New HDMI Feature from Red Lion Boosts Productivity with Real-Time Visual Awareness

Red Lion introduced its FlexEdge Intelligent Edge Automation Platform with HDMI to help users boost productivity with real-time visual awareness. As industries globally digitalize their operations, the need to securely access and visualize data to power their performance in real-time is crucial. FlexEdge with HDMI, powered by Crimson, is designed with more user-friendly designed configuration capabilities to more easily develop and deploy customized dashboards to help keep production teams informed of critical KPIs, helping to drive efficiency and enable real-time, actionable insights.

FlexEdge with HDMI, powered by Crimson, provides users an easier and more powerful way to access and visualize data:

• Directly collects data from devices, such as PLCs, drives, and bar code scanners. Maps data to PLCs, PCs and SCADA systems with a more simple no-code drag-and-drop interface that enables, for example, a Siemens PLC to communicate with an Allen Bradley drive in a very brief period of configuration time.
• Uses the built-in graphics library, with over 5,000 drag-and-drop elements to visually represent applications, including tanks, gauges, and other industrial graphics choices.
• Syncs data to FTP servers and MS SQL Server to send information where it is required to go.
• Sets up alerts for important events using a built-in mail manager, which sends notifications to one or more specified recipients via email, with attached report or logged data files.
• Uses built-in Cloud Connectors to link productivity application data to one or multiple cloud providers, including Azure, AWS, Google or other MQTT brokers.

FlexEdge with HDMI also can help to make it easier to develop and deploy productivity dashboards with included sample productivity templates. Users can choose from up to six commonly used templates available as demo databases in Crimson.

Sample productivity templates include:

• Cumulative Work Cell Status
• Process Status
• Andon Board
• Production Run
• Safety
• Line Down Warning