What's new with FactoryTalk View software?

FactoryTalk® software helps you design, maintain, operate and innovate your operations. New Version 14 has just been released, which delivers:

New features and sustainability

• Continued support for PlantPAx® system releases while enhancing system components for greater value and productivity
• Integration of new technologies for long-term platform sustainability and system reliability

Data logging and analytics optimisation

• New Edge Historian capabilities enabled by data log integration with InfluxDB
• Enhanced data visualisation in TrendPro and DataGrid objects for more accessible data presentation to operators
• Versatile data analysis allowing third-party tools to retrieve, analyse and report on data in the InfluxDB repository.

Design time efficiency and productivity

• Powerful new graphic objects such as a Radar Chart and a .NET control integrated with Apache E-Chart widgets allow designers to create attractive and intuitive operator interfaces
• Streamlined design process with a new Runtime Navigation Menu and redesigned Tag Browser UI

Production data starts as 1’s and 0’s. FactoryTalk® View v.14.00 will give you the tools needed to bring that information together in powerful ways to contextualise it for operators, allowing them to make real-time decisions necessary for manufacturing.

FactoryTalk® View software version 14.00 feature summary

Runtime modernisation

1. SE Client rendering and scaling
2. Runtime scale quality improvement
3. Improved multi-touch interaction
4. Runtime navigation menu – integrated runtime search
5. Multi-language switching pop-ups
6. Multi-monitor display docking and sizing

Mobility

1. Step line trending
2. DataGrid time range filtering
3. ViewPoint FactoryTalk® administration console refresh and modernisation
4. Enhanced system status portal
5. System status portal – alarm dashboard

Application design

1. Radar chart
2. Built-in .NET Control integrating with Apache E-Chart Widgets
3. Tag browser UI
4. Command button enhancements
5. Custom user message for toggle action
6. New Data Log Pro with edge historian capability built on InfluxDB™
7. FactoryTalk® View Studio: HMI components filtering

Feedback-driven enhancements

1. Electronic signature for SE functional buttons
2. Exclude tag scanning for invisible objects

Connectivity and visualisation

1. Data Grid – add FactoryTalk® Historian as a Data Source
2. TrendPro& XY Plot Enhancements
3. Show annotations on the TrendPro with FactoryTalk Historian

Alarms and events

1. Alarm and events summary live data value
2. Additional alarm and events built-in functions

ME modernisation

1. ME transfer utility enhancement
2. Retain ActiveX Control version

And more!