• Find reports/alarms from weeks or months ago in seconds rather than hours
• Analyse your information with tools such as Frequency Analysis.
• Export the information to other applications such as Excel or Access.
• Back up important information on-line to optical disk or a networked drive to avoid storing mountains of paper.
• Client server design allows Remote Access to IMAC over a network or by a telephone using a modem.
• Fully compatible with Honeywell TDC systems.
  
• IMAC can Sort Data, which can be a mixture of alarms and reports in a single data stream into alarms
  in one window and reports in another.
  
• Trigger words such as 'tripped' can be used to highlight Important Alarms in to high, medium, or low priority
  by displaying them in different colours.
  
• IMAC can capture data sent to Networked Logical Printers, straight off the LAN.
  
• IMAC can alert the presence of an alarm by Telephone, Paging Systems. SMS, and Voice Announcement.
  
• IMAC can send Email upon receipt of a specific alarm or email automated reports generated by the system.
  
• Log the time between specific messages.
  
• Replace terminals or Console Printers.
  
• Different user levels expand or reduce options as required.
  
• IMAC can support up to four monitors displaying different screens simultaneously.
  
• Information can be Printed Automatically or on demand, to a printer or disk file.
  
• Disk Shadowing over a network.
• Automatically print Screen Dumps.

IMAC Search Utility
IMAC's powerful search functions allow you to find information from weeks or months ago in seconds. Search using SQL scripting language, although no knowledge of SQL is required to use the search function. You simply enter the search parameters into the query form and IMAC does the rest. However with a little knowledge of SQL, IMAC will allow you to create powerful sophisticated SQL search scripts.

IMAC can search for specific items between times and dates. IMAC can use its own time and date stamp for this or it can use the time and date from the DCS. 

Real Time SQL Query Builder
The newly added Real Time Query Builder allows you to generate SQL based searches which automatically update in real time. With this you can see all the alarms which occurred over the last, say 12 hours, instantly on the screen without having to click a button.

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Remote Access to IMAC

The IMAC Server Software logs data to the hard disk, the IMAC Client software is the viewing package which allows you to see the data. If an IMAC system is connected to a LAN then any number of clients can be set to view the data remotely over the network. Each client operates independently so each client can perform its own searching and printing etc.

IMAC can also be accessed via a modem from any location. This means that an engineer with a laptop can log into IMAC when away from the control room or plant LAN.

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Screen Dumps

IMAC can be set to automatically detect and print screen dumps sent from the DCS.
Honeywell screen dumps appear as pictures on the IMAC screen. Screen dumps from other DCS's can be trapped and sent automatically to a printer.

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Honeywell Compatibility and Screen Dumps

IMAC is fully compatible with Honeywell, TDC and GUS systems. The IMAC System is a direct replacement for Honeywell Bull printers.
IMAC can accept screen dumps from the Honeywell system and display them as a picture on the IMAC screen. It can then be printed automatically or on demand to any windows supported printer connected to IMAC.

This means that your screen dumps are printed by a top quality laser or ink jet printer rather than a poor quality dot matrix printer.

Automatically print to printer or file

IMAC can be set to recognize a report or screen dump and automatically send it to a printer for a hard copy, or to a file. The file can be local or anywhere on a network.

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Sort Data

IMAC can be sent to move alarms from one window to another based on trigger words or characters. This means that for example all the high priority alarms can be moved or copied into a separate window. Blank lines can be removed - useful for Foxboro systems. Alarms which appear on 2 lines can be joined together into a single line - useful for Foxboro systems.

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Priority alarms

IMAC can be set to look for trigger words or characters. When one of these is detected, IMAC will display the alarm in a different colour. Four colours are available for High, Medium, Low and Reset Alarms.

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