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AVEVA InTouch HMI

™

formerly Wonderware
The World’s #1 HMI

AVEVA InTouch HMI, formerly Wonderware powers more than 100,000

plants and factories around the world, helping to achieve world-class
performance, reduce costs and improve product quality.
AVEVA InTouch HMI goes far beyond the ordinary HMI to deliver:
y Legendary ease of use
y Unlimited web and mobile access
y HMI that works everywhere
y 30-year history of protecting your engineering investment
y Native cloud integration for engineering efficiency and collaboration
Visualize, control and optimize your operations
The more complex your operations become, the more AVEVA InTouch HMI empowers operators to optimize
you need a common-sense, real-time view of your routine human interactions with industrial automation
business. AVEVA InTouch HMI empowers innovators systems. Our unique situational awareness libraries
from around the world with the ability to standardize provide operators the contextualized information
and visualize their entire enterprise. they need to address abnormal situations quickly and
accurately — before they impact operations. The result
Let AVEVA InTouch HMI take you beyond simplistic is a quantifiable net increase in operator effectiveness,
graphics to create meaningful content that will drive improving operator interpretation time by up to 40%.
enterprise-wide operations productivity and cost savings.

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What’s new in the 2020 R2 release?
InTouch unlimited - Empowering the The powerful features include:
connected workers
y Unlimited read-write clients; including web-based,
InTouch Unlimited is a new offer. InTouch Unlimited native mobile and RDS clients
is more than just a new commercial model. It offers
y AVEVA Reports for enterprise wide reporting
customers new value and architectural flexibility never
and dashboards
offered before.
y Industrial strength Historian with web reporting
This capability addresses the need for cost efficient
y Development tools
enterprise-wide accessibility. Now every company can
access the most powerful HMI software in the market y IO communication drivers including OPC UA Server
without having to compromise your standard. y Redundancy
y Native cloud support
y Built-in technical support & version updates

InTouch Unlimited

InTouch Unlimited Communication Development AVEVA

Historian
HMI Clients Drivers Tools Reports

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Modernization of stand-alone InTouch Applications
This new release presents thousands of new and legacy InTouch users opportunity to benefit from modernization
through Industrial Graphics, richer animations, multi-touch, web access and more! This release brings the power
of Industrial Graphics and frame windows to all InTouch HMI legacy users. This is foundational to deliver stand-
alone InTouch applications in a web browser using InTouch Web Client. Moreover, this will provide the familiar
WindowViewer-like experience across web browsers.

Seamlessly convert existing native InTouch windows to Industrial Graphics with one click.

Also, this latest release no longer requires installation of SQL Server to use Industrial Graphics in standalone
applications. This drastically improves the performance of installing the product, creating new applications,
opening, launching and saving applications and provides the ability to distribute InTouch HMI applications by simply
copying the application folder across machines.

Native integration of InTouch to AVEVA™ Historian, formerly Wonderware

AVEVA InTouch HMI supports a high-performance native interface to historize InTouch tags including alarms and events
to the AVEVA Historian.

You can choose between archiving data to the traditional local historical log file (*.lgh file), to the AVEVA Historian, or
to both! Additionally, this functionality provides store and forward capability when historizing.

AVEVA Historian automatically calculates historical summary data (average, minimum, maximum, standard deviation,
and time duration in a particular state). This aggregated information can easily be displayed in InTouch HMI which
greatly enhances the operators’ situational awareness.

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Leverage the cloud for enterprise-wide HMI builders can continue to design Industrial Symbols
collaboration locally, then when ready drag and drop symbols to
cloud storage making them instantly available to others.
AVEVA InTouch HMI delivers tighter integration to Graphics in the cloud can be used and edited by other
AVEVA™ Connect, namely: users. This provides a powerful way for users to maintain
and share their standards across teams and sites.
y AVEVA Insight, our historian in the cloud
y AVEVA Integration Studio which now offers Native Mobile App for Android and iOS
cloud storage.
Remote and local operators experience the same look
The Insight publisher can be accessed from InTouch and feel on tablets and smart phones with support
Application Manager and InTouch WindowMaker, for multi-touch centric pan and zoom functionality
making it easy for users to send tag configuration and including ability to write back and acknowledge alarms.
data from an InTouch application to AVEVA Cloud
Insight for operational reporting, charting Moreover, Mobile App support language switching in
and dashboarding. runtime, enabling users to access an application in their
preferred language.
In addition, InTouch WindowMaker integrates to the
Integration Studio, which allows HMI designers to share
Industrial Graphics across teams and sites further
empowering engineering efficiency and roll out of
graphical standards across an organization.

Writeback and Alarm

Acknowledgement

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HTML5 web widgets
AVEVA InTouch HMI introduces support for web widgets, which are reusable controls designed with web technology.
The first web widget shipped with the product is the carousel widget. The carousel widget enriches AVEVA InTouch
HMI and the InTouch Web Client enabling sequential display of a selected set of graphics, automatically rotating them
at a configurable predefined interval. Think of it as a “slide show” of symbols.

