Situational Awareness Starter Project

The Situational Awareness Starter Project can be used to create a Plant SCADA project that is designed to support abnormal situation management for operators. This provides accurate information to an operator in a way that can be perceived and acted upon quickly, without overwhelming their cognitive abilities. A consistent look and feel is applied to all graphical content, and standardized colors settings are used to emphasize important process data and alarms.

Situational Awareness projects differ to other pure template-based projects as they use "Workspace" technology to manage the content of a Master Page that appears on each configured client screen. Each pane in a Master Page displays a page that can be updated independently at runtime based on navigational or contextual changes. The Workspace is responsible for managing contextual updates to those panes by using the association between the hierarchical location of a detected change, and the type of content each pane is configured to display.

A set of library objects are also available via an included library project (named "SA_Library"). The included objects support the Workspace autofill functionality at runtime and maintain a consistent look and feel across a project's display pages.

You can also use the workspace without equipment to build a project that does not utilize the new context features. This is achieved using a Pane Genie on a customized master page.

For more information, see Situational Awareness Projects.

Note: This release of Plant SCADA also includes a Additional Example Project to demonstrate a Situational Awareness Project.

See Also

What's New in Citect SCADA 2018