PAC Display Professional, part of the PAC Project Professional Software Suite, is a user-friendly HMI package for building operator interface applications to communicate with the SNAP PAC System. Technicians and operators can monitor the system, respond to alarms, and interact as necessary using a graphical display. Also, see
PAC Project R10 Release Notes.
PAC Display offers rich features, including alarming, trending, security, and a built-in library of 3,000 industrial automation graphics. PAC Display uses a fast, multithreaded scanning engine.
Because of PAC Project’s single tagname database, the data elements you created when programming your PAC Control strategy, such as I/O points and variables, are automatically available for use in PAC Display. This single tagname database eliminates the need to create duplicate databases and eliminates tagname-related errors.
PAC Display Professional also includes the ability to use redundant scanners, redundant Ethernet links, redundant SNAP PAC controllers, or a segmented control network on SNAP PAC controllers. In addition to SNAP PAC controllers, PAC Display Professional can also connect to legacy ioProject controllers and Ethernet-based FactoryFloor controllers running OptoControl strategies, and it can also import projects created in OptoDisplay, a part of FactoryFloor.
NOTE: If you do not need these additional capabilities, you may find that
PAC Display Basic is all you need.
See a
comparison chart for PAC Project Basic and PAC Project Professional.
PAC Display Professional is available as a separate application or as part of the
PAC Project Professional Software Suite, which also includes software for control programming, OPC communication, and database connectivity. The price for PAC Display Professional is for one seat. If you are using multiple seats of PAC Display, we strongly recommend that you also purchase OptoOPCServer (included in PAC Project Pro). OptoOPCServer manages all communication with the controller and reduces traffic on the control network.