New Mitsubishi Electric soft HMI offers cost effective SCADA control

Mitsubishi Electric has developed a new cost-efficient software, named “MAPS HMI” (Mitsubishi Adroit Process Suite – Human Machine Interface) based on the highly successful MAPS software. The new software is a light version with reduced functionality which will be particularly attractive for applications with simpler HMI requirements, which do not need the capabilities of a full SCADA solution.

MAPS HMI is a stand-alone solution which additionally offers up to two remote connections to provide more flexibility for project design and increased visibility of the application. It includes multiple tools to make the HMI design process easy and intuitive, using integrated wizards, templates, navigation tools and huge library of graphic objects.

Wizards promote standardisation

One of the keys to MAPS’ popularity is its PLC/SCADA wizard function, which significantly reduces the time spent on development and configuration. For highly efficient and time-saving project design, user-specific wizards and templates can be created, standardised and reused in other MAPS HMI projects. This also ensures a standardised and structured design, which eases ongoing maintenance of the plant throughout its life cycle.

For maximum flexibility, more than 100 drivers are available, most of which are included in the MAPS HMI solution. This open driver concept makes MAPS HMI the perfect choice to easily communicate with all popular PLCs. It can be loaded onto any Windows-based system and used as an OEM system for virtually any application.

Licenses up to 1500 I/O points

MAPS HMI is available in licenses of 300 I/O, 750 I/O and 1500 I/O, allowing optimum selection for each project. For even larger or more advanced systems MAPS HMI can be seamlessly upgraded to MAPS SCADA, supporting fully distributed server/client architectures.

With MAPS, reports covering areas such as I/O schedules, PLC and SCADA tag configuration can be automatically generated. This ensures drawings and reports are always up to date. The reports are database-driven, so even through ongoing maintenance the reports will always reflect the current status of the electrical and instrumentation configuration.

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