Hi everyone, We are a small printing facility with conveyor line, stacking machines, shipping equipment etc. Most of our equipment is B&R. We installed Ignition 10 years ago, and to be honest it’s very under-utilized at our plant. We only have seven projects running in it. It’s very nice SCADA s…

Servus … I cannot make a real suggestion, just some “advice” :slight_smile: Please keep in mind, that mapp View run’s in the idle time of the PLC! The X20CP0484-1 does not provide too much processing power, so for reasonable performance of the HMI it is important to not eat up the whole CPU time w…

I am an SW designer developing hmi, scada, mes from different manufacturers in the market . I developed the application with Ignition, VC4 and mappview. The strategy proposing plc and hmi/scada running on the same machine/plc is only cost-effective but is an absolute loser from a technical point of …

The mapp View editor in AS6 has made huge progress in terms of user-friendliness. I can tell this from my experience conducting training sessions for this tool. A month ago, I trained people using AS6 for the first time, and even those without any prior experience were able to create a simple visual…

[image] Nathan_Machinek: does have one SQL connection and it pulling and storing some data It depends a little bit on your hardware, but we have mapp Database (part of mapp Services), which can also help in connecting to a database … :wink: CHH

Thanks for your input! I agree with you from the technical point of view. However - if we were a larger facility removing Ignition would not be on the table. We would keep it. But because we only use it for 1/2 dozen machines - it’s use case is very questionable. We can easily maintain the hardw…

Great suggestion on the Mapp Database, thank you. Right now the x20CP0482 is our standard CPU. We will have to upgrade to the 484-1 to get the RAM to run Mappview if we go that route. Again - because it’s so few machines - upgrading the hardware is not a big concern for us.

Thanks for those suggestions. Much appreciated. We would upgrade from the x20CP0482 to the x20CP0484-1, to the RAM necessary to run mappView. Our goal would be to keep the visualization as simple as possible. I understand that without knowing our full use case it’s hard to say if we will max out …

What do you plan to use as client for mapp View? A X20CP0484-1 is on the lower end for mapp View. Technically it should be no problem - but resulting performance highly depends on the load of the PLC and the number of data points (OPC-UA) you need for the HMI … CHH

Thanks Christian. For Client I plan to use little Linux NUC’s with touch screen connecting with web browser. We already have them setup with the Java client app to connect to Ignition. I plan to make a sample project to test performance. Any suggestion for “mid-range” performance?

Can you make a summary for us on how you solved it? Or mark the reply that helped you the most, so others can also benefit from it? :wink:

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Nathan_Machinek (Nathan Machinek) October 19, 2025, 6:02pm 12

thanks for the suggestions

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