Movicon PowerHMI^© is easy-to-use and designed to give you a very intuitive and rapid environment  for you to build  any visualization and graphic interface application for PCs, Touch Panels, Embedded devices or Mobile devices.

•  Project Explorer Window
Through the Project Explorer Windows you can explore, insert, edit and modify any of the project's resources. The Task Panel, at the bottom of the screen, allows you to set resource related commands with simple right mouse clicks.  Filters, ordering and many other programming functions have been left at your disposal.

•  Properties Window
The Properties Window allows you to configure the project with anything you may need such as resources and objects.
Powerful, simple and easy-to-use this window comes with features ready and waiting at your fingertips.

•  Smart Real Time Tag Database
The Realtime Database allows you to define  Tags that manage information within the project.  Any tag can be dinamically linked to the PLC Address through the specified I/O driver, or via OPC. PowerHMI supports direct tag importing from the PLC database saving you time in not having to declare tags twice. 
Furthermore, PowerHMI supports Structure Variables, System Variables, Retentive Tags, Scaling, Tracing, Shared memory, and much more...

•  Symbols Library and Object Toolbox
A powerful graphic vectorial editor is at your disposal to realize any kind of static or animated drawing. You can create your own symbols and add it the libraries.
There are countless number of smart, attractive and ready-to-use  symbols, which allow you  to create graphics and animated screens with great impact. Buttons, Sliders, Switches, Gauges and a lot of other pre-configured graphic objects have been provided to help you drastically  reduce  time in  developing.

•  Powerful Alarms Manager and Historical Log
The Alarms can be managed as objects and can be displayed in any screen as summaries, banners or in different styles. The manager is fully compliant with ISA 2C rules but can be configured freely in its own properties. 
All events and messages are recorded on historical files in text  and XML format, for a configurable period of time. The  Historical Log Window, just like the  Alarm Window, is available as an object to show historical data.

•  Data Loggers, Trends, Recipes
In addition to the standard HMI features, PowerHMI also provides  powerful and flexible DataLogger/Recipes resources.
This enables you  trace your Tags and record them on XML files, so that they can be made  available for analysing through  data tables, grids or trends.  The Recipes are managed as objects  and allow archives based on XML files and graphic interfaces to be automatically created  on screens. 
Trends objects are fully customisable to  plot samples on screens and record values on .CSV files.

•  Create logic functions using the scripts
PowerHMI offers simple script codes using an Instruction List as a language for managing logics, formulas and calculations.
The script code is like a PLC, very simple and fast.  Apart from being used for calculations, it can also be used for combining tags and variables and controlling remote I/O, for instance, just like PLC . It can be used to change screens, activate recipes, manage alarms and create complete HMI application interaction.

•  Use direct I/O drivers to exchange data with your PLC
PowerHMI includes a complete I/O driver library to communicate directly with your PLC,  network or fieldbus.
Siemens, Rockwell, Omron, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Schneider, and more have been integrated in PowerHMI to allow you to start communicating  immediately  without you ever needing  any OPC Server.  Neverthelss, the OPC Client technology has been provided and is always on hand if you wish to use it for connecting to OPC Servers.
Direct drivers allow the use of the powerful and automatic Tag Iimport  feature (from PLC), to save you time in defining Tags in your HMI project.

Key features:

• Tags Database open and event-driven. Complete traceability and accuracy of information. Scaling values, integrated events and commands during  management on Tags, Access Levels, Retentivity, Scaling. Tags as “Structure” type. Direct import from PLC database. Direct link to the PLC’s addresses.
  
• Graphics and Objects library with “captivating” looks and completely customizable. Simple and powerful commands and graphic animation functions. Symbols with Power Templates technology. Graphic symbols totally customizable.
  
• Screens based on vectorial graphics SVG (Scalable Vectorial Graphics) with powerful graphic functions. Complete customization of screen with multi-monitor support. Supports WMF, EMF, BMP, GIF and JPG graphics. Graphics self-adaptable to screen resolution, which also renders effectively to bitmap images. 
  
• Vectorial graphics editing function, with powerful design and layout tools. Objects with effective support of concept of "hereditariety".
  
• Menu and Keys Editor (accelerators) with objects. Completely integrated Touch-screen management functions.
  
• Alarms Management complete and in compliance with ISA standards. Alarms completely customizable and with up to a millisecond precision. Management of occurrence time-stamp, thresholds on variables, Alarms Power Templates management. External Help also on HTML.
  
• Historical Log Management with open archives based on XML database. Allowed analysis of alarms and filters.
  
• Multiple-Language Management with runtime language change. Strings management with dynamic switch both in programming and in runtime mode. Unicode Support for any type of language (Asian, Arabic, etc.).
  
• XML Historic Management on Data Loggers with objects management. Powerful, safe automatic management of XML or TXT files.
  
• Dynamic and Historic vectorial Trends with powerful sampling, display and analysis functions. Historic logs based on Data Logger with period analysis, zoom, averages, logarithmic scales and open to all kinds of customization. Sampling also with output on .CSV files (e.g. Excel).
  
• Automatic Recipe Management based on XML or TXT files. The recipes are auto-configurable and automatically filed on DB with a few mouse clicks with the possibility of user interface (customizable).
  
• Time Schedulers integrated and with related graphic’s objects.
  
• Unmatched security management. Users and passwords with access to commands based on 1024 levels and/or 16 areas. Automatic control function of accessing the operating system. Users Password can be shared with the operating system domain. Editing of Users also during runtime.
  
• Powerful Networking Management. Supports TCP-IP protocol. Notification of statuses managed by events and with optimized network management. Architecture completely distributable and multi-server, with securities that can be set directly in the project properties. 
  
• Extremely efficient connectivity by means of the I/O drivers included in the system. Integrated OPC DA technology as Client.
  
• VBA Language (not VB Script!): max. 2 scripts VBA to manage sophisticated logics and control within your HMI system.
  
• Scripts Integrated PLC type language in Instructions List (IL similar to Simatic Step5-Step7). Thanks to Windows CE real-time, the PLC language makes it possible to realize SoftPLC logics within HMI. System variables to interact with the system through logics (change screens, date, time, recipe activation, communication, etc.)
  
• Powerful local and remote debugger. Analysis, forcing of variables, project statistics, break-point and step-to-step execution of logics and other powerful functions for project test runs and documentation. Debugger works also on remote devices.
  
• Great freedom of integration of third party applications, as .EXE as well as DLL. Possibility of SDK for realization of customized drivers.