Enhancing operator effectiveness with Symbol Factory

1. Enhancing Operator
Effectiveness with Symbol
Factory
John Weber, president
Software Toolbox

2. Agenda
• Why do symbols matter?
• What is Symbol Factory?
• Demonstrations
• Choosing the Right Tool
• Licensing, Pricing, and Purchasing Symbol
Factory
• Other products from Software Toolbox
• Q&A

3. Why Symbols?
• What do your operators require to be
effective?
Data Only with
maybe simple
line diagrams?

4. Why Symbols?
• What do your operators require to be
effective?
Engaging process
equipment
oriented displays
with data?

5. Why Symbols?
• Is standardization
important for your
training, operations, and
safety requirements?
• Are you an integrator
making displays for many
clients?
• Is re-use important for
engineering efficiency?

6. What is Symbol Factory?
• The common name for
a family of 3 products
• Library of over 4,000
professionally created
symbols
• Optimized for rapid on-
screen rendering and
conservative memory
usage
• Flexible usage options

7. Symbol Factory Classic
• Library Application
• Select, preview,
recolor, resize
symbols
• Copy/Paste
• Export
• Import
• Symbols work on
any platform

8. Symbol Factory ActiveX
& Symbol Factory .NET
• Uses same
vector images
as Symbol
Factory Classic
• Live
component for
richer
animation
choices
• One
component,
place and pick
symbol through
property pages

9. Symbol Factory ActiveX
& Symbol Factory .NET
• Change
appearance
through
property
pages
• Or set
properties at
runtime

10. Symbol Factory ActiveX
& Symbol Factory .NET
• Change
appearance @
runtime based
on process
values
• Animation
Support
– Fill color
– Blink speed
– Blink color
• Animate based
on analog or
digital values

11. Symbol Factory Demonstration

12. Choosing the Right Tool
Features Symbol Factory Symbol Factory Symbol Factory
Classic ActiveX .NET
4000+ Symbols   
Resize, flip, recolor of symbols   
Export to WMF, VML, SVG formats 
Export to BMP, PNG raster formats 
Import user created symbols  Via SF Classic w/Vendor support
Windows Desktop & Server OS   
Supported
Windows Embedded Support   
Windows CE Supported 
Color change, visibility & blink Using Indusoft Using AnalogValue, Using AnalogValue,
animations based on live process data Symbol Objects DiscreteValue Props DiscreteValue Props
# of bands of animation color change Using Indusoft 5 50
Symbol Objects
Use with Visual Studio.NET/VB   
WinForms Applications
Use with Visual Studio WebForms 

13. Choosing the Right Tool
Deploying to Indusoft CEView, Embedded View, and/or
Indusoft Web Studio?
• Copy/Paste
• Symbols Into WebStudio
Designer
• Animate as Indusoft
Symbols

14. Choosing the Right Tool
Deploying to Indusoft Thin Clients on Windows CE only?
• Copy/Paste or import
Symbols Into Web Studio
Designer
• Animate as Indusoft
Symbols

15. Choosing the Right Tool
Deploying to Indusoft Thin Clients running regular Windows?
• Link Indusoft Tag data to Symbols to
change appearance automatically
based on process state
• Up to 5 bands of state change!
• Link Indusoft Tag data to Symbols to
change appearance automatically
based on process state
• Up to 50 bands of state change!

16. Choosing the Right Tool
• Deploying to EmbeddedView and Indusoft Web
Studio?
• Link Indusoft Tag data to Symbols to
• Link Indusoft Tag data to Symbols to
change appearance automatically based
change appearance automatically based
on process state
on process state
• Up to 50 bands of state change!
• Up to 5 bands of state change!
• Latest .NET technology

17. Choosing the Right Tool
• Deploying to Indusoft Web Studio only?
• Link Indusoft Tag data to Symbols to
change appearance automatically
based on process state
• Up to 5 bands of state change!
• Link Indusoft Tag data to Symbols to
change appearance automatically
based on process state
• Up to 50 bands of state change!

18. Licensing & Pricing
• Licenses needed for each developer workstation
• Licenses are not restricted to be used only with Indusoft
applications
• No licenses needed for runtime deployments – aka “runtime free”
– As an SI, no licenses needed for deploying multiple client projects
– Just need a license for each developer workstation
– If your end user has a development workstation on site
• Using SF Classic: he’ll need a license if he wants to add more symbols only
• Using SF ActiveX or SF.NET: he’ll need a license if he wants to access our
property pages at design time and made changes.
• Developer workstation licenses
– Symbol Factory Classic - $500
– Symbol Factory ActiveX - $795
– Symbol Factory .NET - $795
• Bundles & volume developer options possible

19. Purchasing Symbol Factory
• Go to www.indusoft.com
• Click Products
• Click 3rd Party Store
• Email info@indusoft.com for any special requirements

20. Symbol Factory FREE TRIALS

21. Other Offerings
TOP Server
• TOP Server OPC
Server
– 100’s of drivers
– Single interface
– OPC Certified
• Learn more on
February 13, 2013 at
an Indusoft Webinar
• Or Visit
www.toolboxopc.com
for details & free trial

22. Other Offerings
OmniServer
OmniServer Brings It All Together
Bar Code
Linear Scales
Scanners Message
i.e. Mitutoyo, Measuring Barcode Printers Gas analyzers
i.e. Intermec, Displays &
Digimatic Systems
Symbol, Z-Tron Scoreboards
Weigh Scales Mass Combustion Gas Laser Marking
Spectrometers Analyzers Chromatographs Systems

23. FactoryKPIs
• KPIServer collects real time data from any OPC data source including Indusoft Web Studio
• Mobile devices get data from the KPIServer
• VPN/Firewall/Cloud friendly
• Click through to any web page for details behind the metrics including Indusoft Web Studio
pages
• Email metric values from the mobile device with one tap
• Receive push notifications when metrics exceed your configured limits
• Free trial available now on the iTunes AppStore – search “FactoryKPIs”

24. Q&A
• Q&A Time
• For questions afterwards please
email
– John Weber –
john.weber@softwaretoolbox.com
• For product support
– support@softwaretoolbox.com
– 1-888-665-3678 (US/Canada Toll
Free)
– +1 704 849 2773 (Global)