This has multiple uses but it is perfect, for example, for use with Smart TVs with built-in web browsers or wall
mounted display monitors where you need to rotate between multiple producton dashboards with KPIs or operational
information on a periodic interval.

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New application manager: Modern UI and New InTouch tag server client license
workflow improvements
A common architecture is that of a Tag Server architecture.
InTouch HMI introduces a new Application Manager. This new license will allow WindowViewer to run and
But it’s far more than just a change in look. Existing only connect to a remote InTouch Tag Server, as a ‘Tag
workflows have been improved and new ones added. Server Client’.
Three different views are available: A list view, a tiled This is an extension of the InTouchView Application
view and a detailed view (classic). licensing which will now allow users to choose between
The new list and tiled views give better visibility to the “System Platform Galaxy” or “InTouch Tag Server”
details of InTouch HMI applications and make several as the remote data source. This enables more cost-
operations available directly from the tiles. Workflow effective solution for tag server applications where there
improvements include for example, streamlining the is no need for local IO connectivity, alarming, etc.
application creation process which reduces 9 steps to
only 2.

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Features & functionality of AVEVA InTouch HMI

Secure access from any device, anywhere Extensibility through open standards
AVEVA offers the most comprehensive portfolio of including OPC UA
secure, web-based visualizations of your real-time InTouch is an open and extensible HMI with intuitive
automation solutions including InTouch Web Client and graphical animation and scripting capabilities that
AVEVA InTouch Access Anywhere. From full high fidelity provide incredible power and flexibility for application
remote real-time control to casual real-time production designers. It also supports .NET scripting, and the ability
monitoring are now at your fingertips leveraging to import custom script DLLs, giving you the freedom for
any HTML5-compliant web browser with zero client unrestricted application extensibility.
installation, zero maintenance! Moreover, the world’s
favorite HMI is also fully mobile and works natively on InTouch HMI allows you to connect to any device or
tablets and smartphones. InTouch Web is ideal back-end system by using standard interfaces, such as
for following: OPC UA, OPC DA, SQL, SOAP, HTTP/S, .NET for external
connectivity. Open connectivity allows real-time plant
y Mobile Operators and Business Management data to become integral part of business. InTouch HMI
y Read Only or Read Write also serves as OPC UA Server endpoint. Enterprise &
business systems connect to any real-time tag or alarm
y TVs / wall mounted monitors around plant facility
data over encrypted communications, if enabled.
y Embedding of HMI Graphics in Business
Enterprise Portals
y Runs on both Microsoft Windows Server or
Workstation OS
y Supports for Reverse Proxy enabling secure access
outside control network

In addition, for remote operators, InTouch Access

Anywhere is an extension to InTouch that provides
industry’s most secure access to InTouch applications
via any HTML5-compliant web browser. It enables
users to securely monitor, control and troubleshoot plant
equipment or process from any location, on any device,
at any time.

y Remote Operators with Full Process Control

y Read Only or Read Write
y High fidelity access to entire InTouch Application
including scripts/.NET & Active X controls
y Ideal for use beyond DMZ using Secure Gateway
y Runs only on Microsoft Windows Server

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Situational Awareness for operator effectiveness
InTouch HMI has an extensive library of graphical symbols, wizards, templates and elements that provides rich user
experience and high contextualization. The graphics have built-in quality processing and diagnostic indication,
enabling you to rapidly determine root causes of abnormal situations. Millions of preconfigured and pretested
combinations and orientations of symbols are available making this the largest graphics library in the industry.

The Situational Awareness Library of Industrial Graphics is AVEVA’s unique approach to presenting actionable
information in less time to operators. Library symbols may be used out-of-the-box or customized as needed. You
may add your own new or modified symbols, or you may create your own special libraries of symbols to suit your
engineering and development requirements.

y Dashboard Symbols
y Alarm Symbols
y Trend Symbols
y Equipment Symbols
y Input Symbols
y Instrumentation Symbols
y Status Symbols
y Advanced Symbols – Polar Star
y Equipment Symbols – Valves, Agitator, Tank
y Many other Symbols – Level Meter, Hand Switch, Output Bar, etc.

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One of the advanced Symbol Wizards is the Polar Star
which shows a set of related process values on ‘spokes’ PT-01
that form a visual polygon. As values change along
the length of the spokes, the changing shape of the
polar star’s polygon is easily recognizable by operators
who can react quickly to abnormal process conditions.
Each spoke contains a set of custom properties to set
value set points, alarm limits, and coordinate set point PT-04 PT-02
locations for the normalized process value. When a
process value changes from its set point location on a
spoke, the animation changes the shape of the polar
star polygon.

