Application of Intelligent Industrial Control Screen eX707 in Underwater ROVs

Deep-Sea Equipment Manufacturing Industry

With the development of our country’s economy and technology, the marine energy extraction and construction, known as the “blue granary”, has gradually become an important undertaking. Deep-sea operation equipment has become an essential and critical tool for marine energy extraction, and its performance and reliability must be guaranteed.

Therefore, developing marine engineering equipment that performs better, is safe and reliable, and is durable has become an urgent issue for the deep-sea equipment manufacturing industry.

Trustworthy Partner

Shanghai CRRC Aisendi Marine Equipment Co., Ltd. (SMD Shanghai Company) is a large enterprise focused on marine engineering project equipment, supported by the strong deep-sea technology of SMD UK, and its parent company – CRRC has a solid technical foundation in electrical control, which gives it a competitive advantage in deep-sea robot electrical control, deployment, and recovery systems, as well as underwater system integration.

Considering the stringent requirements for operating temperature, humidity, protection level, and corrosion resistance for marine equipment, the company decided to use the Hongke EXOR eX707 industrial control screen for communication and control in its underwater remote-controlled robot. This article will share the application of this device as a reference.

Specific Use Case Sharing

SMD Shanghai Company uses eX707 industrial control screen and associated JMobile Studio software to achieve data communication and control of ship equipment, ensuring the deployment of deck equipment and the underwater process of the robot.

For convenience in on-site operations, the eX707 is installed in the control cabinet next to the equipment, and its main function is to control the entire deck equipment, ensuring the safe implementation of the underwater remote-controlled robot from deck deployment to the sea surface and the underwater process, that is, to control the entire deployment and recovery system.

In the control cabinet, the joystick, buttons, and other components are connected to the PLC, directly sending control commands to the equipment body. The industrial control screen communicates with the PLC via Ethernet, ensuring that some command functions can be realized through soft buttons in the HMI configuration interface. By setting tags in JMobile Studio, the HMI alarm interface and indicator lights can display the operation, alarm, and other statuses of the equipment, facilitating staff to grasp the equipment status.

Why Choose Hongke’s Intelligent Industrial Control Screen?

During technical exchanges with SMD, our engineers learned that in addition to common functions such as tag definition, alarm triggering, recipe dumping and restoration, user group permission definition, and bilingual settings, they also paid attention to the addition of screenshot, buzzer soft buttons.

Due to outdoor lighting conditions in the shipping industry, direct photography of the screen by on-site personnel can cause strong reflections, hence the need for screenshot functionality, while the buzzer soft button is to facilitate users to control whether to silence the alarm when it is triggered.

Additionally, the engineers on the user side also recognized Hongke’s timely and rapid technical support service response.

What Makes Hongke Intelligent Industrial Control Screen eX707 Stand Out

Compared with ordinary HMIs, the EXOR industrial control screen provided by Hongke has many features such as high protection, wider temperature range, multiple certifications (DNV-GL, ATEX, IECEx, etc.), massive communication support, and a 5-year warranty, demonstrating its outstanding performance.

The powerful HMI development software JMobile Studio includes rich controls, is easy to operate, and can achieve project engineering data trend viewing, alarm notifications, user permission management, etc., meeting the functional needs of industry users; multilingual support also provides convenience for domestic and foreign engineers; its highly adjustable screen brightness (100% backlight adjustment) meets the operational needs of the shipping industry in strong light and nighttime environments, and has professional marine certifications, explosion-proof certifications, etc.

In China, Hongke has a deep cooperation with EXOR, dedicated to bringing flagship eX700 series, streamlined eSMART series, as well as food/pharmaceutical industry-specific FB series, and outdoor harsh environment-specific G series industrial control screens into more suitable application scenarios, providing greater value to users.