CIMAClink

Description

CIMAClink is an integrated development and execution environment designed to flexibly meet demanding factory automation requirements. It is based on industry standards, which can be customized for a specific industry with drivers and adapters provided by CIMAC. Users can efficiently deploy equipment interfaces through the use of CIMAClink editors in conjunction with templates and library components.

Features

• Development environment is easy and intuitive to use. Behavior is based on the look and feel of Microsoft Windows and Excel tables (e.g. pull down menus, tree structures and tables)
• Execution environment is modular and designed for high performance communications. New interface objects are easy to incorporate into the architecture
• System architecture is based on industry standards including XML, Microsoft's Windows DNA technologies including Component Object Model (COM), Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), ActiveX, and OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) for Process Control (OPC)
• Templates and a library of components are provided as an assistance for rapid deployment
• Industry specific drivers and adapters are provided by CIMAC

Benefits

• CIMAClink is affordable, configurable, scalable and available now
• Allows customers to focus on tool interface requirements and reduces or eliminates the need to focus on low level communication driver details
• Can serve as a company's internal standard for equipment automation
• Offers a means for reducing elapsed time associated with tool characterization and required equipment interfaces
• Offers a means for defining complex interface requirements in terms of basic building blocks
• Internal XML infrastructure design makes CIMAClink well suited to address rules-based applications such as Extraction, Translation, and Loading (ETL) and Advanced Process Control (APC)