Giới Thiệu · OpenAPC
OpenAPC is an Open Source APC (Advanced Process Control) solution that is highly flexible and configurable and covers a wide range of automation, visualization, and process control tasks from home control up to industrial automation. It consists of several sub-components that are specialised for different tasks.Here the ControlRoom software package covers the visualisation and process control part of the OpenAPC package.
CNConstruct is a CAD-tool that can be used to create motion and processing data for controlling e.g. XY-tables and connected tools for material processing.
BeamConstruct is a highly specialised CAD-application for industrial laser marking purposes, it can be used to create data for 2D and 3D laser scanner systems. This integrated, stand-alone laser marking software solution for nearly all kinds of laser scanner, laser CNC and mechanical CNC applications can be used for laser welding, cutting, engraving, marking, natural branding, milling as well as for rapid prototyping / SLS / 3D printing.
BeamConstruct supports several laser scanner and CNC controllers and provides full support for industrial usage. Laser marking or milling projects created within BeamConstruct can be sent to a scanner system or a mill out of the application directly or they can be used within a custom visualisation and process control application created using the OpenAPC software package.
So material processing projects generated with this application can be integrated seamless into existing machine control, there is no need to run the CAD-interface of this application within a production environment.
Control applications created with the integrated ControlRoom editors visual interface can perform several tasks - dependent on how the application is configured and used:
- Visualisation.
- HMI / Human Machine Interface (or MMI / Man Machine Interface).
- PLC / process control.
- SCADA / supervisory control, data acquisition and processing.
- Home automation and professional automation.
- User interface design and programming without the need to write programs.
The ControlRoom software component offers some advanced features like:
- Flexible network-capability.
- Open plugin interface for adding new controls and interfaces.
- Easy connection, handshake and co-processing of different OpenAPC instances.
- Platform-independence: the same OpenAPC-project can be used on Windows, WindowsCE -- Windows XP, Linux, Mac OS X and more.
- Easy project creation via ControlRoom's visual editor.
- Separated applications for editing, debugging and a highly optimized one for running a ControlRoom project so that the final project can be executed without problems also on weak hardware platforms.
- Full support for user management, user levels and privileges.
- Support for touch screen controlled HMIs.
This package contains the full software including ControlRoom editor, debugger, execution environment, BeamConstruct, all plug-ins and additional tools.
