ANAWIN is a three-tiered software product. Each of the three ANAWIN variations is described below. Throughout this site, we use the term "ANAWIN" to denote the full-featured ANAWIN-32 product. Depending on your requirements, you may use one or all of these variations:

Ideally, ANAWIN-32 should be installed on a dedicated Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 PC with no other applications running. However, other applications may be used concurrently by applying the preemptive multitasking feature inherent in Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0, as long as sufficient memory is available for the applications. The memory requirements for ANAWIN will vary, depending on the number of custom overview screens and recipes, and the size of the controller database.

ANAWIN follows a simple notion: If you don't like the way something works, then change it. Under that pretense, it is easy to see why ANAWIN will delight users. Some users invariably find a special software requirement that cannot be met with standard products. With ANAWIN, Watlow Anafaze provides the tools and building blocks that allow you to make custom display screens, or automatically manage hundreds of recipes. And only one solution - ANAWIN - allows you to seamlessly integrate a system of various Watlow Anafaze controllers into a single system, right out of the box. As new controllers are introduced in the future, ANAWIN will be the software platform that links all of Watlow.

For users who want more flexibility, Watlow Anafaze's custom overview screens enable unlimited solutions for computer-adept users.

Ease-of-use is a standard feature of ANAWIN. Designed by the control experts at Watlow Anafaze, ANAWIN comes ready-to-use. Simply install the ANAWIN software on your PC, and start configuring and monitoring controllers. The difficult configuration jargon, "tag names," and encrypted messages of most configuration and monitoring software have been left out of ANAWIN -- everything is in plain, simple English.

To configure a controller, users flip through card files of easy-to-follow setup parameters. When PID constants are changed, you can even view the effects of the changes on a real-time graph, without having to switch to another section of the software.

ANAWIN help is context-sensitive, so it knows where you are in the program, and tailors the help to that situation.

The design view module in ANAWIN is so easy, even users with limited computer experience will be creating custom screens. You will love the way you can place the real-time process information on the screen in a way that is meaningful to you. After mastering the basics described below, anyone can be a "drag-and-drop" control screen designer.

The caption is the name (or title) of the custom screen. Choose something descriptive such as "Conveyor Overview" or "Wafer Profile." After the custom overview is completed, this caption is displayed in the Windows pull-down menus, and looks like an integral part of the software.

Select a solid color of your own choosing, or place a bitmap in the background. Be as conservative or as flashy as you want. Several bitmap backgrounds are included with ANAWIN, or create your own bitmap file (standard BMP format, 256 colors, 640 x 392 pixels) using any Windows paint program, such as Paint, Paintbrush, or Corel PhotoPaint. You can even take a photograph of a process or user equipment and scan it to produce a very customized background.

A graphic is a bitmap or metafile object (a picture) which can be placed anywhere on the screen. ANAWIN includes many graphics, including pipes, tanks, arrows, bells, lamps, indicators, and shapes. As with the backgrounds, you are encouraged to create your own graphics to perfectly represent your process.

A label is a string of text that can be placed on the screen. Choose your own font, foreground/background colors, size, and bevel for a modern three-dimensional look. Text may also be rotated in 90º increments.

Fields are analog and digital values which are read directly out of the controllers and displayed on the screen. These values can be process variables, set points, output values, etc., from any channel. Fields are constantly updated by ANAWIN when in the monitoring mode.

Take any input or output from the controllers, and create a conditional text or graphic object that changes with the state of the I/O. For example, when a valve opens, a graphic of an open valve is shown. When it closes, the graphic shows a closed valve. Or, using text, display a message tailored to a specific alarm condition.