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Description
This video provides a brief look at the FactoryTalk Optix Device Sizing tool.
The FactoryTalk Optix Device Sizing Tool assists users in selecting the right hardware for their application by evaluating factors such as CPU usage, memory requirements, graphics processing, and connected devices. It helps ensure optimal performance by recommending appropriate Rockwell Automation industrial PCs, Panel PCs, or third-party hardware that can efficiently run FactoryTalk Optix applications. This tool simplifies hardware selection, reducing the risk of performance bottlenecks.
FactoryTalk Hub:
https://home.cloud.rockwellautomation.com/
Getting Started with FactoryTalk Hub:
https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-id/docs/factorytalk-hub/current/factorytalk_hub-ditamap/ftcs_getting_started.html
Transcript
(00:02) another tool that Rockwell makes available to help you size a factory talk Optics application is the device sizing tool so the previous video discussed the runtime sizing tool the runtime sizing tool helps you figure out what size runtime license would you need how many feature tokens would you need for your application it helps you figure that out perhaps before you develop your application but the device sizing tool will assist you with cting the right hardware for the application by evaluating some factors such as U CPU
(00:36) usage memory requirements Graphics processing uh connected devices just to help you maybe pick out the the type of Hardware you would need to run your application now to get to the device sizing tool it’s going to be right next to the runtime sizing tool at the factor talk Optics page that you get to from Factor talk Hub so me back up a moment and if you do log into Factory talk Hub I’ll have to get relogged in here by entering your username and password you will come to the factor talk Hub homepage which will have all
(01:16) the tiles and again you don’t have to have any kind of entitlement or licensing to um to get to this point of the factor talk Hub so you will see all these various cards you’ll see that most of the ones I have even on my screen are locked out because I don’t have entitlements for them U but if we come to the impactor talk Optics I click on this card this will bring me to this page right here now you don’t need an entitlement again to get to this point this is uh the only time you need an entitlement for Factor talk Optics here
(01:49) in the hub is if you want to open the Optics studio in the browser if you want to run the cloud-based version of optic Studio that’s the only time you would need an entitlement um so up here we see re uh releases entitlements runtime sizing and then the device sizing tab so I’m going to click on that and that’ll open up the the device sizing tool um and it just gives some disclaimers that hey this is going to be approximations and just to help you figure out you know what you might need I will also say that at the
(02:25) end of this it’s going to kind of steer you towards the appropriate Rockwell Hardware um to run the Optics application on such as the Optics panel or an awesome PC but to run to the the tool is really straightforward you’re going to just uh enter such things as how many tags would you have how many of them are structured tags and how many um items are in the structured tag how many alarms how many uh the Data Logger basically how many variables are you logging an event logger how many recipes uh variables in the recipes how many web
(03:03) clients might you have I’m just going to enter some numbers with really no um Set uh kind of script here as far as figuring out I’m just going to randomly select some number say maybe we’re going to log um 100 variables on our Data Logger um maybe we going to run five web clients perhaps maybe we’ll have one opcua client connected to it and we hit next next it’ll kind of uh let you choose your screen density whether it’s going to be a low medium or high amount of Graphics per screen and how many of those would you have so
(03:43) maybe we’ll have you know 10 with really low density maybe we’ll have 10 with medium density maybe we’ll have 10 with high density right so we’re just going to you know guesstimate what we might have in our application choose next this brings us to the recommendation so so u based on what I just entered there um if I was going to run Optics on an Optics panel which is the the closed um you know the closed OS uh panel Mount opix panel uh then it’s recommending the Optics panel Compact and uh we could see that um we’re getting you know 400
(04:25) megabytes of memory P op is going to take about 391 megabytes for total of 791 and it kind of gives you some estimations on Startup time if we were look at the switch that to the embedded Edge compute module we see that you know the available amount of memory on that device um Optics again the application should be about close to 400 megabytes uh leaving us um you know with that total and then some startup times and if we’re going to run on an awesome PC um basically same thing we got a gigabyte we got a gigabyte of memory uh for the
(05:03) system Optics is going to need about 400 megabytes so it could help you us you know uh um it could help you in figuring out a little bit of what your runtime um you know requirements are going to be for the application so you can face your Hardware again it’s going to steer it towards Rockwell stuff but uh just to make you aware it’s really more an awareness that this device sizing tool exists and it’s uh up here from the factory talk Hub next to the runtime sizing tool
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