SCADA software

TopKapi Vision - SUPERVISION for enhanced productivity

How can you respond promptly to gain performance?
How can you ensure control over your process at all times?
How can you have real-time access to all the information on your industrial facility?

A genuine productivity enhancer, the TOPKAPI supervision software handles the tasks requested to process information, letting you focus on priorities: the operating strategy of your process.

KNOW HOW & DURABILITY

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Through over 20 years of innovation, AREAL has constantly perfected its TOPKAPI software, turning it into one of the most advanced industrial SCADA software in the world: high processing power, reliability, easy implementation. With thousands of copies installed, TOPKAPI is used both by direct operators as well as engineers and automation specialists designing and developing industrial applications. Running on the Windows® operating system, the de facto standard, TOPKAPI extends beyond fashionable concepts, providing users with means to integrate supervision into the global corporate information processing chain: shared databases, MES and ERP systems, Web access, etc. Sylvain Starck, Development Manager, in charge of global design, explains: «The added value offered by TOPKAPI is not on screen, but extends far beyond: we ensure that regardless of their power, functions and processes are seamless to the user, who mostly requires a result».

SOLUTIONS

The range of TOPKAPI software offers a solution to all user needs, from a basic graphic display for workshop control to redundant applications and architectures controlling several dozens of interconnected stations.

COMMUNICATION, local or remote, through field controllers and devices
ALARM and FAULT processing
CALCULATION and data formatting
LOGGING events and measurements («black box» function)
DISPLAY with GRAPHIC
EDITOR OPERATING STATIONS, local and remote

HIGHLIGHTS

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TOPKAPI is particularly appreciated for its high-quality graphics (synoptic diagrams) and programming interfaces (SOFTLINK concept), its client/server and redundancy mechanisms, and for remote communication management.
Thanks to its calculation power and built-in functions, it can be used to create applications by easy parameters setting, without the need for laborious programming.

MIMIC DIAGRAMS: View in the blink of an eye

Built-in editor (vector and bitmap)
Multiwindow
Online configuration
Object oriented
Object library with inheritance
Simultaneous opening of several applications
Objects with a «faceplate» detail window
True color (24 bits) animations
256 layers, with visibility management and operator locking
Advanced zoom features - Panning - Decluttering

GRAPH TRENDS: View the history

Integrated to synoptic diagrams
Access performances
Easy operation: no interface to configure, modifiable on line
Zoom, comparison, etc.

ALARMS-EVENTS: Prioritize information

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Views created and modified «on line»
- Selection
- Presentation
Modes: show faults, log, constant
Powerful summarising functions
Filter-based selection on any criteria, based on DBMS engine
Distributed views merging data from several server stations

REAL-TIME DATABASE: Process and Compute

Acquisition
Spreadsheet views
Calculations by basic formulas - no programming
Over 150 calculation and system functions
Remarkable calculation performance thanks to precompiling process
Alarm and archive management
Fully configurable reporting, HTML support, fax, and email distribution
Link to databases

CONFIGURATION: Implement efficiently

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Simple and intuitive configuration, accessible to all
Online configuration.
SOFTLINK Wizard, a concept invented by AREAL:
- Unique automation database
- Self-configuration
- Reduced development and test costs
- Automation of application parameterizing
- Specialty customisation of the interfaces
- Simulator to test applications offline

RECIPES

Topkapi does not require using a separate software package to handle recipes or any coordinated processing of a set of manufacturing parameters (ingredients):

Value groups (composition)
Execution sequences - succession of procedures and phases
Batch processing

Use Topkapi in the following processes, without complex scripting languages:

Enter and record recipe parameters
Embed separate functional elements (subrecipes)
Send manufacturing orders to the controllers
Get and record manufacturing data (traceability)
Use SFC to control the processing tasks

REMOTE NOTIFICATION OF ALARMS

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In the absence of a local operator, this module forwards alarms to remote operators. The operator acknowledges the call cycle, then operates remotely (viewing and command) or goes to the plant.

The calendar handles the schedules, replacements, derogations, and the processes attached to the various natures of the faults.

