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The communications that you need for your automation control system plus features you expect in an HMI software package including data logging, security, audit trail, multilingual support and more. With iX Software, you have a robust automation software that incorporates state-of-the-art graphics and robust HMI functionality and communications to increase productivity, user satisfaction and trust. See for yourself and download an iX Developer demo today.

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Audit Trail

iX features audit trail functionality, providing you essential process tracking, user identification linked to time and place of interactions or events in a process, facilitating recalls and/or rationalizing of your production processes.
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Alarm Management

An alarm condition is designed as a logical evaluation of a data value, and alarms can be divided into groups based on priority. Essential for smooth operations, you can program lists of alarm receivers in design-time, save old alarm histories, etc.
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Security

iX offers strong password and security features giving the operator access to well-defined areas. iX offers you the option of defining an authorized user or restricting access to a specified group.
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Data Logging

iX offers you data logging via a built-in local data base for documentation or other purposes. Data can be easily logged and saved during runtime - similar to trend data but without any presentation in the operator panel.
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Trends

A trend object provides a visual representation of historical or real time events in a process. Trend data can be easily logged and saved during runtime. You can specify logging of data to be carried out at time intervals or by changed data values.
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Recipes

You can create and manage recipe libraries containing different sets of parameters to improve runtime efficiency and save time. The recipe management facility enables all the dynamic data to be saved to a file in the control panel and then downloaded to the controller, which will start operating with the new values.
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Multiple Languages

iX expands the usability in runtime and the creative scope in the design phase with its multiple language capability. Choose from a vast number of languages in the runtime menus, as well as set up several languages for your application project.
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Internal Variables

iX offers an internal variables function for creating any number of volatile user-defined variables. Internal variables can be used to calculate values without the need for representation in the controller.
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Remote Access

The remote access feature enables you to access and operate an iX runtime installation from a PC by using the remote access viewer program. You can access the runtime installation from any Internet-connected PC.
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Cross Reference

The cross reference facility traces and documents all relations between variables, functions, pictures, recipes, etc. The cross reference facility is an invaluable tool especially at upgrades and maintenance.
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Scheduler

The scheduler is used to control data values in relation to the real-time clock. The iX scheduler enables you to automate events in the process at specific predefined calendar date and times, for example start and stop motors or other equipment.
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System Tags

System tags afford access to internal iX data such as current user, available RAM etc. and can be used on-screen, logged and scripted. You are able to obtain important information from both hardware and software. System tags are defined and configured just as normal tags.
Index Addressing

iX facilitates index addressing. With index addressing it's possible to control the register from which an object is to collect a displayed value. In the design phase you can easily set up index addressing by adding the value in the index register to the address of the register.
Animated GIF Files

Use your own graphic objects to create a unique user interface. Animated GIF files bring a more realistic look to your application.
Button with Multipicture

Make your keyboard control more visible by assigning a bit mode to various objects (e.g., a highlighted switch).
Database Export

Production reports (e.g., alarms, trends or audit trails). can be created quickly and exported into external data bases for further analysis (e.g Microsoft Excel).
Alarm Viewer Operator Terminal

Try the improved Alarm Viewer on the iX Panel. The improved grid view and touch scroll function allows for better navigation control in long alarm lists.
Multilingual Keyboard Layouts

Offer data to your customers in their native language. Use several different keyboard layouts (e.g. Cyrillic or simplified and traditional Chinese) for easy maintenance and data entry.