| Operator Interface Hardware and Software | Since it was founded in 1980, Computer Technology Corpordtion has led in MMI technology by applying all of its resources to developing, manufacturing and marketing operator interface products and services to an international base of customers. This singular focus has enabled CTC to develop a comprehensive line of innovative machine control MMI solutions that are recognized for CTC's their ease of use, flexibility and performance. products include ScreenWare2 (the industry's very first MMI software), the ACCESS4000 operator interface family, Interact software and PowerStation industrial workstations. CTC Gives You The Best Machine Control MMI Solution CTC is recognized as offering the best MMI bundled solution on the market today. Why do OEMs and End Users who have done comparative evaluations always select CTC? The answer is that CTC's solution starts with its Interact software product that offers you a much broader range of machine control features (such as graphics and networking), and it does so more cost-effectively than any other alternative. CTC also bundles Interact software on a powerful, high performance, industrial grade workstation called the PowerStation. The PowerStation family, designed for the factory floor, is subjected to electronic and physical testing that meets or exceeds industry standards, so you are assured of superior quality and reliability to keep production lines up and running. The modular, open architecture of CTC's Interact software and PowerStation hardware also allows you to tailor an MMI solution that squarely meets your needs-plus, it is easy to add features in the future as your requirements change. This means that you can use a single solution, CIC's solution, for all of your MMI needs today... and tomorrow. Why Do You Want A Single Solution? If you are an End User, wouldn't it be easier to have a single machine control solution to use throughout your entire plant - one that would give you the ability to send data to other parts of the plant via networking? And, if you are an OEM, wouldn't it be easier to use a standard MMI platform... and then be able to customize the software and hardware options to meet the needs of your entire line of machines- or the needs of each of your customers? If you have to use different products for each of your applications, your training, support and maintenance costs can double or even triple. That's why you need a single solutionÑone with hardware and softwareÑso you can design a system to meet each application's needs. Why Is CTC The Best Solution? Whether you are an OEM or End User, machine control begins on the factory floor and the key factor for MMI is software. It's the software's features and ease of use that truly differentiate one solution from another. Display-based applications can usually be grouped into three categories. Machine Control Panel is the first, where replacement applications typically call for a high speed, cost-effective product with graphics that resemble push buttons, meters and other traditional control devices. Operator Workstations and Supervisory Control Workstations make up the other two categories. More complex applications require the Operator Workstation that delivers recipes, data logging and historical trending. Higher level Supervisory Control applications include networking, multiple workstations, and reporting. As applications grow in complexity, typical product solutions are usually more difficult to integrate, performance becomes slower, and the cost is much higher. CTC's Interact software fits the entire application range on the chart... and isn't limited by these constraints. Interact's modular design lets you build your application by selecting from a complete family of application modules ranging from 3-D panel tools, to trending and networking. INTERACT ARCHITECTURE You buy only those modules you need for your current application knowing that Interact can easily expand to meet your future needs as well. Interact is also truly unique because it gives you the best features of both Windows and DOS. You develop your application inWindows with Interact's powerful integrated development environment. For run-time, Interact uses a DOS multi-tasking kernel to keep response times fast and hardware platform costs low. Plus, Interact can run on any PC or on CTC's PowerStation line of flat-panel and CRT-based workstations. A PowerStation Workstation To Fit Any Application CTC's hardware is just as flexible as its Interact software. There is a full range of PowerStation workstations... from low cost panel replacers up to open architecture PCs. PowerStations have a variety of options so you can configure a workstation to meet your specific needs. All PowerStations run CTC's Interact software to provide a bundled solution that's optimized for speed, power and ease of use. What's unique about the PowerStation is that the same software runs on the entire family of workstations. PowerStations with Interact software give you a powerful combinationÑone that can be used for your panel replacement applications as well as your networked supervisory stations. That means that as application needs change, you can still use the same software; no new learning curves or training is needed. CTC has even designed most of the PowerStations to have the same cutout dimensions so design changes are minimized. All of these features make it easy to standardize on a single platform... CTC's PowerStation.
This singular focus has enabled CTC to develop a comprehensive line of innovative machine control MMI solutions that are recognized for CTC's their ease of use, flexibility and performance. products include ScreenWare2 (the industry's very first MMI software), the ACCESS4000 operator interface family, Interact software and PowerStation industrial workstations.
CTC Gives You The Best Machine Control MMI Solution CTC is recognized as offering the best MMI bundled solution on the market today. Why do OEMs and End Users who have done comparative evaluations always select CTC? The answer is that CTC's solution starts with its Interact software product that offers you a much broader range of machine control features (such as graphics and networking), and it does so more cost-effectively than any other alternative. CTC also bundles Interact software on a powerful, high performance, industrial grade workstation called the PowerStation. The PowerStation family, designed for the factory floor, is subjected to electronic and physical testing that meets or exceeds industry standards, so you are assured of superior quality and reliability to keep production lines up and running. The modular, open architecture of CTC's Interact software and PowerStation hardware also allows you to tailor an MMI solution that squarely meets your needs-plus, it is easy to add features in the future as your requirements change. This means that you can use a single solution, CIC's solution, for all of your MMI needs today... and tomorrow.
