OPTO 22 Software
ioProject Suite
The Opto 22 ioProject software suite provides full-featured control and HMI development tools to complete your SNAP Ethernet system. Easy to use and suitable for any project, from simple equipment management to full industrial control, the ioProject suite includes:
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ioControl™,
a graphical, flowchart-based programming tool for machine control and
process applications. Using ioControl, you create, download, and run
control programs on a SNAP-LCE controller or on SNAP Ultimate I/O. In
addition to flowchart programming, ioControl includes a powerful,
built-in scripting language based on C and other procedural languages.
ioControl is included in the purchase price of a SNAP-LCE controller
or a SNAP Ultimate brain. |
| ioDisplay, an intuitive HMI package for building operator interfaces for your Microsoft® Windows®-based clients communicating with a SNAP-LCE controller or SNAP Ultimate I/O system. For just $99 per seat, ioDisplay offers a full-featured HMI including alarming, trending, and a built-in library of 3,000 industrial automation graphics. |
| ioManager™, a utility application included free with any SNAP Ultimate, SNAP Ethernet, or SNAP Simple I/O brain and any SNAP-LCE controller. Use ioManager to assign IP addresses, configure I/O points and I/O unit features, and inspect, read from, or write to I/O units in real time. For multiple I/O units that use the same configuration, configure all I/O units simultaneously |
| OptoOPCServer™, a fast, efficient OLE for Process Control (OPC) 2.0-compliant server for exchanging data with SNAP Ethernet-based products. |
See the ioProject 5.1a Release Notes for more information. (Form 1474, pdf)
You can purchase the ioProject software suite in two ways:
| ioProject
as a download, including documentation in Adobe Acrobat PDF format
| ioProject
on a CD, with documentation in PDF and complete printed
documentation | |
ioControl
is a graphical, flowchart-based programming tool for industrial
automation, remote monitoring, and data acquisition applications. Using ioControl,
you create, download, and run control programs on a SNAP-LCE
industrial controller or on a SNAP
Ultimate I/O controller/brain.
In addition to its flowchart-based programming that lets you write control strategies visually, key features that make ioControl easy to use include:
| A Strategy Tree that provides a
graphical view of your entire control system configuration, including
I/O points, variables, and PID loops
| OptoScript, a powerful scripting
language within ioControl whose syntax is based on C and other common
procedural languages
| An animated debugger for stepping
through a control program in real time. | |
New features in ioControl version R5.1a include:
| Support for the new SNAP-LCE
controller
| Support for up to 16 PID
(proportional-integral-derivative) control loops with 4 different PID
algorithm choices: velocity, ISA, parallel, or interacting
| Many new ioControl commands for PID,
messaging, communications, and error handling | |
Try ioControl for yourself. Click here to download.
ioControl has a similar look and feel to Opto 22’s established OptoControl™ flowchart-based development environment and will be familiar to OptoControl users. However, ioControl is designed for use solely with SNAP Ultimate I/O systems and SNAP-LCE industrial controllers; it cannot use control strategies developed in OptoControl.
ioControl is included in the purchase price of any SNAP-LCE controller or SNAP Ultimate controller/brain.
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ioDisplay is a human-machine interface (HMI) package for building
operator interfaces to communicate with SNAP-LCE
controllers and SNAP
Ultimate I/O controller/brains. ioDisplay offers a full-featured HMI
including alarming, trending, security, and a built-in library of 3,000
industrial automation graphics. Updated with a fast, new multithreaded
scanning engine, ioDisplay version 5.1 is significantly faster than
previous versions.
Purchase Options
You can buy ioDisplay as part of the ioProject software suite:
| ioProject as a download, including
documentation in Adobe Acrobat PDF format
| ioProject on a CD, with documentation in
PDF and complete printed documentation | |
You can buy ioDisplay only:
| ioDisplay as a download, including
documentation in Adobe Acrobat PDF format
| ioDisplay on a CD, with documentation in
PDF and printed documentation | |
For more information, see the ioDisplay data sheet in Related Documents, below. Or check out the ioDisplay demo:
ioManager, part of the ioProject software suite, is a utility application used to assign IP addresses to SNAP-LCE controllers and SNAP Ethernet-based I/O units, and to configure I/O points and I/O unit features. If you have multiple I/O units that use the same configuration, ioManager lets you configure all I/O units simultaneously. In addition, you can inspect, read from, or write to I/O units in real time.
ioManager
is included with your purchase of any SNAP Ultimate, SNAP Ethernet, or
SNAP Simple I/O brain or any SNAP-LCE controller. The software and
documentation are on the CD that came with the brain or controller.
You can also download ioManager, by itself or as part of the ioProject software suite.
OptoOPCServer is a fast, efficient OPC 2.0-compliant server for exchanging data between Ethernet-based systems running ioControl strategies and other OPC clients.
| Exchange data with PCs on an Ethernet
network running OPC clients such as Microsoft® products, third-party
packages, and custom applications you create with tools such as Visual
C++®.
| Easily build OPC databases by dragging
and dropping data from ioProject
control and configuration files. Use many kinds of data: flowcharts in
the ioControl
strategy, I/O units and points, PID loops, and all strategy variables.
| Also exchange strategy variable data
with Ethernet-based FactoryFloor systems running OptoControl
strategies. | |
In addition, for applications where multiple PCs are running the same or different copies of ioDisplay, OptoOPCServer works closely with ioDisplay to provide fast data scanning.
Purchase Options
You can buy OptoOPCServer as part of the ioProject software suite:
| ioProject as a download, including
documentation in Adobe Acrobat PDF format
| ioProject on a CD, with documentation in
PDF and complete printed documentation | |
Or you can buy OptoOPCServer only:
| OptoOPCServer as a download, including
documentation in Adobe Acrobat PDF format
| OptoOPCServer on a CD, with
documentation in PDF and complete printed documentation | |
Opto 22 FactoryFloor
is our flagship software product, a suite of integrated industrial control
software programs that help you finish your automation projects faster,
cheaper, and better than ever before.
You get all four integrated components of Opto 22's suite of PC-based software:
OptoControl™, the foundation of the Factory Floor software suite, is an intuitive, graphical flowchart-based development environment that blends analog control, digital logic, and serial and network communications seamlessly in a single tag name database. Optional scripting streamlines programming tasks such as string handling, math expressions, and conditions. See a demo
OptoDisplay™ provides full-featured HMI capabilities with advanced trending and multimedia.
OptoServer™ serves your data to OPC and DDE clients on a Microsoft® Windows® 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT® network.
OptoConnect™ provides a seamless, bidirectional interface between data systems and control systems featuring a drag-and-drop interface to Microsoft's SQL Server® and Access databases.
All this is possible because FactoryFloor is tightly coupled with Opto 22's distributed, intelligent I/O systems, offering a control solution that harnesses the power of distributed processing.
Software Developer Toolkits provide drivers, examples, and source code to help you build custom applications for Opto 22 systems. Developer toolkits are available for use with OptoControl, Mistic, Optomux, and Pamux systems and for direct connection to I/O.
Diagnostic Utilities include an assortment of software tools for testing and using your Opto 22 systems. SNAP Ethernet I/O, Mistic, Optomux, and other utilities are available for download.
Linux Software provides examples, source code, and documentation for developers connecting to Opto 22 products using a Linux operating system.
