChild Electronics Co., Ltd. was established in 1977. Presently we are the largest Temperature Controller maker in Taiwan, and the only maker of the paperless recorder in Taiwan.

The factory has a full automatic SMT production line. TÜV Rheinland certifies our ISO9001 once a year. In addition we have a well equipped and CSA certified laboratory to do CSA, UL and CE tests. A strong and experienced R&D team allows us to offer customers innovative and state-of-art industrial instruments for various FA solutions. We have won good reputation by supplying quality instruments with better features at competitive prices. It is our philosophy in pursuit of perfection through continuous improvement.

Specifications

Display
Resolution (W x H in pixels)	480 x 272
Display type	TFT wide touch screen
Colors	65,536
Touch screen Type	Resistive analog

Features

Free, powerful and friendly HMI editing software
2-editing styles in both GUI wizard and Property grid
Lots of fine-made objects of Meters, Sliders, Digital LED, Check boxes, Combo boxes, Number Up/Down, etc.
112 basic symbols, high-resolution, vector format, some in 6 colors, flipped and rotatable in 4 directions in design time
Basic symbols support moving and 32 band run-time animation on background color, visibility, flip, rotation
Optional Symbol Factory with symbols over 4K, flipping, rotating in 4 directions, changing color in design time
Symbol Factory control allows 50 band run-time animation, each band in different colors or blinking
Picture box to import pictures in bmp, wmf, jpg, gif & png formats
Drawing tools like rectangle, ellipse, etc., maximum 32 bands, each band with visible control, filling color & blinking
Drawing tools like rectangle, ellipse, etc., with run-time animation like filling, moving & sizing
Many PLC drivers supported on both Serial & Ethernet ports via OPC server
Data exchange between two different PLCs as a gateway
Diagnostic tools for drivers like OPC server & OPC client to test communication between PC and PLC directly
IO poll groups, different scan rates for PLC tags, possible to scan tags always or only tags on active page
Retentive and non-retentive internal variables available for mathematical calculation
3 types of screens in Page, Template and Pop-up
The Scheduler to trigger actions at specific time or time intervals
Recipe management to create data elements and data records in design time
Recipe viewer to edit data records and transfer setpoints from HMI to PLC and vice versa in run-time
Real-time alarms in 7 types, historical alarms and alarm management in maximum 9 groups
Alarm banner to display the latest alarm in single line
Real-time trends and historical trends, with maximum 24 pens for each component
Bit-wise alarms for integer tag received from PLC
Data stored in internal memory or optional SD card
Data logging by 4 methods, 2 types and 10 rates
Data acquisition software Historical Viewer to view historical data and alarms on PC
Security management used for maximum 100 users divided by 9-authority levels
Script/Macro programmed in C language for mathematical and logical calculation
Run-time user administration done by user-view component
Software in multilingual, easy for local application engineers
Multilingual on the display, easy for users, maximum 30 languages
Online simulation to test application program quickly by simulating it on PC while connecting with PLC
Offline simulation to test application program by simulating it on PC without connecting with PLC
Copy screens between projects to save developing time
Copy/paste animation for drawing tools like rectangle, ellipse etc., to save developing time
Project compiler to verify the application under developing before downloading to HMI
Message libraries via Word Lamp with animations to display various messages based on different values
Advanced buttons with animation in 3 kinds of actions namely clicked, pressed and released with timing
Bit-wise animation used with bit lamp for integer tag to show status of integer tag received from PLC
Multiple sessions to open projects in design time on PC
Handy components for tables to quickly draw rows and columns
Project explorer and Tool box to quickly view hierarchy of all objects in software
Flexible to call many system functions from buttons, events, schedulers, scripts, etc.
To download application program efficiently from PC to HMI via Ethernet port, or via USB stick