And the tag groups compare to SE’s parameter files, of which InTouch doesn’t really have an equivalent.įor context, I’ve extensively done ViewSE (&32), IFix, and InTouch/System Platform, with some one-offs with Cimplicity and Indusoft and some others.

And the way you could back-end script things to dynamically populate things. In retrospect, I really liked that you could drag and drop objects in the tree to group/ungroup them.

But it got sold a few times and stagnated. It wanted to touch the DCS world with built-in PID functions and stuff. The alarm distribution to clients just works. It would run as a system service back when InTouch had to be logged in to run. They aren’t innovators, so as the competitors improve, it falls further behind. These days it’s mostly getting ripped out and replaced. They’re leveraged heavily in water/wastewater so I’ve touched hundreds of installations and have since Fix32 (late ‘90s). I use Rockwell most of the time these days and I would not say they have modern HMI software. Its difficult to dump on software you have based a career around so I try not to get too attached to any platform as it might be gone next year. This is a very complex subject with much history (I'm 30 year veteran and IFix is almost 25 yo now) and I am sure IFIX fanboys will not agree.

Its very popular with Amazon fulfillment centers. I would call Ignition a new school program as it uses more modern technology standards than the old school versions. Not popular everywhere yet but manufactures see the writing on the wall. AVEVA Systems Platform/OMI is probably the most powerful but hardest to learn, Ignition 8 by Inductive Automation is one of the most approachable and has great full feature demo and free online training. Schneider appears to have most of the HMI's I would avoid from a professional and career standpoint. Only a few relevant platforms will be around 10 years from now. The small user base doesn't push the vendors to modernize the code over time. Most HMI's that have been around for decades have very old code and can be difficult to run on modern OS's. It's one of the old school dying platforms like many now owned by Schneider or AVEVA.

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