Features | FabyaVision SCADA platform

Page editor: drag-and-drop placement, layers, pop-up windows, favorite pages; the screen template wizard builds the top and bottom bars of all pages in five steps
Inspector with Properties, Animations, Events and Texts tabs
Templates and faceplates: a group of objects is saved as a template; one faceplate is drawn per structure (UDT), its objects bind to members without a prefix and ready templates place them
Table editors: every table exports to Excel and imports back (Excel does not need to be installed); rows are duplicated by dragging down as in Excel, with names and addresses advancing in order
Check project (F7): inconsistent connections, tag addresses and cross-table references are listed
Revision log and automatic backups
Interface themes: Light, Dark, Ocean, Sand, Forest, Midnight Blue, Graphite, High Contrast
Panel design wizard: enclosure, door devices, rails, devices and an IEC TR 60890 heat calculation in eight steps; at the end a 3D scene, a 2D view and a bill of materials
Studio does not connect to a PLC; load the project into Live to see live values

The syrup preparation screen in the editor, with the selected tank's properties and tag bindings.

The project check reports that connections, tag addresses and table references are consistent.

Studio with the same project screen in eight themes. Light, Ocean, Sand and Forest use the island layout; Dark, Midnight Blue, Graphite and High Contrast use the control-room layout.

Object library

800+ 2D object types in groups; 730+ of them are equipment and process drawings such as pumps, valves, tanks, conveyors, ovens, panels and machine tools. Drawings are vectors and stay sharp at any zoom.

Where:StudioLive

Appearance settings such as liquid colour, level and agitator speed are set per object
The 2D style, Realistic or Classic, is chosen in the Live settings
Panel components are drawn at their real size (1 mm = 1 pixel in 2D) and snap onto a DIN rail, mounting plate, door or MCC section in the Studio editor, in 2D and 3D
When an enclosure, plate or rail is moved, the devices on it move with it; the open state of a door binds to a tag, and in 3D a device on the door swings with it
The Siemens and ABB subgroups of the panel components are drawn to resemble these companies’ products; they carry no logos, brand lettering or order numbers. Siemens and ABB are trademarks of their respective owners; FabyaVision is not affiliated with these companies

Pump, valve, compressor and blower types as 2D objects.

Objects of the Siemens subgroup in 2D next to an open panel fitted with realistic 3D models of the same subgroup: an S7-1500 rack, ET 200SP, SINAMICS drives, SIRIUS and SENTRON devices.

Plastics and rubber objects in 2D next to a production scene built from the same group's realistic 3D models, all running.

A few examples from the groups

Pipes and valves

Elbow
Flanged pipe
Expansion joint
Ball valve
Butterfly valve
Pneumatic valve
Safety valve

Pumps, motors and fans

Gear pump
Submersible pump
Peristaltic pump
Compressor
Roots blower
Servo motor
Radial fan

Tanks and silos

Vertical tank
Silo
IBC
Cryogenic tank
Reactor

Mixing and milling

Ribbon mixer
Ball mill
Extruder
Banbury

Heating, cooling and HVAC

Heat exchanger
Steam boiler
Tunnel oven
Cooling tower
Duct
Grille
Diffuser

Conveying and handling

Belt conveyor
Bucket elevator
Screw conveyor
Overhead crane

Robots, packaging and logistics

6-axis robot
SCARA
Stretch wrapper
AGV / AMR
Bottle sorter
Cartoning machine
Automated warehouse (AS/RS)
Cross-belt sorter
Forklift
Ship-to-shore container crane

Instruments and sensors

Coriolis flow meter
Radar level
Load cell
Pressure gauge
Pressure transmitter
Orifice plate
Venturi
V-Cone

Electrical and power

Transformer
UPS
Frequency drive
Generator
MCC panel
Solar panel
Surge arrester
Recloser
DC power supply

Water, treatment and safety

Reverse osmosis
UV
Filter press
Light curtain
Smoke detector

Lab and buildings

Beaker
Microscope
Precision balance
Factory building
Chimney

Wire and cable

Cable extruder
Extruder screw
Caterpillar haul-off
Cooling trough
Cable winder
Cable drum
Copper wire coil

