FactoryTalk Linx Software

Plant engineers on the floor can be more productive with the release of FactoryTalk Linx Software. It helps ease system recovery, increases upload and download speeds, and helps bring new devices online more efficiently.

To help protect an organization, the software adds new security measures, including communications integrity/confidentiality, credential authentication, audit tracking, and configuration backup and restore. These extra layers of security can help reduce unplanned downtime due to security concerns.

The release also adds backup and restore capabilities that allow users to save configuration settings. This helps improve administrator efficiency by eliminating the need to manually reconfigure the entire system during recovery. The software’s reconstructed interface increases online performance for Studio 5000 and ControlFLASH Plus software. This increases efficiency by providing better performance for design tools and communication services.

Additionally, users bringing a new device online can now assign IP addresses based on a range or load a preset configuration. This helps improve productivity by bringing new machines and devices online more quickly. The OPC UA Connector has been enhanced to provide access to more types of data. It can also pick up data from a secondary server if a redundant server is shut down.

FactoryTalk Linx Gateway now includes user-specified tag groups and access to Logix structure and array definitions with FactoryTalk Security authorization. This helps organizations manage and restrict what pieces of data can be accessed through the control system. In addition, users can import and export the configuration to manage it outside of the environment.