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Welcome to CX-Supervisor

1-1 Welcome to CX-Supervisor
This chapter introduces the CX-Supervisor application to a new user.
CX-Supervisor is dedicated to the design and operation of PC based
visualisation and machine control. It is not only simple to use for small
supervisory and control tasks, but it also offers a wealth of power for the
design of the most sophisticated applications. CX-Supervisor boasts powerful
functions for a wide range of PC based HMI requirements. Simple applications
can be created rapidly with the aid of a large number of predefined functions
and libraries, and even very complex applications can be generated with a
powerful programming language or VBScript. CX-Supervisor has an extremely
simple, intuitive handling and high user friendliness. Importing ActiveX®
components makes it possible to create flexible applications and extend
functionality.
CX-Supervisor offers a comprehensive range of facilities for the developer and
is capable of developing solutions with the following features:
• Operator interface to processes
• Data acquisition and monitoring
• Information management
• Manufacturing control
• Supervisory control
• Batch sequencing
• Continuous process control
• Alarm monitoring and reporting
• Material handling (monitoring and control)
• Simulation and modelling through graphic animation
• Data Logging
• Error logging
• Project Editor and cross referencing
• Multi-lingual user interfaces
• Report editor
• Database Connectivity
• Connection to OPC Servers
• Use of ActiveX objects
• Use of Visual Basic script and Java Script
CX-Supervisor runs on standard PC desktop computers running Microsoft
Windows. CX-Supervisor is intuitive and easy to use, and allows the developer
to rapidly configure, test and debug a project. CX-Supervisor comprises two
separate executable Windows programs, CX-Supervisor Development
environment and CX-Supervisor Runtime environment. Applications are
created and tested using the development environment and then delivered as
a final customer application with the runtime environment.
The runtime-only environment may only be used for executing an application
previously generated using the development environment. It is not possible to
generate a new runtime application using the runtime environment.

SECTION 1 Introduction

SECTION 1

Introduction

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