OpenAPC is an Open Source APC (Advanced Process Control) solution which is highly flexible and configurable, and covers a wide range of automation, visualization and process control tasks from home control up to industrial automation. Control applications created with the OpenAPC editors visual interface can perform several tasks - dependent on how the application is configured and used:
* Visualisation
* HMI / Human Machine Interface (or MMI / Man Machine Interface)
* PLC / process control
* SCADA / supervisory control, data acquisition and processing
The OpenAPC software package offers some advanced features like:
* Flexible network-capability
* Open plugin interface for adding new controls and interfaces
* Easy connection, handshake and co-processing of different OpenAPC instances
* Platform-independence: the same OpenAPC-project can be used on Windows™, WindowsCE™ Windows XPe™, Linux™, Mac OS X™ and more
* Easy project creation via visual editor
* Separated applications for editing, debugging and a highly optimized one for running an OpenAPC project so that the final project can be executed without problems also on weak hardware platforms
But ... there are several MMI/SCADA applications out there - why just an other application of this type?
The question to that answer is simple: OpenAPC is different to all applications that are out there. Or to be more detailled:
* OpenAPC is really portable and platform-independent: when choosing it as your control application you are not locked to one particular operating system for all time. In worst case you can transfer your existing project files to an other system easily, there is no need for expensive porting.
* OpenAPC offers open programming interfaces to the outer world you can utilitize without licensing restrictions. So you do not have to share the unique characteristics of your product with others (including us): you can adapt an plug-in for the hardware that makes the difference between you and your competitors and still use the functionality of OpenAPC. So you do not need to write your own software just for keeping your business secrets.
* OpenAPC is very flexible: not only the open programming interfaces but also the internal structure of the application allow you to solve very different tasks. That means on the one side you can't say easily what kind of application OpenAPC really is but on the other side you are not locked to the functionality of a PLC, MMI or SCADA application only. More than this: you can combine the features of different worlds within one application according to your needs.
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· BeamConstruct: sporadic loss of configured 2D drawing mode corrected
· BeamConstruct: split view in 3D editing mode to view all three sides plus 3D representation
· simultaneously
· BeamConstruct: bug fixed in output of scanner bitmap data
· BeamConstruct: lock fixed when pressing Cancel-button in mark dialogue during running operation
· ControlRoom/BeamConstruct: new plug in to control Ether Dream scanner controller card
· ControlRoom/BeamConstruct: new plug in to control SCANLAB RTC5 scanner controller card
· ControlRoom: Symbol Button HMI plug-in extended by border size parameter
· ControlRoom: new HMI plug-in "Flow Indicator" to visualise direction and speed of moved materials
· ControlRoom: MODBUS Master plug-ins extended by special mode "Read IEEE754 Holding Register" to read 32 Bit float values out of two concatenated holding registers
· ControlRoom: error handling problem fixed in MODBUS RTU Adressable Master
· ControlRoom: deadlock between UI elements fixed
· liboapc: bug fixed in Linux variant of thread functions
· liboapc: bug fixed in ring buffer functions
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