Rockwell to provide Software Toolbox technology

A Software Toolbox product story

Edited by the Processingtalk editorial team Mar 16, 2010

Software Toolbox has signed a multi-year agreement with Rockwell Automation to provide its Symbol Factory technology.

The deal is hoped to enhance the graphics-library options available to users of Factorytalk View Site Edition and Factorytalk View Machine Edition, both from Rockwell.

Rockwell plans to include Symbol Factory in the next release of its Factorytalk View products, later this year.

'Adding Symbol Factory to the Factorytalk View product line will give our users new choices to build engaging, high-quality operator screens with less engineering time,' said Tony Carrara, product manager, Factorytalk View Site Edition at Rockwell Automation.

Symbol Factory is a graphics symbol manipulation and management application that features a library of more than 5,000 industrial automation graphics.

Software Toolbox will work with Rockwell to integrate Symbol Factory into its Factorytalk View products so developers can easily access and leverage the Symbol Factory library in their HMI/SCADA applications.

'The Software Toolbox Symbol Factory application will enhance an operator's ability to customise each process screen with the option to select from 60 different categories of graphics,' said John Weber, president of Software Toolbox.

'Customers can simply select their visualisation object of choice to represent a specific HMI function,' he added.

Rockwell Automation Factorytalk View Site Edition is a supervisory HMI software application designed for enterprise solutions.

Factorytalk Machine Edition features a machine-level HMI capability that provides users with a consistent operator interface across multiple platforms, including Microsoft Windows CE, Windows XP and Vista.

These applications help enable operators to easily share and integrate data with other Factorytalk-enabled products, configure applications from anywhere on the network, make changes to a running system with remote multi-user configuration capabilities and initiate data logging for historical trending analysis.

The applications support ActiveX and OPC technologies.