General characteristics
GF_Project is the development environment for Gefran Automation Applications, contained in the GAB (Gefran Automation Builder) suite of SW tools.GF_Project lets you develop, store, and change an automation project. It consists of an integrated environment for configuration of all control parts of a machine / system.GF_Project contains all of the tools needed to configure an automation project. An automation project contains the following basic components:
* HW platform depending
- Network
- PLC
- Application Pages
| Main functions | |
| Number of configurable variables | Up to 64000 * |
| Integrated Alarm Management | √ |
| Number of alarms | Typical 300 * |
| Integrated Recipe Management | √ |
| Number of recipe types | Typical 8 * |
| Number of variables per recipe type | Typical 100 * |
| USB support for recipe Export / Import | √ |
| PC utility for changing Recipe values offline | √ |
| Integrated Multi-language Management | √ |
| Runtime Language Selection | √ |
| Number of languages | Typical 8 * |
| Number of texts for each language | Typical 200 * |
| Import / Export texts in CSV format | √ |
| UNICODE Support | √ |
| Integrated User Management | √ |
| Max user access levels | 15 |
| Number of users for each access level | Typical 4 * |
| User Management – Page access restriction | √ |
| User Management – data change restriction | √ |
| User Management – component display restriction | √ |
| Integrated DataLogging | √ |
| Number of configurable Datalog variables | Typical 50 * |
| DataTypes available for DataLog | INT, DINT, REAL, BOOL, SINT, UINT, UDINT, USINT |
| DataLog sampling type | Trigger – Time |
| DataLog Sample time | Minimum 1 second. |
| Saving of encrypted DataLog files | √ |
| Export of DataLog values in CSV format | √ |
| Offline PC utility for DataLog file decripting on CSV | √ |
| Target FW update | √ |
| USB target update (Application SW & FW) | √ |
| Ethernet target update (Application SW & FW) | √ |
| Remote connection | √ |
| Online customer support | √ |
| Remote services | √ |
| Project Backup and Restore | √ |
| Machine control (PLC) | |
| Standard IEC61131-3 PLC programming | √ |
| IEC61131 Languages – basic text | IL, ST |
| IEC61131 Languages – basic graphics | LD, FBD, SFC |
| Bit DataType | BOOL, BYTE, WORD, DWORD |
| Signed Integer DataType | INT, DINT |
| Unsigned Integer DataType | UINT, UDINT |
| Floating DataType | REAL |
| Other DataType | STRING, TIME, ARRAY, STRUCTURE |
| Preset Variables | √ |
| Retentive Variables | √ |
| On-Line PLC | √ |
| On-Line change | √ |
| On-Line watch list | √ |
| HotDownload | √ |
| Breakpoints, step-by-step execution | √ (only for ST language size compiled) |
| Selectable PLC Start mode | √ |
| HotStart | √ |
| WarmStart | √ |
| ColdStart | √ |
| Configurable PLC Tasks | √ |
| Timer Task | √ |
| Cyclic Task | √ |
| High Priority Task | √ |
| Configurable Function Block / Custom Function Library | √ |
| Gefran FB Library | √ |
| Graphic interface configuration | |
| Number of available graphic components | 45 |
| “Basic” graphic components (dataset, datavalue, panel..) | √ |
| “Advanced” graphic components (trend, recipe, datalog..) | √ |
| Events management | √ |
| Events management on graphic components | √ |
| Events management on page actions | √ |
| Events configuration with script execution | √ |
| Types of supported images | GIF (89a) / JPG (jpeg) / PNG |
| Custom “advances” components (WidgetBox) | √ |
| Image library | √ |
| Template page library | √ |
| Borders library (up / down / left / right) | √ |
| Selectable snap to grid | √ |
| Object alignment | √ |
| Undo and redo single change | √ |
| Auto page resize with resolution change | √ |
| Key action configuration (CK series only) | √ |
| PC pages executor | √ |
| HW configuration | |
| Graphic configuration of system architecture | √ |
| Target selection from Gefran catalog | √ |
| Instrumentation | √ |
| Power Control | √ |
| Motion | √ |
| Automation | √ |
| Sensors | √ |
| Multi Fieldbus support | √ |
| GDNet Fieldbus support with Gefran devices | √ |
| Modbus RTU Fieldbus support with Gefran devices | √ |
| Integration of third-party devices in Modbus RTU | √ (with dedicated tool) |
| Modbus TCP Fieldbus support with Gefran devices | √ |
| Integration of third-party devices in Modbus TCP | √ (with dedicated) |
| CANOpen Fieldbus support with Gefran devices | √ |
| Integration of third-party devices in CANOpen | √ (with EDS file import) |
| Parameterization of individual Fieldbuses | √ |