Increase your profitability

SpiderControl provides a tool that covers all HMI requirements: We standardize HMI development and integrate all associated tasks. This allows you to reduce engineering costs in the project business, increase your profitability and concentrate on your core competence in the control of machines and systems.

 

Unit costs

Unit costs become relevant for series machines and appliances in large quantities. SpiderControl offers the decisive advantages here:

Our MicroBrowser client technology requires a fraction of the performance of an HTML5 engine. This means that you can use very cost-effective uBrowser panels as touch panels, which display exactly the same HMI with at least the same performance, but cost significantly less. We work closely with manufacturers in the EU and also in Asia and will be happy to advise you on suitable suppliers.

 

What is a MicroBrowser?

The MicroBrowser does not implement a complete HTML5 engine, but is only compatible with certain HMI tools such as SpiderControl and its OEM products (Phoenix WebVisit, SBC S-Web-Editor, Panasonic,...) as well as CODESYS Webvisu V2.3 and 3.x. The MicroBrowser is implemented in C/C++ and therefore requires only a fraction of the resources of HTML5, but still offers all the features of the tools mentioned.

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Performance

The MicroBrowser also offers high-end graphics functions such as alpha blending, transparency and animated graphics with very good performance on the microcontroller. Capacitive touch screens can also be used. The MicroBrowser is fully compatible with the HTML5 Visu. No specific restrictions need to be made when designing with the HMI Editor.

 

Long-term availability

Microcontrollers offer both long-term availability and the peripherals required for industrial designs and are therefore the basis for a cost-effective and robust design: the initial hardware development costs are significantly lower and the product can be produced unchanged for 10-20 years.

 

Supply chain problems

Less dependence on a single supplier.

MicroBrowser-compatible hardware is offered by a wide range of hardware manufacturers, so that replacement is possible at any time. A solution with SpiderControl offers the greatest possible security of being able to switch to devices that are still available on the market at any time thanks to the support of all major operating systems and the extremely portable software architecture.

 

Robustness

Less dependence on a single supplier.

Thanks to its deterministic design, MicroBrowser visualization is much less susceptible to faults than script languages and virtual machines. This often includes behavior in continuous operation. Topics such as:

  • Restart after sleep
  • Reinitialization after PLC reboot
  • Reestablishing the connection after a network fault

are much easier to manage with an embedded design.

 

Power consumption

In addition, microcontroller-based hardware consumes significantly less power and generates less waste heat than an IPC-based system.

 

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