System Platform
Getting Started Guide
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Contents
Welcome to System Platform................................................................... 1
System Platform Functional Components............................................. 2
Development Studio.................................................................................. 2
The Historian................................................................................................. 3
Device Integration Tools........................................................................... 3
Visualization and Analysis Clients......................................................... 4
Sentinel Agent and Manager ................................................................. 4
Getting Started................................................................................................. 4
Before You Get Started .............................................................................. 4
Development Environment....................................................................... 7
Start the ArchestrA IDE................................................................................. 8
Create a Galaxy................................................................................................. 9
InTouch OMI Workflow Groups.............................................................11
1. Design Standards .....................................................................................11
2. Build a ViewApp .......................................................................................12
3. Deploy a ViewApp...................................................................................12
4. Run a ViewApp .........................................................................................12
Workflow 1: Design ViewApp Standards ............................................13
Create Symbols..............................................................................................13
Create a Symbol.........................................................................................14
Edit a Symbol..............................................................................................15
Insert Graphic Elements..........................................................................15
Embed a Symbol........................................................................................16
Placing a Symbol in a ViewApp...........................................................16
Build Object Standards ...............................................................................17
Create a Derived Template or an Instance ......................................18
Edit Objects .................................................................................................19
Work with Object Wizards.....................................................................20
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Work with Screen Profiles..........................................................................22
Create a Screen Profile............................................................................22
Configure a Screen Profile.....................................................................23
Work with Layouts........................................................................................24
Create a Layout..........................................................................................24
Configure a Layout...................................................................................25
Add Content to Layout Panes ..............................................................25
Workflow 2: Build a ViewApp ................................................................27
Create a ViewApp.........................................................................................27
Assign Screen Profiles and Layouts to a ViewApp...........................28
Create Graphic Content for a ViewApp................................................29
Add Content to a ViewApp...................................................................30
Rearrange Objects in a ViewApp............................................................30
Preview a ViewApp.......................................................................................31
Prepare to Deploy a ViewApp .................................................................32
Deploy a ViewApp....................................................................................33
Launch a ViewApp........................................................................................34
New System Platform Features..............................................................37
Stronger Security.......................................................................................37
More Alarm Features ...............................................................................38
Easier Management of Product Licensing.......................................38
More Runtime Viewing Options..........................................................39
Get More Information ..............................................................................41
Application Server ........................................................................................41
InTouch OMI ...................................................................................................43
InTouch HMI....................................................................................................44
InTouch Access Anywhere .........................................................................47
Historian...........................................................................................................48
Historian Client ..............................................................................................49
Technical Support .........................................................................................49
Product Training ............................................................................................50
Welcome to System Platform
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System Platform is an industrial software platform that uses
ArchestrA technology for human machine interface (HMI),
operations management, SCADA, and production and
performance management.
System Platform contains an integrated set of services and an
extensible data model to manage plant control and
information management systems. System Platform supports
both the supervisory control layer and the manufacturing
execution system (MES) layer, presenting them as a single
information source.
Modular applications sit on top of System Platform. Other
third-party integrators are delivering a growing inventory of
application components that use System Platform services.
2 Welcome to System Platform
System Platform Functional Components
The following figure shows a functional representation of
System Platform, which incorporates the ArchestrA framework.
The ArchestrA Framework consists of server-side
configuration- and deployment related components. In
System Platform, these components include a centralized
object repository called Galaxy Repository, an integrated
development environment, and a database to store historical
data.
Development Studio
Development Studio is your development environment to
build applications. The Development Studio consists of the
ArchestrA Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and
InTouch WindowMaker. Both components include graphic
tools, an extensive set of industrial symbols, and program
functions that can be included in application scripts.
System Platform Functional Components 3
The Historian
The Historian is a time-series data optimized plant data
historian. It stores plant data from legacy DA Servers,
Operations Integration (OI) Servers, Communication Drivers,
and industrial HMI applications. The Historian also contains
event, summary, configuration, and system monitoring
information. The Historian is tightly coupled to a Microsoft
SQL Server database.
Device Integration Tools
System Platform can connect to a diverse set of data sources
to integrate all plant and industrial data. The System Platform
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) offers I/O
auto-assignment and I/O mapping features to streamline
device integration and data access.
Data sources include OPC and OPC UA Servers, databases, and
any application that exposes data from an API such as XML,
SQL, HTTP, or.NET. In addition, a library of device integration
tools provide data from the factory floor.
• Communication protocols provide data from PLCs and
other factory devices to HMI applications. These protocols
can be used with any Microsoft Windows program or
supervisory application capable of acting as a DDE,
FastDDE, OPC, OPC UA, or SuiteLink™ client.
• An OI Server acts as a communication protocol server
providing data from a specific vendor’s PLCs and other
factory devices. System Platform offers an extensive family
of DA Servers for a wide variety of PLC manufacturers.
• A Device Integration (DI) object encapsulates the
functionality of an IO Server in the ArchestrA environment.
DI Objects are models of the network and devices
associated with a specific HMI application. The hierarchy of
the actual devices is the same as the hierarchy of DI
Objects.
4 Welcome to System Platform
Visualization and Analysis Clients
Visualization and analysis clients enable you to visualize
real-time and historical data from System Platform.
• InTouch HMI visualization clients show Human Machine
Interface (HMI) applications.
• InTouch OMI extends the core foundation of HMI and
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
products. You can use InTouch OMI to create visual
applications (ViewApps) that incorporate the functionality
needed by both operational and information technology
teams in a production environment
• Insight shows trending and analysis data obtained from
running applications.
Sentinel Agent and Manager
Sentinel is a new feature included in System Platform. Sentinel
constantly monitors the License Server to ensure that it is
accessible. In the event that the connection to the License
Server is lost, Sentinel can be configured to send a warning
message so you can quickly fix any issues and ensure your
operations are not interrupted.
Getting Started
This booklet describes a set of essential workflows to get you
started building applications with System Platform. It explains
the steps to create an InTouch OMI ViewApp. For information
about creating InTouch HMI applications, see the InTouch HMI
Getting Started Guide.
Before You Get Started
Before you get started building an InTouch OMI ViewApp, you
must install, configure, and activate the licenses of your
System Platform products. The last section of this booklet
includes a set of tables that list the documentation for each
System Platform product.