Parker Hannifin has completed a significant upgrade to its established and proven IQAN software. Version 4.0 allows for the easy implementation of distributed machine control, diagnostics and user interfaces in a multiple master module environment, while requiring minimal programming skills.
IQANdesign 4.0 maintains all the previous features of version 3.0 and remains fully backwards compatible, ensuring customers are supported along the migration path. Key benefits of the new platform include enhanced programming capabilities, improved simulation, extended connectivity and higher run-time performance.
Qcode is a new and intuitive self-instructing editor that offers a new way to program in IQANdesign. The user is able to reduce channel count by using powerful in-built Qcode expressions alongside the enhanced flexibility to re-use single channels across the entire application structure. Incorporated into Qcode is automated syntax checking which clearly indicates to the user code statements that need addressing. Coupled with clear and readable functions, syntax highlighting, auto-complete and the ability to document functions the latest generation IQANdesign software makes for an extremely usable and flexible editing platform that requires minimal programming knowledge.
Other innovative enhancements include the ability to add unlimited informative instructional PDFs to a project for easy viewing on the IQAN-MD4 display. There is also a new engine whereby powerful finite state machines are quickly realised using the new graphical editor, which allows the user to pictorially represent the functions and monitor progress in real-time. Users are now able to add detailed comments to application logic anywhere, thereby enhancing the ease of understanding complex functions.
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