Metalworking

Press brake
Laser cutter
Turret punch
Guillotine shear
CNC lathe
Machining center
Wire EDM
CMM

Surface treatment and painting

Plating line
Powder coating booth
Paint booth
Abrasive blasting
Parts washer
Ultrasonic tank
Phosphating tunnel

Panel components

Modular CPU
I/O module
DIN rail
Miniature circuit breaker
Contactor
Frequency inverter
Terminal blocks
Enclosure cooling unit
Multi-section MCC panel
Control desk
Push-button enclosure
22 mm push button
Panel meter

Plastics and rubber

Injection molding machine
Blow molding machine
Thermoformer
Calender
Batch-off line
Strainer extruder
Curing press
Rotational molding

Food processing

CIP unit
Pasteurization unit
UHT unit
Homogenizer
Chocolate tempering
Spiral freezer
Retort
Aseptic filler
X-ray inspection

Panel components · Siemens and ABB

S7-1500 CPU
ET 200SP
SINAMICS G120
SIRIUS contactor
SENTRON molded case breaker
SITOP power supply
AC500 CPU
ACS580 drive
Tmax XT
Emax 2

State model

520+ objects have a running and fault state: stopped is grey, running is green and moving, a fault flashes red and yellow. All four colours can be changed.

Basic shapes, controls and views have no state model

The same equipment running (green), stopped (grey) and faulted (red).

3D scenes

740+ 3D object types and a scene editor that works in metres. 730+ of the types also have a detailed Realistic model.

Where:StudioLive

Day, Evening, Night and Studio lighting; shadows
In Live: a navigation cube and an automatic tour camera; render quality High or Fast
Free navigation: the camera also looks from below and the mouse wheel moves through walls and floors; in Studio you walk with W A S D and Q / E (right mouse button or Navigation mode, G)
2D objects cannot be placed on a 3D page

Multi-storey mixing building: silos, filters, weighing floor and internal mixer.

The same seven objects with the Standard model on top and the Realistic model below.

Standard and Realistic models

The Standard model is plain; the Realistic model has flanges, bolts, feet, nameplates and separate cast, paint and steel materials. The model is chosen per object, or every object on a page is converted in one step.

The 3D plant scene in the editor, with the 3D object library on the right.

Scene editor

The ground is in metres; objects are moved, rotated, raised and scaled. Alignment guides, collision checks, multi-select, floors (platform, columns, railings) and saved views are included.

The Professional mode window for converting the pasteurisation screen to 3D.

Convert page to 3D

A 2D page becomes a new 3D page. The 2D page stays unchanged, and the operation undoes in a single step.

Conversion modes

Professional mode (default)

Treats the page as a process diagram. Places equipment at real size, turns pipes into 3D pipe, elbow and tee parts, puts indicators on boards in front of their equipment, and adds ground, fence, lighting and ready-made views.

1:1 mode

Every object stays where it is on the 2D page, laid out on the ground plan.

Tag bindings and events are carried over; anything that cannot be carried is listed. The conversion is one-way and sizes are approximate; floors, heights and layers are not carried over, and the result is refined in the 3D editor. 2D interface components such as recipe and report components, menu and tool bars have no 3D counterpart and are skipped or become placeholder boxes.

Operator controls and views

Controls bind to tags; objects, pages and menus can be restricted by permission.

Where:StudioLive

20 controls

I/O field
Symbolic I/O field
Status indicator
Check box
Button
Switch
Bar display
Gauge
Slider
Clock / date
List box
Option buttons
Analog clock
HTML browser
Round button
Rhombus button
PDF viewer
Computer info
Increase / decrease
Selector switch

15 views

Trend view
Alarm view
Recipe view
Report view
Event view
IP camera
Menu bar
Toolbar
Page window
PLC connection status
User view
Status info
Navigation bar
Command buttons
Alarm bar

On-screen keyboard: Turkish Q layout, a numeric keypad, an F1–F12 row and keyboard themes, in the local Live window only; the page slides up if a field would sit behind the keyboard
The PDF viewer opens files from a folder defined in the project
Computer info shows CPU, RAM and disk; temperature cannot be read on most industrial PCs

I/O fields, gauges, buttons, switches and alarm, trend, recipe and report views.

