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FHX Workspace / Early prototype

Follow the signal.
Understand the system.

A workspace for investigating DeltaV configuration exports. Find modules, inspect parameters, and follow the references that connect your system.

Previously developed as FHX Studio. Early access is by arrangement; public downloads are not available yet.

Start with a question

See the investigation
approach in action.

A small pressure-loop example shows how configured values, source records, and unknowns can stay together.

Choose a question

Guided illustration using fictional data. This is not the full viewer and does not open your files.

50PIC_10001Fictional configuration
AI1PID1AO1InputControllerOutputBKCAL feedback

Follow the configured reference.

//50PT_10001_FIELD/FIELD_VAL_PCT

AI1/IO_IN points to this field signal in the example. A configuration reference identifies a source; it does not establish its current value or health.

Inspect the example source
ATTRIBUTE_INSTANCE NAME="AI1$IO_IN"
{ VALUE { REF="//50PT_10001_FIELD/FIELD_VAL_PCT" CLASS=FLOAT_INPUT } }

Inside the prototype

More context.
Fewer disconnected views.

The prototype brings several ways of inspecting an export into one workspace. Compatibility and device behavior are still being validated.

01 / Logic

Navigate the strategy.

Browse modules and composites, inspect expressions, and trace exported connections within a diagram.

02 / System

Connect the configuration.

Explore indexed controllers, I/O, device mappings, and references where those records are present.

03 / Evidence

Keep the source close.

Review parameter origins, compare exports, and collect investigation notes with the configuration context.

A clear boundary

Configuration is evidence.
It isn’t live diagnosis.

The viewer works with exported files. It does not connect to controllers or write to a running control system. Missing definitions, unresolved references, and reconstructed layouts need to remain visible.

The current prototype processes FHX files on the device. The marketing example above uses only fictional data. Do not send plant exports through the contact form; discuss an approved review process first.

Shape the first release

What would make this
useful in your work?

Tell David the question you need to answer, the export you work with, and how you investigate it today. We can discuss a walkthrough and whether an early pilot fits.

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