Wonderwares world-famous, award-winning InTouch HMI software for visualization and industrial process control offers outstanding ease of use and simple-to-configure graphics. Powerful wizards and the new Wonderware SmartSymbols enable users to quickly create and deploy customized applications that connect and deliver real-time information.

InTouch applications are flexible enough to meet users immediate needs and scale to accommodate their future requirements, while retaining the value of earlier engineering investments and efforts. These versatile InTouch applications can be accessed from mobile devices, thin clients, computer nodes and over the Internet. In addition, the open and extensible InTouch HMI offers unrivaled connectivity to the broadest set of automation devices in the industry.

Wonderware SmartSymbols
SmartSymbols represent an enormous advancement in the creation, deployment and modification of graphical elements within an application. Using the SmartSymbol Manager, application developers can create templates from graphics that can connect to ArchestrA Objects, local InTouch tags, and InTouch tags through remote references. These symbol templates are saved in the SmartSymbol Library and can be instantiated by selecting them and dropping them onto an InTouch window.

Any graphic in an InTouch window can be converted into a SmartSymbol by right-clicking it. In addition, libraries of SmartSymbols can be exported to other applications and plants, enabling companies to standardize on graphics throughout the entire organization. Once a SmartSymbol instance is deployed, if users need to change an instance, they simply modify the SmartSymbol template and the change automatically propagates throughout the application, to every window in which the SmartSymbol instance is used. This makes changing, upgrading and modifying applications very fast and easy. Validating and re-validating applications after modification is also simplified with SmartSymbols.

Customers benefit from improved flexibility while reducing the potentiality that new errors will be introduced into the system and tremendously reducing the time associated with modification.

Ease of Use
When considering which HMI software to use for an industrial application, ease of use is a major concern. Since its introduction, the InTouch HMI has been applauded for its ease of use. In fact, for ten consecutive years, industrial software users have voted InTouch software the number one HMI on the market. The InTouch HMI empowers users to quickly and easily develop custom graphical views of their processes.

A user can develop graphics with a variety of tools in Wonderwares WindowMaker graphical editing program, which includes standard graphical components, bitmap images, ActiveX controls, Symbol Factory — an advanced graphics library that contains thousands of preconfigured industrial images — and the new Wonderware SmartSymbols. All of these tools are easy-to-use and intuitive, helping users to quickly develop and deploy visualization applications.