A significant evolution of HMI/SCADA platform.

Features to optimise connectivity, development, and run-time performance.

The release of Movicon.NExT™ Version 4.4, a modern human-machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) platform has been announced by Emerson. Movicon.NExT HMI/SCADA empowers users to create interoperable automation architectures for discrete and process manufacturing applications in the commercial, industrial, and municipal/utility industries. This update delivers enhancements boosting functionality, performance, and flexibility, with an emphasis on user-centric improvements to maximize development efficiency.

Communications and drivers.
Updated industrial communication protocol drivers—for OPC UA, EtherNet/IP, and others—provide support for multi-station, advanced arrays, and more. A new DNP3 driver enables Movicon.NExT HMI/SCADA to integrate seamlessly with power industry and electrical utility networks. Optimized I/O operations more efficiently aggregate read/write tags for greater throughput, and open connectivity helps users easily connect with digital assets.

Scripting and development.
Native support within Movicon.NExT for Python runtime scripting enables custom, cross-platform logic, so developers can create sophisticated strategies while building on proven work. Updated user interfaces, new graphical properties for controls, and streamlined license management (both local and network-based) enhance and simplify the overall user experience, while accelerating project development.

Data management.
New support for TimescaleDB in the historian offers improved storage efficiency and higher performance, especially with large data volumes. Other enhancements increase data precision and SQL database compatibility, while recipe and alarm management are performed through a centralized connection. Movicon.NExT is built to meet the increasing demand for data to support visualization and analytics.

Security and compliance.
A full migration to .NET 8 for core Movicon.NExT applications, and unified and encrypted password management applied across the entire platform, are just two examples of built-in security to help users defend their digital systems and achieve regulatory compliance. CFR21 compliance has now been enhanced with the addition of user group information logged alongside usernames.

An Integration-Ready HMI/SCADA platform.
Additional Movicon.NExT modules, such as Pro.Lean™ and Pro.Energy™, are also revised to v4.4, with updates such as an improved user interface and navigation, new library symbols, and the addition of grouping and overview screens.

The release of Movicon.NExT v4.4 strengthens this HMI/SCADA’s position as an open, high-performance, and integration-ready platform, while maintaining a focus on ease-of-use. Movicon.NExT is the foundation of a solid automation architecture, helping end users, systems integrators (SIs), and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) create innovative automation solutions.

Emerson Movicon.NExT v4.4 HMI/SCADA software updates core capabilities and provides new features, with connectivity, development, data management, and performance enhancements so end users, SIs, and OEMs can streamline the creation and deployment of solutions.

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Seven-inch HMIs for hazardous area.

The only 7" widescreen HMI for Zone 1 hazardous area applications, the innovative ET-208 operator interface, is now available with Movicon, the HMI visualisation software solution for complex engineering tasks. Running a Windows Embedded operating system, SERIES 200 R. STAHL HMIs offer a highly versatile solution in their device class.

Movicon CE currently represents one of the most powerful open software solutions on the market. Thanks to the XML structure of this runtime engine, Movicon-based projects are platform-independent and can be run autonomously on the HMI device, operator terminals, PDAs, smartphones or wireless systems (pocket PCs, handhelds). This means: maximum data transparency, simplified project engineering for different types of devices, and lower maintenance costs.

For project engineering tasks, the Movicon graphics management offers a vast object library that supports the import/export of bitmap images and freely scalable vector graphics. The Movicon toolbox also includes an object viewer for IP camera visualisation: video streams from the IP camera can be displayed and parameterised on the compact operator interfaces. In addition, the visualisation software includes VBA scripts, PLC logics, recipe management, data archives and a comprehensive alarm management. Movicon also offers a broad range of drivers. If required, multiple drivers can communicate simultaneously with higher-level PLC or control systems from many different manufacturers. The SERIES 200 device comes with Simatic S7-300, -400, and -1200 connector modules that allow data transfer using PROFINET, PROFIBUS, or MPI protocols.

The HMI also provides Ethernet and USB ports as well as classic serial interfaces, all explosion-protected; a version with integrated Wi-Fi interface will be available soon. Barcode scanners or RFID readers can be integrated via a reader box. The HMI's high-bright, widescreen touch display ensures excellent sunlight readability and is as easy to use as the latest generation of smartphones. To ensure fast data processing, the HMI has powerful processors, similar in speeds to mobile phone processors.

• Stahl are marketed in Ireland through Douglas Controls & Automation.