Factory talk view

About FactoryTalk View Machine Edition
FactoryTalk View Machine Edition includes three components:
• FactoryTalk View Studio
• FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Station for Windows® 2000, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP
• FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Station for the PanelView Plus and Windows CE run-time terminals

FactoryTalk View Studio

FactoryTalk View Studio is aWindows-based software program for creating machine-level monitoring and control applications in Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows XP. These applications run on the PanelView Plus CE, PanelView Plus dedicated terminals, and on the Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003 and XP platforms.
FactoryTalk View Studio contains the tools you need for creating all aspects of a human-machine interface (HMI), includingreal-time animated graphic displays, trends, and alarm reporting.

FactoryTalk View ME Station

FactoryTalk View ME Station provides the runtime environment for the applications you designed using FactoryTalk View Studio.
Related topics
System requirements
What's New in FactoryTalk View Machine Edition 5.00
Known issues
Sample projects

System requirements

Important

The followingare minimum and recommended requirements. For large or complex applications you should use computers with faster CPUs and more RAM. In any application, faster CPUs and more RAM will result in better performance.
To run FactoryTalk View Machine Edition, the platform requirements are:
|Personal Computer (PC) | |
|Operating System♦ |Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 |
| |Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4 |
| |Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 4|
| |Windows Server 2003 R2 |
|Minimum |Intel Pentium III, 930MHz, 512MB RAM |
|Recommended |Intel Pentium 4, 2GHz or faster,1GB or more RAM |

 
For the latest information about later Windows operating systems and service packs, see the Rockwell Automation Knowledgebase Answer ID 20450.
For the latest information about the software platforms supported by FactoryTalk View ME, see the Rockwell Automation Knowledgebase Answer ID 42682.
♦FactoryTalk View Studio is tested andsupported on operating systems installed from original Microsoft media only.
♦Microsoft Vista is not officially supported with CPR9. Known issues exist, and it is not recommended that CPR9 or any prior release be installed on Vista. Official support of Vista is planned in an upcoming release.

What's New in FactoryTalk View Machine Edition 5.00

FactoryTalk View Machine Edition 5.00 includes thefollowing enhancements:
• Product name changes - a number of products have been renamed to reflect Rockwell Automation's system-oriented software and Integrated Architecture. The following name changes are effective with FactoryTalk View Coordinated Product Release (CPR) 9:
|Former product name |Renamed |
|Rockwell Software|Rockwell Automation |
|RSView |FactoryTalk View |
|RSView Enterprise |FactoryTalk View |
|RSView Machine Edition |FactoryTalk View Machine Edition |
|RSView ME...