[Closed] Software to mock-up SCADA screens

glad its not just me then

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Aside from screen grabbing an actual scada interface & dumping it into PowerPoint with some suitable animation & hacking, you could try a web based training simulation package. We use them for software install and Config. I suspect it wouldn’t take much to mock up a dashboard (we do exactly this for our foglight and spotlight system monitoring software). We use a product called STT trainer from assima. You could also do this in Adobe camptivate. Prepare to spend $$

Make sure it comes with a steampunk skin. And a Chernobyl skin.

I need this because I have to submit a functional design spec' to the end-user way before the HMI screens and PLC code are complete. So rather than showing typical screen shots from Siemens TIA, I wanted to create library of mock-ups that I could quickly edit for future use.

Make sure it comes with a steampunk skin. And a Chernobyl skin

Superb idea!
Also: Titanic engine room & lunar lander skins.

Extra post count = hope of useful suggestions.

Just get shit jokes.

Dammit, I remember finding something like this somewhere a few years back, but it could have been in some ICS training I did. Let me check my notes.

You can install a demo of Ignition from Inductive Automation and design screens and whatnot in that. Or for something a bit more generic and a lot more lightweight, would draw.io do? We use this for mocking up UIs, it has a whole load of shapes and objects you can use for this kind of thing.

The Nextion Editor has a simulator option which might do what you want. You can feed it data by serial or by typing it in directly.

https://nextion.tech/nextion-editor/

LabVIEW may be a possibility, I think there maybe a community edition available now if you don't have a license. You can simulate quite a bit graphically and fairly easily

Thanks chaps.

Firstly I fell your pain, having to use TIA HMI. Multi national technology company producing a horrible clunky development environment.

#1. Personally I would just take a load of snips of components and jiggle on a graphical packager
or
#2. Create a mock screen in TIA, but clearly no links to anything.
or
#3. Do the same in visual studio. You then either have to decide to develop in VS (initial investment but worth it in the long run) or import controls into TIA.