Step-by-Step Learn Wonderware InTouch SCADA (PLC-SCADA-2)

Explore how Wonderware InTouch SCADA software integrates control room data and process visualization, featuring Windowmaker and Window view for graphics, alarms, and runtime application management.

Learn how to install InTouch SCADA software, including license acceptance, installing all features, and creating a local account. Navigate the application manager window and Windowmaker components.

Create a new InTouch application using the application manager, specify a save location and a unique name, add an optional description, then open Windowmaker to design windows.

Learn to create and manage new windows in InTouch, set unique names, select window types (popup and on top of display), and save, open, close, or delete windows with prompts.

Learn to use the SCADA library wizard to select, place, and size symbols, double-click to insert them, connect inputs and outputs, and explore properties for simulations and light control.

Discover how to use tag names in Wonderware InTouch SCADA to link data objects, monitor live values, and manage user-defined memory tags for system control.

Learn to display and edit objects with tools to align, hide or show, resize, colorize, and rotate, and to copy, delete, move, or group into symbols.

Learn to work with bitmaps in Windowmaker, create and edit bitmap containers, import images, adjust size, color, borders, and transparency to integrate graphical objects.

Learn to break cells or symbols to edit properties, create a single symbol from multiple objects, and apply consistent movements and animations in Wonderware InTouch SCADA.

Explore animation links in Wonderware InTouch SCADA, learning how display links drive object movement, color changes, visibility, and interactive properties to bring graphics to life.

Learn to use the live property to link data on objects or symbols, enable operator input, and explore the nine data link types with slider and window properties.

Learn to configure touch links and user input properties for objects in Wonderware InTouch SCADA, covering discrete, analog, and string inputs, prompts, display options, and password visibility.

Explore touch links-sliders in Wonderware InTouch SCADA, create vertical and horizontal sliders, configure ranges and starting positions, and observe value changes as sliders move.

Explore creating and configuring touch push-buttons (discrete value) in Wonderware InTouch SCADA, assign five actions to control outputs, and learn how on/off states, memory, and properties drive device behavior.

Learn to use touch push-buttons in Wonderware InTouch SCADA by attaching a push-button to a property, configuring its action, and observing resulting visual indicators.

Explore how to configure touch push-buttons to show and hide windows in Wonderware InTouch SCADA, selecting target windows and triggering show window actions.

Link line, fill, and text colors using analog color links, with values between 5 to 15 or 15 to 25 and ensure each value is greater than the last.

Learn to control line color, fill color, and text color for an object using a single property, applying true/false conditions to switch colors as the display value changes.

Learn to adjust object size in Wonderware InTouch SCADA by controlling vertical, horizontal, and diagonal dimensions with height, width, and angle properties.

Learn to use the location horizontal moment and the movement property to move an object from its initial coordinates to a target, setting x and y, distance, and direction.

Master moving objects in Wonderware InTouch by using a slider to set location, calculate movement delta, and determine vertical, diagonal, and directional steps from start to end.

Explore percent fill in Wonderware InTouch SCADA using vertical, horizontal, and diagonal fills. Set level values with sliders and expressions, control color, and animate object filling.

Explore how to control an object's visibility in Wonderware InTouch SCADA using the visibility property and a slider, mapping ranges 0–20, 21–80, and above 80.

Explore how to control object visibility in Wonderware InTouch SCADA using discrete values, applying display conditions to toggle visibility on or off.

Learn to apply the blinking property in Wonderware InTouch to control object visibility, color, and blink rate using conditional expressions, including less-than thresholds.

Learn how to use the orientation property to rotate an object by a slider input, using the center of rotation and x/y coordinates to control clockwise or counterclockwise motion.

Discover how to use the orientation property to define a center of rotation, compute center coordinates, and rotate objects by a chosen angle with x, y offsets.

Explore how to use the B-7 property to disable objects in Wonderware InTouch SCADA based on numeric thresholds, enhancing security and operator access control.

Explore tooltips and foreign objects in Wonderware InTouch SCADA, showing how hovering with the cursor reveals object information and how double-clicking accesses and edits object attributes and properties.

Demonstrate how to configure the value display property for discrete, analog, and string data in Wonderware InTouch SCADA, using digital data conditions, on/off messages, and memory or user input displays.

Learn the basics of creating animation links in Wonderware InTouch SCADA by building symbolic graphics, configuring properties, and driving visual workflows in a step-by-step design process.

Explore introduction of various script types in Wonderware InTouch SCADA, learning how to implement logical operations based on conditions, and how different script types connect to objects and properties.

Explore application and window scripting in Wonderware InTouch SCADA, covering window initialization, memory concepts, input and output handling, and applying if-then logic to control on/off states and color changes.

Learn to use history for discrete control in Wonderware InTouch SCADA, explore three on-screen input types (table and keyboard), and practice turning objects on and off with frequency settings.

Learn to create, name, and display two windows in Wonderware InTouch and navigate between them using direct window commands and history.

Explore condition scripting in Wonderware InTouch SCADA, evaluating true and false conditions, accessing history data, and applying asset values to drive conditional logic.

Explore data change script techniques in Wonderware InTouch SCADA to track value changes, leverage history, and implement timers and an initial condition for conditional logic.

Practice script examples to understand application events in Wonderware InTouch SCADA, exploring memory handling, outputs, and logic gates, including how equality operations affect signals going to zero.

Demonstrate how input conditions and switches control outputs in a Script-2 example for Wonderware InTouch SCADA. Explore anti-collision logic and multi-input scenarios that set outputs to zero or one.

Explore Script-3 examples in Wonderware InTouch SCADA, illustrating input and output relationships, gate behavior, and conditional states from zero to high outputs.

Learn to drive an object's movement in Wonderware InTouch SCADA by using the location property from start to end points, with history-based conditions and a slider.

Explore practical script examples for Wonderware InTouch SCADA, demonstrating memory handling, memory reader usage, history, conditions, and value changes within a hands-on app context.

Master locating a symbol on the window screen, then moving and rotating it to set a correct 360-degree orientation around its center.

Learn how to create and configure real time and historical trends in Wonderware InTouch SCADA, using display objects, time span settings, time increments, color, and multi-trend layouts.

Explore the alarm system concept in Wonderware InTouch SCADA, distinguishing abnormal conditions from normal states, defining severity levels, multi-state alarms, and acknowledgement workflows.

Explore how to configure and manage discrete value alarms in Wonderware InTouch, including alarm conditions, acknowledgment, display settings, priority levels, and historical alarm review.

Configure real value alarms in Wonderware InTouch by defining alarm types, thresholds, and conditions. Acknowledge alarms and manage transitions from alarm to normal while avoiding false triggers.

Explore how to use the recipe manager to create and manage batch process recipes, from basic recipes with optional ingredients to function-driven templates.

Learn to implement a recipe manager in Wonderware InTouch SCADA Part-1 by creating recipes, managing ingredients, and sharing values across windows via WindowMaker and controls.

Discover how to implement a recipe manager with a spreadsheet-like interface that defines ingredient templates, assigns names and quantities, and links them to recipe instances in Wonderware InTouch SCADA.

Learn how to configure scada security in Wonderware InTouch scada, including default security settings, creating users, assigning access levels up to 9999, and changing passwords for secure operator access.

Learn to implement security in Wonderware InTouch SCADA by configuring users, setting passwords, and managing access levels to control object visibility and user sessions.

Learn to use the DDE protocol to enable dynamic data exchange between Windows applications, including Microsoft Excel, by demonstrating cross-application communication and data sharing.