Operator elements such as the round button, increment / decrement, selector switch and PDF viewer.

The on-screen keyboard open while typing in the recipe search, with the F1–F12 keys on the top row.

Dynamics and events

Colour, text, visibility, position, size, angle and every other property of an object can follow a tag without a script.

Where:StudioLive

Conversion is direct (bit select, invert, scaling) or through a range table
Common to every object: visibility, blinking, opacity, position, size and angle
13 event types (on load, click, double-click, press and release, cursor, key, object change…) and more than 30 ready-made event functions
Event functions write bits and values, scale, open pages and windows, and run scripts
The same logic applies to 3D objects; 3D has no focus, key, double-click or cursor events
On view objects such as trend, alarm, recipe, report, camera and page window, Live applies only visibility, position and size bindings

A pump's running, fault and speed properties bound to PLC tags.

A pump’s running, fault and speed values bind to PLC tags.

A hopper's level property bound to a tag, with scaling.

A hopper’s level binds to a tag; the raw value is scaled to the real range.

A click event on a stage card that opens a screen, with the functions attached to it.

Clicking the card opens a page; functions attached to the event run in order.

Tags and data

A tag is a value read from a PLC or kept inside the project. Scaling, limits, quality and a fallback value are defined on the tag, so pages, alarms and reports use the same definition.

Where:StudioLive

Types: Bool, Byte, SInt, Int, UInt, DInt, UDInt, Real, LReal, String, WString, DateTime (each driver narrows them to what it supports)
A scan cycle is a named time record; tags, archives, tasks and pages share the same cycle

Tag table

External (connected) and internal tags with data type, address, scan cycle, low and high limits and unit. Operators cannot write outside the limits.

Scaling a raw PLC value to engineering units, with quality and limit settings.

Scaling and quality

A raw PLC value (e.g. 0–27648) is scaled linearly to engineering units, with clipping and reverse-direction writes. Quality and a fallback value are defined in the same place; an object bound to a bad-quality tag is drawn faded and grey.

Three pump instances of one structure, with automatically generated tags and PLC addresses.

Structures (UDT)

A structure is defined once; tags and PLC addresses (DB30, DB31, DB32…) are generated for every instance. One faceplate is enough for the structure.

Also

Persistent internal tags (written on exit, read on start)
Tag groups and folders
Initial values
Excel (.xlsx) import and export
CSV for tags
Connection status tag

Alarm system

Digital and analog alarms are defined, grouped into classes and tied to operator acknowledgement. History goes into monthly log files.

Where:StudioLive

Digital (bit or value) and analog alarms: comparison operator, hysteresis and delay (up to 3600 s)
Alarm classes: came, went and acknowledged colours, mandatory acknowledgement, blinking, archiving
Priority (0–16) and states: Came, Went, Acknowledged, Suppressed
Operator acknowledgement, suppression and comments; the acknowledge tag writes 1 to the PLC; audible alert (siren or beep)
Alarm line and Alarm view: a list in class colours and details of the selected alarm
Go to object: the button in an alarm row, or a double-click, opens the page of the source object; in 2D the view zooms in, in 3D the camera moves to it. A red and yellow fault wave spreads around a faulted object
When Live restarts, the current alarm state is reset; log files are not deleted automatically

History curves, limit lines and current values.

Analog alarms with tag, condition, limit, hysteresis, delay and class settings.

Colour and acknowledgement settings of the fault, warning and info alarm classes.

Trends and history

Archives record the tags you choose. The Trend view draws curves from an archive or straight from a live tag, and you can scroll from the live stream back into history.

