Edge HMI Updates

This update to ControlCom Connect introduces smarter ways to monitor your industrial assets and faster tools to design your HMI screens. From spotting unusual data patterns automatically to streamlining how you edit complex system diagrams, these changes focus on reducing downtime and saving engineering time.

Identify Issues Sooner with Anomaly Detection

You can now enable anomaly detection to automatically identify unusual patterns in your data. Instead of relying solely on fixed thresholds, this feature helps plant managers and operators catch deviations that might indicate equipment failure or process inefficiencies before they trigger a critical alarm.

Faster HMI Design and Bulk Editing

Building detailed diagrams for water/wastewater facilities or manufacturing lines is now much more efficient with new multi-select and text tools.

• Multi-Element Editing: Select and edit multiple HMI elements simultaneously. This means you can update colors, sizes, or properties across a group of components at once, rather than one by one.
• Diagram Text Search: You can now find and replace text content within your diagrams. This is perfect for quickly updating labels or descriptions across large-scale system views.
• Visual Status Indicators: Diagram elements can now pulsate when an associated variable is "on." This provides an immediate, clear visual indicator of active machinery or flows.
• Enhanced Button States: HMI buttons now support visual states for warnings, errors, and success, giving operators better feedback on system actions.

Smoother Dashboard Trends and Commands

Viewing and interacting with live data is now more intuitive with improved graph controls and command management.

• Scrolling Live Graphs: Live graphs on your dashboard now support scrolling. This lets you view longer trends and historical data without interrupting the live feed.
• Bulk Command Imports: Save time during site setup by importing multiple device commands at once. We have also improved the workflow for sending commands directly from the diagram editor.
• Interactive Analytics: New analytics features provide deeper insights into your facility data, paired with a smoother, more responsive experience in the live graph view.

Building complex HMI screens for your industrial systems just got much faster. The latest update to ControlCom Connect focuses on reducing the manual work required to build and maintain detailed system diagrams, especially when managing large numbers of variables across production lines.

Find and Replace Variables

When you are managing a large-scale deployment, updating variable mappings one by one is time-consuming. Now you can find and replace variables directly within the diagram editor. This makes it easier to duplicate screens for similar assets or update your data mapping without rebuilding elements from scratch.

New Radial Card Visuals

This update adds a Radial Card primitive to your toolkit. This new element provides a clean, circular visual for displaying key performance indicators (KPIs) like pressure, temperature, or motor speed. It is designed to give operators high-level status updates that are easy to read from across the plant floor.

Advanced Element Control and Logic

We have added more sophisticated controls for element visibility. This means you can create dynamic diagrams where parts of the interface appear or disappear based on real-time machine states. To help you set this up faster, the expression editor now includes quick actions for common logic tasks.

Improved Configuration Tools

Managing your hardware connections is now simpler with several updates to our core tools:

• MODBUS Client Editor: A more intuitive interface for configuring your MODBUS devices and addressing.
• Variable Selection: A smoother experience when browsing and selecting tags for your HMI elements.
• Asset and Namespace Display: Clearer organization of your facility data, making it easier to find the right sensor in a large hierarchy.

These improvements were built for integrators who need to deploy systems quickly while maintaining a high standard of visual clarity for plant managers and operators.

This update for ControlCom Connect introduces interactive controls to your system diagrams and provides better tools for managing your facility hierarchy. Whether you are an integrator setting up a new site or a plant manager cleaning up old data, these changes make the platform more functional and easier to navigate.

Interactive Buttons for HMI Diagrams

You can now add interactive button elements directly to your diagrams within the HMI Editor. This allows you to build more functional interfaces for your operators. Instead of just viewing data, you can design your SCADA-style screens to include triggers for specific actions or navigation paths.

• Custom actions: Configure buttons to interact with your system variables.
• Simplified navigation: Create buttons that jump between different assets or locations.
• Clearer interfaces: Use buttons to toggle views or reset dashboard parameters.

Streamlined Asset and Location Management

Keeping your IIoT environment organized is now easier. We have added the ability to delete locations and assets directly from the platform. If equipment is decommissioned or a site layout changes, you can remove those items to keep your views relevant and uncluttered.

This is particularly useful for large-scale deployments in water/wastewater or manufacturing where assets are frequently rotated or updated. Removing old assets ensures your team focuses only on live, active equipment.

Visual Refinements

We have also polished the appearance of the data tables and graphs within the Explorer. These visual enhancements make it easier to read high-density industrial data at a glance, helping you identify trends or anomalies faster during your daily monitoring routines.

Version 1.3.6

The Edge HMI now has the capability to dynamically refresh its view if there was a diagram or dashboard change on the ControlCom Connect platform. All it requires is for the Edge Server to be restarted to pull latest changes.

No need to close the Edge HMI application and relaunch it!