Designer Overview

To understand the Designer it may be beneficial to start with a description of the types of documents and components that is built using the designer.

Process Displays

A process display is conceptually similar to the displays built using WinMOPS in previous versions of MOPS. Graphical representations of production process elements and components illustrating a process state is added to a display in order to provide a real-time view of a production process.

Dashboards

Dashboards provides a block-oriented layout of panels where each panel contains one component. Each component used on a dashboard, in a panel, can be arranged in relation to other panels.

Dashboards provides a more limited flexibility for layout of components, but instead you can provide different layouts for different screen sizes making it well suited for tablets and smartphones.

Dashboards is well suited for use with more high-level components that takes simply parameters as input for configuration. With a library of components you can quickly configure a new dashboard to show the information you need.

Components

There are two types of components in MOPS 4.0. Regular system-installed components provides the building blocks you use to create displays, dashboards and display-components. The latter is a custom component that can be built by the designer and added to displays, dashboards and other display components.