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[Closed] Software to mock-up SCADA screens

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Anything available (not Word) to be able to mock-up HMI screens with graphical pressure gauges, histograms for temp, humidity, gas PPMs etc.?

Fanks


 
Posted : 22/04/2021 2:42 pm
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Posted : 22/04/2021 2:46 pm
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glad its not just me then

I created a new post earlier a request (about 2pm) re bike frame respraying and the post is not visible on the bike forum page, but the post does show in my profile.


 
Posted : 22/04/2021 2:49 pm
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Aside from screen grabbing an actual scada interface & dumping it into PowerPoint with some suitable animation & hacking, you could try a web based training simulation package. We use them for software install and Config. I suspect it wouldn’t take much to mock up a dashboard (we do exactly this for our foglight and spotlight system monitoring software). We use a product called STT trainer from assima. You could also do this in Adobe camptivate. Prepare to spend $$


 
Posted : 22/04/2021 3:23 pm
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Make sure it comes with a steampunk skin. And a Chernobyl skin.


 
Posted : 22/04/2021 3:48 pm
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I need this because I have to submit a functional design spec' to the end-user way before the HMI screens and PLC code are complete. So rather than showing typical screen shots from Siemens TIA, I wanted to create library of mock-ups that I could quickly edit for future use.


 
Posted : 22/04/2021 3:48 pm
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Make sure it comes with a steampunk skin. And a Chernobyl skin

Superb idea!
Also: Titanic engine room & lunar lander skins.


 
Posted : 22/04/2021 4:02 pm
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Extra post count = hope of useful suggestions.

Just get shit jokes.


 
Posted : 22/04/2021 4:10 pm
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Dammit, I remember finding something like this somewhere a few years back, but it could have been in some ICS training I did. Let me check my notes.


 
Posted : 22/04/2021 4:23 pm
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You can install a demo of Ignition from Inductive Automation and design screens and whatnot in that. Or for something a bit more generic and a lot more lightweight, would draw.io do? We use this for mocking up UIs, it has a whole load of shapes and objects you can use for this kind of thing.


 
Posted : 22/04/2021 4:58 pm
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The Nextion Editor has a simulator option which might do what you want. You can feed it data by serial or by typing it in directly.

https://nextion.tech/nextion-editor/


 
Posted : 22/04/2021 5:23 pm
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LabVIEW may be a possibility, I think there maybe a community edition available now if you don't have a license. You can simulate quite a bit graphically and fairly easily


 
Posted : 22/04/2021 9:24 pm
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Thanks chaps.


 
Posted : 23/04/2021 8:41 am
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Firstly I fell your pain, having to use TIA HMI. Multi national technology company producing a horrible clunky development environment.

#1. Personally I would just take a load of snips of components and jiggle on a graphical packager
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#2. Create a mock screen in TIA, but clearly no links to anything.
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#3. Do the same in visual studio. You then either have to decide to develop in VS (initial investment but worth it in the long run) or import controls into TIA.


 
Posted : 23/04/2021 9:07 am

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