Delivering speed, flexibility and quality throughout theextended enterprise.

FactoryLinkOne product, many applications

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Technical leadershipFactoryLink continues to deliverworld-class technology andinnovations as it has for the past20 years. Services available withSiemens worldwide resourcescan ensure that your system isavailable 24/7 for operation andmigration to future technologies.

Industrial know-howOur team has accumulatedthousands of man-years ofexperience and a massive amountof industrial knowledge.We viewour software as a mechanism topackage this knowledge anddeliver it to our customers in theform of a highly functional, high-performance solution.

Investment protectionSiemens has always protectedcustomers’ application investmentsby maintaining compatibility andseamless upgrade paths. Unlikeother companies who forcecustomers to largely reworkprojects when new technologiesemerge, FactoryLink's superiorarchitecture has transcendednumerous underlying tech-nology shifts.

Global presenceWith more than 80,000FactoryLink installations aroundthe world, customers representingnearly every industry on earthtrust Siemens PLM Software’ssolutions to monitor and controltheir most important processes.

World-class servicesSiemens combines superiortechnology with a completerange of consulting, training andsupport services to ensure youcomplete your project on timeand within budget.

Why choose FactoryLink?

One product, many applications

Now a member of the Siemens family of human machine interfaces (HMI),FactoryLink provides comprehensive, state-of-the-art tools that empower usersto configure applications tailored to exactly satisfy their requirements. Spanning thespectrum of real-time HMIs, PCs, operator panels, supervisory control and dataacquisition (SCADA) and industrial information management applications, theversatility of the product is virtually unlimited. FactoryLink enables users to deliverspeed, flexibility and quality in all their HMI applications.

A tradition of innovationYear Description

1978 Ignited the market by creating the first user-configurable HMI forthe emerging PLC market

1986 First to deliver an HMI/SCADA product with open softwarearchitecture and real-time database

1990 First to establish standard relational databases as a single repositoryfor all historical information

1994 First to ship a multi-user, n-tier application with symmetric multiprocessingsupport on Windows NT

1996 First to market with a web-based client allowing secure full-controland view-only functionality over the Internet

2000 First to introduce user-configurable application objects that allowmodeling of all aspects of real-world devices

2002 First to provide a bidirectional SML interface to send and receivereal-time values

Discrete• Automotive• Electronics• Semiconductor• Packaging

Process• Utilities• Oil and gas• Chemicals

Hybrid• Food and beverage• Pharmaceutical• Metals• Mining• Printing

Infrastructure• Building automation• Transportation

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This adaptability is demonstrated by the more than80,000 systems installed worldwide in such diverseindustries as:

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Comprehensive functionality

TrendingUsers are capable of easily viewingreal-time and historical informationsimultaneously on any single chart,enabling operators to make moreintelligent operational decisions.

Graphical user interfaceFactoryLink’s graphical interface iscalled Client Builder. It provides acomprehensive, object-orientedvisualization environment withembedded Microsoft VBA to enablea completely tailored solution.

ReportsThe real-time report generatortask allows real-time values to besaved in a text file or html filefor use with a web browser.

Networking and redundancyFactoryLink easily supportsredundant applications with itsadvanced networking functionality.It is just as easy to build othernetwork topologies including stand-alone, client-server, multi-station andpeer-to-peer configurations.

RecipesA recipe task enables easy batchdownload and upload of processvariables with FactoryLink.

Math and logicA powerful server-sidemath and logic scriptinglanguage enables almostany unique requirementto be met. It can beinterpreted for easydebugging or compiledfor maximum speed.

Alarms and eventsThe alarm manager iscompletely distributed, somultiple applications canaggregate their alarms andevents, allowing a single userto view, acknowledge andrespond to geographicallydispersed applications.

Data loggingFactoryLink provideshigh-speed recordingof large data sets ina column-orientedschema for raw speedor a row-orientedschema to easily enabledynamic additions.

Relationaldatabase interfacesFactoryLink supports anyODBC database such asSQL Server.The relationaldatabase interface cancommunicate simul-taneously with multipleback-end databases fromdifferent vendors.

OPC serverUnique in the industry, OPC isthe standard communicationmechanism between aFactoryLink server and client.You can use the OPC server tobroadcast real-time data to anystandard OPC client.

Custom tasksTasks developed with theprogrammer’s access kitare completely integratedinto the FactoryLink systemand are configured thesame as FactoryLink tasksdeveloped by Siemens PLMSoftware.

OPC clientsStandards-based communicationto any OPC-enabled datasource is easy and quickusing FactoryLink’s included OPCclient.

XML interfaceReal-time bidirectional accessto the FactoryLink database isavailable to any XML-enabledexternal application.

Device interfacesA rich library of externaldevice interfaces is availablecovering hundreds of popularshop floor devices includingPLC, RTU and DCS hardware.

What’s new in FactoryLink• Communications between server and graphical clients updated tohigh-speed TCP/IP sockets, thus removing DCOM and makingdeployments easier.

• Tag properties defined on the server leverage various graphicsanimation properties for even more object re-use.

• Trend pens can now be stored as a group with all propertiesfor use by all users or unique for individual users.

• Compressed logging reduces storage requirement for steady-state logging.

• UTC logging for use with government-required archives andviewing data across time zones.

• Language export tools for creating clients for multi-countrydeployments.