Alarm Annunciations: Alarm Annunciations are ‘Triple

Coded’ to convey critical information in three ways: PT-03
Color, Shape, and Text. This ensures unambiguous
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interpretation of alarms for faster operator reaction
time and fewer mistakes. Color coded Alarm border
animations around graphics clearly indicate the level of Polar Star - abnormal

alarm state to help operators quickly identify abnormal

situations and take corrective action in the proper order 2
1
of priority. Alarm border animations can be configured PI-101 PI-102
to blink, remain solid, or change based on UnAcked,
Acked, or return to normal situations. Severity Levels
indicated by unique shape, color, and level number are
displayed directly next to a Symbol for quick, clear, 97.00
PSI
87.00
PSI

concise information contextualization. These animation

capabilities are delivered fully configured and fully
functional and require no scripting.
3 4
PI-103 PI-104

12.00 2.00
PSI PSI

Triple coded for faster Operator reaction and prioritization

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Trend Pen: Easy to configure, Single Pen and Multi-Pen Trend Symbols provide not only a current data value but also
the recent data historical trend in a specific absolute fixed time range or in a moving window time range, enabling
an operator to instantly distinguish recent activity and dramatically improve predictability of potential future events
and handling issues before they become full alarms or events.

FT-101 FT-101 FT-101

450.00
GPM
270.00
GPM
100.00
GPM

4:52:33 PM 4:58:42 PM 5:05:30 PM

Three snapshots over time of a Trend Pen

Connection Points and Connectors: Every HMI design includes graphic elements and connectors between elements,
such as a pipe, wire, or line. Much of the design time goes into connecting graphic elements to one another. For most
HMIs, this connecting can be a tedious effort and can prove especially frustrating when graphics are repositioned
in the design phase or even if the graphic is required to move at runtime as a result of animation. Connection Points
and Connectors provide resilient connections between graphics with simple point, click, drag and drop operations.
With these new features, whenever graphics are repositioned, either in design or runtime, the Connectors adjust
and move with the graphics to maintain the connections.

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Breakthrough advanced engineering tools

Design, distribute and enforce graphical component Element styles

standards for greater application consistency and
Element Styles ensure a customer-defined HMI look
optimized application design and maintenance using
and feel across the enterprise regardless of whom or
Element Styles, Numeric Formatting, and graphic
when it was designed. Typically, HMI applications are
protection. Shorten initial and maintenance design
developed over time and by many engineers, which
phases using graphic template change propagation
could lead to inconsistent standards, use of colors,
which enables engineers to make a change once and
text, and alarm or event indicators. Element Styles
propagate it throughout the entire application.
ensure a customer defined HMI look and feel across the
enterprise regardless of whom or when it was designed.
Resolution independence
Every screen across the enterprise can have the same
In a world where more devices of diverse form factors methodology for presenting information in context
abound, users more often find the need to design so that any operator in any plant will understand
applications of uncommon sizes or simply to design an information in the same consistent manner. Create
application for displays the designer has no access to. standardized colors, indicators, text formats, and more
InTouch now allows users to design applications in a to improve operator training, reduce operator confusion,
target resolution different from the development machine. and enable operators to more quickly orient to the
critical information without the need for interpretation.
Resolution independent graphics can be resized or
All this is engineered and managed in a single user-
stretched without losing original visual quality. This
friendly Element Styles Editor tool.
improves window display performance, and can be
designed in one resolution and reused without distortion Using the centralized management and deployment
in a different resolution. capability, one click can update your applications globally.

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Symbol wizards
Symbol Wizards enable engineers to choose custom configuration options such as graphical elements, scripts,
and custom properties and automatically assemble them into a single composite symbol. Composite symbols with
multiple configurations reduce the number of required Symbols that need to be created for an application.

PT-13

189.31
PSI

PT-13 189.31 LT-45 148.73

PSI FT

TT-01
FT-02 LT-45

197.93 49.36 148.73

GPM FT
F

FT-02 197.93
GPM PH-21 6.99
PH
PH-21

6.99
PH

Each symbol Wizard can be easily configured into many different visual and functional symbols

