1. Sometimes wiring isn’t easy in a factory. By using the wi-fi module of MT8103iE to connect to a router, wiring workers don’t need to install an additional Ethernet cable to HMI.
2. MT8103iE is able to be installed in a mobile machine without an actual cable. The following machines are examples:
   I. Stacker: MT8103iE are used to display serial numbers of the goods and where they are stored.

II. AVG (Auto Guide Vehicle): MT8103iE are used to connect to a router and receive information about transporting goods.

III. Truck: when a truck gets back to a station, workers can read the information from the truck through wi-fi such as temperature in a refrigerated truck and weighting data of a fruit truck.

3. Communicating with mobile objects
I. Connecting to a moving router and read Ethernet remote I/O.

II. Connecting to an overhead crane instead of wired festoon systems. Saving money and avoiding interruption.

III. Connecting to a remote I/O in a rotation component of a machine, like a beverage bottling machine.

4. Convenient for engineer to access
I. As long as both MT8103iE and a laptop connect to a router, engineers can download HMI projects to MT8103IE and operate the HMI by VNC or remote HMI mode without opening the enclosure or plugging an Ethernet port .(Tethering can replace router).
II. Engineers can modify PLC program by Ethernet pass-through. It is helpful for a test run and troubleshooting.

5. EasyAccess2.0

1. I. Engineers located in the remote place are able to operate MT8103iE which connects to Wireless Access Point (WAP) from a cell phone.
   II. MT8103iE can connect to the Internet through 4G Broadband Router.
   

   When maintenance staff in a plant needs to fix a machine that is out of order, theycan connect MT8103iE with the software EasyAccess2.0 through tethering. Therefore, PLC or HMI engineers located in other place are able to access MT8103iE, know the status of the machine, and debug. HMI also can send emails to inform OEM of the status of the machine.

Keeping up with the on-site situation anywhere and anytime.

Do you always need to arrange operators to keep their eyes on the machines? Have you ever dreamed about machines went wrong, woke up in the nightmare, soaked with sweat and couldn’t sleep at night? Do you wish to receive notifications when the machines have problems no matter where you are? Weintek’s R&D team presents a new feature which allows you to receive notifications from the HMI anywhere and anytime.

Combining EasyAccess2.0’s push notification with HMI’s Event/Alarm can help you immediately receive notifications on smart phones or tablets while you’re having dinner, sleeping, socializing with customers, or even during your vacation. In the era of Industry 4.0, it requires rapidly information. EasyAccess2.0 can always help you shorten response time when encountering situation on-site, and at the same time save cost by reducing on-site manpower.

This feature will help you：

• Monitor the on-site situation 24 hours.
• When you don’t have enough manpower to monitor your machines all the time.
• Shorten responding time and quickly handle the situation.

Application Case：

In Taiwan, those who live in low-lying regions are suffering from floods. The government agency requires using VNC to monitor the HMI 24 hours, in order to decide when to activate the pumping station.

With EasyAccess2.0 push notification, the agency will no longer need to keep the eyes on the screen all the time, the pumping station can be activated on phones or tablets once receiving push notification.

[Recommended Case Study]
Learn more about how to use EasyAccess2.0 for monitoring a plant factory:
http://forum.weintek.com/use-easyaccess-2-0-to-monitor-a-plant-factory/

In the era of Industrial 4.0, a clothing manufacturer may need to turn its original mass production of the same style of clothing into making a variety of different clothes, in order to meet the needs of different orders and achieve customized production. This requires dispatching the production resources of production lines, such as adjusting the use of different fabrics, dyes and production equipment, which depends on the styles of clothes. It also requires updating the production resume to the ERP system, integrating the data with procurement, sales, shipping departments in order to handle product life cycle completely.

Challenges：

• For different products, automatically adjust equipment’s parameters and the use of fabrics.
• The equipment in the factory should be able to upload the manufacturing data to a platform, which can combine with ERP system.
• The operator needs to adjust the production line depending on the production status.

Solutions：SQL query on Weintek HMI

• Connect to SQL server by HMI, update the recipe through Ethernet.
• Combines with ERP system through HMI and SQL server.
• The operator on site can make SQL query on the HMI. The HMI will update the query to SQL server, and then deploy resources in different production line depending on different production rate.