Where:StudioLive

Recording method: cyclic, on change (with dead band) or by trigger tag
Storage: a local monthly file is always written; CSV and SQL Server mirroring are optional (the table is created automatically)
If the SQL Server connection drops, records are buffered on disk (up to 200 MB)
Retention and maximum size: old records are cleaned up automatically, with at least 31 days kept
Trend: many curves, multiple Y axes (left, right, log, inverted), limit lines, linear, step and smooth joins
There is no ODBC archive target; ODBC is only for queries from scripts
Project database: alarm, event, recipe, report and archive records are also written to the project’s SQL Server database; the setup has an optional SQL Server Express component

Trend curve colour and axis settings with a live preview.

Retention, maximum size and CSV or SQL Server mirroring for each archive.

Recipes and reports

A recipe sends product-specific values to the PLC; a report records the production result. Both share tags, the permission system and Excel.

Where:StudioLive

Recipes

Recipe records, values and download to the PLC.

Item definition: tag binding, type, low and high limits, tolerance, unit, group; shown as a box, slider, switch or list
Records are Approved or Draft; approval rule, total rule and permission group can be set
Download to the PLC is direct or handshaked, with read-back and optional before and after scripts
Import and export with Excel
A recipe design page starts from one of 10 templates (desktop, touch panel, pop-up window); a colour theme and a logo are chosen

Recipe items with their tag bindings, units and limits.

Reports

Batch records with deviation, energy and duration.

A report page takes a table, filters, a chart and a signature block by drag and drop; it starts from one of 11 templates (management dashboard, daily, shift, monthly, quality control, certificate of analysis, weighing slip…)
Trigger: rising or falling edge, on change, when equal; or manual recording
Period summary (day, shift, week, month, batch), approval and signature, filters, comparison
Output: Excel (.xlsx), CSV and PDF / print (with print preview)
Records are append-only and cannot be edited afterwards
There is no time-of-day trigger; use a scheduled task

A report design page with a record table, date filter and buttons placed by drag and drop.

Tasks and permissions

Where:StudioLive

Scheduled tasks

10 trigger types: cyclic, daily at a set time, days of the week, day of the month (with a last-day option), day of the year, one-off, tag change, tag condition, Live start and Live shutdown.

A weekly task with its next five run times.

A task runs a script in the project; on a tag-change task the tag’s new value reaches the script as a parameter
A weekly task previews its next five run times
A task missed while Live was off can run at startup

Users, permissions, action log

Users, groups and numbered permissions are defined; objects, pages and menus can be restricted by permission.

Permission groups and a matrix of monitoring, control, recipe and alarm rights.

The action log is on by default: who, when, which tag, old and new value, result; follow it on screen with the Event view
Passwords are stored as salted SHA-256 hashes; session timeout and permission to exit are configurable
There is no central directory (AD / LDAP) integration; users are defined in the project

An event log filterable by type and a separate log of operator actions with users.

Scripting languages

4 languages, 120+ ready examples: VBScript, JavaScript, C and Python bind to the same tags, events and tasks. The product’s own engines run VBScript, C and Python, so Windows Script Host, a C compiler or CPython are not needed.

Where:StudioLive

Compile (F9): syntax and project-aware rules (a missing tag, a call whose permission is off) are listed with line numbers
Editor: syntax colouring, line numbers, live syntax checking, code completion in all four languages; a reference panel for VBScript, C and Python
Example gallery: an example is added to the project or pasted at the cursor
Permissions to connect to databases, run programs and access files are off by default
JavaScript runs in WebView2’s own environment and provides only the Tag, Screen and User objects and the notify function; for databases, files and object properties use VBScript, C or Python
There are no breakpoints or single-stepping

The same job, in four languages

Tag_Oku_Yaz.vbs

' Reads a tag and writes the calculated value to another tag.
Sub Tag_Oku_Yaz()
    Dim seviye
    seviye = HMIRuntime.Tags("Tank1_Seviye").Read
    ' Remaining headroom (%) = 100 - level
    HMIRuntime.Tags("Tank1_Bosluk").Write 100 - seviye
End Sub

