Communicate with your Alpha Marquee directly from any application that supports the use of ActiveX controls including:
Manufacturing Software such as Human Machine Interfaces (HMI)
Business Applications such as Microsoft Excel
Development Environments such as Visual Basic and Visual C++.
The Alpha Marquee ActiveX Control comes complete with everything you need to trigger messages, alarms and display real-time information. Install, configure and use the marquee driver in minutes. The Alpha Marquee ActiveX Control will communicate with any of the Alpha displays via LAN (TCP/IP) or Serially (PC COM Port).
Features
Displays real-time production statistics
Broadcast event/alarm conditions
Controls text attributes such as colour, font, flashing etc.
Directly display your existing database messages
All options can be set programmatically at run time
LAN supports via TCP/IP
Serial support via PC COM Port
Easy to install and use
Alarms
Alarms can be acknowledged individually or as a group
All alarms can be acknowledged by setting the value of a tag in your HMI
Includes Editor to configure alarm messages
The system can be configured to automatically acknowledge alarms as they return to normal, without operator intervention
Supported Environments
Rockwell RSView
GE Cimplicity
Wonderware
Intellution
Visual Basic
Visual C++
Others available