For the Plastics industry

The MACO compact operator interface is a sleek new flexible design that provides a full range of cost effective HMI ’s for the MACO Compact control system. It is available with a 12.1 inch TFT display, and an 800 x 600 viewing resolution, as well as an optional touchscreen interface. In addition, there are several keyboard options, ranging from a touchscreen only version to full numeric keypad with 24 machine function keys, and different combinations of E-Stop blanks and machine function keys. The display is provided with a Strong ARM 200MHz processor equipped with up to 64M of Nand flash memory and runs on a Microsoft ® CE.net operating system.

It is equipped with a real time clock and battery backup. Ethernet communications is standard, with provisions for USB and RS-485 communications if required. There are two USB ports, one of which is on the front side of the display, as well as an optional compact flash for recipe and file storage. Screens are programmed by means of an enhanced OPtiGrafix screen editor. The OPtiGrafix screen editor can be used to create multi-language (including Asian character) screens. Line graphs can be created, displayed and stored to the compact flash. The display also has statistical process control capability with enhanced trending.