Highly Visual Control Editor Automates the Work

The UCOS control editor automates what traditional function block and ladder logic editors require you to do manually.

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The first thing you notice is that the editor doesn't just represent the logical relationships among devices, as most function block and ladder logic editors do. It can also represent the physical relationships among devices by emulating common design drawings, such as P&IDs, mechanical flowsheets, and electrical one-lines.

The advantage is that you can quickly see both the physical layout of your process and the logical flow of your process all at once.

Generate Devices One-by-One or by the Hundreds

As you might expect with a modern, object-oriented editor, you simply drag-and-drop pre-configured device objects into the editor, then customize them with fill-in-the-blank forms. To modify the properties of a device object, just click on it.

You can also export and import device definitions in a standard format in order to simplify the process of changing large groups of existing devices.

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You can also generate large numbers of devices in a batch. Device names are generated automatically using incremental or calculated specifications you provide. Using this included tool, you can generate hundreds of complete device definitions in seconds.

To further aid readability, you can group related types of logic on a single page or spread the logic out among multiple pages.

Many Other Automation Features

The UCOS control editor also offers these features and benefits to streamline control configuration:

• Configures regulatory and sequential logic in the same editor.
• Simultaneously enforces tag naming conventions and device name uniqueness.
• Supports the ISA standard approach to naming control loops.
• Supports identical tag name extensions in similar devices while preserving tag name uniqueness from device-to-device.
• Supports tag names up to 64 characters long.
• Eliminates the need to map tag names to PLC registers and HMI objects.
• Prevents you from assigning the wrong type of tag to a device.
• Exports and imports user-defined templates among projects.
• Automatically provides a default execution order which can be modified for each logic element to ensure that logic executes as you intend.
• Allows you to define and assign I/O points to devices from within the editor.
• Uses wildcard tags to represent devices you haven't created yet, then automatically finds and reports all unresolved wildcard tags.

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