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Step 4: Design the SCADA HMI - Adding components - part 2

Step 4: Design the SCADA HMI - Adding components - part 2

- [Instructor] The components for the control panel for our HMI are: Time display. Fill push button. And Discharge push button. For the Time display, I'm going to select LED Display. Click on the component and drag it into the window. Now, once you select the component, you can change any property from the Vision Property Editor. You can change the Mode, for example. You can change the Number Format. And you can also change the Style if you want to have a 7 Segment, 14, or 5 by 7 Matrix. I'm going to leave the default settings as they are. Now, the property I'm interested in is the Value property. This is the value that I'm going to link it or bind it to the tag source of the Time display in Factory I/O. Now I'm going to grab a label and place it besides the LED display. And double-click, and I'll write down Time Display. Now, for the push buttons, I'm going to click on the Symbol Factory. And from the Pushbuttons…

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