Mobility is the next step towards the deployment of standard IT solutions in the world of management and process control. By bringing down the walls of traditional information gathering and delivery, this mobility is game changing. The use of mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones is an integral part of Yokogawa's information technology infrastructure. It enables organizations to measure and share context-based information anytime, anywhere, providing real-time insight for the timely localization of incidents and the making of faster and better informed decisions on the go.

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FAST/TOOLS R10.01
Release
Tip #3
Mobile HMI Enhancements
The Mobile Background
Alarm App for Mobile devices
Mobility is the next step towards the deployment of standard IT
solutions in the world of management and process control. By
bringing down the walls of traditional information gathering and
delivery, this mobility is game changing. The use of mobile devices
such as tablets and smartphones is an integral part of Yokogawa's
information technology infrastructure. It enables organizations to
measure and share context-based information anytime, anywhere,
providing real-time insight for the timely localization of incidents and
the making of faster and better informed decisions on the go.
The mobile alarm app receives F/T alarms and provides
users the functionality to view and acknowledge alarms
from mobile devices depending on their privileges.
Delivering on the promise of giving customers access to their
information on any device, Yokogawa confirms the availability of new
touch-optimized experiences on Android and other device platforms
with new input components, alarm widgets and alarm
acknowledgement capabilities, trending, reporting, and faceplates.
FAST/TOOLS Mobile HMI
The FAS/TOOLS mobile HMI client provides secure and greater
visibility on supervisory and control of production operations.
Graphics, alarms and trends can be viewed from any location with a
HTML5 compliant browser. This saves travel cost by enabling the
suitable person from any location to securely and instantly visualize,
analyze and manage issues within his/her responsibilities and
domain expertise. FAST/TOOLS mobile HMI is a maintenance-free,
secure web-enabled solution.
Furthermore the app supports:
- alarm filtering based on several key criteria,
- online/offline operating mode
- user authentication
- current/historical alarms),
- different GUI layouts (smartphone/tablet)
Time based trending of process variables
Mobile operators can now enjoy a mobile version of the
FAST/TOOLS trending component on their HTML5
application mimics by publishing its key functions.
The properties that can be used include; legend and style,
title and footer, grid and color for line axis, plot and chart
area/border and time range.
Extension of supported mimic components
A more extensive set of components is now available for
HTML5 publishing of enhanced mobile HMI mimics. This
means they can include in addition to standard drawing
elements and value fields the following items as well: Push
buttons, Toggle button, Check box, Radio button, Slider,
Spinner, Combo box, List, Text field, Password field, Text
Area and Date/time.
The key benefits
With the major release of R10.01 the following enhancements have
been added:
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Mobile Alarm App for Smart Phones
Time based trending of process variables
Extension of supported mimic components
Improved security of communications layer (web sockets)
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Improve operational awareness
Accelerate troubleshooting on the spot
Improve faster decision making
Enhance and improve collaboration across
disciplines
Global SCADA Center