Product Overview
The Advanced Tags plug-in for KEPServerEX offers a convenient, cost effective, and straightforward way to generate new data and aggregate existing data into information suitable for high-level archive and analysis. Using Advanced Tags, users can measure the duration of operations, totalize events, perform averages over a group of sensors, set trigger conditions for data acquisition, and combine machine conditions to generate an overall machine state. These capabilities are extremely valuable for future analytics.
Using Tag Linking, Logic, and Math Functions for Operations Analysis
Proper operations analysis requires that industrial control applications deliver an array of data. This data often needs some form of calculation to identify deficiencies and help determine whether operations are functioning properly. The Advanced Tags plug-in for KEPServerEX will help improve decision-making and efficiency in your industrial control applications. Get started now with easy-to-use, pre-defined tags.
PRE-DEFINED LINKING, LOGIC AND MATH TAGS
Average Tag - Calculates the average value of a tag over a defined time.
Complex Tag - Groups multiple tags of varying data types as a single complex item or structure.
Link Tag - Links data between different protocols.
Maximum Tag - Reads and persists a tag's maximum value over a defined time.
Minimum Tag - Reads and persists a tag's minimum value over a defined time.
Oracle Cumulative Tag - Determines the difference between the current and previous values. This tag is defined by Oracle and is available to all OPC Client applications.
Derived Tag - Uses basic scripting and standard Logic and Math functions to provide calculations exceeding those of pre-defined tags. They have the ability to control the frequency and conditions with which an expression will be evaluated, and also enable users to incorporate more complex equations into their applications. To aid implementation, an expression validation tool is included along with expression examples (located in the Advanced Tags manual).
Features
BENEFITS OF ADVANCED TAGS
Cost
Use with existing micro, nano, and less capable PLCs. There is no need to purchase expensive PLCs or PACS.
Time
Consistent methodology across all hardware and software platforms. A single application configures Linking, Logic and Math functions.
Performance
Reduce network traffic and improve bandwidth by reducing communications between the server and multiple client applications.
Reliability
Ensure data consistency across all clients with a single data access point.
Knowledge
No special PLC or HMI programming skills are required.
Data Sources
Collect and manipulate data from a variety of applications and devices.
Project Modification
Easily modify and configure new and existing Linking, Logic and Math functions with a straightforward user interface.
For an inexpensive operational analysis tool, consider using the Advanced Tags plug-in for KEPServerEX along with the DataLogger plug-in and any ODBC-supported database. KEPServerEX also supports DDE connectivity, thus allowing the powers of Microsoft Excel and Advanced Tags to combine.
A plug-in is an advanced option that extends the capabilities of the KEPServerEX communications platform. It increases the usefulness of data by transforming it beyond raw data in a device register.
Plug-ins may be licensed individually or in suites. Additional plug-ins can be licensed on demand as connectivity needs evolve.