Update recipe online

After setting the query command on HMI, the HMI can get the recipe in SQL database. The operator will be able to choose the equipment’s parameters, fabrics and dyes on SQL database depending on different orders. The data can be sent to different HMIs on different equipment through Ethernet, and PLC will get the parameters from HMI.

Combination of SQL database and ERP

HMI will gather the production data from PLC, and then upload the production resume to SQL database through SQL query. IT department can easily combines the data into ERP since SQL is very familiar to them.

On site real time dispatching

Operators on site can use SQL query through HMI, deploy production line’s resources based on the actual production rate. For example, there are two lines named A and B. Line B’s production is faster than line A. The operator can deploy more fabrics to line B, and use more carriers to put the products manufactured on line B.

Aiming to enhance the functions of cMT Series models, Weintek RD Team has developed a new tool, Diagnoser, which allows diagnostic operations such as read/write register values of HMI and PLC in online/offline simulation.

How to open Diagnoser:

In off-line/on-line simulation, this feature can be opened from the right-click menu.

In the Diagnoser interface, the objects used in the current window and their operating addresses are shown in a table.

Changing register values in Diagnoser is possible by selecting a window number in [Current Window] drop-down list.

Diagnoser also allows triggering macro and provides results viewer.

Please note that Diagnoser will not show objects without operating addresses, for example, Function Keys.

When an operator needs to execute serial commands, sometimes he needs to press different buttons to do so. These buttons may be crowded on HMI’s screen. From now on, Combo Button on cMT series has combined more features. Which includes: All features of Function Key (Change Window, Keyboard Input, Screen Hardcopy, Import Data.), Wait Until etc. In later version of EasyBuilder Pro, Data Transfer will also be available.

• Simplify operation：Only one touch to execute multiple commands, which is easier for operators for execution.
• Less buttons on the screen：Reduces the objects on each HMI’s window
• More flexible combination：Use Wait Until and let the commands be more flexible, some movement can be achieved by Combo Button without using macro.

Change window

With different animation effects.

Wait Until

Choose word or bit as execution condition. The next movement will execute only when the condition is met. For example, when the value of LW-0 in the picture below is over 90, popup window will appear.

Product Introduction

As Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 trigger a sequence of industrial upgrades, the demand for machine integration and data interchange is also on the rise. Responding to the trend, Weintek is releasing an all-round cMT HMI solution which offers diverse high-performance HMI products to integrate miscellaneous systems.

cMT Series models not only bring unprecedented visual experience with attractive, easy-to-edit project screens and built-in window transition effects, but also support powerful connectivity, including MQTT and OPC UA, direct connection with database, and more than 300 communication protocols.

With the release of cMT3072 (7”) and Wi-Fi HMI cMT3103 (10”), cMT Series now comes in an even wider range of sizes. cMT Series also realizes multi-display and remote control. By running cMT Viewer application on cMT-iV5, smartphones, tablets, or PC, the operators are able to remotely monitor and control cMT HMIs, and at the same time use smartphone as barcode scanner, media player, or IP camera viewer.

cMT3072 Features

• High Performance
  Dual-Core Cortex-A9 1GHz CPU, built-in 4GB Flash and 1GB RAM.

• IPS LCD
  High quality color reproduction and high resolution (1024 x 600 pixels) IPS LCD with wide viewing angle (T:85°/ B:85°/ L:85°/ R:85°) and minimized chromatic aberration makes HMI displays vividly regardless of its installation location.

• Wide input voltage range
  10.5 to 28VDC, compatible with most controller systems.

• Powerful Connectivity
  Supports more than 300 major brands of PLCs and controllers.

• IIoT Protocol Support
  Built-in MQTT and OPC UA server & client, and support direct connection with Amazon Aws IoT, which eliminates the need for hosting an MQTT server and allows connecting with low-cost and reliable AWS IoT MQTT server.

• Rich I/O
  Dual-Ethernet, USB Host 2.0
  Con.A-COM2: RS-485 2W/4W/COM3: RS-485/CAN Bus, Con.B-COM1/COM3:RS-232.

