PM Designer V1.

2 Introduction

Cermate Technologies Inc.

 Speaker’s background

• Chris Chiang
• Position:
– President, Neomate Technologies Inc.
– General Manager of Neomate (Shanghai) Technologies Inc.
• Background:
– Vice general manager and R&D manager, Hitech Electronics
– Director of Engineering, AITech International Corp.
– Director of Industrial Technology Reach Institute (ITRI) Electric
& Control DPT
 PM Designer V1.1 Review(1)

• A project file manages multi-HMI applications

• Provides different way to protect your applications
– Developer, project, user password, global macro password.
• A HMI application supports 10 online-languages.
• Supports Unicode, a screen displays multi-language text.
• Quick pick from pop-up text templete screen.
• Export and Import functions.
• Software UI supports Chinese and English online switching directly.
• Software UI can be arranged easily.
• Supports Horizontal and Vertical screen display.
 PM Designer V1.1 Review(2)
• Supports up to 7999 screens. Such as normal screen, pop-up
screen, drop-down screen.
• Verity objects , easy to design.
• Supports global alarm messages can overlap on existing screen.
• Supports verity Macro for different needs.
– Startup macro, main macro, event macro, time macro, open
screen macro, cycle screen macro, close screen macro, on
macro, off macro, sub macro.
• Numerical entry supports pop-up keypad and fixed keypad.
• Visible or invisible objects can be dynamically controlled.
• Touch function of objects can be activated or inactivated
dynamically.
• Updates applications and data via communication or USB stick.
 PM Designer V1.1 Review(3)
• HMI supports multi-controllers communication directly or indirectly.
• Supports transparent communication via PC and HMI. Saves wiring
between PC and PLC.

PV Serial Link PM Designer

PLC HMI PC
(Local) PLC Software

• Data Transfer Helper (DTH) helps to update data of HMI

• PM TextEditor helps multi-language texts edition.
 V1.2 New function category

• Design
• Application
▪ Inside ▪ Outside ▪Tools
• Objects
▪New ▪ Common function ▪ Individual function
• Macro
▪ New programming ▪ New command
• Communication
 New Design (1)
• Sizes texts automatically.
• Sizes screen with contents automatically when changing HMI model.
• Object List: List all objects of the current screen in detail .
• I/O List: List current I/O used.
• Text database: simply multi language text edit.
• Screen overview: display relationship of all screens
– Look-up, select, edit, document, design(Top-down Design)
• Communication overview: View the current communication, displays
current communication state (releasing soon)
• Object library supports object group.
• Graphic library supports graphic pictures group.
 New Design (2)
• Automatically switch property dialogue to transparent
mode.
• Allow to edit common text properties for multiple text
states in the object property dialogue.
• Allow to edit common properties for multiple alarm bits
in the discrete alarm block.
• Allow to edit common properties for multiple alarms
words in the analog alarm block.
• Imported graphic can be directly rotated from the
property dialogue of object.
• Symbol Factory supports library with Chinese grouped
name.
 New Internal Functions (1)

• Activates multiple overlapped buttons by one touch.

• Customized password keypad available.

VS
 New Internal Functions (2)
• Customized touch unavailability signs available.

VS

• Exporting Format of time and date selectable.

• Supports operation logging records.
• The status of communication can record in operation logs.
• Supports RS485 communication sub-links.

Disabled
PANELMASTER
ModBus ModBus ModBus
Device Device Device
HMI (Slave) (Slave) (Slave)

RS485
 New Internal Functions (3)
• Supports global data buffer accelerator speedup screen display.
• Supports touch operates in window screen and main screen.
• Digital alarm can be assigned in random bits.
• Analog alarm can be assigned in random words.
• Alarm messages can import an variable register.
– @@W100<F6.3>; F:floating data; 6: six digitals; 3:fractional
digitals
– @@$U23<U3.0>; U:unsigned binary
• Supports alarm ACK and alarm notification.
 New Internal Functions (4)

• Recipe can save in flash memory.

• Supports recipe in internal RAM.
• Supports indirect address index register
– When data in target address $I2 is 30, then
W[$I2] == W30, $U[$I2+120] == $U150, [$I2]:W100 == 30:W100
[$I2]:W[$I2+10] == 30:W40

• Supports recipe read/write confirmation.

• Supports HMI and PLC’s RTC synchronizing compulsively .
 New External Functions

• Support USB mouse

– It’s a must or when touch panel damaged.
• Virtual FTP Server

• Supports Audio output (releasing soon)

• Remote HMI operating through internet at the same time
(releasing soon)
– Online screen synchronizing, monitoring, operating.

PANELMASTER PANELMASTER
LAN/Internet
PLC HMI HMI
(Local) (Remote)
 New Tools
• PM RecipeEditor : Edits recipe.
– Supports.PRD file(USB stick, DTH upload/download, data name, data
format, range, sizing/resizing)
• Data Transfer Helper (DTH) supports upload/download, operation records
 New Objects

• Scale of mark
• Scroll bar
• Page selector
• Advanced numerical display
• Recipe selector
• Recipe table
• Sub-link table
• Pipeline
 New Object global functions

• Graphic outlook
• Touch effect
• Any text fonts

• Display touch inactive sign

• Timeout
• Operation record
 Individual object functions(1)
• Rectangle supports radius, kerfs on the corners.
• Some objects’ frame supports graphic outlook.

