Omron has introduced the NQ series of compact HMI terminals. Available in colour or blue-mode monochrome versions, NQ HMIs display clear and sharp pictures, buttons, messages, and graphs on an attractive, modern touch screen with a few additional function keys. Features include high-brightness, quality displays and USB ports for simple programming and data transfer. The serial ports allow connection to many popular PLC families and other devices, such as inverters and temperature controllers.
In addition to the basic HMI functions, there are also extra buttons, lamps, graphics, and meters, including real-time and historical trending and logging. Trends and alarms are drawn from both internal memory tags and external PLC tags. Multi-lingual texts are standard, while useful functions, like pop-up and template screens, make it very easy to create a well structured and flexible HMI project. The software itself requires little training and is easy to use.