Advanced Configuration Environment (ACE)
The Advanced Configuration Environment (ACE) of PcVue brings a consistent and innovative platform to develop your application. PcVue ACE is designed to maximize programmer productivity by providing components with similar user interfaces. It presents a single interface in which all developments are done. This ACE brings many features for creating object descriptions, mimics, communication frame with PLC., user rights, etc.. . It also provides advanced tools for creating the client/server architecture and deploying the software throughout the network. Dynamic, intuitive use of configuration boosts PcVue’s ease of use.
PcVue ACE reduces the configuration time and increase developer productivity.
The ACE includes the Application Explorer, an “All in one” configuration tool for configuration and diagnosis, the Application Architect to modelize objects and create applications, and the Smart Generators a suite of import tools for mass configuration from third-party or in-house configuration tools (PLC programs, CAD drawings, user software and legacy SCADA/Building Management Systems).
The Application Architect lets you use high-level facilities for templating and reuse of components. It enables you to create reusable objects to integrate not only graphics, symbols and tables but also all the frequent configuration elements such as variables, alarms and their associated behaviors: events, archiving, thresholds, commands, scripts etc.
Benefits of the Application Architect
- Reduce development time
- Enhance application description reliability
- Eliminate the risk of errors
- Does not require developer scripting
- A ground breaking tool to help applying existing good design practices
The Application Explorer is an “All in one” configuration tool, including the features for configuring all parts of supervisory project:
- Communication/Networking
- Variables
- Archives
- Data processing
- User management
- Libraries
The Smart Generators enable you to generate an application automatically and to import from external sources.
It facilitates and accelerates dramatically the development of a PcVue project avoiding the loss of time of a double configuration and all risk of error. The wizards guide you through the process of extracting data from third party applications and using it to generate elements of PcVue’s configuration (variable database, communication configuration, mimics etc.)
15+ Smart Generators are available and new one are added regularly.