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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.
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KNOW HOW & DURABILITY
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».
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 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
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Highlights
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.
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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
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Graph trends: View the history
Integrated to synoptic diagrams
Access performances
Easy operation: no interface to configure, modifiable on line
Zoom, comparison, etc.
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Alarms-events:
Prioritize information
Views created and
modified «on line»
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Selection
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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
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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
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Database connectivity
TOPKAPI is part of the corporate data management, and links to most of the
off-the-shelf Database Management Systems, thanks to its ODBC and Active-X
features.
Historical data acquired by TOPKAPI are seamlessly incorporated to DBMS systems
with a few parameters settings, and are thus available for specific processing
and/or aggregation to other data.
Reciprocally, MES or scheduling data will be pushed to TOPKAPI using its
Active-X control to interact with the process.
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Configuration:
Implement
efficiently
Simple and intuitive configuration, accessible to all
Online configuration.
SOFTLINK Wizard, a concept invented by AREAL:
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Unique automation database
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Self-configuration
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Reduced development and test costs
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Automation of application parameterizing
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Specialty customisation of the interfaces
Simulator to test applications offline
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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
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Remote notification of alarms
 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.
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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.
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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.
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Architecture
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
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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...
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Redundancy Fully
integrated, reduced parameter setting Automatic hot
switchover Distributed processing Complete
uniqueness of data, logs, context, internal variables, acknowledgments, etc.
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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 |
