Ifix 6.0 How To Manage One

With iFIX Productivity Tools, you can take advantage of a range of options that extend those outcomes even farther.

The menu includes recognizable functions like Back, Forward, Home, and Favorites as the standard though it is completely user configurable.

Users can navigate to any picture or iFIX configuration tooldatabase manager, workspace, or mission controlas long as they have access.

This feature makes iFIX more user-friendly and easier to learn and operate for simpler, faster, and more efficient day-to-day operations.

Operators can quickly and easily drill down into a specific site or area of the system to interact with individual devices or monitor smaller areas in detail.

Productivity Tools screen interactions provide a more intuitive operator interface.

These enhancements make operators more effective by avoiding information overload and enabling them to manage the information on screen, while quickly and easily having the ability to access detailed information.

Open multiple pictures, then automatically size and position them to fill a single monitor using standard stacking options: tile, cascade, vertical stack, or horizontal stack.

At workstations with multiple screens, operators can send pictures from one to screen to another.

Options are available to send left, right, up, or down, depending on how you want to arrange screens.

Ifix 6.0 How To Manage One

It is designed so that operators who have been shown how to manage one type of device will know how to manage all devices.

All HMISCADA operations, such as issuing a control, attaching an equipment note, or disabling an alarm, are achieved using operator dialogs.

Each type of field device has an operator dialog specific to its operational needs.

Operator dialogs require no programming and are easily configured to meet all operational requirements.

The intuitive and versatile interface enables users to record, edit, and update notes.

Saving a note automatically documents and logs the revision in the notes history with time, date, and user stamped.

The note editor is secure-by-design and does not expose the SCADA computers file system to tampering.

A summary list provides a record of all notes in the system with quick access to any note.

A multitude of alarm notification and management functionality help increase operator awareness, reduce alarm flooding, decrease response time, and improve system reliability.

This process of creating a replicable template takes only seconds and can be applied from small devices up to larger plants such as pump stations, wellheads, tanks, or process lines.

Operators can also add their observations to specific events or even their own text messages.

With advanced filtering capabilities and quick filtering on location and device, it is easy to access historical events from any period.

The events list helps with auditing operator actions for security and accountability.

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