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XML import or export Security & reliability
XML Import or Export Capability: Expanding further Microsoft Windows Authentication – grants
upon our Open Format philosophy, InTouch HMI permissions to InTouch HMI users authenticated on
supports publishing of graphic elements in an open a domain controller or local computer, based on user
format schema to support the programmatic import identity and group affiliations.
and export of graphic elements and most animations
In addition, InTouch supports AVEVA Identity Manager
with advanced editors. Pull third party graphics such as
for authentication in non -WIndows operating systems.
CAD drawings directly into your HMI saving time and
maintaining complete integrity of the original graphic. Encrypted web communications support for SSL
& HTTPS.
Application templates
Access-Level Password Security – limits user
Another great productivity tool, Application Templates
capabilities in the InTouch HMI application based on
allow users to start the design of a new HMI application
areas of responsibility and authority.
from a base template instead of starting from scratch,
saving hours and hours of engineering. Application FDA traceability electronic signature security supports
Templates can be as simple as a navigation framework Secured and Verified Writes in conformance with
or as rich as the user desires. 21CFR11 establishing different users to secure and
verify an action. In addition, users can enter a comment
System Integrators can reuse their engineering in
when performing the secured and verified write.
multiple projects, OEMs can deliver base applications
to their end users, and new users can get started in a Ability to Run InTouch as a Windows service (Faceless),
shorter time. typical use is in tag server architecture.
Application Templates can be selected via a template
browser which provides a thumbnail preview of the
Localization and language switching
templates. Users can organize Application Templates in a InTouch HMI is fully supported in English, German,
folder structure of their choice, by resolution, by industry, French, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. It offers
by customer, by engineering team, etc. A number of localized development environment to enable non-
Application Templates are available out-of-the-box. Users English speaking engineers to design and develop HMI
can create their own Application Templates. applications in their native language.

InTouch Language Switching capabilities allow

Window templates
designing applications that can change displayed
InTouch windows can now be defined as templates so language at runtime, addressing the needs of
new windows can be created from them and inherit international users.InTouch HMI includes the Language
window properties, content and scripts; another Assistant — Great for OEMs, SIs, Global Customers:
productivity feature that helps save engineering time. An Excel Add-in that improves the management and
accuracy of off-line HMI language translation and
Scripting accelerates the execution and delivery of projects
The software supports both simple and advanced using the Runtime Language Switching capabilities
scripting and offers hundreds of in-built script in InTouch. Benefits include more efficient translation
functions. Recent enhancements include auto-complete projects that result in improved translation accuracy
in Script Editors and Graphic Editor Expressions, line and consistency, reduced costs and faster project
numbering, multi-level undo-redo, automatic syntax deliverables.
checking, consistent color coding in line highlighting,
syntax error indication.

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Enhanced user experience InTouch, simply the best HMI
investment!
Rich animations
InTouch HMI includes the ability to animate many of the With over thirty-year history of never leaving any
Graphics and Element Styles. Graphic animations are customer behind, InTouch consistently provides
directly linked to real-time data values to dynamically seamless upgrade path year over year that protects
reshape the multi-point Graphic elements as data customer’s investments in InTouch applications. With
changes. This animation capability automates high this latest release, an InTouch application implemented
level geometric mathematical formulas to enable decades ago can still run, unchanged, without re-
engineers to create animated Pie Charts, Polar Stars, engineering application in a modern user experience!
Polylines, Curves, Polygons, and Closed Curves that Simply the best HMI investment you can make.
visually reshape in real-time. Direct, indirect, and
Value-add cloud capability provides ability to
associated relationships of multiple data points can be
develop applications, analyze production data and
visually represented in a graphic to enable operators to
improve operations without incurring IT on-premise
clearly understand when a process is within acceptable
costs. Whether you are ready to migrate to a cloud
boundaries or which part of the process is out of
environment today, or you simply want the flexibility to
alignment or possibly moving out of alignment.
do so in the future, AVEVA Flex subscription provides
the underlying infrastructure to make that transition
Pan and zoom
when you are ready.
Pan and Zoom provides a simple, intuitive way to
interact with your visualization applications in a modern
multi-touch hardware environment. Pan and zoom can
also be enjoyed using keyboard and mouse in addition
to a multi-touch interface. Zoom level is also accessible
programmatically, enabling powerful tasks such as
application clutter/de-clutter and more.

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Technical specification

Client OS (64 bit) - InTouch HMI 2020, InTouch Server OS (64 bit) - InTouch HMI 2020,
Web Server 2020 InTouch Web Server 2020, InTouch Access
Anywhere 2020
y Windows 8.1 Pro and Enterprise
y Windows Server 2012 Data Center
y Windows 10 1803 Pro, Enterprise, and IoT Enterprise
(Not Standard Edition)
y Windows 10 1809 Pro, Enterprise, and IoT Enterprise
y Windows Server 2012 R2 Embedded (64-bit)
y Windows 10 1903 Pro, Enterprise, and IoT Enterprise (Full image)*
y Windows 10 1909 Pro, Enterprise, and IoT Enterprise y Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard and Data Center
y Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB y Windows Server 2016 LTSC Standard and
y Windows 10 Enterprise 2019 LTSC Datacenter

y Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2016 LTSB y Windows Server 2019 LTSC Standard and Data
Center (Desktop Experience)
y Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2019 LTSC
y Windows Server IoT 2016 LTSB
y Windows Server IoT 2019 LTSC

* InTouch Access Anywhere Server and Secure Gateway not

supported on Windows Server 2012 R2 Embedded

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