Status Processing

With its status processing, zenon provides for the overview in the network and the process. This enables one to quickly detect, analyze, and react to communication failures of drivers or network failures.

Each processed value in zenon is represented through process variables and consists of three pieces of information: value, time stamp and status. The status represents a meta-information to the variable value that enables the user to appropriately evaluate the displayed process data.

In total, 64 different types of status information are defined. While the drivers or the network automatically predetermines a few of those attributes, the user can determine others. For maintenance work, for example, single variables or complete facility sections can be turned off.

zenon offers a multitude of possibilities to analyze or influence this status information: reaction matrices, dynamic elements, the Report generator, the Recipe group manager, VBA, and the zenon Archive server.