Features & Benefits of Reliance 3
Reliance 3 consists of these software modules:
Development Environment
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Reliance Design Desktop |
Reliance Design Enterprise |
visual development of applications (visualization projects) |
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adding ready-to-use components (i.e., visual objects) selected from the Component palette into visualization windows |
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managing components placed into visualization windows, visual configuration of components' properties, modifying properties of any number of components at a time (even for components of different types), duplicating components, intelligent component alignment and layout, grouping components, moving components onto another layer |
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defining and using (selecting, locking, showing, hiding) layers in visualization windows |
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duplicating visualization windows with optional substitution of components' links to variables |
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managing visualization windows |
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managing pictures imported into a visualization project |
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managing the Picture library |
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managing (defining, modifying, duplicating, deleting, etc.) objects of different types (devices, databases, etc.) via visual tools with uniform appearance and control, the so-called managers; arranging objects into folders (optional), modifying properties of any number of objects at a time, duplicating objects, substitution of objects' links to other objects when duplicating, exporting/importing objects to/from a CSV file |
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managing a visualization project's structure (control areas, computers, users, devices, databases, etc.), configuring computer-specific properties, configuring the behavior and functionality of the runtime environment for individual computers |
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managing devices, variables, communication zones, and alarms |
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managing databases and database fields |
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managing historical trends to display historical data |
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managing real-time trends to display most recent data |
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managing historical reports to display historical data |
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managing print reports based on templates in TXT or HTML format |
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managing recipes for recipe-based control |
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managing scripts written in VB Script |
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defining access rights |
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securing access to specific operations by access rights |
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assigning users a specific set of access rights and restrictions |
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support for room control modules IRC manufactured by Teco |
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support for embedding ActiveX controls in visualization windows, linking an ActiveX control's property to a variable defined in the visualization project, linking an ActiveX control's event to a script defined in the visualization project |
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exporting a visualization project to the Web format for Web clients |
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development of network applications with TCP/IP communications between computers, including support for redundancy; defining network connections (primary and standby) and a list of devices whose data and alarms should be transferred through the connections |
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Runtime Software
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Reliance Runtime View |
Reliance Runtime Control |
Reliance Server |
Reliance Runtime Server |
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loading and running a visualization project |
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acquisition of data from the communication drivers of the connected devices (i.e., automation/control devices) |
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OPC Client |
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DDE Client |
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DDE Server |
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generating and processing alarms |
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logging data and alarms to databases |
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network (TCP/IP) communications to other instances of the runtime software through network connections, including support for redundancy |
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acquisition of data and alarms (real-time and historical) from other instances of the runtime software through network connections |
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providing other instances of the runtime software with data and alarms (real-time and historical) through network connections |
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executing scripts |
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processing recipes |
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sending e-mail messages |
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sending and receiving SMS messages (SMS driver required) |
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multi-language support |
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logging postmort records (recording changes in real-time data and logging them to special data files) |
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passing commands for devices to communication drivers |
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passing commands for devices to other instances of the runtime software through network connections |
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executing commands for devices received from other instances of the runtime software through network connections |
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controlling the industrial process through the visualization |
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displaying visualization windows with real-time data |
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displaying and acknowledging current alarms, filtering alarms by a device (optional), user-definable sorting |
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displaying, printing, and exporting historical alarms, user-definable filtering and sorting |
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displaying most recent data as real-time trends |
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displaying and printing historical data as historical trends |
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displaying, printing, and exporting historical data as historical reports |
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displaying, printing, and exporting data (real-time and/or historical) as print reportsv |
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replaying and stepping postmort records (replaying the visualization of the industrial process and stepping data changes) |
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managing users |
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managing (defining, modifying, duplicating, deleting, etc.) objects of different types (historical trends and reports) via visual tools with uniform appearance and control, the so-called managers; arranging objects into folders (optional), modifying properties of any number of objects at a time, duplicating objects, substitution of objects' links to other objects when duplicating, exporting/importing objects to/from a CSV file |
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managing historical trends to display historical data |
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managing historical reports to display historical data |
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logging users on and off the program |
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verifying access rights when performing access right-protected operations |
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saving user-defined settings to user profiles |
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data server for Web clients |
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providing Web clients with data and alarms (real-time and historical) |
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executing commands for devices received from Web clients |
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verifying users logging on to Web clients |
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Web Client – Reliance J
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Reliance J |
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loading and running a visualization project in the Web format |
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network (TCP/IP) communication to a data server (Reliance Server or Reliance Runtime Server) |
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acquisition of data and alarms (real-time and historical) from a data server |
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controlling the industrial process through the visualization and passing commands for devices to a data server (optional feature configured when exporting the visualization project to the Web format) |
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displaying visualization windows with real-time data (supported components) |
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displaying and acknowledging current alarms |
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displaying historical alarms, filtering alarms by a device (optional) |
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displaying most recent data as real-time trends |
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displaying historical data as historical trends of any single variable including a simple tabular representation of the data |
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logging users on and off the program |
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verifying access rights when performing access right-protected operations |
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saving user-defined settings to user profiles |
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multi-language support (including switching at runtime) |
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Communication Drivers
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Teco |
Tecomat, Tecoreg, Tecoreg IRC, Tecomax |
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Modbus |
devices supporting the Modicon - Modbus communication protocol (serial link, Ethernet) |
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Sauter EY2400 |
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Rittmeyer wsr3000 |
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Johnson Controls |
Johnson Control communication drivers |
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AMiT |
control systems manufactured by AMiT |
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Elgas |
ELCOR-94, DATCOM |
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QMD |
telemetric devices supporting the QMD communication protocol |
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MPC |
telemetric devices supporting the MPC communication protocol |
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DMB |
telemetric devices supporting the DMB communication protocol |
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TMC |
telemetric devices supporting the TMC communication protocol |
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DIO3000 |
telemetric devices DIO3000 manufactured by Starmans |
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SMS |
GSM modems Siemens M20, TC35, MC35, Wavecom WMOD2B |
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External Communicator |
devices supporting communication via a serial link; the actual communication must be programmed in scripts (communication protocol knowledge required) |
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SCADA/HMI = Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition/Human Machine Interface
Visualization project = an application developed in Reliance
Components = visual objects (e.g., text strings, pictures, shapes, buttons)
Non-visual objects = objects such as computers, users, devices, databases, trends
Computer = a non-visual object representing the actual computer on which a visualization project will run at the end-user site
Device = a non-visual object representing a hardware device (PLC or another similar industrial automation/control device) or a fictional device (the so-called virtual device)
Script = a piece of program code written in the VBScript language
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