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Introduction
 
FactoryStudio is a complete solution that delivers powerful applications utilizing rich user interfaces, dynamic graphics, and real-time data acquisition for a variety of protocols. FactoryStudio’s comprehensive functionality also includes easy information exchange with SQL databases, and built-in user-friendly alarm, history, and business logic management capabilities.
 
FactoryStudio’s efficient architecture, created entirely without legacy code, 100% managed application, allows users to leverage all the potential of the Microsoft .NET Framework. FactoryStudio is the first product of its kind with its configuration interface entirely created on WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) and the first one to fully support Software as a Service (SaaS) deployment combined with the regular on-premises (local) installations;  allowing our users to access and to collaborate on their projects anywhere in the world with an internet browser.
 

FactoryStudio includes all the functionality found in most all-in-one solutions, such as such as real-time database access, alarms, historian, recipes, SQL queries, reports, scripting, OPC, communication drivers and graphical displays.

In addition to all the standard features commonly available, FactoryStudio provides many advanced features and exclusive capabilities to our users, including:
You can open multiple projects and many users can work on the same project, at the same time.
Web-like configuration tools with themes support (no more opening/closing multiple documents distributed in lots of menus, sub-menus and tree nodes).
Remote project engineering with support for multiple concurrent users.
Built-in dedicated WPF graphics editor.
Tracking of project modification changes and release control.
Remote project engineering and hot runtime switch.
Enhanced diagnostics, testing and runtime engine.
Complete integration with .NET languages and .NET objects.
Browser-based partial-trust dynamic displays.
Possibility to deploy the engineering tools as SaaS (Software as a Service).
Redundancy and Multi-threading on the Core.
Integrated SQL database management and process-isolation.
and more….
 
No Legacy code
 
Most packages have internal architecture and modules created one or two software technology generations in the past with most functionality added “on-demand” rather than designed from first principals and integrated with the whole product.
 
FactoryStudio was designed, architected, and developed entirely with .NET platform from ground up. This unified and modern approach resulted in an elegant and easy to use GUI that you will recognize on your first view is far and above the competition; integration between modules is seamless, and the user interface is an easy to use and friendly environment in which process and functions interact in a way that is highly reasonable and logical from both a business and a technical perspective.
 
Distributed Engineering
 
Applications developed without a core reliance on the .NET Framework are typically designed for a single user and single machine configurations. Our distributed architecture at the root of FactoryStudio allows for more reliable and flexible server-based installation. Most importantly for many deployments is that FactoryStudio facilitates e-collaboration - multiple users can run and edit projects simultaneously securely and seamlessly. Our SaaS (“cloud computing”) option can provide you with flexibility in project access and collaboration that before was unavailable.
 
On medium to large scale projects, it is very common for a designer to draw the displays, PLC programmers to supply information on the Device configuration addressing, a process specialist to add business logic, and the integrator and end users also can customize reports or components of the application. FactoryStudio allows the managed, concurrent, secure and version-controlled configuration of a project by the local engineering team or even partner companies in remote locations.
 
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) graphical engine
 
Very few applications include a fully integrated WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) graphical editor; FactoryStudio goes beyond that and besides delivering a state-of-art integrated WPF designer, its unique to present the whole product configuration also created with WPF and XAML tools, allowing users to access the full potential of currently available graphics cards and a first-class user experience for application development speed and effectiveness.
 
Track modification changes and release control
 
Some available products on the market support modification tracking on the execution or runtime operations of deployed applications, but they don’t track the modifications at the engineering configuration level. FactoryStudio includes a security and tracking system for runtime execution and a built-in track changes control that helps to manage any modifications to the project and facilitates the deployment of quality assurance processes in your projects.
 
FactoryStudio Enterprise also keeps a log of published versions in the field, automatically creating release numbers and read-only sealed copies of published projects for quality tracking purposes.
 
Integrated .NET Languages
 
Most applications require you to use C, VBA, VBScript or some proprietary script when you want to add your own routines – not FactoryStudio
 
Some applications require Visual Studio or other tools if you want to do programming outside the application framework – not FactoryStudio
 
FactoryStudio is the first application of its kind to fully support .NET languages directly within the application framework. This means that when you want to do custom application programming for your projects in FactoryStudio you can use “intellisense” and your own code using .NET languages for the .NET Framework API and for all objects within a project.
 
For more information please see the notes on the “Technology” section for reasons why .NET languages are superior to interpreted scripts like VB Script and VBA which, significantly, are no longer supported by Microsoft.
 
Integrated embedded SQL database
 
For large installations, FactoryStudio supports direct archiving on Database servers, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Sybase and others. For small to medium size applications, where you don’t want the overhead of installation and setup of an external database, FactoryStudio provides an elegant alternative. Instead of saving alarms and history on proprietary files, FactoryStudio includeds its own open sql database engine, including a .NET ADO provider, so that you can access the data from any .NET application.
 
FactoryStudio Enterprise also includes a Database Builder utility that allows you to inspect the data created as well as create your own database tables for recipes or other application data management requirements.
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