> I looked at your HMI (Red Lion) about a year and half ago
> and you lacked one very important feature. Your HMI cannot
> (could not at the time) accept two or more channels of data
> simultaneously on one screen. In my particular case I was
> looking for data coming in from Modbus and DH+. The only
> other HMI that could do it was CTC.
Our HMI
can display information from two sources at once. In fact, it can display information from every device to which it is connected, and has been able to do so since launch. This could mean showing data from several dozen devices on the same page. Now, we can't do DH+, but that's down to Allen-Bradley's refusal to license it to us!!!
> Web server in your HMI was also not available at that time.
I respecfully disagree. The G3's have had the web server in them since they were launched, even back in the days when we only had the G303 monochrome model.
> Your HMI needs to have following features for me to use it:
OK.
> 1. Accept more than one channel of data
> simultaneously on to the same screen
The G3 can do this, and always could.
> 2. Web server
The G3 provides this, and always has.
> 3. Large selection of drivers
The G3 has this -- DH+ excepted!
> 4. Very powerful scripting capability, such as
> QuickPanel View which has a full blown VB script
> with extensive libraries as well as their own
> "view script".
The G3 has a C interpreter, and allowing multiple (possible reentrant) functions with parameter passing and return values. Now, it's probably a matter of taste whether it's as powerful as VB script, but people have certainly used it to implement applications large enough to scare our support engineers!
If you'd like to look again at our HMIs, pls let me know and I've have someone from our European office contact you. I am afraid our sales channels in Eastern Europe are not (yet!) what they could be, so this probably explains why we did such a bad job of explaining the G3's features to you.