Unlike add-ons, full integration of the on-call function into TOPKAPI provides very easy configuration and maintenance, without repeating the information entered or changed. All the information for following up the transmission of messages is accessible within TOPKAPI.

SUMMARIES

Production reports, Overall Equipment Effectiveness, pace, quality monitoring and objectives, availability and faults, operating time, number of starts, maintenance, etc.

In TOPKAPI, a few mouse clicks are enough, without programming nor testing many counters, to produce summarised calculations from supervision logs and transfer the results into EXCEL® spreadsheets, HTML or other tools. Amazingly easy to use, it enables you to focus your attention on presenting and analysing data. Synopsis functions over time, time and event counting, averages, min, max, integer, typical deviation. Automatic consolidation over time on periods of your choice, from hour to year, over time ranges, validity ranges, etc.

REMOTE MANAGEMENT

For RTUs or any equipment not connected permanently (telephone or GSM network, Internet, etc.), TOPKAPI handles data which is time-stamped at the source without specific setting, transparently as if acquired in real time.

Integrated management of modems and periodical connections, and self-configuring capability also contribute to justify its reputation as a reference product in all remote management applications.

ARCHITECTURE

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A tool for each need
Total openness to networks inside and outside the factory
High security

Server Station (Acquisition, Processing, Operator Interface)
Client Station (Display and Control by connection to server stations):
- Permanent Client
- Thin Client (downloadable)
- Web Server
- Internet Explorer Thin Client
- Terminal Services Thin Client
- Redundancy, distributed applications
- Workshop control panel
- Remote management Master Station

NETWORK

True application client/server
Data is unique and always provided by the server hosting it. Changing an application requires no intervention on other stations (client, web server, ...)
A few mouse clicks are enough for a TOPKAPI client to log onto a server's application.
It is optimised for all networks, and supports PSTN or GSM modem links (synoptic diagram displayed in less than 2 seconds through a modem link).
With 100% TCP-IP compatibility, TOPKAPI is designed for seamless integration into the global architecture of forward-looking companies, i.e. IT, production, MES, ERP...

REDUNDANCY

Fully integrated, reduced parameter setting
Automatic hot switchover
Distributed processing
Complete uniqueness of data, logs, context, internal variables, acknowledgments, etc.

WEBSERV

Currently the best means to deploy an animated graphics application over the Web, supervision or ordinary portal.

Installation within a few minutes without any modification of the basic application
No Web skills required for implementation (network specialist advice recommended only for architecture and security)
All TOPKAPI applications are compatible

Characteristics of TopKapi Vision

HARDWARE

PC type computer, standard configuration for Microsoft Windows®.

COMMUNICATION

Several hundreds of protocols available over Ethernet, TCP-IP, RS232-422-485 serial links, modem with standard or specialised hardware, communication drivers specific to TOPKAPI, or OPC, DLL, DDE, etc.

DEVELOPMENT

Development tools not copy protected. Therefore, they can be installed on both the development site and operating site without additional licence (except MMI version).
Dynamic link with controllers’ development / configuration software through the SOFTLINK wizard.
Limited versions from a few dozen to unlimited number of variables (several hundreds of thousands).
Ascending compatibility with all previous versions.
Ability to develop communication drivers
Dynamic language selection.

APPLICATIONS

Topkapi Vision Applications
	Manufacturing: manufacturing, conveying, handling, palettisation.
	Processing: heavy and fine chemistry, manufacturing, storage, conveying, handling.
	Agro-food: handling, storage, process, records, cold chain.
	Water and sewerage: drinkable water production, treatment stations, pumping stations, telemetry, remote supervision.
	Infrastructure - Transport: river navigation, train, subway, airports, luggage handling, air and sea navigation beacons, highways, remote management, lighting, lifting.
	Energy: Production: thermal plants, nuclear, hydroelectric, windmills, transport, co-generation control, networks. Consumption: monitoring, analysis, summaries, load shedding.
	Building: technical management, Hvac, fire, intrusion and access control, water, lifts. Energy, lighting. Home automation, parking lots. Remote management.
	Local authorities, hospitals, hotels: building, boiler rooms, public lighting, water and sewerage, waste.
	Environment: quality control of water and air, hydrology, meteorology, data collection.

PDF documentation available for identified users.