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MODERN SCADA/HMI SOFTWARE

❑ Reliability and Best Performance

❑ Engineering Efficiency
❑ Latest Technology
❑ Minimal Maintenance Cost
❑ Extraordinary Graphics
MODERN SCADA/HMI SOFTWARE

❑ Maximum Data Security

❑ Flexible Configuration
❑ True Client Server architecture
❑ Expandability and Scalability
❑ Extensive List of Features
ABOUT PULSE

❑ An innovative SCADA/HMI application generator

❑ Supervision, Monitoring, and Control solutions
for
❧ Industrial automation
❧ Fire and safety Security
❧ Building management systems
❑ Offers all the functions of a modern supervisor
The Evolution
 Reliability
and
Best
Performance
RELIABILITY

❑ Reliable Server – based on Windows

Services
❑ Enhanced Server Security Models and
Policies
❑ More than 200 established communication
drivers
❑ Hot Redundancy, High Availability
PULSE ARCHITECTURE

❑ True Client/Server architecture

❑ Microsoft Dot-Net Framework technology
❑ Communication between client and server
is WCF based
❑ Automatic client deployment, based on
Microsoft’s ClickOnce solution
❑ SOA – Service Oriented Architecture
Engineering
Efficiency
UPDATED WORKSPACE ENVIRONMENT

Delivers Better Results Faster

❑Intuitive and Friendly User Interface
❧ Compatible with common Microsoft Fluent User
Interface (Windows 7, Office 2010).
❧ Intelligent Ribbon provides improved context menus,
helpful screen tips and a customized quick access
bar.
PERSONALIZED WORKING
ENVIRONMENT
❑ User customized environment using:
❧ Skins
❧ Localization
❧ Layers
❧ Quick Access Bar
❧ Menus
❧ Tools
And more…
CONSISTENT LOOK

❑ IDE- Integrated Development Environment

❑ Use of global themes and styles to achieve
consistent look while reducing engineering time
LOCALIZATION SUPPORT

❑ Solutions, and working Environment are available

in multiple languages
❧ System menu (Developer and Operator Workstation)
❧ Application strings
❧ Date, Time and Numbers format

❑ Built-In Tools for easy localization at customer site

OUTSTANDING VISUALIZATION

❑ Creating professional graphics using

primitives and complex objects and
wide range of graphics properties
❧ Advanced animation properties to create
real-looking visualization
❧ Integrated Smart graphics objects
❧ Dot-Net Framework Controls and ActiveX
Controls
VARIOUS CONTROL CAPABILITIES

❑ Control tools
❧ Text input
❧ Button
❧ Slider
❧ Track bar
❧ Dynamic Tool bar
❧ Dynamic Context menus
❧ Annunciator
❧ Gallery of Industrial Control Instruments
❧ Control is protected according to operator privileges and license
CUTTING DOWN DESIGN TIME

❑ Creation/integration of reusable Smart objects (Cells)

speeds up development time
❑ Use of Display templates that includes graphic objects,
animation properties, auto-actions, workflows, and
more…
RICH CLIPART LIBRARY

❑ A library of graphical objects grouped by categories.

New objects and categories can be defined by the user.
❑ Controls library with thousands of Dot-Net Controls for
industrial automation
SMART INFORMATION PANEL

Built-in diagnostic tool provides analytics such as historical

and real-time data, alarms, graphs and operator actions.
Reduce application maintenance costs
BUILT-IN SCHEDULE MANAGER

❑ Configuring
schedules for
Start/Stop processes
and/or any other
activity (reports)
❑ Assigning elements
during runtime to
predefined schedules
❑ Modifying schedules
during runtime
 Latest
Technology
LATEST TECHNOLOGY

❑ Microsoft Dot-Net Framework technology

❑ Communication between client and server is
WCF based
❑ Ready for both today's technologies and future
platforms
❑ Innovative User Interface
❑ Service-oriented Application (SOA)
❑ ClickOnce
 Minimal
Maintenance
Cost
MINIMAL MAINTENANCE COST

Zero Administration
❑Clients workstation is downloaded and
doesn’t require any Administrator privileges
❑ Remote client workstations are
automatically updated with new product
versions and application updates
 True
Client/Server
architecture
TRUE CLIENT/SERVER ARCHITECTURE
FLEXIBLE DEPLOYMENT
❑ All projects - whether stand-alone, network or
redundancy – are engineered for all Dot-Net
operating systems with the same studio
❑ Clients are fully integrated and independent of
screen resolution
❑ Client workstations can run under Terminal Server;
Accessible from any remote desktop client –
including Smart Phones and iPhone
 TRUE CLIENT/SERVER ARCHITECTURE

Remote distributed engineering

Concurrently develop, run and view the application from remote clients

Managing multiple systems

The same station can connect to multiple servers where each runs
different projects/ systems

No compilation
Switching between development and runtime without compilation
PULSE FLASH DRIVE CLIENTS

❑ Launch Workstation from Flash drive

connected to one of the computer’s USB
ports for maximum portability and security
❑ Built-In tool for Flash Drive deployment
REPORTING

Supreme Report provides a comprehensive and intuitive

reporting and data analyzing solution
❑Promote business decision-making based on real-time
data collected from multiple sources
❑Improves speed and quality of decision making at all
levels of an organization.
❑Complies with regulatory requirements (FDA CFR 21)
❑Improves customer satisfaction by providing advanced
and unique reports
❑Increases daily efficiency and profitability
REPORTING

❑ Supreme Report generates state-of-the art PDF

reports and easy export to Excel
SIMPLE CONNECTIVITY TO
IT DATABASES
❑ Pulse Default Database is built on Microsoft SQL
Express 2005/2008 (SQL Server 2005/2008
compatible) making it an open and highly
scalable solution.
❑ Simple connectivity between plant floor and
corporate business systems
❑ Display complex data from corporate business
databases and files using integrated Data-Grid
instrument
BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY

❑ Powerful migration tool from P-CIM to Pulse

❑ Preserving P-CIM Kernel functionalities
❑ Communication drivers
EXTENSIBILITY AND SCALABILITY

Extensibility
❑Abilityto extend a collection of product
functionalities with external software
components
Scalability
❑Stand-alone projects can be scaled to
support network architecture with no
engineering effort
 Flexible
License
Configuration
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DETERMINES THE LICENSE USAGE
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COST-EFFECTIVE AND FLEXIBLE
LICENSING SYSTEM
❑ Flexible I/O Levels (100, 300, 500,
800, 1500, 3000, 65000)
❑ Flexible number of clients
❑ Client types: Developers,
Operators, Viewers
❑ Floating clients
❑ Pulse runs in demo mode for
limited period with limited IO.
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