• Bit Button supports pulse output, bit of word and bit of double
word.
• Screen button supports alarm received notification. Slide switch
supports current data display.
• Button supports customized states.
• Keypad button supports macro.
 Individual object functions(2)
• Scroll button supports visible control.
• Step button supports customized specificities data.
• Numerical entry supports way of password display selectable.
Supports to append a null character after ASCII string entry.
• Bitmap display: supports to display a bitmap group.
• Supports animated graphic use a bitmap group, trace, and so on.

• Bar Graph supports % display and max. and min. are valuables.
• Pie Graph supports % display.
• Meter supports scale masks outside the meter.
 Individual object functions (3)
• Recipe selector supports recipe table sorted by recipe names.
• Historic trend displays time range extends from hour to day.
• Alarm display can show a single alarm, dynamic online sorting,
display alarm receiving notification. Alarm clear notification,
name and set color of 3 alarm records.
• Function buttons new functions: Alarm received notification,
copies operation records to files, clears operation records, saves
recipe to flash memory , reads recipe from flash memory, selects
files.
 New Macro edition

• Most Macro support external addresses.

• Macro supports mathematics.
• Macro supports Logic command.
 Most Macro support external addresses
• PM 1.1
$U0 = W0 // U:Internal address; W:External address(PLC)address
$U1 = W1
$U2 = $U0 + $U1
W2 = $U2
//
$U0 = W3
$U1 = W4
$U2 = MAX($U0, $U1)
W5 = $U2
//
$U0 = W6
$U1 = W7
IF $U0 > $U1
…

• PM 1.2
W2 = W0 + W1
W5 = MAX(W3 + W4)
IF W6 > W7
…
 Marco supports maths.
• PM 1.1
PM 1.2
$U0 = W0
W3 = (W0 + W1 + W2)/3
$U1 = W1
//
$U2 = W2
IF (W4 + W5) > (W6 + W7)
$U3 = $U0 + $U1
…
$U3 = $U3 + $U2
$U3 = $U3 / 3
W3 = $U3
//
$U0 = W4
$U1 = W5
$U2 = $U0 + $U1
$U3 = W6
$U4 = W7
$U5 = $U3 + $U4
IF $U2 > $U5
…
 Macro supports Logic command(1)
• PM 1.1 PM 1.2
IF $U0 > $U1 $U2.0 = $U0 > $U1
IF ($U3 > $U4) && ($U5 < $U6) && ($U7 == $U8) && ($U9 != $U10)
$U2.0 = 1
$U11 = 100
ELSE ENDIF
$U2.0 = 0 …
ENDIF
//
IF $U3 > $U4
IF $U5 < $U6
IF $U7 == $U8
IF $U9 != $U10
$U11 = 100
ENDIF
ENDIF
ENDIF
ENDIF
//
…
 Macro supports Logic command(2)
• PM 1.1 PM 1.2
IF $U0 >= $U1 IF ($U0 >= $U1) || ($U2 <= $U3) || ($U4 != $U5)
$U2.0 = 1 $U2.0 = 1
ELIF $U2 <= $U3 ELSE
$U2.0 = 1 $U2.0 = 0
ELIF $U4 != $U5 ENDIF
$U2.0 = 1 …
ELSE
$U2.0 = 0
ENDIF
…
 New Marco command
• Saves/reloads recipe in/from Flash memory: RB2ROM, ROM2RB
– Supports none battery backup model HMI.
– Supports seasonal using equipments.
• Supports FAT32 file in USB disk: OPEN_FILE, READ_FILE,
WRITE_FILE, CLOSE_FILE, DELETE_FILE, RENAME_FILE,
GET_VOL_INFO
– Supports hand saving data in USB disk.
– Helps transfer application from Win CE to PV HMI.
• Supports Logic calculation: |, &, ^
– For example: W10.2 = (W10.0 | W10.1) ^ ($U0.0 & $U0.1)
 New Communication

• 2-to-1 Transparent link (Serial port)

PANELMASTER
COM PANELMASTER COM Or
PLC HMI Other Brand’s
HMI

• Multiple HMI to one PLC (Ethernet)

COM PANELMASTER PANELMASTER PANELMASTER

PLC HMI HMI HMI

Ethernet
 Remarks
• Trend
– 3D enhanced, PLC program saving. New design
concept, mini SCADA, multi_platform(WinCE, IPC)
• Thanks for your time. We welcome your further
suggestion and comments.
• The formal version will be released on Oct.
2008.
• See you on PM 1.3
Techsupport center
屏通自動化設備貿易(
屏通自動化設備貿易(上海)
上海)有限公司
Neomate Technologies (Shanghai) Inc.
上海市長寧區天山路600弄2號28樓C座
TEL: +86(21)51758590~92 FAX: +86-21-51758589

深圳斯美特科技有限公司
Shenzhen Cermate Technologies Inc.
深圳市天安數碼城天祥大廈C座12樓
TEL: +86-755-8356-2179 FAX: +86-755-83562294

森騰科技股份有限公司
Cermate Technologies Inc.
7F-1 No 168 Lien Chen Rd. Chung-He City Taipei County Taiwan
TEL: +886-2-2243-7000 FAX: +886-2-22499933