1. Overview With the continuous enhancement of the national economic strength, the national equipment manufacturing industry has also developed accordingly. More and more major domestic production facilities are adopting domestically developed control systems with independent intellectual property rights. Facing the challenge of domestically produced control systems for major and critical equipment, ForceControl Technology, leveraging its years of industry experience and based on current trends in automation technology, has developed a new product: ForceControl V6.0 monitoring and configuration software. This product is designed and developed by combining the latest software technology and a large number of user needs. It is primarily positioned for high-end automation system applications and can be used to support monitoring systems for enterprise information software, domestic DCS control systems, domestic large-scale SCADA systems, and manufacturing MES, making it a national industrial product that can compete with similar foreign software. This article discusses the design philosophy and current application hotspots of ForceControl Technology's ForceControl V6.0 software. Figure 1 2. Product Industry Application Design Philosophy The design of ForceControl V6.0 avoids the shortcomings of similar software currently on the market, which are either overly complex to operate or overly simplistic in function. To address the software requirements of different industries, while enhancing product functionality, we ensure both the "flexibility" of application and the "simplicity" of use. This allows for adaptation to different types of developers and wide application across various industries. While providing powerful functionality, we guarantee rapid project construction. Below, we will describe the application of configuration software in several typical industries of industrial automation. 2.1 Application of Dedicated DCS Systems Early traditional DCS systems, due to manufacturers' integrated hardware and software provision methods, had significant limitations in HMI software and poor system openness. With the popularization and standardization of the Windows platform, various targeted control systems such as DCS, PLC, PAC, FCS, DDC, and RTU have begun to merge, drawing on their respective proprietary technologies. From product architecture, network communication, and product interconnection, they have all moved towards interconnection. For example, the monitoring and configuration software for dedicated DCS has also shifted from proprietary software to open software. Using general-purpose configuration software as operator station software has become a trend. Configuration software from similar foreign products is widely used in DCS systems. For example, Siemens' WinCC configuration software is a prime example. As the core configuration software for PCS7, WinCC can seamlessly integrate with STEP7, simplifying configuration work and achieving seamless system integration. Figure 2 shows that ForceControl Technology's DCS-specific version can be used with mainstream foreign controllers to form an integrated DCS system, fully meeting the various software requirements of DCS systems. For instance, after the DCS control station is configured, ForceControl software, as the DCS operator station software, can work with corresponding foreign control station software to generate process tag numbers in one step. It also provides operation panels such as PID controller panels, simulation, and manual switch operation, making the configuration process faster and achieving hardware and software integration. ForceControl can function as an operator station, engineer station, historical station, event server, alarm server, and file server in a DCS, forming a complete DCS system. 2.2 Application Modes of Large-Scale SCADA Systems Compared with other automation systems, large-scale SCADA systems monitor production units with relatively dispersed geographical locations. The RTU devices in the field operate in unattended environments, thus placing high demands on remote monitoring software. Early applications of monitoring software in SCADA systems were limited to general monitoring, scheduling, and management. Currently, it has evolved into a system capable of effective integration with other application systems such as geographic information systems, energy metering systems, production management systems, and enterprise resource management systems. ForceControl software, as the core component of the scheduling level in a SCADA system, possesses the following characteristics: • Data Processing: As the core SCADA software, it can process over 200,000 data points and achieve a data throughput of 140,000 points per second. The database server supports operating systems such as Windows, UNIX, and Linux, and supports data redundancy backup, greatly improving data security and processing efficiency. • Communication Guarantee: It supports various network communication methods, including traditional dial-up, radio, and Ethernet, as well as other network methods such as mobile networks, satellite, and microwave. It can adapt to multiple communication links communicating in parallel, ensuring redundancy. Furthermore, it resolves the hidden dangers of unstable communication networks caused by geographical dispersion; • Openness: Open data interfaces and powerful component containers allow for seamless integration with third-party software. The database offers mainstream communication interfaces such as C, C++, DBI, COM, OPC, ODBC, and OLEDB, adapting to system expansion requirements. Figure 3 2.3 ForceControl's Breakthrough in Manufacturing Manufacturing Automation Due to the numerous industry classifications, the needs of various industries for configuration software differ. For example, for curve analysis, the analysis requirements of different industries often vary, and the requirements for reports are also very high. The design must consider adapting to the characteristics of different industries. For example, Forcecontrol V6.0 provides more than 64 "methods" for common analysis curve components, and these functions can be arbitrarily called in the ForceControl compilation system, facilitating the provision of solutions for various industries. For example, with the development of new materials, a large number of vacuum furnaces are being used, and the dedicated temperature control curve module provided by ForceControl can facilitate the monitoring of temperature processes. The various controls provided by ForceControl for the manufacturing industry facilitate the in-depth application of the software in the industry. 