• Active alarm count expansion and email alarm tool forschedule maintenance.

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Powerful and easy configuration tools

Visualization of the real-time process keeps operators informed and in control.

Configuration ExployerConfiguration Exployer is an intuitive environment that providesaccess to configure and run FactoryLink server applicationsover a network. A single user can access multiple FactoryLinkservers and concurrently configure a single FactoryLink server.This distributed access can significantly increase applicationdevelopment productivity. Configuration Exployer provides a familiarhierarchical view for navigating through FactoryLink applications.

Configuration Exployer promotes the concept of object-basedconfiguration using application objects that model real-worldobjects and include the various SCADA functions available withinthe system, such as alarming, data logging and communications.A FactoryLink application can be built simply by dragging thedesired objects into the application.

Application object technology unleashes unprecedentedlevels of productivity:

• Repetition in configuration is completely eliminated• Configuration errors are reduced• Application development times are slashed• Application maintenance is far easier

Client BuilderClient Builder is a tool for building dynamic process visualizationgraphics. Very easy to use and intuitive, Client Builder providesunique functionality and productivity for building user interfacestailored to the requirements of HMI and SCADA applications.Numerous advanced functions are standard in Client Builder, suchas complete pan and zoom, multiple monitor support, layering,decluttering on zoom, data caching and many others.

Client Builder is an ActiveX container, so any compatible third-partyActiveX control can be inserted into a Client Builder mimic.ActiveX controls are included for viewing alarms, trend charts anddatabase queries within FactoryLink. ActiveX document supportenables real-time graphics to be combined with other content ina web browser.

Client Builder incorporates Microsoft Visual Basic for applicationsso users can easily script and extend functionality using an openand standard environment. Any graphical object such as drawings,animations, symbols, mimics and user profiles are completelycustomizable by altering their properties in VBA scripts.

A strong object orientation is achieved by using graphical symbolsthat are class-based and object-oriented. Each time a symbol ismodified, all instances inherit changes to their visualization andreal-time links. Symbols and libraries are included with the productor may be user-defined and shared with other projects.

Configuring applications is easy with drag-and-drop applicationobjects, which can import data directly from Excel.

FactoryLink’s unique architecture outperforms the competition –in some cases by more than 10 times.

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FactoryLink architecture

Underlying technologies

A unique combination of event-driven and exception-based processingtechniques maximizes overall system performance.

FactoryLink’s architecture insulates you fully from rapid technological changesallowing you to adopt at your own pace.

Real-time computing systems make unique demands onprocessors, file systems, relational databases, networking andother basic computing subsystems. To meet the demands ofoverall system performance, speed and responsiveness requiresa well-crafted architecture.

At the core of FactoryLink is the open software bus. Thisarchitecture empowers our customers to take advantage of thelatest technologies and standards and most importantly deliversspeed and performance superior to that of all other designs.

High-speed data transfersTransferring large amounts of information at the highest possiblespeed is essential for real-time automation systems. The opensoftware bus provides data transfers optimized for each individualsoftware module. In a single operation, each module accessesonly the data it needs regardless of the number of modulessupplying the data.

Event-driven and exception-based processingSiemens FactoryLink provides the highest possible overall systemperformance, speed and responsiveness by combining exception-based event-driven processing techniques. Event-driven applicationsare processed only when actions are taken or new data is available,while exception-based systems process only the exceptions orchanges to the data rather than every single event. While othersmay apply one of these techniques to some areas of theirsoftware, only FactoryLink applies event and exceptionprocessing to all modules.

Insulation from underlying technologiesAnother advantage of the FactoryLink architecture is theprotection it affords you with respect to underlying technologies.The flexible FactoryLink architecture is implemented on the latesttechnologies and affords you the opportunity to leverage anyspecific technology at any time. The result is that you can move atyour own pace and leverage the newest technologies when the timeis right for you and your organization. This proven strategy hasempowered our customers to bridge over 20 years of technologicalchanges with seamless application compatibility and updates.

Lower infrastructure costsFactoryLink’s superior high-performancearchitecture does not require as many computingresources as competitive products to achieve anequivalent level of performance. This reduces youroverall hardware, software and support costs.

Grow as you goThe exception-based processing architecture allowsyou to scale applications from the very small to thevery large with minimal additional hardware costs.

Compliance assuranceDetailed audit logs, multiple security levels andother advanced features facilitate buildingapplications that are compliant with industrystandards and government regulations (21 CFRPart II, TREAD Act, etc.)

Harness the power of the networkThe multi-tier architecture design means that it canbe deployed in a wide array of flexible architecturesincluding single station,multi-station client/serverand peer-to-peer.

High availabilityBest-in-class application redundancy and onlineconfiguration capabilities are easy to set up toensure that your system is continuously upand running 24/7.

Comprehensively openOpen, published interfaces based on industrystandards mean your application can be seamlesslyintegrated into virtually any environment.

Everything you needFactoryLink includes Microsoft SQL Server2005 Express and true Microsoft VBA in the box,ensuring that you can assemble a complete solutionwithout incurring additional and costly third-partylicense expenses.

Global presence and global featuresSiemens global services ensure your successanywhere in the world. UTC logging and viewingfeatures allow operators to stay informed inreal-time and even when crossing internationaltime zones.

The FactoryLink advantage

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