Specifications

A Closer View of the Strategy
ViewAnyWare solutions will share these attributes:
Facilitate application reuse and portability,
interoperability with other Rockwell Automation
products, and scalability from simple graphic displays
to highly sophisticated supervisory systems.
A common development environment can reduce the time
required to become familiar with a new design environment
—speeding-up development time and implementation for
the user. Using this common development environment, end
users can receive return on investment quickly and lower
their total cost of ownership. ViewAnyWare’s common
development environment is provided through RSView
Studio™, a design environment for both the machine-level
and supervisory-level products.
“RSView applications, developed for embedded or PC-based
machine-level HMI platforms, can be reused and ported to
more sophisticated supervisory-level HMI applications,
reducing our customers’ total cost of ownership,” says Joe
Bartolomeo, Rockwell Software HMI marketing manager,
Rockwell Automation, West Allis, Wisconsin. “The
ViewAnyWare strategy encompasses the next-generation
RSView Enterprise Series of integrated software products
as well as next-generation Allen-Bradley hardware products.
The RSView Enterprise Series includes a full suite of new
machine-level and distributed, supervisory-level design and
runtime software components.”
Rockwell Automation plans to deliver an unprecedented
level of interoperability among its products (for example,
ControlLogix™ processors, ProcessLogix™, and RSLinx™)
and OPC-compliant servers by taking advantage of Rockwell
interNet Applications (RNA) technologies. (RNA is Rockwell
Automation’s implementation of the Windows DNA
architecture as described below.)
Leverage the full range of Allen-Bradley hardware
platforms, including highly optimized embedded
systems, and open, Intel-based industrial computers.
With ViewAnyWare solutions, customers can leverage a
common design-time environment between open and
embedded solutions and/or between machine-level and
supervisory-level solutions, covering the entire operator
interface continuum from portable and simple graphic display
products through distributed computing environments.
Leveraging the full range of Allen-Bradley hardware
platforms means that open system platforms, such as the
Allen-Bradley 6182 series industrial computers, will take full
advantage of the benefits and scalability of the RSView
Enterprise Series.
Michael Offik, industrial computer business marketing
manager, Rockwell Automation, Duluth, Georgia, says:
“We’re working closely with the electronic operator interface
group and Rockwell Software to ensure that our hardware
and software work together to provide a common user
PanelView Plus
RAC 6182
RAC 6000
Industrial Computer
The VIEW
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