2.4 An Ideal Platform for Advanced Control China's research on optimized control largely began with software development on DCS and its host computers. This approach has many drawbacks: Advanced control software is highly dependent on the computer operating system and the DCS manufacturer and model, resulting in extremely poor software portability. The development environment provided by the DCS and its host computer limits the capabilities of R&D personnel, who need to spend more time familiarizing themselves with the DCS and its host computer system rather than analyzing processes, mathematical algorithms, and parameters. With the popularization of general-purpose monitoring and configuration software and the increasing proportion of PCs in automatic control, applications using monitoring and configuration software + optimized control software modules to achieve advanced control are becoming more common. ForcecontrolV6.0 monitoring and configuration software's reliable redundancy and fault tolerance, effective memory management and disk read/write capabilities, large-capacity historical data storage capabilities, and efficient data open interfaces effectively provide a basic processing platform for advanced control. 2.5 New Breakthroughs in Software Development Models Although there are many domestically produced configuration software programs, most are developed in a workshop-style manner, with very few achieving large-scale development. Forcecontrol Technology abandoned the original waterfall model development method and adopted the latest test-driven development, achieving a breakthrough in software engineering methods. The Forcecontrol V6.0 development process adopted the advanced software engineering method: "test-driven development", realizing a development mode of simultaneous unit testing and development. The test case coverage rate reached 99.5%, the code comment rate reached more than 80%, and the consistency between documentation and code reached more than 90%, which can reduce the risk of refactoring and function modification to a certain extent. 3. Key features of ForceControl V6.0: (1) Convenient and flexible development environment, providing various engineering and screen templates, which can embed images of various formats (BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, CAD, etc.), making screen production convenient and greatly reducing the workload of configuration development; (2) Powerful distributed alarm and event processing, supporting alarm and event network data disconnection storage and recovery functions; (3) Supports multiple layers of operation element objects, and the display and hiding of each layer can be flexibly controlled through scripts; (4) Powerful ActiveX control object container, defining a brand-new container interface set, adding the function of direct operation of container objects through scripts, and calling the methods and properties of objects through scripts; (5) Brand-new and flexible report design tool: providing a rich set of report operation functions, supporting complex script control, including: script calls and event scripts, providing a report designer, and designing multiple report templates; (6) Provides solutions for monitoring industrial sites via Internet/Intranet using a thin client approach through an IE browser; supports real-time monitoring of on-site production data via PDA handheld terminals on the Internet; supports communication with control equipment or other remote force control nodes via mobile GPRS and CDMA networks; (7) Supports multiple system redundancy methods such as control equipment redundancy, control network redundancy, monitoring server redundancy, monitoring network redundancy, and monitoring client redundancy. 4. Development Trends of Monitoring Configuration Software Industry The development of automation support in China is very flexible and ever-changing. General-purpose configuration software should be able to adapt to the customized needs of various industries. For example, the needs of the manufacturing industry are quite varied. Therefore, configuration software architects are required to consider the needs of various industries in their designs to make the software highly scalable. The software should adapt to the requirements of the "e" era, be able to draw on more new computer theories, and integrate new technologies at any time. Meanwhile, the standardization of monitoring configuration software is a development trend. The OPC UA standard will become a watershed in the development of monitoring configuration software. The monitoring configuration software in traditional dedicated DCS systems will draw more deeply on the design ideas of general configuration software. With the popularization of networking, the demand for distributed software applications will further increase. ForceControl Technology will continue to improve the ForceControl series of products, providing a good solution for the national equipment industry and an ideal and flexible configuration platform for automation engineers.