• High Reliability
  The water penetration resistance avoids corrosion of the PCB, and the two industrial level protections: PCB coating and power isolation ensure cMT3072’s durability and reliability in any harsh environment.

• Remote access service, EasyAccess 2.0
  The EasyAccess 2.0 license is included; therefore, activation using an activation card is not necessary.

cMT3103 Features

• Wi-Fi Interface
  cMT3103 supports Wi-Fi that keeps it wirelessly connected with other devices regardless of its installation location.

• High Performance
  Dual-Core Cortex-A9 1GHz CPU, built-in 4GB Flash and 1GB RAM.

• Advanced Visualization
  High resolution (1024 x 600 pixels) LCD with wide viewing angle makes monitoring less limited (T:60°/ B:60°/ L:70°/ R:70°).

• Powerful Connectivity
  Supports more than 300 major brands of PLCs and controllers.

• IIoT Protocol Support
  Built-in MQTT and OPC UA server & client, and support direct connection with Amazon Aws IoT, which eliminates the need for hosting an MQTT server and allows connecting with low-cost and reliable AWS IoT MQTT server.

• Rich I/O
  Dual-Ethernet, USB Host 2.0
  Con.A-COM2: RS-485 2W/4W/COM3: RS-485/CAN Bus, Con.B-COM1/COM3:RS-232.

• High Reliability
  The water penetration resistance avoids corrosion of the PCB, and the two industrial level protections: PCB coating and power isolation ensure cMT3072’s durability and reliability in any harsh environment.

• Remote access service, EasyAccess 2.0
  The EasyAccess 2.0 license is included; therefore, activation using an activation card is not necessary.

Explore More
– cMT3072 datasheet
– cMT3103 datasheet

Product Introduction

Integrating miscellaneous equipment for factory automation has never been an easy task. Since each machine uses different controller, when integrating with other IT/OT monitoring system, data transmission is limited because controllers use different protocols, and this is one of the obstacles that makes productivity improvement efforts ineffective. Take changing parameters as an example, the operator needs to walk to each machine and manually enter parameters. Moreover, due to a lack of data accessibility, the potential problems in the factory may not be easily found, and can eventually lead to defective products being made. To deal with this situation, OPC standard was released in 1995 to address the communication issue between control devices from different manufacturers, and in 2006, OPC UA made it possible to access the same device information regardless of operating systems used. In fact, OPC UA has been officially recommended by German Industry 4.0 for use in industrial communication.

cMT-G02 Communication Gateway is not only equipped with an Ethernet port, but also supports Wi-Fi, which enables it to communicate wirelessly when wiring may be limited by the environment.

With the de-facto IIoT protocols standard: MQTT and OPC UA built-in, cMT-G02 can well fit into lots of applications and integrate real time data from different devices, to provide a standard communication interface. Having more than 20 years of rich experience in HMI development, Weintek cMT-G02 supports more than 300 major brands of PLC and controller.

cMT-G02 Features

• Industrial Wi-Fi
  cMT-G02 supports Wi-Fi standard 802.11b/g/n that has a strong resistance to interference. The detachable antenna allows using third party antennas suitable for the environment. Wi-Fi setting can be quickly configured using web interface.

• Change OPC UA settings using web interface
  Web server can be used to change OPC UA communication settings, add/modify/delete OPC UA nodes and their corresponding PLC data, or change PLC communication parameters (Serial or Ethernet).

• Built-in OPC UA
  Built-in OPC UA server & client. OPC UA Server officially certified for compliance by the OPC Foundation can ensure seamless device integration in any application.

• Built-in MQTT
  Built-in MQTT server & client, and support direct connection with Amazon Aws IoT, which eliminates the need for hosting an MQTT server and allows connecting with low-cost and reliable AWS IoT MQTT server.

• Push Notification and pass-through connect to a remote PLC (EasyAccess 2.0)
  EasyAccess 2.0 can remotely debug or update devices without the need for adjusting firewall settings. With EasyAccess 2.0 push notification, users can receive immediate notification about the operation errors on their portable devices (iOS/Android).

Explore More
– cMT-G02 datasheet