Machine programming software

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has announced version 6 of its Proficy Machine Edition programming software. Proficy Machine Edition is a universal development environment for HMI, motion, and control applications that all share a single workspace and tool set.

Coupled with an efficient, user-friendly structure and standardised user interface, Proficy Machine Edition is designed for ease-of-use and quick time-to-solution for the entire project life cycle.

Included in the Proficy Machine Edition 6.0 release is the ability to create user-defined data types, allowing users to create data structures that represent real world equipment and objects. This feature may contain basic data types such as integers, real numbers, Boolean variables, or other user-defined data types. All of the structure elements can be referenced individually or as a whole, and individual elements or the entire structure can be passed to a function block. Together with the Tool Box feature, user-defined type provides an object oriented programming environment that will significantly reduce application development time.

Also included in the Proficy Machine Edition 6.0 release is variable indexed arrays. This allows users to index an array of basic type and user-defined type using a variable in structure text, function block diagram, and ladder diagram environments. The variable indexed arrays feature provides an important tool that will enable the development of modular and re-usable code.