Hamelin, 23 October 2009 --- Release 6.3 of the VisiWinNET® visualisation software from Lenze incorporates numerous new functions and features, making it easier to create attractive and modern visualisation screens on HMIs and PCs. Tasks such as selecting the necessary device drivers and entering the parameter settings, which were previously carried out by the project planner himself, are now taken over by the project wizard. The improved wizard supports the Lenze system perfectly. Even first-time users can create the complete underlying framework for a visualisation system. Project planning is also made easier by the new 'cross-reference' function. It enables the user to analyse the visualisation project as early as the project planning phase and, by this, identify errors more quickly. Moreover, the printing functions of VisiWinNET® were expanded.

Lenze has supplemented its powerful and open VisiWinNET® visualisation software with new functions and features, offering not only more freedom in designing visualisation solutions, but also faster engineering.

With the 'cross-reference' function, for example, errors in the project can be detected and rectified much more effectively and efficiently even at an early planning stage. Because of this new function, the project planner no longer has to search the entire project to find out where a particular variable or definition is used. Instead, the places in question are displayed clearly in a table.

Users who employ the same graphic several times in their visualisation will appreciate the new multiplexer function. With this function a conveyor belt, for example, that occurs several times only has to be depicted once. The values and designations of the respective conveyor belt can be overlaid on the graphic by means of the multiplexer. This reduces engineering work considerably and results in a clearer representation of the information on the screen.

Additionally, the new database technology that is used in Release 6.3 of VisiWinNET® improves clarity and facilitates engineering. As a result, variables and texts can be displayed in a flat structure. When creating new texts, all texts already entered are available via a selection function. Combined with the powerful search functions of the software, they help to shorten engineering times significantly.

Users of the VisiWinNET® Smart engineering environment will benefit from a considerably upgraded project wizard which supports the Lenze system considerably better. Device-specific settings such as the resolution or selection and integration of the drivers for a specific visualisation system from the Lenze portfolio are now carried out by the wizard. This is especially helpful for first-time users, who now only need the project wizard in order to assemble the complete basic visualisation framework.

The printing functions are now available for VisiWinNET® Smart users as well. They can be integrated in the application, enabling the machine or plant operator to start a printout of alarm messages (online and historical) as well as of recipes in tabular form.

The numerous new features in Release 6.3, such as support for client-server architectures under VisiWinNET® Smart or the expanded unit-changeover function, make the implementation of modern visualisation projects noticeably less complex. By this, VisiWinNET® reinforces its position as a powerful visualisation solution for all applications – from compact HMIs based on PDAs to complex SCADA systems or FDA-conforming control stations on Industrial PC platforms.