A small, public FactoryTalk Optix 1.7.3 project: the HMI of a fictional industrial bakery's tunnel
oven, Line 2 at Brindle & Rye Bakehouse; the project, OvenLine2, is named after that line. It is
the sample project Pilotello runs on in its demos and tests. Everything in it is invented: the bakery,
the products, the data.
| Screen | What it shows |
|---|---|
| OVERVIEW | Zone tiles (temperature, setpoint, burner output), belt, product, current run, live trend of the last 15 minutes |
| SCHEDULE | Weekly preheat: one card per day with an on/off switch, the start time in 15-minute steps and the "ready by" time |
| BAKE HISTORY | Search, date and product filters, the run grid, the selected run's detail and zone curves, CSV export, run-time statistics |
| ALARMS | The three alarm conditions and their state; the footer button turns red while one is active |
- No controller. A NetLogic simulation (
OvenSimulation) stands in for the PLC: it drives the five oven zones, the belt, the run and the alarm conditions. There is no communication driver. - History. A SQLite store holds the bake runs (
BakeRuns) and the zone temperature log (OvenLogger, written every two seconds). On a fresh database,RunJournalwrites 48 runs over the last 30 days, relative to today, so the history screen always has recent rows. - Schedule. The schedule is retained across restarts.
- Look. Colours, fonts and shapes come from one style sheet. The fonts are Barlow, Barlow Condensed
and Fragment Mono (SIL Open Font License, in
fonts/andProjectFiles/Font/).
Zone 5 is commissioned in the model, and the simulation drives it. The HMI shows zones 1 to 4 only: no tile, no trend pens, no logging, no history column. Extending the HMI to zone 5 exactly like its siblings is the task this project is built for.
The project is generated, not edited by hand. build_fixture.py runs the official CLI
(FTOptixStudio.com new), then writes the content with optixgen.py. Node Ids derive from names, so
two builds on the same machine give identical trees.
python build_fixture.py [--out OvenLine2] [--studio DIR] [--skeleton DIR] [--theme exploded|plain]
--theme plain writes the same model and logic with a basic, unstyled UI.
Requires FactoryTalk Optix Studio 1.7.3 on Windows and Python 3.10+, standard library only. Open the project in Studio or export it with the CLI. The Runtime runs without a licence for 120 minutes.
MIT (see LICENSE). Fonts: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (see fonts/OFL-*.txt).
FactoryTalk and Optix are trademarks of Rockwell Automation, Inc.; this project is not affiliated
with or endorsed by Rockwell Automation.