What is Configuration? What is Configuration Software in Industrial Control?
With the development of Industry 4.0 and intelligent manufacturing, industrial control software is being used more and more widely, and they are playing an increasingly important role in improving production efficiency, reducing energy consumption and reducing labor costs.
What is industrial control software?
Industrial control software refers to software used in industrial control systems, which is mainly used for monitoring, control and optimization in various production process control, automation equipment and systems.
Industrial control software mainly includes embedded software, industrial control configuration software, PLC programming software, etc. Embedded software is software installed in the control system hardware, which is mainly used to control and monitor the working status and parameters of equipment, such as various sensors and actuators.
Industrial control configuration software is mainly used to build the human-machine interface of industrial control systems, including data acquisition, monitoring, alarm and other functions. PLC programming software is used to write programs for programmable logic controllers to realize various logic control and sequential control functions.
Industrial control software is the so-called industrial control software in a narrow sense. Since the adoption of programmable controllers, industrial control software has become an inseparable part of industrial automation.
However, in actual applications, control software is not isolated, but integrated with other software to play its due role. Therefore, in a broad sense, it includes data acquisition, human-machine interface, software application, process control, database, data communication, etc. Its content is also constantly enriched with the development of technology, from simple control to factory informatization integrated with management.
What is configuration?
The concept of “configuration” began to be known by a large number of production process automation technicians with the emergence of distributed control systems (DCS). The concept of “configuration” first appeared in industrial computer control, such as DCS (distributed control system) configuration, PLC (programmable controller) ladder diagram configuration, and human-machine interface generation software is called industrial control configuration software.
The official definition of configuration is “configuration”, “setting”, “setting”, etc., which means that users can complete the software functions they need in a simple way similar to “building blocks” without writing computer programs, which is the so-called “configuration”.
The popular definition of configuration is to use software to create operation screens, monitoring screens, etc. This software is configuration software. Therefore, the process of making the touch screen screen is also a configuration process.
What is configuration software?
Configuration software refers to some special software for data acquisition and process control. It is a software platform and development environment for the monitoring layer of the automatic control system for monitoring and data acquisition (SCADA). It can provide a good user development interface and simple usage methods in a flexible and diverse configuration method (rather than programming method).
What is a Web configuration tool?
Web configuration tool refers to the three functions of project management, configuration editing and configuration operation by operating the configuration tool and browsing the configuration screen through the browser. By realizing the configuration and association of graphic element configuration, visual chart configuration, and database configuration, real-time data monitoring based on Web services and multi-user access on the server side are completed.
For example: Sovit2D developed by Shuweitu Technology is a powerful Web configuration software based on HTML5 standard, developed with B/S architecture, supporting 2D/3D graphics configuration, and supporting MQTT protocol access.
The configuration interface can be published separately and can be seamlessly integrated with the company’s own platform.
Sovit2D has a wide range of design functions, provides a rich library of industry-standard component elements and multi-industry templates and components, and can complete convenient human-computer interaction on the browser side. The layout design of the visual page can be completed by simply dragging and dropping. It can quickly build modern SCADA, HMI, dashboards, IIOT systems, etc., and is widely used in industry, water conservancy, electricity, energy, oil and gas, environment, parks, transportation and other fields.
In summary, configuration software is an indispensable part of industrial control systems. It provides strong support for industrial automation, simplifies the development process, and improves production efficiency.
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