Js_Tag_Oku_Yaz.js

// Reads a tag and writes the calculated value to another tag.
var seviye = Tag.read('Tank1_Seviye');
// Remaining headroom (%) = 100 - level
Tag.write('Tank1_Bosluk', 100 - seviye);

C_Tag_Oku_Yaz.c

#include "apdefap.h"

// Reads a tag and writes the calculated value to another tag.
void C_Tag_Oku_Yaz(void)
{
    float seviye;

    seviye = GetTagFloat("Tank1_Seviye");
    // Remaining headroom (%) = 100 - level
    SetTagFloat("Tank1_Bosluk", 100.0f - seviye);
}

Py_Tag_Oku_Yaz.py

# Reads a tag and writes the calculated value to another tag.
def Py_Tag_Oku_Yaz():
    seviye = scada.read("Tank1_Seviye")
    # Remaining headroom (%) = 100 - level
    scada.write("Tank1_Bosluk", 100 - seviye)

Ready-made VBS, C, JavaScript and Python examples with preview and add buttons. — Example gallery

Compile errors listed with line numbers, each jumping to its line when clicked. — Compile errors

A Python module with a scada.read / scada.write reference panel on the right. — A Python script

Multiple languages

The programs’ interface, including warning and error messages, comes in 6 languages. Project texts can be translated into any number of languages and switch with a language button in Live.

Where:StudioLiveConvert

Türkçe
English
Español
Deutsch
Italiano
Français

Project texts are collected automatically in one table; translate them in Excel and bring them back
A font can be chosen per language
The offline manual comes in the same six languages: 100+ topics, with screenshots
Project data such as page and tag names is not translated

The Studio interface in English, with translated menus, project tree and table headers.

English translations of object texts are entered in one place.

All project texts in one table, with the Turkish source text and English translation.

Monitoring, TV and camera

A web server on the Live computer opens the same project to browsers and TVs on your network. If remote control is on, a user given a permission group writes tags, acknowledges alarms and handles recipes from the browser; other users and TVs monitor only.

Where:Live

Username and password, a session cookie and a network access rule; by default only local network and VPN addresses are allowed
TV display: up to 8 network TVs; page order, duration and transition are set per TV, and an alarm banner is added
Multi-monitor: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 8 monitors in full screen (side by side, stacked, grid), a separate page on each monitor, and TV display on a second screen
IP camera: RTSP (H.264), MJPEG and JPEG snapshots; the camera address and password never reach the browser
Tasks, drivers and alarm detection run only on the Live computer; actions from the browser are carried out in Live and written to the event log under the user’s name

The syrup preparation page in a desktop browser, with the page list and viewer options on the right. — Desktop browser

A portrait page in a phone browser showing efficiency, tank levels and pump states. — Phone browser

Pages rotating full screen on a production TV, with a clock on top and an alarm banner below. — Production TV

Four camera channels with the process values linked to each camera. — IP camera page

Remote monitoring is served over plain HTTP; there is no HTTPS. Do not expose it directly to the internet; use a VPN. TV addresses have no password by default; this can be turned off.

OPC UA server, notifications, performance reports and AI

Features that open tags to outside systems, send alarms to people, deliver scheduled reports and speed up work in Studio.

OPC UA server

Opens tags selected in Studio to external OPC UA clients, with read-only or read and write permission per tag.

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Notification Center

Selected alarms reach people by SMS and e-mail. With no internet, a GSM / LTE modem with a SIM card is used.

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Performance reports

You assign tags to ready-made templates; the report goes by e-mail as PDF and Excel at the planned time.

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AI Assistant

Creates tags, pages, objects and scripts from what you type in Studio. The package is a separate download; the model runs on the computer.

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Setup and requirements

FabyaVision is Windows software installed on your own PC. Your project and data stay in your own environment.

Where:StudioLiveConvert

A graphics driver with WebGL for 3D
The installer carries .NET Framework 4.8 and the WebView2 Runtime offline and installs them if they are missing
Setup types: Full, Field (Live only), Engineering (Studio and Convert) and Custom

Requirements

Windows 10 / 11
.NET Framework 4.8
Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime

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