FaScan

About

FaScan

FaScan is being built as a unified industrial automation ecosystem: FaScan IDE, FaScan RT, an OPC UA server and a PC Soft PLC share one project model. Free engineering tools, including Pipeline Designer for process-pipeline simulation, complement the platform.

Shared architecture

FaScan ecosystem

The components are developed as one platform for project engineering, execution, external integration and testing.

FaScan IDEProject engineering, devices and protocols, panels, diagnostics and data analysis.
FaScan RTExecution of prepared panel windows and operation of the project at the workstation.
OPC UA ServerIn developmentA unified address space for publishing project data to SCADA, HMI and other clients.
FaScan Soft PLCA PC software controller that provides the computing and control layer of the ecosystem.
Pipeline Designer 1.0.0A free graphical simulator for process pipelines: liquids, gases, steam and refrigeration circuits, valves, pumps, compressors and Modbus TCP data exchange.
Free engineering toolsPipeline Designer is available now; a variable-frequency-drive simulator and more training, testing and commissioning utilities are planned.

FaScan IDE capabilities

  • IP SCAN: IPv4 range scanning, TCP port checks and LIVE network-state monitoring during commissioning.
  • VARIABLES: fast transition from a discovered IP address to Modbus TCP, with coils, discrete inputs, holding registers and input registers.
  • CoDeSys V3 tag support with readable variable names instead of manual address matching.
  • Data grouping into folders and devices, plus header quick controls: lamp, button, progress bar, value output and text message.
  • WINDOWS: panel-window editor with Number, Lamp, Button, Progress bar, Message, Alarm journal and Graph elements.
  • Signed .fasrt export and runtime execution in the separate FaScan RT environment.
  • Selected-parameter logging, event journal rules, alarm journal views and graphs based on logged data.
  • IDE charts: time graph, XY Plot and value distribution.
  • Dark interface for long engineering sessions.

Who it is for

  • Industrial automation engineers and commissioning specialists.
  • Users who need to quickly find a device in a local network.
  • Integrators checking Modbus TCP communication.
  • Support teams diagnosing device reachability.