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Product Overview

RSView32

RSView32 is an integrated, component-based HMI software package for monitoring and controlling automation machines and processes. It uses open technologies that provide unprecedented connectivity to other Rockwell Software products, Microsoft products, and third-party applications.

Benefits

• Provides tools to maximize productivity including runtime simulation, editing individual objects in a group, animation, tag reuse and substitution, online updates, screen security and easily importing graphics.
  
• Integrate third-party ActiveX controls and Visual Basic applications to customize and extend RSView32 projects.
  
• Supports OPC standards as both a server and a client for fast, reliable communications with a wide variety of hardware devices from multiple vendors.
  
• Provides preferred compatibility to Rockwell Automation products to capture, control, and convey plant floor data.
  
• Extension CD offers add-on software components at no additional charge.
  
• Remotely open, run, and interact with RSView32 graphic displays from virtually any computer on a network with RSView32 Active Display System™.
  
• View graphic displays, tags, and alarms through any standard Internet browser with RSView WebServer™.
  

Product Design

RSView32 is a Windows-based development and runtime component-based HMI software package for deployment on Windows NT/2000 hardware platforms. It is the first HMI software to take full advantage of leading-edge Microsoft technologies to:

• Open its graphic displays as OLE containers for ActiveX controls.
  
• Develop an object model to expose portions of its core functionality to interoperate with other component-based software products.
  
• Integrate Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) as a built-in programming language.
  
• Support OPC standards to communicate with multi-vendor hardware devices.
  
• Implement Add-On Architecture (AOA) technology to integrate new software components directly into RSView32 to expand functionality. RSView32 TrendX, RSView32 Messenger, RSView32 SPC, RSView32 RecipePro, and RSLadder are all add-on software components included with the Extensions CD at no charge.
  

RSView Active Display System is a client/server application that allows operators to remotely open, run, and interact with RSView32 graphic displays from virtually any computer on the network. It takes advantage of Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) and ActiveX technologies, allowing remote components to appear local and providing convenient Internet access.

RSView32 WebServer provides a quick look into graphic displays, tags, and alarms through any standard Internet browser. This low-cost, web-based solution requires no installation or administration on clients. Simply enable Microsoft Personal Web Server or Microsoft Internet Information Server on any computer where RSView32 is installed, install RSView32 WebServer, and issue a WebServerOn command.