The development trend of configuration software
Many new technologies will continue to be applied to the configuration software, the increase in the total number of installed configuration software will promote the birth of specialized software in some professional areas, the market is automatically segmented. For this purpose, a technique called “soft bus” will be widely adopted. In this architecture, application software is “installed” on the bus in the form of middleware or plug-ins, and supports hot swap and plug and play. The advantages of this approach are that all plug-ins comply with the same standard, plug-ins are highly specific, there is no need for coordination between each plug-in developer, and the failure of one plug-in will not affect the operation of other plug-ins. XML technology will be well used by configuration software vendors to change the existing architecture, and its popularization will also change some usage patterns of existing configuration software to meet more flexible application needs.
A line of configuration software is generally referred to as general configuration software. The word “universal” indicates that it can be adapted to a variety of applications. Although there are many common things in different application fields, the differences in the industry are objective. The difference is shown in the form of the picture organization, components, construction logic. If the configuration software can be all-inclusive to adapt to all walks of life, then the software presented to users will be too complex, and eventually the friendliness of the configuration software itself will be too poor, losing its meaning of existence. As mentioned earlier, elements that are dynamically generated at run time are generated in a configuration environment. Industry engineers can build the required modules for their application domain in a configuration environment, and then have technical professionals build their own applications at run time using familiar components. In this way, the configuration software forms a three-level application mode: software engineer – industry engineer – professional and technical personnel. Software engineers focus on providing flexible means for industry engineers to build industry modules, and professional technicians to build the final application. This will make the configuration software deep into the industry, which is also the formal configuration software development in the future.

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Configuration software development steps
How to carry on the complete and strict development in the configuration software for the specific engineering application, so that the configuration software can work normally. Typical configuration steps are listed below:
1. Collect complete parameters of all I/O points and fill in the form for use in monitoring configuration software and PLC configuration.
2. Make clear the manufacturer, type, model, communication interface type and communication protocol of the I/O equipment used, so as to make an accurate choice when defining l/O equipment.
3. Collect a complete set of I/O identifiers for all I/O points and fill in the form. I/O identifiers are keywords that uniquely identify an I/O point. In most cases the V/O identifier is the address or bit number name of the V/O point. 4. Drawing and designing picture structure and picture sketch according to the process.
5. According to the statistical table in Step 1, establish real-time database and correctly configure various variable parameters.
6. According to the statistical results of step 1 and Step 2, establish the correspondence between real-time database variables and I/O points in the real-time database, that is, define the data connection.
7. Configure each static operating picture (mainly drawing) according to the picture structure and sketch in step 4. 8. Establish animation connection between graphic objects in the operation screen and real-time database variables, and specify animation attributes and amplitude.
9. According to user needs, made historical trend, alarm display, and developed report system. After that, you need to add security permission Settings. 10. Conduct segmented and overall debugging of the configuration content, and modify the software according to the debugging situation.
11, after the completion of all content debugging, the upper software for the final improvement (such as: plus boot automatically open the monitoring screen, prohibited from the monitoring screen, etc.), let the system put into formal (or trial) operation.