From PLC tags to the operator screen in one package

What is inside

Real screens from the real product

An editor engineers can find their way around

Project tree on the left, the screen in the middle, the inspector below and objects on the right. The project is validated as you work, and each error takes you straight to its source.

• Undo and redo for every change
• Animations, events and properties in one inspector
• A project is a folder of files, ready for git

TIA Portal tags without an Excel export

Point Scadora at a TIA Portal project folder. It reads the PLC, tag tables and data blocks, then creates an S7 connection with real addresses.

• Arrays, UDTs, S7 strings and time types
• Re-import updates tags by name
• Anything it cannot import is listed

An operator station in a window or a browser

The same project opens in the ScadaHmi program and in a browser on a PC, tablet or phone. The browser option needs no installation on client machines.

• Equipment pop-up windows
• Sign-in, roles and alarm sound
• A dedicated mobile view

Alarms with rules, not a stream of messages

Limits as numbers or tags, deadband, on and off delays, four priorities, acknowledgement, shelving and a journal.

• Conditions on a tag or a status-word bit
• Filtering by plant area
• SQLite journal, kept 365 days by default

History and trends for finding out what happened

Recording by deadband and time. Trend groups, multiple axes, pen limits, period selection and analysis tools.

• Pens from history and live values
• Axes in engineering units or percent
• Min, max, mean and deviation

// serverscripts/Main.js — runs on the server
var starts = 0;

function onPumpStart() {
  starts++;
  Tags("Pump1.Starts").Write(starts);
  if (Tags("Tank1.Level").Value > 9)
    Tags("Pump1.Start").Write(false);
  Db.Execute("Journal",
    "INSERT INTO Events(Time, Text) VALUES(?, ?)",
    [Server.Now, "Pump start"]);
}

If you know WinCC or Citect

Familiar concepts, less setup

System functions are named as in WinCC: ActivateScreen, SetBit, IncreaseValue. Genies with %Tag% substitutions work as in Citect. Users and roles are independent of a Windows domain, and the server starts without certificates to configure.

Scadora is a young product under active development, and traffic between the server and clients is not encrypted at this time. Use it on an isolated plant network and test it on a bench before commissioning.