Keywords: HMI, HMIBuilder, MMI, SCADA, MES, OPC, UA, PLC, DCS, SLC, RTU, Industrial Automation, Manufacturing Automation

Thureus HMIBuilder shareware supports industrial OPC/DDE servers and visualizes the real-time data on the graphic canvas. The canvas can be designed easily by field engineers with no programming skill. All that required is fill-in-the-blank ability. The real-time data can be from many industrial devices such as PLC, DCS. It also supports industrial networks such as Modbus TCP, FieldBus, Ethernet/IP, DNP 3.0 etc as long as the corresponding OPC server is available. Thureus HMIBuilder is supplied as many versions and the shareware is among them, expecting many customers can join the OPC technology and enjoy the benefit of adapting powerful standard technology to various of industrial fields. And the shareware version can be upgraded easily to more powerful versions when project grows and needs more extended features such as scripts, tag database and alarms/events handling as well as data archiving function. Wizards of creating tag databases just one clicks or importing/exporting database from/to external file are among the extended features. Connecting external notification SMS devices and reporting Excel periodically, and alarm summary & filtering are also the other features. All the products use the standard OPC technology as the internal architecture, maximizing the modular expansions as much as possible. It also can be connected to OPC UA enterprise level HMI solutions with modern technology . It also supports HTML5 contents supporting mobile devices such as ios and android mobile devices as the demo page shows. What makes Thureus more extensible is that it can be OPC DA,AE and HDA servers as well, which makes it possible to bridge from OPC server to OPC/DDE servers or other commercial HMIs such as InTouch, iFix,etc. You could build up real powerful distributed solutions without any difficulties. What makes this product more unique is that customers with programming skills can add their own add-in modules and make them work together as true integrated product.