Learn how to design, configure, and deploy HMI projects using Maple Systems’ EBPro software. These step-by-step videos walk you through core features, from creating your first screen to implementing advanced communication protocols, alarms, data logging, and IIoT connectivity. Whether you’re new to EBPro or looking to improve your existing workflows, these tutorials will help you build efficient, reliable, and visually polished HMI applications.
In industrial automation systems, remote I/O is commonly used to connect sensors and actuators that are physically distributed away from the main control panel. By integrating Maple Systems remote I/O directly with a Maple Systems HMI, the HMI communicates with the I/O modules over Ethernet and performs supervisory-level control without requiring a separate PLC. Centralized…
Imagine a mid-sized manufacturing plant with multiple machines housing their own Maple Systems PLCs and HMIs. Each machine has a recipe the HMI sends to the PLC for production. When we need to change or tweak this recipe, normally we’d need to go to or remote into each machine individually and manually change the recipe…
OPC UA (Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture) is a vendor-neutral industrial communication standard that simplifies how HMIs, PLCs, and SCADA systems securely share data. By converting raw machine values into structured, meaningful information, OPC UA reduces integration complexity and enables a more scalable, future-ready automation architecture. This makes it an ideal choice for modern industrial…
Imagine a mid-sized package sorting plant with 10 different lines of packages. Each of these lines have their own HMI to decide which sorting machine a package will go to. Let’s say that an operator needs to swap the destination for all 10 lines as fast as possible. Ideally, this operator wouldn’t have to walk…
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If you have more than one industrial plant, or even more than one machine, collecting metrics like uptime/downtime, total product count for the day, or even fault history can be a bit of a hassle to aggregate. Usually requiring you to remote into each machine one by one using a tool like cMT Viewer. Controlling…
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the Maple Systems PLC Protocol Drivers in EBPro to connect a Maple Systems HMI to a Maple Systems PLC. We’ll cover all the configuration steps in EBpro and MapleLogic for both serial and Ethernet connections, as well as out-of-the-box initialization and setup for both devices. This tutorial…
Read More How to use the Maple Systems PLC Protocol Drivers in EBPro