exKa HMI Standard Library for Ignition Perspective
A high-performance HMI standard library for Ignition 8.3 Perspective.
A reusable, inheritance-based Perspective library of equipment symbols, faceplates, navigation, alarm banner and role-based security, built on high-performance HMI principles and developed against a Siemens S7-1500 reference project.
The library gives a new Ignition project a tested starting point: equipment symbols, faceplates, navigation, alarm banner and role-based security, all consistent across sites. Project time goes into the process rather than into redrawing common equipment.
It follows high-performance HMI practice: a calm greyscale display where the operator’s attention goes to what is abnormal, with consistent faceplates so an operator who knows one piece of equipment knows them all.
The library is delivered as a complete install covering views, theme, tag definitions and security levels, either as a gateway backup for a new gateway or as a package for an existing one.
What it does
High-performance HMI
Greyscale process graphics where colour is reserved for abnormal states. Running equipment is not green, and bad-quality values render as --- rather than 0 or a stale number.
Symbols and faceplates
Equipment symbols for the flowsheet and matching faceplates for drives, valves, PID loops, analog instruments and totalisers, each bound from a single equipment UDT.
Navigation and alarms
Navigation tree, breadcrumbs, equipment search and an alarm banner ordered by severity, all generated from configuration.
Role-based security
A five-level role ladder from Viewer to Administrator. Write buttons are gated by role and shown disabled rather than hidden.
Inherit, don't copy
Plant projects set the library as their parent project, so library updates flow to every site without copying views.
Generated and verifiable
Views, styles, UDTs, navigation and security are generated from source, so every change is diffable and checked before release.
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This library is independently developed and supplied by Exka Pty Ltd. It is not sponsored, approved or endorsed by Inductive Automation or Siemens. References to Ignition and Siemens identify intended compatibility only. Third-party names and trademarks belong to their respective owners.
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