Every software has its best practice(s) of using. For Ecava IGX SCADA, there is a useful setting called “Triggered By”, which is a compulsory setting for several modules like Script. This setting determines how should the particular action or event be triggered. Script module is very useful in SCADA projects, especially when you have specific […]
Most of the time, when creating a HMI screen, we are required to include company logo or relevant images. These images are mainly in raster form, normally saved as JPEG or PNG file format. Since Ecava IGX SCADA uses SVG for HMI screens, inserting raster images into the SVG is never a problem by using […]
Clonezilla Live is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program for single machine. Basically it is a useful tool to perform disk backup and recovery. It is a bootable GNU/Linux distribution for both x86 or amd64 based computers. One of the best things about Clonezilla is despite it is an open sourced tool, you can use […]
Good news to those who used to program in VBS, Ecava IGX Script engine now supports VB (Visual Basic). To start to write your scripts using VB language in IGX Project Editor, simply save your script with the extension of *.VBS. Other than standard VBS functions and math operations, Ecava IGX comes with a few […]
1. Protection Keyboard are locked from exiting or closing the application, even pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del or Alt+F4 will require user’s credential. Other than preventing interruption, Kiosk-it restricts non relevant user access as well as transferring suspicious data to your system or devices. 2. Low price Ecava Kiosk-it is selling only at the lowest price, that assures […]
Ecava IGX Server has been tested on Windows Embedded Standard 7 running on Oracle VM VirtualBox, with simulated hardware specification as follows: – a single processor – 512 MB of RAM – 5 GB of hard disk space. The test was running on real CPU with Intel Xeon 2.33 GHz processor. The following are the […]
What is MES (Manufacturing Execution System)? As the name suggests, MES is mostly implemented for manufacturing systems. The purposes of MES are mainly for report production as well as document processes such as goods records, receipts, maintenance, scheduling, etc. For example, in a manufacturing operation, SCADA plays the main role of process control, while MES […]
Unlimited tag SCADA pricing is often being used for costing purpose, but also abused by some vendors as sales gimmick. What’s the catch for “unlimited”? You better be alert whenever someone offered you with “unlimited of this and that”, because that could well mean “untested of this and that. We often receive inquiries asking about […]
IGX equipped with a wonderful feature that auto fit any image with various sizes or resolutions into any screen/monitor during runtime. This gets rid of the painful trouble that traditional SCADA had to redraw the mimic when different sizes of monitor or resolutions are being applied at site. Since you already have such luxury, why […]
It can be tricky to setup OPC configuration, so our system engineer B.G. is sharing out his personal written short instructions with you. Anyhow it’s pretty complete like a guideline though. You may call this a check list, nevertheless, the length of the post shows the complexity of DCOM setting for SCADA application. DCOM Open […]
IGX SCADA was designed for thin client architecture from the ground up, to be exact, it’s a Browser Server architecture that open to run with any standard web content natively. As a comparison, most traditional SCADAs was created as a thick client, or even without supporting any remote client by default. Usually these thick content […]
How to speed up Modbus communication? Modbus communication for both Serial and TCP/IP can be optimized for speed by grouping same type of tags with contiguous I/O address. The goal is to have as little batch as possible to reduce turn around time on communication transaction. It’s straightforward for Boolean data type, what’s concerning is […]
How do I find I/O addresses gap using spreadsheet? In Modbus communication, it’s important to ensure addresses are arranged continuously in one chunk without any skipped of addresses, because any gap in the address listing will force the communication transaction to be split into another transaction instead of polling the data at one go. And […]
How do I sort spreadsheet data on multiple columns It’s very common requirement to manipulate data by importing/exporting CSV content from within external application. And many times the raw data arrangement may not be readily useable or friendly for viewing or analyzing. As such sorting data according to column in spreadsheet is a pretty essential […]
Configure PostgreSQL database on Solaris 10 Occassionally you may need to setup database remotely on non-Windows O.S., then the following steps could be of great reference for your SCADA application. Open a terminal (right click on desktop, select Hosts and click Terminal Console) Create postgres user in /export/home/postgres # groupadd postgres # useradd -c ‘PostgreSQL […]