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Choosing the correct HMI to connect to Labview, help needed please !!!!

As part of my 3rd year collage project i have been asked to build a oee monitoring system, the system will take in sensor readings, the labview vi will run on a PC in the factory office, but i will need a HMI for the operator on the machine.

 

as it is a collage project funds are pretty low Smiley Mad i was woundering if there was any cheap hmi panels that i can connect to the client vi through the ethernet 

 

 

anybody have any reccomendations of what type of HMI to use or the best way to connect the HMI to the client Vi

 

am thinking of a hmi and using a opc server to connect to the labview hmi ????

 

any help would be greatly apprecieated, thanks

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Check out Remote Front Panels. They are easy to use and free with LabVIEW 2012 (you used to need to purchase additional licenses in earlier version of LV). Basically, you download the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine on any computer and then you can open a internet browser and interact with a VI that is running on another machine (they have to be on the same network of course).

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thanks for getting back to me, all i would need to run remote front panels is labview 2012 and a hmi, 

 

do i need a hmi pc or a standard hmi ? dont know what type of hmi to use and dont have alot of a budget ??

 

is remote front panel fast ane reliable ?? 

 

what labview software would i need to purchase the basic or full version ??

 

thanks

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dazzooo,

 

http://www.ni.com/white-paper/4867/en

 

You don't need a special HMI. All you need is another Windows computer. You could use your laptop to monitor/control a VI running on another machine. You could use a PC or even a new Windows 8 Pro tablet (which the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine supports).

 

Are you needing to use an HMI? By HMI I assume you mean an industrial computer or some sort of touch panel computer running Windows Embedded.

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Grant, 

 

as it is in a factory, they want a hmi instead of a laptop, i was thinking of one of these two hmi's :

 

http://www.audon.co.uk/hmiplc/cpb102a.html

 

http://www.audon.co.uk/winxp/cupcp80.html >>> HMI

 

any reccomendations on a  reliable, cheap touch panel computer 

 

never used Labview Run-Time Engine, i have a student version of Labview, can i buy it seperate  or will i have to buy a Labview package ????

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Level 1 HMIs (using Modbus) are quite common in the states. Although your choices may be different in the UK, off the top of my head.

 

Red Lion G3 Series (or the Cadet series)

Telemechanique Magelis Series

Parker Hannifin InteractXpress or Interact

Automation Direct C-More Series

EZ Automation EZ Series Touchpanel

Maple Systems - Various

Unitronics Vision Series

Proface GP Series

 

All of these will require you to send/recieve data using the either Modbus I/O server, or the better in my opinion Modbus function pallettes.

 

 

 

 

 

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thinking of using this industrial pc 

 

http://www.audon.co.uk/winxp/cupcp80.html 

 

 

 

i will also need a daq, i was going to have the server pc in an office in the factory so i was going to use an ethernet daq 

 

http://www.audon.co.uk/usb_multi/ue9.html -    Labjack EU9 Ethernet usb daq

 

will a ethernet daq be fast enough and has it the correct ethernet connection and can you also connect these daq to labview or am i better off buying a ni ethernet daq 

 

i am woundering will the system be fast and what labview software will i need to, so i can collect the data and hav a server vi running on the panel pc 

 

 

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"will a ethernet daq be fast enough"

 

Depends on how fast you need to go.  Command-response mode typically takes about 2ms per call and stream mode works up to 50 ksamples/second.  Section 3 of the UE9 User's Guide has details.

 

 

"has it the correct ethernet connection"

 

The UE9 has a standard 10Base-T Ethernet connection.

 

 

"can you also connect these daq to labview"

 

Yes, we support LabVIEW.  See the LabVIEW examples for the LabJack UD driver.

 

Also, the UE9 can act as a Modbus TCP server, so clients can talk to it directly.

 

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Hello everyone

 

is it possible to have connection between HMI and LabVIEW?

HMI are connected to few PLCs, there is no more port for LabVIEW or something else. i want to read HMI data on LabVIEW , because of some data analysis and monitoring.

 

thanks so much

 

 

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Hi,

 

LabVIEW has the ability to communicate with any PLC but this has to be done through an OPC usually. This is a software interface that windows uses to communicate with inustrial hardware or HMI.

 

Have a look at this:

http://www.ni.com/tutorial/7450/en/ 

 

I would be able to give you a better idea of how to do it and what to use if you let me know what HMI you are using.

 

Thanks,

 

Roberto

National Instruments AE

 

 

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