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Part I
BridgeVIEW Concepts
This section contains information about the BridgeVIEW environment, tag
configuration, Human Machine Interface, alarms and events, historical data
logging and extraction, servers, and advanced application topics such as
system control and security.
, contains the following chapters.
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Chapter 1,
, describes the unique BridgeVIEW approach
to Human Machine Interface (HMI) and Supervisory Control and
Data Acquisition (SCADA). It also contains system configuration,
installation instructions and basic information that explains how
to usestart using BridgeVIEW to develop industrial automation
applications.
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Chapter 2,
, describes the BridgeVIEW
environment. It explains the basic concepts behind G, the
programming language upon which BridgeVIEW is built, the
BridgeVIEW Engine Manager, system errors and events, the Tag
Monitor utility, and the Tag Browser utility. This chapter also explains
how to access online help for BridgeVIEW and provides an activity
that illustrates how to examine the front panel and block diagram of a
virtual instrument (VI).
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Chapter 3,
, explains tags, the Tag Configuration
Editor, and how you edit tags within the BridgeVIEW system. Before
you can run a BridgeVIEW application, you must specify a tag
configuration.
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Chapter 4,
, explains what a Human
Machine Interface (HMI) is and how you can monitor and control tags
from your HMI.
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Chapter 5,
, introduces the basic concepts of alarms
and events, and explains how to view, acknowledge, and configure
them within the BridgeVIEW system.