The answer is that CTC's solution starts with its Interact software product that offers you a much broader range of machine control features (such as graphics and networking), and it does so more cost-effectively than any other alternative. CTC also bundles Interact software on a powerful, high performance, industrial grade workstation called the PowerStation. The PowerStation family, designed for the factory floor, is subjected to electronic and physical testing that meets or exceeds industry standards, so you are assured of superior quality and reliability to keep production lines up and running.
The modular, open architecture of CTC's Interact software and PowerStation hardware also allows you to tailor an MMI solution that squarely meets your needs-plus, it is easy to add features in the future as your requirements change. This means that you can use a single solution, CIC's solution, for all of your MMI needs today... and tomorrow.
Why Do You Want A Single Solution? If you are an End User, wouldn't it be easier to have a single machine control solution to use throughout your entire plant - one that would give you the ability to send data to other parts of the plant via networking? And, if you are an OEM, wouldn't it be easier to use a standard MMI platform... and then be able to customize the software and hardware options to meet the needs of your entire line of machines- or the needs of each of your customers? If you have to use different products for each of your applications, your training, support and maintenance costs can double or even triple. That's why you need a single solutionÑone with hardware and softwareÑso you can design a system to meet each application's needs.
And, if you are an OEM, wouldn't it be easier to use a standard MMI platform... and then be able to customize the software and hardware options to meet the needs of your entire line of machines- or the needs of each of your customers?
If you have to use different products for each of your applications, your training, support and maintenance costs can double or even triple. That's why you need a single solutionÑone with hardware and softwareÑso you can design a system to meet each application's needs.
Why Is CTC The Best Solution? Whether you are an OEM or End User, machine control begins on the factory floor and the key factor for MMI is software. It's the software's features and ease of use that truly differentiate one solution from another. Display-based applications can usually be grouped into three categories. Machine Control Panel is the first, where replacement applications typically call for a high speed, cost-effective product with graphics that resemble push buttons, meters and other traditional control devices. Operator Workstations and Supervisory Control Workstations make up the other two categories. More complex applications require the Operator Workstation that delivers recipes, data logging and historical trending. Higher level Supervisory Control applications include networking, multiple workstations, and reporting. As applications grow in complexity, typical product solutions are usually more difficult to integrate, performance becomes slower, and the cost is much higher. CTC's Interact software fits the entire application range on the chart... and isn't limited by these constraints. Interact's modular design lets you build your application by selecting from a complete family of application modules ranging from 3-D panel tools, to trending and networking.
Display-based applications can usually be grouped into three categories. Machine Control Panel is the first, where replacement applications typically call for a high speed, cost-effective product with graphics that resemble push buttons, meters and other traditional control devices. Operator Workstations and Supervisory Control Workstations make up the other two categories.
More complex applications require the Operator Workstation that delivers recipes, data logging and historical trending. Higher level Supervisory Control applications include networking, multiple workstations, and reporting.
As applications grow in complexity, typical product solutions are usually more difficult to integrate, performance becomes slower, and the cost is much higher. CTC's Interact software fits the entire application range on the chart... and isn't limited by these constraints.
Interact's modular design lets you build your application by selecting from a complete family of application modules ranging from 3-D panel tools, to trending and networking.
Interact is also truly unique because it gives you the best features of both Windows and DOS. You develop your application inWindows with Interact's powerful integrated development environment. For run-time, Interact uses a DOS multi-tasking kernel to keep response times fast and hardware platform costs low.
Plus, Interact can run on any PC or on CTC's PowerStation line of flat-panel and CRT-based workstations.
A PowerStation Workstation To Fit Any Application CTC's hardware is just as flexible as its Interact software. There is a full range of PowerStation workstations... from low cost panel replacers up to open architecture PCs. PowerStations have a variety of options so you can configure a workstation to meet your specific needs. All PowerStations run CTC's Interact software to provide a bundled solution that's optimized for speed, power and ease of use. What's unique about the PowerStation is that the same software runs on the entire family of workstations. PowerStations with Interact software give you a powerful combinationÑone that can be used for your panel replacement applications as well as your networked supervisory stations. That means that as application needs change, you can still use the same software; no new learning curves or training is needed. CTC has even designed most of the PowerStations to have the same cutout dimensions so design changes are minimized. All of these features make it easy to standardize on a single platform... CTC's PowerStation.
What's unique about the PowerStation is that the same software runs on the entire family of workstations. PowerStations with Interact software give you a powerful combinationÑone that can be used for your panel replacement applications as well as your networked supervisory stations. That means that as application needs change, you can still use the same software; no new learning curves or training is needed. CTC has even designed most of the PowerStations to have the same cutout dimensions so design changes are minimized.
All of these features make it easy to standardize on a single platform...
