The G2 user interface includes an integrated panel builder application. Screens are developed with drag and drop ease from a preset palette of objects such as strip chart, buttons, LEDs, dials, gauges, etc. When the system is running, the variable is automatically updated in the selected device. Input devices such as buttons and sliders allow the user to change variable values interactively. Custom display objects can also be created and added to the palette library.
Simple installations can use low costs standard desktop PCs.
More demanding systems can use one or more industrial computers systems linked by shared memory devices. To accomplish this, each card in the system has on-board time stamping capability and synchronization inputs. The ICD builder employs an file manage style interface to define logical variable names, engineering unit conversion, data format and structure. Once defined, variables in the ICD can be mapped to G2 physical resources.