Our customer manufactures technical systems in the hygiene sector. The components of the system, which are dynamically assembled according to the end customer’s wishes, assume various tasks depending on the functional scope. The components are initialised through an RS485 interface in line with their roles. The dynamic control of the components in the overall operation and adjustment of the individual behaviour is also carried out via RS485. For this particular customer, we created a Java-based Rich Client System for the laptops of the mobile technicians, which is able to trigger the necessary bus commands for control, configuration and monitoring through an intuitive graphical user interface.

Further, the system is able to create versions of the specific configurations of the end customer’s installations via a central database. The supported configuration settings are provided to the technicians via various thematically arranged screens. The settings that currently exist on the system or the settings made by the technicians are read from the bus or written to the bus. In addition to pure configuration settings, the system is able to read out historical operating data from the system and visualise it graphically or, as required, in the form of a report. A visualisation of the operating data in real-time was also implemented.